In May of 2021, the N.Y. Post published an article citing tangible evidence that Hunter Biden’s salary with the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, had been cut in half in March of 2017, plummeting from approximately $83,000 a month to $41,500 just a few weeks after his father had ceased to be Vice President. So-called “right-wing conspiracy theorists” have maintained for years now that Joe is utterly corrupt, that his family has made millions from his willingness to sell his political influence for a price, indeed that Burisma’s 2017 decision was unequivocal evidence that it had only hired Hunter to its board of governors to gain access to his father.
Just weeks before the 2020 election, The Post published news of a laptop apparently belonging to Hunter who had left it at a Delaware computer repair shop. That it contained info incriminating to both himself and his dad no doubt would have altered the outcome of the ensuing election had it become widespread public knowledge. Twitter, however, along with various other social media platforms and mainstream networks, stifled discussion of the Post article, claiming it lacked validation. The N.Y. Times agreed. It has subsequently been admitted, however, even by networks such as CNN, that the laptop was Hunter’s and did in fact contain some very troubling information.
While a Federal Election Commission ruled in Sept. of 2021 that Twitter had done nothing wrong in suppressing the Hunter laptop story, a House Oversight Committee convened in Feb. of 2023 heard testimony from 2 former Twitter executives who said they found their company’s decision utterly unacceptable. The Republican chair of the committee, James Comer, fully agreed, saying a coordinated media effort had been made to impact the outcome of the 2020 election.
The point I am trying to make is quite simple. Were the family involved in the shenanigans cited above named Trump, most mainstream and online media channels would have exploded with moral outrage in an attempt to prevent his election. At the same time, had such facts become known during his presidential term, the cries for his impeachment would have been both relentless and and ferocious.
So corrupt is the “liberal” press, that most of my “progressive” friends know next to nothing of the Biden family’s questionable history, indeed see my references to such as just so much “right-wing disinformation.” But the charge of “disinformation” is a sleazy tactic used by the Left to simply censor any fact not consistent with its ideological bias. It was not, apparently, “disinformation” for the media to rant, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, that most White cops are racists! No, that was unequivocally true! Yet facts, and they are many, which highlight the superficiality of “inclusiveness” as the ultimate human value, are customarily denounced by the sanctimonious Left as just so much hateful B.S..
An impartial press is essential to the health of every genuine Democracy. The absurd irony of the contemporary West is that media elites who claim to be the defenders of our democracies have so lost faith in the intelligence and decency of the general public, that they feel entitled to impose their biases on one and all by controlling the flow of information, thereby becoming the chief threats to the Rights and Freedoms of the Individual, indeed perfect epitomes of the dictatorial arrogance Orwell invoked in the figure of Big Brother.