The steady Drip, Drip, Drip of the Biden e-mail story
Last night Tucker Carlson assessed the consequences of one of 2020's biggest news stories.
The following is his opening commentary on the Oct. 19, 2020 edition of " Tucker Carlson Tonight ":
"Last week, The New York Post published one of the great scoops of the year. The paper's editors got a copy of the hard drive from Hunter Biden's personal laptop. On it were tens of thousands of emails, videos, texts and photographs.
One very newsworthy series of emails showed that as vice president of the United States, Joe Biden tailored American foreign policy -- our foreign policy, which Joe Biden does not own -- in order to help his son's business interests. Biden intervened aggressively in the internal affairs of another sovereign nation, Ukraine , and his son got paid for that. By any measure, that is a real story.
Something then happened that was bigger and far more dangerous to our country than anything the New York Post found on Hunter Biden's laptop: The most powerful people in the world aligned to censor the news, to keep it from the population of the United States. Twitter prevented its users from sharing the story. So did Facebook. When Americans searched Google to read the New York Post story, many couldn't find it.
So within hours, the premise of a free press, the basis of American democracy for 250 years, just disappeared. One minute we were America, the next minute we were China. Perhaps most horrifying of all, our news media applauded it. The self-described guardians of the First Amendment cheered the destruction of the First Amendment. The New York Times actually ran an op-ed attacking the idea of free speech.
Every power center in America vehemently agreed with that and most ominous of all, the U.S. intelligence community, the secretive federal agencies that have nearly unlimited power, joined in. Those agencies colluded with the news media to hide information from the American public weeks before a presidential election
On Saturday, USA Today kicked off the effort by publishing one of the most dishonest newspaper stories ever to run in this country.
"Federal authorities are investigating, " the paper declared, whether the story about Hunter Biden's laptop was "part of a smoke bomb of disinformation pushed by Russia."
The newspaper never bothered to assess whether the core story was true, nor did the article explain how this Russian plot might have worked in practical terms. The computer repair shop owner in Wilmington, for example. He must have been in on it. He had physical possession of the laptop. So was this seemingly mild-mannered Mac repairman yet another one of Vladimir Putin's handpicked sleeper agents? Had he been lying in wait in a Delaware strip mall for decades, preparing for just this moment?
USA Today didn't tell us. They didn't need to tell us because the rest of the media understood instantly what to do. "FBI probed if purported Hunter Biden emails are a Russian plot," declared Bloomberg News . PBS, which you pay for, said a "senior former intelligence official" -- whose salary you also paid -- claimed that Rudy Giuliani was likely channeling Russian disinformation. So the former mayor of New York is working for Vladimir Putin, too. That's how vast this conspiracy was.
Reporters in Washington and New York frantically called their many sources in the permanent national security state for more details. From his perch on Twitter, desiccated neocon ghoul David Frum cheered them on.
In this frenzy to find this new batch of Russian spies, the media did miss a few obvious things. For example, two people reporters forgot to call were Joe and Hunter Biden. Presumably the Bidens could have confirmed whether or not the famous laptop was real. That would have ended the speculation and would have informed the rest of us, but somehow no one thought to do that.
Finally, on Friday night, one reporter, Bo Erickson of CBS, blurted out the question to Joe Biden himself. And here's what happened next.
BIDEN: I knew you'd ask it. I have no response. It's another smear campaign. Right up your alley. They're the questions you always ask.
Biden didn't deny the story because he knows that laptop from the Delaware repair shop did, in fact, belong to his son, Hunter. And we know it, too. We confirmed that conclusively last week. Everything we have learned since then -- and there has been a lot that we've learned since then -- bolsters that conclusion. The laptop in question belonged to Hunter Biden. It is not a Russian fabrication.
Bo Erickson of CBS asked a legitimate question. And for that very reason, within minutes, Democratic operatives, including many in the media, landed on him. The point of attacking a man who appears to be a fairly liberal CBS reporter was to send a message to the rest of the press corps: Shut up and obey the narrative or else."
foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-media-hunter-biden-deep-state
The latest on the story:
Yesterday
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Monday said that Hunter Biden’s laptop “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign."
Documents acquired by Fox News appear to show Hunter Biden's signature on a receipt for repair of laptops at the Delaware store, which is at the center of the scandal.
Some have compared Hunter's signature to other documents and they call it a match:
According to Rudy Giuliani - Hunter Biden's lawyer asked for the laptop to be returned
It is now being revealed that one of Hunter's business partners, rotting in jail, has flipped and is turning over 26,000 e-mails.
