William Lindsey Dec 3, 2024

"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

#WashingtonPost #Bezos #Trump #Hegseth #Biden #pardon
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/03/how-jeff-bezos-smothered-pete-hegseth-news-because-hunter-biden-was-pardoned-of-already-declined-charges/

How Jeff Bezos Smothered Pete Hegseth News because Hunter Biden Was Pardoned of Already Declined Charges - emptywheel

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.

emptywheel
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 3, 2024

"I have come to think of this as the hidden, unspoken ideology of our media and political elites. They behave, in word and in deed, as though what is most important is the protection and maintenance of the status hierarchy."

~ Dave Karpf

#Trump #Hegseth #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
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https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/uncouth

UNCOUTH.

On Hunter Biden, and the unspoken value system that our media and political elites seek to defend

The Future, Now and Then
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 3, 2024

"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."

#Trump #Patel #Biden #pardon #media
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Dec 3, 2024

"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
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/then-now-and-forever-the-people-are

Then, Now, and Forever: The People Are the Problem

The Hunter Biden Pardon Discourse and our infantilization of voters.

The Bulwark
Show threadJoe Hill 🇵🇸🇺🇦

@wdlindsy
I’m impressed that the Dems criticizing the pardon are roughly a the same Dems that hounded Biden out of the race with all the diminished capacity bullshit. IOW, closet republicans.

Donold weaponizing the DOJ with his off the wall n9m8nations left Biden no choice but to pardon Hunter. And, surprise, surprise, those same Dems are sanewashing his ludicrous picks.

Dec 3, 2024 at 10:54pmWeb