State Media Reports Two-Year-Old "News"
This morning, CBS News ran a report from their star investigative journalist, Catherine Herridge. Herridge and the show’s host breathlessly reported the stunning news that they received data from a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden! CBS conducted an “independent forensic review” and determined that this laptop is, in fact, authentic! You’ll never guess what they found! Emails and voicemail messages that implicate Joe Biden himself as being heavily-involved in his son’s business ventures – in complete contradiction to Joe’s repeated assertions to the contrary!
Wow! Right?
In other “news” from CBS, a manned space capsule successfully landed on the moon, President Kennedy has been assassinated, and a venture capitalist named Christopher Columbus has discovered an entirely new continent.
I guess the only proper response to this story is laughter. This is the sad state of the American State-run media in 2022. Those of us who consume actual news from actual journalists have known all about this “news” story since October of 2020. While the State media was busy doing everything in its power to suppress this story (with an assist from Big Tech and 51 former U.S. intelligence officials who blatantly lied about it), we on the right have been “in the know” from the very beginning.
In a way, I suppose it’s nice that our State media has finally acknowledged this story after more than two years of pretending it didn’t exist. Keep in mind, however, that the one and only reason they are doing so is that Republicans have forced them to do their jobs. Last week, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) held a joint press conference in which they announced a full House investigation of Hunter’s and Joe’s joint business ventures would take place once Republicans take over in January.
Our Democrat propaganda machine clearly does not care about reporting the truth. They do, however, care when Republicans “pounce” on stories of Democrat corruption, because that could possibly make Democrats look bad in the eyes of voters. The purpose of the media’s sudden interest in Hunter’s laptops is not to uncover the truth of Joe Biden’s involvement in this scandal, but to provide some type of excuse or cover to exonerate Joe of any wrongdoing.
For two years, the State media has virtually ignored this story. In the rare times when they have given this story any coverage at all, it was to assure us that the laptops are most likely “Russian disinformation” and have not been authenticated. When that excuse wore thin, the media shifted its coverage to admit that yes, the laptops are authentic, but nothing found on those laptops proves that Joe had anything to do with Hunter’s businesses. Now, they’ve been forced to shift their coverage yet again.
The evidence of Joe’s involvement is so overwhelming and obvious that no one with a shred of intellectual honesty can claim otherwise. We have all seen the photos of Joe rubbing elbows with Hunter’s business partners. We’ve seen the White House visitor logs. We’ve seen the Air Force Two flight logs. We’ve heard the voicemail recordings. We’ve heard eyewitness testimony from Hunter’s business partner, Tony Bobulinski. We’ve seen the receipts from all of the gifts Hunter received from wealthy Russian and Chinese benefactors. We’ve seen the bank statements showing large amounts of money shifting from Hunter’s account to Joe’s or vice versa.
All of this evidence is clear and unassailable. Yet, the Associated Press continued to report the laughable absurdity – just this past weekend! – that Joe Biden never spoke to his son about his business dealings.
Republican legislators promised a trove of new information this past week, but what they have presented so far has been a condensed review of a few years’ worth of complaints about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, going back to conspiracy theories raised by Trump.
The above quote isn’t from an opinion piece. It’s from an actual “news” story published by AP “journalist” Colleen Long. Notice how her (completely laughable and easily-disproven) opinion that the overwhelming evidence against Hunter and Joe Biden is a “Trump conspiracy theory” is reported as fact. This is why there are so many ill-informed people in this country. Far too many people still swallow the media’s opinions as facts.
Long’s next paragraph is even funnier:
Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014, around the time his father, then vice president, was helping conduct the Obama administration’s foreign policy with Ukraine. Senate Republicans have said the appointment may have posed a conflict of interest, but they did not present evidence that the hiring influenced U.S. policies, and they did not implicate Joe Biden in any wrongdoing.
Over the past year, the Biden administration has sent over $100 billion to Ukraine. Just recently, Biden requested an additional $38 billion. This is more money than we spent, on average, on our war in Afghanistan. But Long doesn’t see the “quo” in that “quid pro quo.” She also ignores the fact that Ukraine complied with Joe Biden’s threat to withhold military aid from Ukraine in 2015 unless they fired the man who was investigating his son’s company. That seems rather quid-pro-quo-ish, doesn’t it?
Later in her piece, Long writes (perhaps even with a straight face):
Joe Biden has said he’s never spoken to his son about his foreign business, and nothing the Republicans have put forth suggests otherwise.
Umm…we all heard the voicemail, right? CBS News even played that voicemail during their brief report on this topic this morning. Here is what our “president,” Joe Biden, said to his son on that recorded message:
Hey, pal, it’s Dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance, just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you. I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear. And anyway, if you get a chance, give me a call. I love you.
As a reminder, the Times article referenced by Joe was published in December of 2018. That article covered Hunter Biden’s business dealings with a corrupt (and now defunct) Communist Chinese Party-owned energy company called CEFC. Their CEO, Ye Jianming, conducted extensive business with Hunter. Once those dealings became public knowledge, the Chinese government “disappeared” Ye, arresting him for “economic crimes.” He has not been seen since 2016, and the company’s assets were seized by the government.
Hunter’s deal with CEFC would have netted “The Big Guy” ten percent had the deal been completed before it became public knowledge. The voicemail proves that Joe Biden was well aware of his son’s business deal in China. Unless AP reporter Colleen Long doesn’t believe her own ears, or somehow isn’t aware of this voicemail message that has been in circulation for months, how can she assert that there are “no indications” that he ever discussed business with his son?
How do you know when the media has been caught in a lie? When they are forced to issue a retraction or revision. That is precisely what happened in the example of this AP article. The line where “nothing the Republicans have put forth suggest [that Joe and Hunter discussed business together]” was changed to “there is no indication that the federal investigation involves the president.”
Back in February of this year, a grand jury in Delaware heard eyewitness testimony in which a witness identified “the Big Guy” in the CEFC deal as President* Joe Biden. That seems like a rather obvious indication that the federal investigation does, in fact, involve the “president,” no?
It really is stunning to watch the State media bend over backwards to run interference for this “president.” The old chestnut “imagine if it were Trump” applies to so many stories, but it certainly rings true in this one. Just imagine if Donald Trump, Jr. or Eric Trump had used Air Force One to fly to China to conduct private business with government-connected officials, and promised in documented emails to give ten percent of the profits to “the Big Guy.” The hair on the heads of every media pundit in America would spontaneously combust. The story would be called (and perhaps accurately) the Scandal of the Century. Trump would be forced to answer every question from every media outlet on a daily basis. He would be dragged into court (or perhaps even prison.) He would be impeached yet again.
If you ever wondered what it must have been like to be a citizen in Soviet Russia during the Cold War, the current state of our media should give some indication of that.