"Emails from a former business associate of Hunter Biden's inner-circle who's serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Hunter and his colleagues used their access to the Obama administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese clients and investors - including securing a private, off-the-books meeting with the former Vice President . The emails, given to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer by former Biden associate Bevan Cooney and published by Breitbart also reveal that in 2011, the younger Biden and his business associates discussed strengthening relations with "China Inc." as part of a "new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese."
https://presscalifornia.com/2020/10/16/hunters-biz-partner-flips-i-was-the-fall-guy/
Joe Biden has secluded himself from the media until Thursday night's debate. The very biased debate committee has made another rule change - they got rid of the traditional foreign policy topic, usually part of the final debate. They claim that topics are the choice of the moderator, Kristen Welker. Thus, the implication that democrat/WH reporter Welker made the change and obviously the change is to spare their candidate Joe Biden from any questions on the Hunter story. We should all know that the President will find a way to get it in on his own. The other change is that Mics will be muted so nobody can talk over each other. I'm sure it is not their intention to help the President, but that might just help him. We don't want Joe cut off by anyone. We need to let him ramble on.
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Good morning and welcome to another day in the life of the Hunter/Joe Biden scandal.
Keep it out there Vic. You're wasting your time. I, and just about everybody I know, have already voted.
Two thirds haven't. Even with the early voting - Biden is in trouble.
And thus describes the willful apathy of many on the left.
As long as it somehow fits into one of their preferred narratives, they don't care what the truth really is.
Sad, very very sad!
Russian propaganda. Even Bill Barr isn't interested.
Try reading the article or just move on ....
Most of them are voting for Trump.
And once again the Russians are not involved.
Here's who is:
Since the IBD/TIPP 2020 Presidential Election Tracking Poll launched on Monday, Oct. 12, Biden's support has slipped 3.8 points, from 51.9% to a new low-water mark of 48.1%. Trump poll numbers have gone the other way, rising 2.4 points to his new high-water mark of 45.8%. Biden's lead peaked at 8.6 points in the Oct. 13 presidential poll.
I'm getting deja vu all over again .....
Imagine taking that wonderful ride one more time!
To see Martha Raddatz cry one more time!
To hear Van Jones call it a "White Lash"
Ah One more time!
So the threads here on NT, alleging that this is a "Russian disinformation campaign," are all really just a "Liberal disinformation campaign."
Classic and soooo typical for NT these days ......
When/If the drive & info on it is independently verified by a certified lab then I'll believe it. Just 'cuz Rudy says isn't good enough.
I'll take the word of the National Security Director over a bunch of biased reporters or keyboard commando's any day but i agree on verification part. One would hope the NSD would have done that before making such a comment and he probably did.
That said, my comment addresses allegations being sprayed all over the front page of NT. There are several like that up there right now.
Guess they don't need independent verification huh?
I'm not taking the word of any Trump lackey and bootlicker and that is John Ratcliffe and just about everyone else in Trump's government outside the intelligence agencies.
Who himself is using the same, 'cuz Rudy said, explanation.
I only speak for myself.
Weak dodge, very weak.
In a word YES.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/19/john-ratcliffe-info-on-hunter-biden-laptop-not-russian-disinformation/?
Drop the narrative!
Here's more bad news for the left:
Video Surfaces Of Final Debate Moderator ‘Tipping Off’ Hillary Clinton Campaign On Interview Questions In 2016
"NBC News reporter Kristen Welker, the debate moderator for the final presidential debate, has strong ties to Democrat activism and has even been caught on camera “tipping off” a member of Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign about “at least one question” that she was going to ask during an interview, according to a new report."
And to think I always gave her a pass!
No wonder they dropped foreign policy from the debate. Would open the door to this story for Mr. Trump. Can't have that now can we. SMH
You would think the debate committee could find someone to moderate who wasn't an old Trump-hating democrat or a woman writing a glowing account of the life of Nancy Pelosi or an activist democrat reporter?
Isn't there anyone out there who is not a liberal?
Speaking of liberals - Good Morning from the city of Seattle
Not many in the mass media that's for sure.
I think they use should a a Marine DI to moderate.
Lets see these two shit-birds try to outshout and interrupt that .....
I would like to see the debates ran by 2 moderators. One from each side asking questions.
I'm sure they'd have some conscientious objection to that!
I like that idea. They don't really have a match for Bill O'Reilly, do they?
AKA Biden's worst nightmare.
Watch the fireworks when Welker tries to mute Trump's mic.
I don't know if it will go down that way, but it is a funny thought! Lol!
Just let them go at it...round 2
LMAO!
Meanwhile the store in Delaware has posted some ominous notices:
