On Wed., April 6, at a “disinformation” conference held at the U. of Chicago, Leftist reporter Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, when asked by a student why her publication had, in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, failed to pursue the Hunter Biden laptop story, answered as follows:
“My problem with Hunter Biden’s laptop is, I think, totally irrelevant. [She means the story is irrelevant.] ….. I mean, it’s not whether it’s disinformation ….. I mean, I don’t think Hunter Biden’s business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States……. I don’t find it to be interesting.”
When the N.Y. Post broke the story in 2020, Applebaum dismissed it as a “right-wing media smear.” This was of course but a variation of the mainstream narrative that it was just so much “Russian disinformation.” But in recent months Jack Dorsey of Twitter has admitted he was wrong to have banished the story from his platform. So also the Washington Post and N.Y. Times have expressed regret for having refused to take it seriously. As seems to be a weekly occurrence now, Bill Maher too called out the Leftist media for its total lack of integrity in dismissing a scandal that ought to have been a major story leading into the 2020 election.
The tapes in question show unequivocally that Vice President Biden was very much a part of his son’s immensely profitable financial dealings in both China and the Ukraine, dealings which absolutely ensnared him in compromising conflicts of interest. Imagine if Trump had been found to be guilty of such incredibly suspicious shenanigans! Imagine the relentless torrent of moral outrage in the mainstream media as the Nov. election approached! Indeed there was such a torrent regarding his “Russian collusion” which the courts, much to the Left’s disappointment, ultimately found to be without basis.
As I have said repeatedly, Trump is hardly my ideal “conservative” politician. But the dishonesty, the hypocrisy, the lack of self-awareness exhibited by Anne Applebaum in suggesting she really didn’t find the Hunter Biden story very interesting or important, is appalling. Exposing the Biden family’s corruption very well might have changed the result of the 2020 election.
The Left constantly denigrates Trump as a deceitful monster and enemy of Democracy, yet habitually engages in propagandist nonsense no less disgusting than the lies spewed by Joseph Goebbels. And yet they somehow manage to do this while maintaining a very high opinion of their moral status! Truly remarkable!