The Media Lies – Page 22

US intel veterans lied about ‘Russian plot’ — and the media bought it hook, line and sinker

If there is one thing that the Hunter Biden laptop episode has proved, it is that former directors of the CIA aren’t as adept at evaluating evidence as advertised.

Five former directors or acting directors of the CIA signed a letter asserting that the laptop, first reported by this newspaper in the weeks before the election, “has all the hallmarks of Russian information operation.”

More than 50 former senior intel officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, signed the letter, which was used by the Biden campaign and the media to discredit the damning e-mails about Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

by Blazingcatfur•December 15, 2020December 15, 2020•0•The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

NYT Slams Writer Not Calling Jill Biden ‘Dr.’ Here’s How They Referred To Dr. Ben Carson For Years.

In an opinion piece published on Friday in The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Epstein, former editor of The American Scholar, triggered a firestorm when he suggested that Jill Biden stop referring to herself as “Dr. Jill Biden” because she was not a medical doctor, having earned a doctorate in education.

On Saturday, The New York Times published a piece in response, titled, “An Opinion Writer Argued Jill Biden Should Drop the ‘Dr.’ (Few Were Swayed.)” The piece began, “Do people who go by Dr. need to carry stethoscopes?”

by Blazingcatfur•December 14, 2020December 14, 2020•0•The Media, The Media Lies

Rex Murphy: Media treatment of potentially Watergate-sized Hunter Biden saga reeks of hypocrisy

“The story could not be more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic moustache.”— David Frum. Oct. 18, on the Hunter Biden scandal.

North American journalism is going to have to engage in a massive repair job, a complete and radical overhaul, if both practice and profession are to retain any — any — credibility or respect.

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 12, 2020•0•The Media Lies

Liberal media teamed up for ‘smear campaign’ to dismiss The Post’s Hunter Biden story

There has been plenty of criticism in recent days of the mainstream media’s refusal to cover the New York Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden ever since the Biden transition issued a press release acknowledging that he was under investigation over his so-called “tax affairs,” but the media went far beyond simply ignoring the controversy.

Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent quickly declared the day after the New York Post first began reporting on the alleged contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop that it was “Trump’s fake new Biden scandal,” calling the allegations “laughably weak.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 12, 2020December 11, 2020•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", The Media Lies

How the media covered up the Hunter Biden story — until after the election

It’s now clear that the Hunter Biden story was real, with Hunter himself acknowledging a federal probe into his taxes — one that reportedly began in 2018. Really, it was always clear. Yet, when The New York Post broke the details, virtually the entire journalistic establishment and left-wing punditsphere defamed the newspaper, claiming it was passing on Russian “disinformation” or partisan fabrications.

The political media quickly began pumping out process stories about the alleged discord in The Post’s newsroom and about the problems with the reporting. In so doing, of course, they did practically no reporting on the substantive allegations that Joe Biden’s family had spent years cashing in on his influence.

The media are criminals never to be trusted.

by Blazingcatfur•December 11, 2020December 11, 2020•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", The Media Lies

Daily Beast: Isn’t It Odd That The Hunter Biden Money-Laundering Probe Went “Largely Unnoticed” Until Now?

“Largely unnoticed,” purposely ignored, or actively suppressed? The Daily Beast’s reporting team on Hunter Biden’s legal woes sound somewhat surprised that the FBI’s money-laundering probe didn’t get noticed before the election…

by Blazingcatfur•December 11, 2020December 10, 2020•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", The Media Lies, WTF?

‘They Rigged It’: Media Covered Up Long-Known Hunter Biden Tax Probe

On Wednesday, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, admitted learning “that the US attorney’s office in Delaware had advised” his legal counsel that they were investigating his tax affairs.

Yet, this was known long before last month’s presidential election, said Fox News host Tucker Carlson, opening the latest edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, and adding his programme had already covered a criminal probe launched into Hunter’s business dealings with China in the run-up to the vote. The latter can’t be said about other media outlets, which have maintained a wall of silence on the matter so as not to hurt Joe Biden’s chances of winning the election, Carlson went on.

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Pollak: Mainstream Media, Big Tech Coverup Collapses with Hunter Biden Investigation

The revelation Wednesday that Hunter Biden is under investigation for tax violations relating to his foreign business affairs confirms that the media/Big Tech censorship of stories during the election about his laptop and emails was entirely without merit.

