Media's covert protection of scandal-plagued Bidens comes to light while still protecting president and Hunter
By: Miranda Devine (New York Post)
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By Miranda Devine
Back to Reading Published Sep. 13, 2023, 10:39 p.m. ET
What a desperately presumptuous act it is for the White House Counsel's Office to blast out a memo ordering media organizations to apply the blowtorch to Republicans and defend President Biden in the impending House impeachment inquiry.
The marching orders went out Wednesday morning under a blaring headline: "MEMO TO EDITORIAL LEADERSHIP AT U.S. NEWS MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS."
Ian Sams, the grandly titled special assistant to the president and senior adviser and spokesman for the White House Counsel's Office, declared: "It's Time For The Media To Do More To Scrutinize House Republicans' Demonstrably False Claims That They're Basing Impeachment Stunt On."
Talk about ungrateful.
The White House is making overt what has been covert, and humiliating their media handmaidens in the process.
That section of the media that ought to have been scrutinizing the president rather than covering him must be scratching their heads, and red-faced with embarrassment.
They don't need a public rallying cry.
They already know what to do.
They have been carrying water for Joe Biden since he first shuffled out of the basement.
Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel's Office, declared: "It's Time For The Media To Do More To Scrutinize House Republicans' Demonstrably False Claims That They're Basing Impeachment On."AP
The White House memo insists there's "simply no evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong" and offers as evidence that there's no evidence quotes from a herd of deaf, dumb and blind RINOs, like Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado ("The evidence doesn't exist right now") and Don Bacon of Nebraska ("We need to have more concrete evidence").
The memo was accompanied by a 16-page so-called "dossier" in which the FBI, the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC, CNN and the Associated Press are quoted liberally back to themselves exonerating Joe Biden in the counterfactual post-truth parsing of language that passes for journalism these days at those formerly august outfits.
As House committees and whistleblowers have piled up evidence of wrongdoing, corruption and cover-up that links back to Joe Biden, these bastions of American journalism have behaved like a combination of Mr. Magoo, Baghdad Bob, Sgt. Schultz and Monty Python's Black Knight — and maybe with a dose of the Three Wise Monkeys thrown in: "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
The White House wants them to stay that way, so that half the electorate remains in the dark.
Forget the bank records, shell companies, SEC complaints, sworn testimony, IRS whistleblower statements, FBI informant files, emails, texts, WhatsApp messages, photos, speakerphone calls, voicemails, White House visitor logs, Air Force Two travel logs, Joe's pseudonymous email addresses and a parade of Hunter's shady foreign benefactors lining up for handshakes with Joe in Beijing, breakfasts at the VP's residence and dinners at Cafe Milano, not to mention millions of dollars in filthy foreign lucre for no discernible product or service other than access to Joe.
Gaslighting the nation
Democrats impeached Donald Trump over a single public phone call.
"With his words and his actions, President Trump has indicted himself," candidate Joe Biden said at the time.
"By obstructing justice, refusing to comply with a congressional inquiry, he's already convicted himself in full view of the world and the American people."
But when it comes to impeaching Biden, the media is instructed that there's simply no evidence.
Gaslighting the country is the Democrats' only defense.
And with stalwarts like David Ignatius at the Washington Post and Morning Joe of La La Land pulling the pin on Joe — "You're too old, retire already" — the White House is panicking.
For years they said there was "no evidence" that Joe was involved in Hunter's scams.
Now they say there's no "direct evidence," as Rep. Dan "Mini-Schiff" Goldman (D-NY) put it when he self-corrected in the one sound bite last week, or, as the New York Times put it, "no firm evidence."
Actually, there's plenty of evidence, firm, direct, circumstantial, soft and everything in between.
Just the sort of evidence Goldman used to prosecute people in his former life as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York.
The White House could have avoided all this unpleasantness if it had just told Biden to come clean and explain to the American people just how House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) — and all the whistleblowers and Hunter's ex-business partners and all the documentary evidence — are wrong.
