Now that chances are extraordinarily slim that anything can be done about Joe Biden before Election Day in 2024, it’s safe for corporate media to talk about Hunter Biden. They’ve been talking about him more and more over the past couple of months, including making weak excuses why they didn’t cover the national security risk he represented before and after the 2020 election.
Liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley took to Twitter to describe intellectually how feeble and disingenuous their excuses really are:
Ex-MSNBC chief Phil Griffin finally explained why they buried the Hunter Biden story: “He was never arrested." That is why there was so much attention on the Trump Tower meeting of Donald Trump Jr. It was that perp walk in cuffs out of building… no wait…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 15, 2022
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…Under Zucker's approach no influence peddling operation with foreign interests would be worthy of coverage because the millions of dollars were going through the son. Joe Biden was not the vehicle but rather the object of the influence peddling operation.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 15, 2022
…Zucker added "Do I think that like it’s a legitimate criticism to say that in the ten days, 14 days prior to the election, you didn’t spend enough time on it? Not really.” …
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 15, 2022
…Zucker previously admitted that the unrelenting Trump focus was a matter of ratings driving the coverage. https://t.co/FLXBer9EoO However, CNN did repeatedly reference the false claim that the laptop was obvious Russian disinformation. https://t.co/qx2O1O0GUx
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 15, 2022
A handful of leftist journalists have acknowledged they simply hated Donald Trump so much they weren’t willing to let Hunter Biden ruin their attempts to get rid of him. At least they’re honest. The vast majority of leftist journalists are not.