"Stories about Biden’s age swamped the media [with Hur's report]. Judd Legum of Popular Information found that in the four days after Hur’s report appeared, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal together published 81 articles about Hur’s assessment of Biden’s memory, suggesting that Biden was sliding into dementia and should not be running for reelection."
"Hours before the hearing was about to begin, the Department of Justice released a transcript of Biden’s interviews, held in the two days after Hamas attacked Israel as he rushed to respond to that crisis. The transcripts belied Hur’s portrayal of Biden’s answers; among other things, he clearly knew the exact date Beau died."
Hur is a Republican hitman, doing what GOP hitmen always do. And the media remain shamefully pliant as these games are played.
@wdlindsy The POS Barr did the same shit, lied and the press regurgitated his shit as though he is an honest broker. William Safire called him corrupt in 1992.
2020: "A federal judge on Thursday sharply rebuked Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the special counsel’s Russia report, saying Barr had made “misleading public statements” to spin the investigation’s findings in favor of President Donald Trump and had shown a “lack of candor.”" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-russia-reggie-walton-fe8eee387b53888c478a24021fc101aa
"Hur wrote a slanderous report that claimed Joe Biden was 'an elderly man with a poor memory.' The primary evidence for Hur’s slander was Biden’s alleged inability to recall the date of his son Beau’s death.
The transcript shows that Hur’s claims are despicable lies. In fact, Joe Biden volunteered the month and day of Beau Biden’s death—May 30."
"The media lapped up Hur’s lies and slander without question. The revelation that Hur lied about and distorted Biden’s testimony is receiving a fraction of the media attention that Hur’s weaponized lies received in the first instance.
That outcome was predictable because Hur is a MAGA political partisan."
@wdlindsy It’s worse than that. I watched ABC news at 6:30 last night and they brought up the transcript and outright lied by saying Biden did not know the dates of his son death. They did not display the portion that shows that. Our media is complicit in the disinformation campaign.
@shsbxheb You're right: the media are deeply complicit here, and they will not admit how they have been led through a ring in the the nose by the Republican party. They swallow GOP lies with alacrity and then regurgitate them.
"First came the transcript, in which Joe Biden was clearly documented to remember the date his son Beau died, if not the year (that’s normal for most people). And then came the hearing in which Robert Hur could not remember complementing Biden on his memory until Democrats read him the transcript."
~ Greg Dworkin
Robert is a Republican hitman. Hitmen typically have no shame.
@wdlindsy Each time Hur was asked to confirm a quote of his words, he deflected and said "those words do appear in the report". By responding in that manner, he NEVER confirmed or denied his own words. What a scumbag.
@wdlindsy
There is no honor here... no goodness, no respect for their fellow man, no care fot the environment. Name me one good attribute we can lay at the feet of the current republicans. There is none, there is not one. #voteblue
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Right but what does appear in the report is that Biden is an elderly man who can't remember things so he can't prosecute him? This mother fucker should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice or defamation, or something. Right? Really outrageous and Garland says nothing. Fuck him.
@wdlindsy I still say Garland should have fired him for the political hit job of his report, and then resigned. And since none of that happened, Biden should fire Garland with cause.
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First of all, how dare they take him away from the WH at such a critical time. And you know they’d have an issue of him postponing it and would have gone to the rightwing echo chamber to imply he had something to hide.
@nancyann They obviously don't care about waste — of money, on ridiculous witch hunts, of time and energy, as with Congress' frittering away valuable time and doing nothing at all. It's all about showing contempt for government and weakening it.
@wdlindsy
I can't quite decide if those media outlets do that because their management just long to have a right-wing autocracy, or if they are just completely focused on daily pageviews
@mloxton I suspect the ultimate reason is that, at the level of ownership and top management, they are heavily invested in the Republican party. Money talks.