Michael Isikoff was once the most prominent investigative reporter. Newsweek,Twitterged something unintentionally funny about a New York Times story.
“In the category of — didn’t see this coming,” he wrote, “@nytimes has confirmed that Hunter Biden emails, which were originally dismissed as Russian disinformation, are authentic..”
They don’t!
The obvious joke about “didn’t see this coming” is that Hunter Biden’s laptop is one of those scandals that they would prefer to squash until about 2028. Twitter and Facebook will be heavily blocked in October 2020 New York Post stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop with the excuse that “security officials” (guess which party) cried “Russian plot.”
As columnist Tim Carney notes, it’s late for griping about Big Tech censorship back then, but it still underlines the question “Just what are the tech platforms and the major media colluding to lie about right now? What are our gatekeepers covering up today?”
Let’s add to that: Why is a news story “illegitimate” until “prestige media” outlets arrive on the scene years after the original conservative scoops? This is The Times story was buried on page A-20 of the print edition on St. Patrick’s Day.
Paragraph 23’s second section contains the announcement of Katie Benner and Kenneth Vogel. Times obtained the emails “from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop that was left abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.” Appears?
The Hunter Biden story was blandly blurbed on the bottom of the front page as “Biden’s Son Pays a Tax Bill.” It sounded as harmless as a kiddie book like The Curious George Keeps His Pennies. The TV networks yawned and reported nothing.
The headline inside also said “Biden’s Son Paid Off Tax Bill, but Still Faces Inquiry by Grand Jury.” The Times couldn’t even note in the blurb or headline that the tax payoff was said to be more than $1 million. We’re told that paying off your (huge) tax liability is one way to make it harder for prosecutors to win a criminal conviction for tax avoidance.
Hunter Biden was also investigated in connection to his failure to register as a Foreign Agents Registration Act, (FARA), for all the international exploitation of Vice-President Daddy. It is also being investigated for not having registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in all of his international exploitation of Vice President Daddy. Times Reports indicate that Hunter’s laptop email shows that he was keen to avoid any FARA issues.
In his dealings with the Ukrainian oil-and-gas firm Burisma, Hunter recommended enlisting the law firm where he worked at the time, Boies Schiller Flexner, to “devise a media plan and arrange for legal protections and mitigate U.S. domestic negative press regarding the current leadership if need be.”
One wonders if they really needed much help in “mitigating negative press” with the New York TimesThe rest. Perhaps they were referring to conservative outlets such as Fox News and The New York Post.
This is the conclusion of the story Times reported on prosecutors meeting with a “former employee of Mr. Biden’s, Lunden Alexis Roberts,” asking “which corporate entity” Hunter used to pay her for…nine months. The racier is trying to hide the identity of the woman. New York Post described as Hunter’s “baby mama” the “stripper.” Roberts, who once danced at the “Mpire Gentleman’s Club” in D.C., has a three-year-old daughter fathered by Hunter named Navy Roberts. It was not surprising that the White House displayed the stockings for grandchild stockings without the girl.
This is where you laugh at reporters who boast that “our only bias is in favor of a good story.” Juicy stories dry up and waste away all the time when they’re about Democrats.
About Post Author
