B-Man Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 The Art of Being Eternally Shocked: How the Press and Pundits are Again Mystified by the Obvious By Jonathan Turley No one would think of the Beltway as being a place of the naive innocents of our society. Washington is the only ecosystem composed entirely of apex predators. Yet, this week everyone seems to be eternally shocked by what has been obvious for years. The press and pundits are coming off an embarrassing couple of weeks where the Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated in federal court as real. This occurred in the trial of the president’s son almost on the anniversary of a debunked letter of intelligence officials claiming that the laptop appeared to be Russian disinformation. Biden then repeated the claim in the last presidential debates to avoid answering questions over the massive influence peddling scheme of this family revealed by the laptop. After the story was suppressed before the 2020 election, it took years for the media to admit that, oops, the laptop is surprisingly real. For years, the press and pundits piled on experts who suggested that Covid 19 escaped from a Chinese lab. The New York Times reporter covering the area called it “racist” and implausible. Now, even W.H.O. accepts the lab theory as possible and federal agencies now believe it is the most likely explanation. The response: surprise and spin. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Justice Department has unlawfully charged hundreds of people with obstruction of an official proceeding after the January 6th riot. For years, objections to the excessive treatment of these cases were dismissed as the view of the radical right. Now, even Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voted to toss out these convictions. Surprise. Whether it was the false story about agents whipping migrants in Texas or the photo op claim in Lafayette Park, false stories were disproven only to have a collective shrug from those who spread them. For years, the press and pundits have repeated like gospel that Trump had called neo-Nazis “fine people.” At the time, most of us noted that Trump condemned the racists and neo-Nazis and made the statement about fine people on both sides of the controversy over the removal of historic statues. Six years later, Snopes finally decided to do a fact check and, surprise, found that Trump never praised neo-Nazis as fine people. The only person not surprised was Biden who repeated the false story on Friday as true. {snip} After the debate, there was total surprise, if not shock, on CNN and MSNBC. Suddenly, it is not a cheap fake but reality. Just seven days before the debate, the New York Times was running cheap fake articles on how Biden was being wrongly portrayed. The day after the debate, it was calling for him to withdraw from the race after expressing shock at his appearance. The laptop is real, the President is really old, and Washington is really really phony. The only thing that would be more surprising is if pundits and the press started being a lot less shocked and more honest. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/29/the-art-of-being-eternally-surprised-how-the-press-and-pundits-are-again-mystified-by-the-obvious/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Callahan Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 So shady. Almost no reporting of the details. Key witnesses both die before trial. When these dropped they were full of heads of industry and state. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biden is Mentally Fit Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 30 minutes ago, B-Man said: LOL Redhawk can confirm 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanNC Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 3 minutes ago, JDHillFan said: Redhawk can confirm Ole Quack cannot be doing well since Thuesday night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 2 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said: Ole Quack cannot be doing well since Thuesday night. They said they were blind sided by bidens brain suddenly turning to mush! They never saw it coming!!! SHOCKED!!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Doc Posted July 1 Share Posted July 1 3 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: Really? Even the Nazi leader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogblitz Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Speaking of President Biden's trip to Normandy, he said it was a World War I cemetery in the debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BillsFanNC Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Full on dem/media meltdown! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanNC Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 Anyone else notice that the Biden WH that was sealed up tight for 3.5 years is suddenly leaking to the media since last Friday like its 2017. I wonder why? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 4 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said: Anyone else notice that the Biden WH that was sealed up tight for 3.5 years is suddenly leaking to the media since last Friday like its 2017. I wonder why? Maybe "Project 2025" has already begun and they've purged all the Democrat civil servant lifers? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty shackleford Posted July 3 Share Posted July 3 How the media views their creditability: 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted July 6 Share Posted July 6 The Media Lies Continue ... Mainly To Themselves MATT TAIBBI July 05, 2024 Vox ran a piece by, of all people, Brian Stelter. “Did the media botch the Biden age story?” read the headline, followed by a sub-head: Asleep at the wheel? Complicit in a cover-up? The real story is far more complicated — and more interesting... It’s not complicated, and your “Did we really screw up?” think piece is by itself an insult. Audiences know the answer: Yes. You’ve been screwing up for five years. Also, it isn’t a “Biden age” story, but a “Biden dementia” story. There are octogenarians who are competent to be president. Biden isn’t one. Audiences have known this since 2019, and the only people you’re impressing by saying otherwise are other media nitwits. A flood of these Stelter-style “Whither us?” features asking “if the press missed” the Biden-incapacity story has arrived, and I feel like screaming: YOU ARE ONLY TALKING TO EACH OTHER. https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/07/05/the-media-lies-continue-mainly-to-themselves-n3791421 https://www.vox.com/politics/358877/biden-age-debate-media-coverage 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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