With the MSM’s differential treatment of the obviously sketchy – and obviously Russian-sourced – Steele dossier versus the much more convincing evidence of the Hunter Biden laptop, the final stake should have been driven through the heart of the MSM.
Take a look at the Hoover Biden laptop thing. We have a computer that the Toast of Medellin gave to a repair man and forgot about because meth-huffing losers forget about stuff. We got his signature on the papers. We got his ambulance chaser demanding it back. We got the testimony of a veteran with a vaguely Slavic name whistleblowing it, and I was told that it’s literally treason to doubt whistleblowing veterans with a vaguely Slavic name (maybe they have to look like a bratwurst in their uniform for this to apply – it’s hard to keep track of the ever-changin’ rules).
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View CartoonAnd yet we have Leslie Stahl, a licensed, approved journalist of journalism, telling the president that the laptop revelations are not verified.
No verified? If some hobo on a corner took a break from nadlering all over the streets of San Francisco to tell a passing NYT reporter, “I like James Bond movies and I’m pretty sure I saw Putin paying for Don Jr.’s latte at a Starbucks on Castro Street” we’d see a headline the next day reading “Anonymous Intelligence Insider Reports Trump Family Receiving Payoffs From Russian Leader.”
And then there’s this from Bernard Goldberg, whose long-time specialty has been MSM mendacity:
It’s not their reasoning, dishonest as it is, that’s so annoying. It’s the sanctimony of these journalists that’s galling. They’re not running the story because they don’t want to be participants in a smear campaign that might affect a presidential election – and they want us to really believe that?
Let’s make sure we understand that these are the same people who ran story after story about a fake dossier that was packed with lies about Donald Trump.
They’re the same people who ran countless stories informing us that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.
These are the same noble journalists who gave Adam Schiff more airtime than their own anchors get – all because he said he had solid proof that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians.
So any sentient being ought to recognize that the press is not fulfilling any sort of objective function in our society and in our elections. It is the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Actually, that’s been true for a long time. But it’s so crystal clear at this point that to deny it would seem like madness.
And yet it happens every day. And the people who still believe in the veracity of the MSM are often intelligent in many other ways. The persistent power of propaganda is vast, and a mind is a difficult thing to change.
That’s what the MSM is banking on. It’s not so much that, as Goldberg wonderingly writes, “they want us to really believe” what they write, despite the contradictions and the obviousness of the bias. They want enough people to believe it to sway the election. They’re not pitching their approach to you or me. They know their audience, and they are counting on the faithfulness and susceptibility of that audience.
That’s why they do absurd things like pretending Biden was addressing George Lopez when he said “four more years of George…George…”, as the Orwellian/Soviet “fact-checker”at the once-proud WaPo claims. The fact that you can easily find the video and watch it, and see that of course he meant no such thing – he was very obviously substituting George Bush for Donald Trump, for a moment – doesn’t matter to the WaPo and the rest of the MSM hopping on board, although you might think it should. They believe that their audience either (1) won’t watch the clip; or (2) will watch it already having been primed to believe what the MSM says about it rather than their own lying eyes:.
The clip is unequivocal, and Biden is not referring to George Lopez (who was part of the panel he was addressing at the time):
I strongly believe that Joe Biden is the worst major party candidate ever to run for president in my lifetime. He is cognitively challenged, physically old as well and looking frail, corrupt, a long-time liar, not very bright even in his prime, wrong about almost every stand he’s ever taken in his long long political career, and will be putty in the hands of the left.
And yet the press is so eager to facilitate his election that they willingly and eagerly cover themselves with even greater shame than before. But then again, they have no shame.