(06-14-2022, 06:36 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-14-2022, 05:05 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Can you imagine if someone had been caught outside RBG’s home in an identical scenario during Trump’s presidency?  Would the media ho hum such a scenario?

If those on the left are being honest with themselves, they’d realize and admit the media reaction would be a 180 to Kavanaugh’s situation.  And it’s not just that scenario.  It’s pretty much any scenario of left vs right when filtered through the media. It’s because the majority of news outlets blatantly carry water for democrats and the left and it gets observably worse and more out in the open the closer we get to an election (i.e. Hunter Biden).  

Its timing release of stories for maximum damage.  It’s sitting on stories to protect.  It’s almost completely one sided. They went so far as to, at worst, outright lie to the American people that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation and, at best, gleefully shout from the mountain tops this democrat party disinformation narrative while actively suppressing the story to protect “the big guy”.

What type of candidates do you think you’re going to get when those who are supposed to vet them in the public eye are actually completely in the pocket of the person/party they’re supposed to be vetting?

The party that said nothing while Jared Kushner became the money manager for middle eastern monarchs doesn't get to feign outrage when Hunter Biden tries to do the same with Chinese captains of industry or wives of Russian politicians. No one's even sure the money got to Hunter at all.
No one's alleging it changed Joe's behavior.  

But sure, yeah, biggest story ever.  No other story worth talking about.  No one should be taken seriously if they're not talking about Hunter Biden.

And of course the media are totally in bed with Dems at election time, like when Hillary's team planted that story about Trump campaign servers communicating with a Russian bank? The media totally ran with that for... oh days wasn't it? Oh right.  It was only hours before they figured out Hillary was lying and took down the story. 

You have a point with regard to Kavanaugh, that is an important story. But that story is probably over, don't you think? Do we need to breathlessly report every revelation on the guy's motives or state of mind?

Mike, if you've ever wondered why no one takes you serious when you claim to be a republican or in general, your zeal for defending the left (and now the media) at every turn and in every thread might have something to do with it.  Just putting it out there.  Some people have no self awareness.  Not saying that's necessarily you.  I'm just at a loss. 

You'd have to be pretty gullible or an agent of the left peddling lies to say/believe no money ever made it to Hunter Biden.  Hello Burisma at the very least and I'd find it hard to believe that's not the tip of the iceberg. Family of political figures should be allowed to pursue their own business interests, even foreign ones.  It should be scrutinized heavily, sure.  Selling your artwork for big bucks (up to $500k per painting) when your father is currently the sitting President and you have no prior history of being able to do so is suspect, no?  Excerpt from thehill.com:

• Ethics concerns arose over the summer about (Hunter) Biden’s artwork and the White House created an agreement with Bergès to keep purchases confidential, according to The Washington Post. The agreement allows Bergès to set prices for the art and withhold all records, including potential bidders and final buyers. 
  

Um, what?  How do ethics concerns over this activity lead to less transparency?  Of all the things Hunter could do to make money, why choose to dally in the realm of peddling your artwork given his father's position?  Also from thehill.com article:

• Last year, the Treasury Department also issued an advisory warning that high-value artworks, “make it attractive to those engaged in illicit financial activity, including sanctions evasion.” 
  

Anyway, Jared at least appears to have a resume that supports his foreign business ventures.  Hunter?  Please feel free to come to his aid further if you wish, but to me it's quite obvious what's going on.  And it's ok if money got to Joe as long as his decisions affecting those who 'donated' weren't changed by the 'donation'?  Disagree.  Just ask yourself how that whole scenario plays out in the media if Jared is Hunter and Hunter is Jared.  This isn't difficult.

Also, I never claimed it was the biggest story ever.  I was drawing parallels of how the media covers things and the Hunter Biden story was relatively recent and egregious in it's one-sidedness.  I'd really rather not continue talking about Hunter Biden beyond this.  The fact that the media ran with Hillary's lie and retracted it is further evidence of one-sidedness because you know good and well those same outlets wouldn't have run something against Hillary without fully and carefully vetting it and then they would have probably sat on the story if true anyway to help carry their gal across the finish line.

The Kavanaugh story doesn't need breathless wall to wall coverage.  It's essentially over unless there are more lunatics of a similar mindset out there and quite frankly with how agitated the left likes their base to be there probably are.  Regardless, the act of assassinating a sitting SC Justice is a far greater threat to the constitution than what happened on January 6th and that attempt was thwarted thankfully.  As long as we're harping on this issue, at least answer the hypothetical I posed.  How would you envision the media coverage of a thwarted attempt on RBG's life 4 years ago?  Or don't and let's just move on agreeing to disagree because this is very likely what it seems to be anyway.

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