WaPo Lands in Hot Water After Attempted Revisionism on Role in Suppressing Hunter Biden Story
By Sister Toldjah | 2:30 PM on December 05, 2022
What with Twitter CEO Elon Musk handing over the “Twitter files” to independent journalists on the social media platform over the course of the last several days, we’ve learned more about the machinations that went on behind the scenes as it relates to their deliberate suppression of the New York Post’s blockbuster Hunter Biden laptop story (and their locking of the Post’s Twitter account) in October 2020.
As per the norm, the Usual Suspects in the media and on the left have struggled to cope, with some performing rather strenuous backflips to alternately suggest with straight faces that most of the information posted was already known (false), that it’s no big deal (false), that what Musk is doing is dangerous (false), and/or that Substacker Matt Taibbi is simply a Musk stooge who is in it for the money or whatever (even if so, so what? The documents don’t lie).
But in a rather interesting and somewhat amusing development, two members of the Washington Post “journalism” machine took to the Twitter machine Monday in an attempt to revise their own contributions to the downplaying/suppression effort.
Responding to a tweet from Georgetown University professor Don Moynihan on how Musk allegedly “want
media to repeat their claims w/o verification or context,” WaPo columnist Philip Bump – who used to write on the “objective” side of the newspaper, proclaimed that the supposed standard with the Twitter files as far as most in the media were concerned was similar to the one on the Hunter Biden story, namely that most major media outlets weren’t running the story because they allegedly couldn’t verify it.
“This is also a major reason why other outlets didn’t match the NY Post’s original laptop story: they weren’t given access to the laptop data!” Bump tweeted, believing he had a winning argument.
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https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/12/05/wapo-lands-in-hot-water-after-attempted-revisionism-on-role-in-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-n669095
