From the “I’m not trying to discredit you; you’re discrediting yourself”, files: Revenge of the Protected Class
The intellectual dishonesty is breathtaking.
Exhibit A is Rep. Adam Schiff, the maestro of all things Russian. When President Trump was being investigated, having information from Russia was considered top-of-the-line evidence ... almost all of the damaging claims in the infamous “Steele dossier” were supplied to a Brit by Russians.
But now that Joe Biden’s behavior has come under (grudging and belated) scrutiny, the mere possibility of information originating in Russia is a get-out-of-jail-free card ... just lie and say the information came from Russia. The “watchdogs” in the media shriek and run the other way.
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Peggy Noonan wrote about the unexpected success of Donald Trump in February 2016 in a column titled “Donald Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected.”
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“There are the protected and the unprotected,” Noonan declared. “The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it.”
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Biden confessed early in 2017 — on camera — that he had used American foreign policy to extort the president of Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings, the energy company on whose board Joe’s son Hunter served.
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Biden has repeatedly denied that he knew anything about his son’s foreign business deals ... But the hard drive that was seized by the FBI in December 2019 contains evidence that Joe not only knew about Hunter’s business deals, but also was a partner in some of them.
No problem, say the arbiters of truth at Twitter, Facebook and the mainstream media. Those incriminating emails are “unverified” or “unconfirmed.” Wikipedia dismisses the entire Biden corruption scheme as a “conspiracy theory” based on a “series of unevidenced claims” that are centered on “the false allegation” that (you guessed it) Biden is corrupt. In other words, Joe Biden is an untouchable. No matter what evidence exists, the media and the power brokers who run things will declare him exempt from consequences.
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This is so dishonest that it is depressing. By “instability,” Todd means that the president doesn’t play by the rules of the Washington establishment. By “lack of credibility,” he means that the mainstream media hates Trump because he is an effective conservative. By “unverified,” he means that although independent sources have confirmed the authenticity of Hunter’s emails and have confirmed that Joe Biden was a partner in Hunter’s corrupt schemes, NBC and the rest of the mainstream media refuse to get off their butts and find out the truth for themselves.
Lesley Stahl, in her now infamous Trump interview for “60 Minutes,” actually said she would not cover the Biden corruption scandal because it is not verified. She also told Trump that she had no idea that his campaign had been spied upon by the Obama administration. That means she is either a blithering idiot or a liar. When Trump challenged her for her obvious bias, she said, “You’re trying to discredit me.”
In a retort that sums up the whole filthy mess, Trump said, “I’m not trying to discredit you; you’re discrediting yourself.”
If Joe Biden wins the election on Nov. 3, it will signal that the protected have won the war — that they will remain exempt from consequences for not just the next four years, but for the foreseeable future.
Exhibit A is Rep. Adam Schiff, the maestro of all things Russian. When President Trump was being investigated, having information from Russia was considered top-of-the-line evidence ... almost all of the damaging claims in the infamous “Steele dossier” were supplied to a Brit by Russians.
But now that Joe Biden’s behavior has come under (grudging and belated) scrutiny, the mere possibility of information originating in Russia is a get-out-of-jail-free card ... just lie and say the information came from Russia. The “watchdogs” in the media shriek and run the other way.
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Peggy Noonan wrote about the unexpected success of Donald Trump in February 2016 in a column titled “Donald Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected.”
...
“There are the protected and the unprotected,” Noonan declared. “The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it.”
...
Biden confessed early in 2017 — on camera — that he had used American foreign policy to extort the president of Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings, the energy company on whose board Joe’s son Hunter served.
...
Biden has repeatedly denied that he knew anything about his son’s foreign business deals ... But the hard drive that was seized by the FBI in December 2019 contains evidence that Joe not only knew about Hunter’s business deals, but also was a partner in some of them.
No problem, say the arbiters of truth at Twitter, Facebook and the mainstream media. Those incriminating emails are “unverified” or “unconfirmed.” Wikipedia dismisses the entire Biden corruption scheme as a “conspiracy theory” based on a “series of unevidenced claims” that are centered on “the false allegation” that (you guessed it) Biden is corrupt. In other words, Joe Biden is an untouchable. No matter what evidence exists, the media and the power brokers who run things will declare him exempt from consequences.
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This is so dishonest that it is depressing. By “instability,” Todd means that the president doesn’t play by the rules of the Washington establishment. By “lack of credibility,” he means that the mainstream media hates Trump because he is an effective conservative. By “unverified,” he means that although independent sources have confirmed the authenticity of Hunter’s emails and have confirmed that Joe Biden was a partner in Hunter’s corrupt schemes, NBC and the rest of the mainstream media refuse to get off their butts and find out the truth for themselves.
Lesley Stahl, in her now infamous Trump interview for “60 Minutes,” actually said she would not cover the Biden corruption scandal because it is not verified. She also told Trump that she had no idea that his campaign had been spied upon by the Obama administration. That means she is either a blithering idiot or a liar. When Trump challenged her for her obvious bias, she said, “You’re trying to discredit me.”
In a retort that sums up the whole filthy mess, Trump said, “I’m not trying to discredit you; you’re discrediting yourself.”
If Joe Biden wins the election on Nov. 3, it will signal that the protected have won the war — that they will remain exempt from consequences for not just the next four years, but for the foreseeable future.
