Media stars tell the American people: pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Without their craven enabling, the US might stand a chance at electing a real leader.

The sleeping giant that is the White House press corps is slowly shaking off its slumber and coming to its senses on a story that about half the country was familiar with three years ago. 

So the ink-stained wretches of WH pool are starting to ask the pointed questions. Good for them, I guess, though they are several years too late, and had they done this in 2020 we may have avoided this catastrophic, deeply compromised, administration.

For all their seeming concern about what they call “democracy,” actually, the biggest threat to the health of the American republic right now is, in fact, the mainstream media. Even more than the permanent bureaucracy or the influence peddling of the Uniparty, the media has facilitated the slide of the once-mighty US to its knees. How else can you possibly interpret their years-long squeamishness in dealing with the emerging evidence of the Biden family grift? The WhatsApp message is just one of many pieces of evidence that show an obvious racket in which Hunter acts as the bag man and collects millions from foreign governments. And when I say foreign governments, I’m not talking, like, Switzerland or Botswana, two countries with whom the US does not have any beef (as far as I’m aware, anyway.) I’m talking Ukraine and China. You might remember those countries from recent events like the American funded war, and what was the other one? Oh yes, COVID. 

Outside of the reporter’s on the White House beat, however, many “journalists” continue to stick to their sycophant’s script, and seem determined to forgo any possible integrity they may have left to support the Dear Leader.

Some are actually trying to spin this story as though the Biden family is just a bunch of Average Joe’s struggling to cope with addiction.

Writing in the Times, Nick Kristof’s saccharine take was that Hunter was just a troubled kid in a lot of pain, and no matter how many times his old man tousled his hair and told him he loved him, he just couldn’t get it together. 

I’m sorry, what?

A man Kristof’s age should not be this embarrassingly naive about the realities of addiction, first of all. His column handily glosses over things that are almost always associated with the behaviours of people in the grips of poisons: like child abuse and/or neglect and depraved sexual behaviours — both of which have been widely reported to feature highly in Hunter’s lifestyle. (And some of which you can see with your own eyeballs.) We are not talking about a guy who missed a few Little League games, or embarrassed his kids by getting drunk at Thanksgiving.

We are talking about the family of Joe Biden, a senator who gleefully locked up two generations of black men for the very same addiction that Kristof’s heart bleeds over. What about Hunter’s white privilege? What about Hunter failing upwards? How can liberal-progressives be silent over this?

Even worse than that epic hypocrisy, we are also talking about this family’s dysfunction being rewarded by agents of foreign governments and shadowy figures who are far more sober and in possession of their faculties than the Biden’s. So the only question anyone should be asking is: what did Biden give them in return? Does Nick really not see this? It’s absolutely breathtaking that Kristof has the temerity to write a whole column about this story characterising it as “Republicans sputtering.” He says for Joe Biden, “the main takeaway is a lesson the country and the president could absorb to save lives.” He breezily dismisses the treasonous implications of the flow of money toward the patently dodgy Hunter by saying: “I see no clear evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden himself — but the president does offer the country a fine model of the love and support that people with addictions need.”

Yeah, sure — if those people are corrupt oligarchs, despots, their crack-addled henchmen and an imperial, neo-liberal elite class absolutely addicted to starting wars in which other people’s children die. 

On The View, a television show in which a bunch of dim-wit women squawk the day’s government talking points, an apparatchik by the name of Ana Navarro said the Hunter Biden story was actually “the story of a father’s love.” 

This is so obviously the flattery of courtiers. Do liberals really not see it? 

Trump’s verbal diarrhoea and poor paperwork management pales in comparison, it really does. Until they cough up Trump’s laptop, the claims against him don’t come close to the evidence Hunter’s crimes - the pedestrian crack-head stuff — never mind Joes’s crimes of state. 

Hate to be a smug beeyoch, but none of the explosive stories coming out of the Comer investigation have been even slightly surprising to me. 

The evidence is overwhelming that the Biden’s have been on the take for years. And you know how I know this? Because I listen to MAGA and “alt-right” media. To all the disaffected liberals who are just hearing about this stuff now, for the first time, I say welcome. I got here three years ago. And solely because I was willing to ignore the constant media hatchet jobs, the pleas to ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,’ and listen to Steve Bannon’s daily podcast. Did it turn me into an alt-right Trump voter like all the libs fret about? Ok, yes. (Just that one time, though.) Did it also mean I was way more informed about what was really going on in the US and the world than anyone who was still relying solely on the Pravda’s of today — The New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, the Guardian, and the Beeb? You bet it did. 

The sole reason I voted for Trump was because I was aware of, and horrified by, the level of Joe Biden’s corruption. I was not, and am not, a Trump fangirl. Had the Dems picked pretty much any other human, I would have probably just not voted, instead of taken the extra step of voting for the man most of my peers think is literally Hitler. 

To be fair, I already had form in tolerating, and listening to, gadflies and outcasts, people beyond the pale — which how the liberal establishment has effectively painted their political opposition. Twenty years ago, I was a reporter in a small town in New England, where the only news stories were about planning and zoning and school board meetings. When I started, I was forewarned of a local eccentric called Vinnie who was a constant thorn in the side of the local politicians, because he insisted their developer friends follow the rules the town enforced for everyone else. Vinnie was considered to be something of a pest: he was an old, single man, he was dishevelled, he called all the time with complaints and conspiracy theories, and everywhere he went he carried sacks full of papers that he said proved his case du jour. He was the opposite of the kind of influential schmooze who you would kiss up to if you were trying ingratiate yourself with the local in-crowd.  But you know what? More often that not, Vinnie was right. And I because I listened, I started breaking stories that the even more local competition did not get, because they dismissed him out of hand. 

I’m not any smarter than anyone else, but I just have a natural willingness to listen, no matter how seemingly deranged or unpopular the messenger. 

It’s a sorry state of affairs that the best the American elites can produce as frontrunners to lead the dying beast that is America are Trump, a 77 year old who still feels the child’s need to impress the random people he’s talking to, and who hasn’t learned to recognise the many snakes that surround him; and a clearly non compos mentis octogenarian with a long history of corruption and an inability to keep his hands to himself around women and girls. 

And you know who I blame for that? The media. Because without their craven enabling, their addiction to sound-and-fury controversy at the expense of sober reckoning with facts, and their disconcerting merger with the very systems of power they were meant to police, we all might stand a chance at electing a real leader.

By the way, if you want an example of someone actually doing journalism on TV, watch this interview, in which an Australian anchor asks probing questions of her subject, questions that actually elicit helpful context and information.