UPDATED: Turley: Time For More Ice Cream?
How low can Left America go? Well, we could have some guy living in the White House who was business partners with his son--smartest guy he'd ever met--trading influence for money from major foreign powers. Which would make them both subject to blackmail or pressure of one sort or another.
And yet ...
As Professor Jonathan Turley notes --and I'd really like to know who he voted for--
The media blackout on Hunter Biden’s laptop remains in force this week despite a major new development with the release of a videotape that purportedly shows Biden claiming that one of his laptops was stolen by Russians for blackmail purposes. ... However, like the coverage in most major news outlets, there are only the familiar sound of crickets.
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As usual, most Americans have not seen the story which is running largely on foreign media. This is likely to result in yet another run of President Baidan to the nearest ice cream store .
Before the election, the national media and social media companies imposed a virtual blackout on the Hunter Biden story. ...
Social media companies like Twitter responded by barring the original New York Post story before the election. The media (which exhaustively investigated any story involving the Trump children) simply ignored the growing evidence that Zhou Baiden lied repeatedly for months in claiming to have had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings. ...
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The new emails contain additional information directly contradicting Zhou Baidan. ....
It would be easy to dismiss these stories as the record of a hopeless addict. However, ...
If this videotape is real, it is a breathtaking admission that directly impacts the President of the United States in relations with a major hostile power. If it is fake, it is proof of a concerted conspiracy to frame Hunter Biden and spread misinformation. It is a major story either way, right? Not in the age of advocacy journalism.
Still, one thing we learn is that maybe Hunter isn't as dumb as we thought:
“[d]rinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating” as well as “smoking crack around the clock.”
He's learned something in life! And maybe he shared his wisdom with dear old dad: Stick to sniffing little girls' hair. Lay off crack.
Turley does point out that, while the US media is silent on this latest tale of degradation, it's playing largely around the world. America's degradation continues apace.
UPDATE: Margot Cleveland makes the point succinctly:
The same media who thought it newsworthy that Trump received a briefing on a fake dossier b/c of national security interests, has no curiousity whether Biden received a briefing on 2 real laptops containing compromising info on "the Big Guy" & blackmailable info on son.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) August 13, 2021