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"The paper owned by defense contractor Jeff Bezos chose to publish seven mostly worthless posts on Hunter Biden's pardon and not one on allegations that aspiring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth couldn't even manage two medium non-profits without financially ruining them."
~ Marcy Wheeler
"Hunter Biden’s pardon is front page news — not because anyone cares about Hunter Biden at all, but because it is the type of Presidential misbehavior that our elite media knows how to object to.
Kash Patel’s intent to turn the FBI against his 'enemies list' is a lesser news story, right up until the moment he throws those enemies in prison."
"The Hunter Biden Pardon Discourse is a perfect distillation of our dominant political asymmetry. ...
Hundreds upon hundreds of columns in the mainstream media are being written about Biden and the pardon. Most of them seem critical.1 Even supposedly nonpartisan analysts took the Hunter Biden pardon and extrapolated it to the moon as a litmus test for the Democratic party writ large."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Biden #Patel #pardon #media
/4
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/then-now-and-forever-the-people-are
"For years, the Press has played this same old broken record. They amplify Trump’s lies and normalize his criminal dealings, while launching vicious criticisms of Biden every single chance they get. …
Give me a break. The selective and fake outrage by corporate media is one of the biggest reasons we are in this mess in the first place."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
/6
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/press-goes-hysterical-over-bidens
"Biden is supposed to toe some imaginary line drawn by liberal op-ed writers and frightened congress-critters and pearl-clutching newspaper editors, even as Trump promises to pardon insurrectionists convicted of attacking Capitol police, damaging the nation’s Capitol, and attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election."
#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
/7
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/im-sick-and-tired-of-the-medias-double
"As one commentator put it in the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump was held to a kindergartener standard while Kamala Harris was held to a presidential standard. As resisters, we will now reject that bullshit."
~ Malcolm Nance
#Trump #Biden #pardon #media
/8
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/five-steps-to-resist-the-coming-tyranny
Since the election, there's been considerable discussion of withdrawing from political engagement, protecting oneself and one's space.
There are different ways to do that. When Musk took over Twitter, I left Twitter that very day: disengagement. Refusing to give any energy to a loathsome, lethally dangerous man….
I have for some time now disengaged from corporate media, reading only select articles and refusing to subscribe to most outlets.
Disengaging: I refuse to be lectured to by New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, etc. Those outlets have forfeited their right to lecture to me, to pretend that their elitist, privileged standards represent "ethics" or "morality" or "propriety" or "civility."
Jonathan Haidt or Nate Silver can both-sides "woke Democrats" and fascist Republicans till the cows come home. I refuse to listen. I've disengaged.
I refuse to engage with pretend liberals who troll social media feeds like mine and try to draw me into insincere discussions about how the Democrats — never the Republicans — need to "listen," to "learn." These are beat-up sessions, jubilation sessions for people who are either overtly or secretly very happy that Trump prevailed in the election, and want to use their window of opportunity now to attack, savage, tear fragile solidarity of resisters apart.
I could not be more disengaged from the absurd blatherings of corporate media about how Biden has now failed to exhibit a commitment to law and order, when Trump: my God, Trump. And all that he and his party are setting in place for us.
And the media expect me to concern myself with Biden's pardon of his son?
What hellacious moral vacuum do those soulless, empty folks live in as they pretend to set ethical standards for the rest of us?
"Ron Filipkowski of MeidasTouch notes that Biden’s pardon came after Trump’s announcement that he wants to place conspiracy theorist Kash Patel at the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Filipkowski studies right-wing media and points out that Patel’s many appearances there suggest he is obsessed with Hunter Biden…."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"And yet, much of American media today has been consumed not with the story that Trump has appointed a deeply problematic candidate to run what could be considered the nation’s most important department, overseeing about 3 million personnel and managing a budget of more than $800 billion, or with the reality that Biden’s distrust of our legal system under Trump is a profound warning for all of us."
"Instead, they have focused on President Biden’s pardon of his son, many of them condemning what they say is Biden’s rejection of the rule of law.
Some have suggested that Biden’s pardoning his son will now give Trump license to pardon anyone he wants, apparently forgetting that in his first term, Trump pardoned his daughter Ivanka’s father-in-law, Charles Kushner,"
"who pleaded guilty to federal charges of tax evasion, campaign finance offenses, and witness tampering and whom Trump has now tapped to become the U.S. ambassador to France. …
Trump also pardoned for various crimes men who were associated with the ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Russian operatives working to elect Trump."
"This imbalance reflects a longstanding and classic power dynamic in which Republicans set the terms of public debate, excusing their own objectionable behavior while constantly attacking Democrats in a fiery display that attracts media attention but distorts reality."
The media have long since made it clear that law and order is expected of the Democrats, but for the Republicans? Meh.
And they expect us to keep listening?
"Nobody defines [George H.W. Bush's] presidency, or his political character, by the fact that he pardoned his son. Hell, it wasn't even defined by the fact that Poppy pardoned everyone except Shoeless Joe Jackson on his way out the door so as to obscure forever his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal."
(5 December: N.B. /21 below — Esquire has retracted Pierce's claim that Bush pardoned his son.)
"Yet, somehow, keeping his only surviving son safe from the incoming pack of wolverines soon to d/b/a the Department of Justice is enough to sully Joe Biden's entire public career. The mealymouthed meeping of Democrats like Jared Polis and the inevitable Seth Moulton has landed heavily on my last nerve. The entire cast of Tiger Beat On The Potomac had an ensemble tantrum. Pundits like Jonathan Chait may never recover."
@wdlindsy@toad.socialNote that Esquire has removed the article by Charles Pierce linked in /19 above, with the following statement:
"This column has been removed due to an error. The original article stated incorrectly that President George H. W. Bush gave a presidential pardon to his son, Neil Bush. Esquire regrets the mistake."
#GeorgeHWBush #NeilBush #Esquire #CharlesPierce
/21
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63082689/neil-bush-george-hw-bush-presidential-sons/
@wdlindsy
I did a Google News search on "Neil Bush", and about a dozen RW sites have already published columns that are positively giddy about Pierce's innocent mistake having to be corrected & pulled.
Charlie might have gotten the "pardon" wrong, but the fact Neil Bush was prosecuted for crimes is a *fact*.