{"id":1508,"date":"2023-09-10T03:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T03:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/moving-from-an-unapologetic-media-hoax-to-another\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T03:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T03:38:32","slug":"moving-from-an-unapologetic-media-hoax-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/moving-from-an-unapologetic-media-hoax-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving from an unapologetic media hoax to another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"article-byline has-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-tools\"><a href=\"#cp-talk\" class=\"has-number talk-cp-255437\" data-scrollto=\".viafoura\" aria-label=\"Go to comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/chat-rect.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><span class=\"number\"\/><\/a><a href=\"\" class=\"js-share\" id=\"share-btn\" aria-label=\"Share\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/assets\/img\/icon\/share-outline.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"img-box align-left left\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><picture width=\"400\" height=\"267\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/14\/74\/147496_w_400_267.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.christianpost.com\/images\/cache\/image\/14\/74\/147496_w_400_267.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\"\/><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption\"><span class=\"photo-des\">President Joe Biden <\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">The Christian Post\/Nicole Alcindor <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joe Biden lied repeatedly when he claimed he knew nothing of his son Hunter\u2019s influence-peddling businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The president further prevaricated that he had no involvement in Hunter\u2019s various shakedown schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the media continued to misinform by serially ignoring these facts.<\/p>\n<p>Had journalists just been honest and independent, then-candidate Joe Biden might have lost a presidential debate and even the 2020 election. The public would have learned that Hunter\u2019s business associates and his laptop proved Joe was deeply involved in his son\u2019s illicit businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Later, as the evidence from IRS whistleblowers mounted, the White House stonewalled subpoenaed efforts and sought to craft an outrageous plea-deal reduction in Hunter\u2019s legal exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters ignored the Ukrainians who claimed Joe Biden himself talked to them about quid pro quo arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>They again discounted Hunter\u2019s laptop that explicitly demonstrated that Hunter was whining that he had handed over large percentages of his income to his father \u2014 variously referred to as \u201cthe Big Guy\u201d and a \u201c10%\u201d recipient on many deals.<\/p>\n<p>They played dumb about Joe Biden\u2019s use of pseudonyms and alias email accounts to hide thousands of his communications to Hunter and associates.<\/p>\n<p>They attacked the former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who now claims Biden was likely bribed by Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the media can no longer hide the reality that the president of the United States likely took bribes to influence or alter U.S. policy to suit his payers. Those two crimes \u2014 bribery and treason \u2014 are specifically delineated in the Constitution as impeachable offenses.<\/p>\n<p>In denial, the media have instead pivoted with hysterical glee over various weaponized prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But now, to use a progressive catchphrase, the proverbial \u201cwalls are closing in\u201d on Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>So, will we at last expect the media finally to confront the truth?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: Only if Joe Biden\u2019s cognitive and physical health continues to deteriorate geometrically to the point that he can no longer finish his term or run for reelection \u2014 and thus becomes expendable.<\/p>\n<p>Such a cynical view of the media is justified, given their record of both incompetence and unapologetic deceit.<\/p>\n<p>From 2015 to 2019, we were suffocated 24\/7 with lies like \u201cRussian collusion,\u201d \u201cPutin\u2019s puppet,\u201d \u201celection rigging\u201d and the \u201cSteele dossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When all such \u201cevidence\u201d was proven to be a complete fraud cooked up through Hillary Clinton\u2019s stealthy hiring of, and collusion with, a discredited ex-British spy, a Russian fabulist at the Brookings Institution and a Clinton toady in Moscow, did the media apologize for their untruth?<\/p>\n<p>Was there any media confessional that perhaps Robert Mueller and his left-wing legal team (the giddy media-dubbed \u201call-stars,\u201d\u00a0\u201cdream team,\u201d and \u201chunter killers\u201d) proved a colossal waste of time?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the media went next right on to \u201cthe phone call\u201d and \u201cimpeachment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The country then wasted another year.<\/p>\n<p>The same biased reporters now claimed that the heroic Andrew Vindman had caught Trump fabricating lies about the Bidens \u2014 given Joe Biden was a possible 2020 opponent \u2014 to force Ukraine to investigate them or lose American foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>On that accusation, Trump was impeached.<\/p>\n<p>Then the truth emerged that unlike Joe Biden, Trump never threatened to cancel aid, but merely to delay it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was right that the Bidens were knee-deep in Ukrainian bribes and influence-peddling.<\/p>\n<p>And that the whistleblower had no firsthand knowledge of the Trump call, but was spoon-fed a script cooked up by the gadfly Vindman and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.<\/p>\n<p>The result was journalistic glee that we impeached a president for crimes that he did not commit, but exempted another president, Biden, who had likely committed them.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the next hoax of the Russian fabricated facsimile of Hunter\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Biden campaign along with an ex-CIA head rounded up \u201c51 intelligence authorities\u201d to mislead the country into believing that Russian gremlins in the Kremlin had fabricated a fake laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder that absurd fantasy: Moscow supposedly had created fake nude pictures, fake photos of Hunter\u2019s drug use, and fake email and text messages from Hunter to the other Bidens.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/18\/biden-admins-revolving-door-into-media-spins-heavily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> preposterously convinced the country that the Russians and by extension Trump had once again sandbagged the Biden campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No apologies followed when the FBI later admitted it had kept the laptop under wraps for more than a year, knew it was authentic, and yet said nothing as the media and former spooks misled the country and warped an election.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are enmeshed in at least four court trials on cooked-up charges that could as easily apply to a host of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/25\/hunter-biden-special-counsel-appointment-is-a-blatant-act-of-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a>\u00a0as to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>For the past eight years, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/31\/dont-let-devastating-maui-wildfires-be-forgotten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discredited media<\/a>\u00a0has never expressed remorse for any of the damage they did to the country. And they will not again, when their latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/17\/bias-omission-media-present-trumps-democratic-prosecutors-nonpartisans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mythological indictments<\/a>\u00a0are eventually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/24\/the-biden-clans-con-is-coming-to-an-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/09\/05\/one-unapologetic-media-hoax-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Signal.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_credit\">\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and author of the book <em>The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won<\/em>. You can reach him by e-mailing\u00a0authorvdh@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"eoa_freedom_post\">\n<h2><span>Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Join thousands of others to get the <strong>FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/voices\/from-one-unapologetic-media-hoax-to-the-next.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden | The Christian Post\/Nicole Alcindor Joe Biden lied repeatedly when he claimed he knew nothing of his son Hunter\u2019s influence-peddling businesses. The president further prevaricated that he had no involvement in Hunter\u2019s various shakedown schemes. Yet, the media continued to misinform by serially ignoring these facts. Had journalists just been honest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}