When the New York Post reported on October 14 that Hunter Biden had introduced an official from the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma to then-Vice President Joe Biden — contrary to the latter’s denials that he had ever spoken to his family about their businesses — Facebook announced that it would be suppressing the story, and Twitter prevented people from sharing it. Those who dared were suspended; the Post itself was locked out of its account for more than two weeks.

by Blazingcatfur•December 10, 2020December 10, 2020•0•"US Presidential Election 2020", The Media Lies

Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked

Project Veritas’ expose of CNN’s behind-the-scenes conference calls shows that the network’s slogan should be “We won’t fully report so you can’t knowledgeably decide.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 4, 2020December 4, 2020•0•The Media Lies

CNN liberal apologists caught burying The Post’s Hunter Biden exposé: Devine

The collusion of mainstream media and Big Tech to censor The Post’s Hunter Biden story now is laid bare in leaked recordings of CNN’s news meetings from the time.

CNN boss Jeff Zucker is heard instructing his staff to downplay the bombshell story which implicated Joe Biden in a shady foreign-influence peddling scheme, according to audio released Tuesday by undercover news outlet Project Veritas.

by Blazingcatfur•December 3, 2020December 3, 2020•0•The Media Lies

How Will Cable News Survive Without Donald Trump to Kick Around?

With Donald Trump poised to leave the White House one way or another on January 20, cable news nets find themselves in an existential crisis. They have spent the last four years mercilessly bashing the president, accusing him of wild, outrageous, and crazy crimes, creating some of the most inventive conspiracy theories about a president in history. This has resulted in sky-high ratings, allowing them to charge top dollar for advertising.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2020December 2, 2020•0•The Media, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Project Veritas Leaks CNN Tape, Network Threatens Legal Action

CNN said on Dec. 1 that it is involving “law enforcement” after James O’Keefe, founder of investigative journalism nonprofit Project Veritas, appeared to leak the network’s internal morning editorial calls.

On Tuesday morning, O’Keefe shared a preview on Twitter teasing a release allegedly of a secretly recorded conference call between the network’s president Jeff Zucker and CNN’s senior leadership, claiming that it would “expose” network executives for expressing their “political biases.”

BREAKING: @CNN Vice President of Global Programming @MarcusMabry SLAMS @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson as Racist

“I think it’s unavoidable that you have to talk about the naked racism of Tucker Carlson…Sort of the “White Supremacy Hour” they have on Fox News every night…” #CNNTapes pic.twitter.com/y4MrkAzAb8

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 2, 2020

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2020December 2, 2020•0•"Journalists", The Media Lies

WashPost: The Horror of Teaching Redneck Children About the Election

It’s always fun when the brave journalists of the Washington Post put on their pith helmets and venture forth to do some anthropological reporting from the hinterlands. You never know what kind of hair-raising stories they’ll file about sky god-worshippers in podunk hamlets over an hour’s drive from decent artisanal cheese.

For example, education reporter Hannah Natanson Nov. 29 article describes the horrors of teaching about the presidential election in “West Virginia’s deep-red McDowell County, where some 80 percent of the votes went to Trump in the November election.” They’re also, she is careful to point out, 90 percent white.

by Blazingcatfur•December 2, 2020December 1, 2020•0•"Journalists", The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Trump literally Hitler says New York Times

The New York Times published an op-ed Monday that suggested President Donald Trump is like Nazi dictator and mass murderer Adolf Hitler because he is challenging election results in court.

The Times won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for its reporting on “Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.” There was no evidence of collusion, though the Times‘ reporting, which was never tested in a court of law, was used to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2016 election.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2020December 1, 2020•0•New York Times, The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump is literally Hitler!

Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress “Hyper-Partisan Sites” in Favor of “Mainstream News” (The NYT) is a Fraud

The corporate news organizations masquerading as reliable and non-partisan are, in fact, as hyper-partisan as any sites on the internet, and spread as much misinformation.

The most prolific activism demanding more Silicon Valley censorship is found in the nation’s largest news outlets: the media reporters of CNN, the “disinformation” unit of NBC News, and especially the tech reporters of The New York Times. That is where the most aggressive and sustained pro-internet-censorship campaigns are waged.

by Blazingcatfur•November 26, 2020November 26, 2020•0•New York Times, The Media Lies

‘In the Trump era, the media abandoned objectivity’

Donald Trump’s time in the White House is coming to an end. One of the most remarkable developments during his term was the transformation of the media into the ‘Resistance’. Many journalists no longer saw their role as to report the world objectively, impartially or even truthfully. Instead, they were possessed by an all-consuming desire to bring down Trump. Stories that could damage Trump were relentlessly pursued, even if there was little to back them up. Meanwhile, major stories, such as the worst rioting in 50 years in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests, were barely explored, seemingly in case they benefitted Trump. How did the media get here? And what does it mean for the future of journalism?

by Blazingcatfur•November 25, 2020November 25, 2020•0•The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome