This week’s Liberal Media Scream features an archived New York Times video that, richly and deservedly, shows just what an embarrassment the liberal outlet’s coverage of the Hunter Biden affair was.
Imagine suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop story, covered in conservative media but ignored during the 2020 campaign by liberal outlets such as the New York Times, was akin to pizzagate or birther charges against former President Barack Obama. Well, that’s exactly what the Gray Lady did in a video bragging about how smart she thought she was.
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A New York Times video posted on YouTube in February 2021 trashed the Trump campaign for highlighting the Hunter Biden laptop story, as the narrator charged the campaign “wrapped” the story “with layers of conspiracy theories and lies.”
FLASHBACK: See how the @nytimes Opinion folks trashed the Hunter Biden laptop scoop as “conspiracy theories and lies”– like Birtherism and Pizzagate! — in a Feb. 4, 2021 video on how Biden beat Trump.
Biden won by “not engaging with the nuttiness.”https://t.co/yJmcEC9CQZ pic.twitter.com/oEYlglCL4Z
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 5, 2022
NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, with our partner for the weekly Liberal Media Scream, the Media Research Center, came across the embarrassing video Monday morning. Of course, the paper this year conceded that the Biden computer story was very real, and it linked the Biden family to potentially scandalous business dealing with China.
From a New York Times opinion video posted on Feb. 4, 2021, on YouTube:
NARRATOR: Though Trump has had more controversies than I can count, Biden had one too: A booby trap that could have brought down his entire campaign, his son, Hunter. For sure, there are some awkward truths about Hunter, from his drug problems to his business dealings around the world.
[One screen: New York Post with the headline: “Biden Secret E-mails”]
Team Trump then wrapped these with layers of conspiracy theories and lies.
CLIP OF RUDY GIULIANI: This is Hunter Biden’s laptop. And when you look at the photograph section, it’s disgusting, and it includes a large number of underage girls.
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CLIP OF DONALD TRUMP JR: Money tied to human trafficking and prostitution rings and the other one, that’s another big one. The Chinese money. Joe Biden is compromised, 100%.
NARRATOR: In politics, a conspiracy theory doesn’t have to be true to have legs. Think birtherism or pizzagate. … Biden won this battle precisely by not engaging with the nuttiness.
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “How embarrassing. Or at least it should be for the New York Times, though they probably lack the required self-awareness. The journalistic line today is that the news media suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story because corporate media outlets couldn’t prove it was real, so they responsibly tilted toward the side of caution. This shows they were totally in the tank for Joe Biden, eager to discredit as a conspiracy any attacks on him from Donald Trump that may have damaged their preferred candidate.”
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS.
