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Monday, October 14, 2019
Chuck Todd And Other Media Refuse To Cover Questions About Hunter Biden
The excuses are a farce. Like I stated before switch out Hunter Biden for Eric Trump and you'll see an immediate interest so fast it'll make your head spin!
Posted at 6:30 pm on October 12, 2019 by Nick Arama
The NBA thinks if they don’t hold media availabilities, the controversy over their kowtowing to the Chinese will just go away.
Todd and the others apparently think the same thing is true as to questions regarding Hunter Biden. If they don’t cover it, maybe people will just stop talking about it.
“We aren’t going to play the sound,” Todd said of President Donald Trump’s remarks about Hunter Biden during the president’s rally in Minnesota. “We’re not going to repeat the president’s vicious attacks on Hunter Biden.”
Why? According to Todd, “whatever you thought of [Hunter Biden’s] decisions, he’s not a public figure. He isn’t running for office. And he’s not a campaign surrogate. He’s not even on the campaign trail. And he isn’t in any way asking for this attention, obviously… It’s newsworthy, but we can’t in good conscience amplify those attacks, so we wouldn’t.”
Then he really went over the slide with pomposity. “We all need to play a role in not rewarding this kind of politics. This is the job, not just the press, but of anyone who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution.”
Someone get a shovel because it’s getting a little deep in here.
First of all, Hunter Biden isn’t 13 year old Barron Trump.
Put aside your political sides for the moment and anyone can see the proper concerns about the son of the Vice President working with a China-backed company and a Ukrainian company with government connections and getting a boatload of money in the process while his father is the point man on those two countries for the Obama administration with his hand on billions in aid. And that’s without any intervention by his father then the VP and now a presidential candidate in getting the prosecutor who was investigating his son’s firm fired by threatening to withhold aid. Or the Vice President flying Hunter to China on Air Force Two to talk with the man with whom he’s making a billion dollar deal.
As Jerry Dunleavy with the Washington Examiner observes, it’s surely just a coincidence that Todd doesn’t want to note that he, Todd, was mentioned in the Trump remarks about Hunter Biden.
Todd’s efforts to go to bat for the Bidens might be another reason that he doesn’t want to mention it to Americans.
Just as a factual matter for Todd, Joe Biden has mentioned that Hunter will indeed be joining him on the campaign trail.
Additionally, it’s surely just happenstance that this comes after a full-court press by Joe Biden to shut down any media attention to the subject of his son and his business dealings. As Jonathan Turley notes at The Hill, Hunter Biden is, "he who shall remain nameless,” by edict of his father to the media.
Indeed, the Biden campaign has been remarkably open in demanding that news organizations stop airing interviews or publishing articles about the allegations. Instead of calling it “fake news” (which is virtually copyrighted by Trump), the Biden campaign calls such coverage “conspiracy theories.”
Thus, the campaign wrote to various networks, demanding that they stop airing interviews on the scandal with figures such as Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. Kate Bedingfield, deputy manager of the Biden campaign, also denounced The New York Times for publishing an op-ed by author Peter Schweizer on the controversy. The campaign apparently expected the Times and the networks to fall in line and bar others from even expressing a view.
Most recently, the campaign fired off letters to Facebook, Twitter and Google, demanding that they take down Trump ads referencing the Hunter Biden contracts. This normally would be viewed as unbridled hubris and arrogance — except that many TV news hosts are doing precisely what the campaign has demanded.
CNN and other media have tried to stop people from commenting about the Hunter question, claiming variously it’s already been investigated, there’s no evidence or that it’s all “conspiracy theories.”
To claim that questions about Hunter Biden are not legitimate is itself an illegitimate and disingenuous argument. And it’s particularly so from media who has entertained all manner of speculation and calumny about Trump and his family in regards to the Russia collusion hoax. We’re sure Todd’s position has nothing at all to do with helping the Democratic narrative with regard to questions about the Bidens. And when did journalists take an oath to defend the Constitution? Because it sure hasn’t felt like it with the way that many of them have approached the due process for the last few years and pushed their own conspiracies that have greivously injured the health of the body politic.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Trump..."Where is Hunter Biden"?
Think about it. Seems like he dropped off the face of the Earth. Reporters are in Trump's face nonstop peppering him with questions concerning the Biden's and the supposed infamous Ukraine phone call. Meanwhile, when Sleepy Joe (Slippery may be more appro is asked
‘Hunter Biden’ a topic CNN, NBC, MSNBC don’t seem to like, law professor says
[Take this exact same scenario drop the name Hunter Biden and replace it with Eric Trump and the media would be going APE SHIT!]
[Take this exact same scenario drop the name Hunter Biden and replace it with Eric Trump and the media would be going APE SHIT!]
What Ukrainian gas company is going to pay Hunter Biden a drug addict, who was dishonorably discharged from the Navy, not to mention Hunter had absolutely zero experience in the natural gas industry, $50,000 a month if he wasn't Joe Biden's son?
And let's not forget his other attributes...
Would you be able to get this cushy job if your credentials were the same as Hunter's?
"I'm in hiding because I can't even lie my way out of this one."
