No matter which way you cut it, the graphic Hunter Biden story published last week by the New York Post is humiliating to his father Joe Biden’s campaign, which is precisely why major media outlets don’t want to talk about it.
When they do talk about it, it’s like the two stories that the New York Times has done. The paper on Sunday took a deep dive into the little behind-the-scenes dramas at the New York Post in advance of the story’s publication. “Many Post staff members questioned whether the paper had done enough to verify the authenticity of the hard drive’s contents, said five people with knowledge of the tabloid’s inner workings,” read the New York Times‘s report. “Staff members also had concerns about the reliability of its sources and its timing, the people said.”
Okay, now what about that email purporting to show a Ukrainian having thanked Hunter Biden for giving him the “opportunity to meet your father?” The Ukrainian, an executive at the shady Burisma energy company where Hunter Biden was paid for unknown services, said it was “an honor and pleasure.” It contradicts Joe Biden’s assurances that he has never been involved with his son’s extensive overseas business dealings.
Silence! The real story, you fool, is about the reporters who “questioned” the New York Post’s decision to publish the emails and other materials, including a series of bizarre and embarrassing Hunter Biden selfies. Say no more of trifling emails.
The other story by the New York Times centered on the “push back” that the Hunter Biden story got from executives at Twitter and Facebook who decided to ban their users from sharing direct links to the New York Post’s story. The Biden campaign, the New York Times story began, “rejected a New York Post report about Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter that the nation’s leading social media companies deemed so dubious that they limited access to the article on their platforms.”
Alright, but about that meeting Joe Biden says never happened, even while a new email allegedly says it did, and which lends credibility to the claim that Hunter was using connections to his father for financial gain to the tune of tens of millions of dollars?
No, you dope! The real story is that important people at Facebook and Twitter found the whole thing “dubious.”
Neither of the Bidens has refuted the legitimacy of the email nor of the photographs. (They’ve also remained curiously silent on the New York Post‘s claim that included with the documents was a video of Hunter engaged in a “sex act” while also smoking crack, but let’s not get too deep into the weeds.)
Despite the lack of a refutation, CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday called the Hunter Biden story “propaganda.” Yes, that’s Stelter, who we’re told is an actual media reporter and not, as it would seem, a very large buffer for Democratic Party.
Separately, New York magazine ran a piece declaring that “The New York Post’s own journalists say they are skeptical of the paper’s stories about Hunter Biden.” Nothing to see here, folks!
The New York Post story ran on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The next day, ABC hosted a town hall forum with Joe Biden. Guess how many times he was asked by moderator George Stephanopoulos about his son.
Trick question! He wasn’t.
This is information that is actively being smothered in hopes that it reaches as few voters as possible. The reason is simple. The story is embarrassing for the Biden campaign. There’s no question that that’s where the media’s loyalties lie.
