"Spies Who Lie": Intel experts who 'debunked' Hunter Biden laptop story suddenly quiet for some reason
Ed Morrissey Mar 19, 2022 11:31 AM ET
Love means you never have to say you’re sorry … and apparently so does the title “intel expert.” Just kidding! As everyone knows, love means you have to constantly say you’re sorry. But for the dozens of intel experts who insisted that the Hunter Biden laptop story smelled like Russian disinformation and wrote a collective letter that the media treated as a debunking, welllllllll …..
The New York Post has not forgotten nor forgiven, but we’ll get to that in a moment. First, their editorial board has a few things to say about its competitors in the media markets, especially the New York Times, which took seventeen months to “authenticate” what the Post had already authenticated. Repeatedly, in fact, while media outlets either yawned or lied about it, the editorial board argues:
Forgive the profanity, but you have got to be s–tting us.
First, the New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate.
“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” the Times writes. “Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”
Authenticated!!! You don’t say. You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe Biden, it discovers it’s actually true? …
Why was it unsubstantiated? Because of willful ignorance and the Times’ curious lack of curiosity. Hunter’s business partner Tony Bobulinski came forward immediately after The Post’s reports and confirmed that the emails bearing his name were legitimate. The Bidens didn’t even deny it was true! They just deflected, with the media’s help, saying it was a dirty trick or not a story. Mostly, the press just ignored it.
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