I am amazed that Juan Williams was able to keep a straight face as he argued with Howard Kurtz on Sunday’s show with Muke Gallagher. William’s claimed that the media never said that the Hunter Biden laptop story was untrue.
Williams sputtered and choked through his defense and is there any wonder? Lies are hard to swallow.
WILLIAMS: No, but I think there’s a larger context here, which is that what was this about? What does it prove? Nobody said it wasn’t true. That — what was said was that you can’t authenticate it. And then you had certain publications that said, we have authenticated it.
GALLAGHER: The analysts said it wasn’t true. The analysts, the intel analysts said they didn’t — couldn’t prove it. It sure looked like Russian disinformation.
WILLIAMS: Right, couldn’t prove it was the key point for organizations.
Couldn’t authenticate it? This is a pretty strange standard for liberals and their Big Tech friends who never stopped Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers from making unsubstantiated claims of teenage rape in 2018. The main accuser was lionized.
Then Howard Kurtz offered a rebuttal:
KURTZ: Juan, it is an absolute embarrassment that the way that the media downplayed or ignored or mocked or minimized this story, that The New York Times now says is under active federal investigation for possible tax violations or lobbying violations by the president’s son. And they’re still not covering it. None of the other networks have touched this story.
It doesn’t — you know, it doesn’t mean that Hunter Biden’s going to be indicted. It may or may not have political fallout for his father. But when you look back at the way Facebook — Twitter, for example, said, well, you can’t even share this information then from the New York Post.”
WILLIAMS: But Howie — Howie, this was in the middle of a heated political campaign intended to damage one candidate in the aftermath of Russian disinformation. I think we were all properly cautious.
KURTZ: It was censorship.
I think what irritates me the most about the Biden story is that news about his laptop broke 17 months ago and the left rushed to bury it. All the while reporting about bogus claims of foreign meddling in US elections but by refusing to even investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, they all meddled in the elections. They stole the right to make an informed decision from the American people.
And no one is being held accountable…