Like I always say
Friday, October 11, 2019
Shepard Smith leaving FOX
Good... he sucks more ways than one. Won’t say where he’s going but I hope he takes Wallace, Rivera, and Napolitano with him.
https://salaryandnetworth.com/shepard-smith/
According to this article he's walking away from $10 million a year.
https://salaryandnetworth.com/shepard-smith/
A little while from now he'll tell us he was disgusted with Trump (Like we didn't know) and to maintain his integrity forced to leave the network. How did that work out for Meghan Kelly? Remember Hannity and Colmes?
Can you envision Shep and Rachel?
Please God...don't let this happen!!!
Rep. Nita Lowey Is Retiring. Could Chelsea Clinton Seek the Seat?
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Representative Nita M. Lowey, the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee, unexpectedly announced on Thursday that she would not seek re-election in 2020.
Ms. Lowey, a New York Democrat who was first elected in 1988, is a staunch ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and she played a key role in the budget negotiations that helped end the country’s longest government shutdown earlier this year. She represents the northern suburbs of New York City, including Westchester and Rockland Counties.
When Ms. Lowey, 82, arrived in Congress after defeating a two-term Republican incumbent, women made up less than 7 percent of the House of Representatives. She was consistently regarded as a pioneer, from her stint as the first woman to lead the campaign arm for House Democrats, to her ascent this year to chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee.
But she was also among a group of powerful, long-serving New York House members who had drawn energetic primary challengers for next year. Mondaire Jones, a 32-year-old Harvard Law graduate who had worked in the Justice Department under former President Barack Obama, raised more than $218,000 last quarter for his primary challenge to Ms. Lowey, arguing that the district needed a more energetic representative.
Ms. Lowey’s announcement set off a wave of speculation about other potential contenders, including Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, as well as a state assemblyman, David Buchwald.
Last year, when asked if she envisioned running for elected office, Chelsea Clinton told The Journal News, which covers the Hudson Valley, that “if someone were to step down or retire,” she would “have to think if it’s the right choice for me.”
Ms. Clinton did not mention any particular office, although she is clearly familiar with Ms. Lowey’s district: Her parents’ house in Chappaqua, N.Y., is in the district. Ms. Clinton herself does not live in Westchester, but congressional candidates are not required to live in the district they represent.
A representative for Ms. Clinton did not return a request for comment. Mr. Buchwald said he would make an announcement within a few days.
Mr. Jones, in a statement, thanked Ms. Lowey for her service. “As a trailblazer for women and minorities such as myself, Congresswoman Lowey set an example and has made it easier for people like me to run for office,” he said, adding that he would be the first openly gay, black member of Congress if elected.
Ms. Lowey never faced a contested primary after first winning her seat, making her one of the two incumbents who had gone the longest without a primary opponent. She also won re-election easily in her general elections, in a district considered safely Democratic.
In an interview after her announcement, Ms. Lowey, who is Jewish, said the decision came after reflection during the High Holy Days.
“I was in synagogue for the Jewish holiday, and I just decided the time was right,” Ms. Lowey said.
She called Ms. Pelosi on Wednesday night to inform her of her decision, before telling her Washington and New York staff and making the announcement public on Thursday morning.
Asked if a primary challenge contributed to her decision, Ms. Lowey replied, “Oh, that’s ridiculous.”
She said she would not yet weigh in on who should replace her: “I will be happy to turn it over to a talented, thoughtful, intelligent person who wins this seat.”
During her time in Congress, Ms. Lowey, an ardent liberal, built a reputation as a gracious but savvy dealmaker, often greeting colleagues with a hug or a pat on the back. As the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, she clashed frequently with President Trump, leading the effort to block funding for the president’s border wall.
During negotiations to end the nation’s longest government shutdown, Ms. Lowey was a key figure in reopening the government after 35 days and upholding the Democratic vow to prevent new funding for the wall, Mr. Trump’s signature campaign promise.
Before she departs Capitol Hill, she will have to lead negotiations for two more years of government funding — including averting a shutdown later this fall when the current stopgap spending bill expires on Nov. 21. The two parties again have yet to reach agreement on funding for Mr. Trump’s wall.
House Democrats have remained adamant that they will reject any money for the border wall, despite the Senate’s effort to include such funds in the bills needed to keep the government funded through the end of the fiscal year.
Ms. Pelosi, in a statement, called Ms. Lowey “a master legislator.”
“In the Congress, Chairwoman Lowey has earned the respect of all our colleagues as a leader who is both gracious and tenacious; who seeks always to find common ground where she can and stands her ground where she can’t,” said Ms. Pelosi, who became so close with Ms. Lowey and another Democrat, Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, that the three were known as DeLoSi, a combination of their last names.
Ms. DeLauro said in a statement on Thursday that she would seek to succeed Ms. Lowey as the Appropriation Committee’s chairwoman. She currently leads the subcommittee responsible for allocating funds toward labor, education, health and human services programs. Ms. DeLauro is one of multiple lawmakers who have indicated interest in succeeding Ms. Lowey as chair of the Appropriation Committee.
Reflecting on her career, Ms. Lowey pointed to a wide range of legislative accomplishments, including anti-drunken-driving initiatives and efforts to require contraceptive insurance coverage for federal employees.
But her proudest achievement, she said, was “essentially breaking the glass ceiling for women” by becoming the first woman to lead the House Appropriations Committee.
She also recalled marching over to the Senate with other Democratic women to demand an airing of Anita F. Hill’s accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas in his Supreme Court nomination hearing.
“I think what I will miss — in addition to the work — is the friendship with an extraordinary group of women and some good men,” she said.
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