Just a note on the Hunter Biden laptop. Everyone was right NOT to publish anything from that. Doing so would have been journalistic malpractice of the highest order, especially if it was later discovered to be a fake.
Whether it ultimately was real, at the time, and until much later, the authenticity of it was VERY much in doubt, and the …
Just a note on the Hunter Biden laptop. Everyone was right NOT to publish anything from that. Doing so would have been journalistic malpractice of the highest order, especially if it was later discovered to be a fake.
Whether it ultimately was real, at the time, and until much later, the authenticity of it was VERY much in doubt, and the details surrounding it had every hallmark of being a Russian plant. Also, it bears repeating for the umpteenth time, Hunter was and is a private citizen who was never involved in the Obama or Biden administration. Nothing apparently found on the laptop or any other evidence since has implicated Joe Biden in providing direct assistance to his son.
If Hunter was trading in the family name to get favors, that was his business. However, the personal information of a PRIVATE CITIZEN who never worked for the government is not newsworthy just because of his last name. And not to go down the whataboutism rabbit hole, but more than half of Trump's family was part of his administration and openly used their position to personally enrich themselves.
Just a note on the Hunter Biden laptop. Everyone was right NOT to publish anything from that. Doing so would have been journalistic malpractice of the highest order, especially if it was later discovered to be a fake.
Whether it ultimately was real, at the time, and until much later, the authenticity of it was VERY much in doubt, and the details surrounding it had every hallmark of being a Russian plant. Also, it bears repeating for the umpteenth time, Hunter was and is a private citizen who was never involved in the Obama or Biden administration. Nothing apparently found on the laptop or any other evidence since has implicated Joe Biden in providing direct assistance to his son.
If Hunter was trading in the family name to get favors, that was his business. However, the personal information of a PRIVATE CITIZEN who never worked for the government is not newsworthy just because of his last name. And not to go down the whataboutism rabbit hole, but more than half of Trump's family was part of his administration and openly used their position to personally enrich themselves.
If pointing out the hypocrisy of ignoring the Trumps' crass opportunism is 'whataboutism,' then more 'whataboutism' is what's called for.