Maybe he has a simple explanation.
If he has done nothing wrong, he must be furious at this besmirching of his legacy. Any innocent man in his position would want to come out loud and defiant and clear his name.
Lucky for Joe, he's president, so everyone would listen.
But he can't keep pretending that he knows "nothing" about Hunter's scams, and pretending he wasn't involved.
Twenty speakerphone calls and two Cafe Milano dinners and a dozen other meetings beg the question.
The White House tried to thread the needle on the lies with a new form of words after Hunter's former best friend Devon Archer's testimony.
The president wasn't "in business" with his son.
Denial is a river in Egypt, too.
While Trump is mentioned, he is not the topic.
No fascist crap either.
No dumb memes.
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What is this nonsense? A single public phone call? First of all it was a phone call from the president of the United States to the president of another country that was only made "public" after a whistleblower report on the phone call was leaked from a congressional committee. To call it a "public phone call" is, at best, bizarre. Talk about gaslighting. Calling this a public phone call is gaslighting.
Secondly, the impeachment was not only based on the phone call. Other testimony went to Trump's threats to withhold military assistance to Ukraine unless Zelensky and his government undertook an investigation of Joe Biden. While this attempted extortion came to light through the leaked phone call, if it had been delivered by carrier pigeon it still would have been an impeachable offense. --- More gaslighting by the seed author.
Conclusion - this article is junk.
You can not have a RBR that forbids a topic brought up in an article. Please read the RBR rules in the RBR group. TY [ph]
My comment DIRECTLY addressed a sentence within the seeded article.
Is it the seeder's opinion that we are not allowed to discuss things that are directly talked about in the article? That is an abuse of the red box rules.
Miranda's book sales needed a boost.
Next you will be hearing the incessant drumbeat from democrats of "we just need to move on for the good of the country", plus we really need you to concentrate on fixing all of our fuck-ups, immigration, inflation, Crime and high gas prices, We are obviously too stupid so please save us.
They are already beating that drum to death. They are blaming Republicans for the problems still being problems. Forgetting they control the White House and the Senate- and so far are refusing to negotiate on a budget they know the Republican House will accept.
SSDD from Democrats and their media lemmings.
Golly Gee Miranda, Joe's DoJ indicted Hunter today, how 'Devine' ... /S
Not on the most serious of the charges- which friend of the Brandon family Weiss conveniently let the statute of limitations run out on.
Also, Weiss didn't even want to press any charges against Hunter. He had to be shamed into making the "cherry" plea deal by the IRS and FBI whistleblowers outing his sham investigation.
Garland didn't even hesitate to name Weiss as special counsel into investigating Hunter further (five fucking years wasn't enough); and any connections his illegal activities have to Brandon. Should take Weiss another 5 damn years to decide he doesn't want to press charges again.
Brandon has made the US Justice system into the envy of tin horn dictators the world over. Not only does it protect Democrats and check the box criminals; but attacks their political opponents with complete impunity. Fair trial, and impartial jury, doesn't mean shit to Democrats.
What exactly is he being charged with again ?
The conservative Supreme Court has ruled that drug addicts can own guns.
Two counts of lying on a federal application and one count of illegal possession.
No it didn't.
Apparently you didn't bother reading my links.
ou didn't bother reading my links.
Apparently, you don't understand your links. Try reading them again.
Here's two hints to help you.
1. The Supreme Court is not the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
2. If the Supreme court ruled that drug addicts can own guns, they would issue an opinion expressing that.
That is why I linked the Supreme Court ruling that the 5th court of Appeals referenced in their decision. You can't miss it, it says "Supreme Court"...
That’s not a decision. I thought the title would have you clued you in.
”Brief of the Cato institute” is pretty self explanatory.
"Denial is a river in Egypt, too."
Ms Devine makes money penning such tiresome wit?