Dem journalist resigns in protest over censorship of any news that questions Biden

[cancel2 2022]

Read his entire article and see if you can spot them.

Hint: it has nothing to do with censorship.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/art...biden-censored

Why can't you just post the relevant paragraph, lazy bum?

[artichoke]

Last time, because I will not read your insults.

I think we're zeroing in on your problem. Your answer to everything seems to be this knee-jerk compulsion of "I won't read it."

That practice has led you to this very unfortunate and embarrassing moment in which you're trying to deny common knowledge facts about the Founders and world history.

Name one country in the history of civilization where a democracy became mob rule.

You need it explained for a THIRD time? Okay Athens 400 B.C., like I said the first two times.

"For Greeks writing in the ancient Athenian city state, democracy was simply mob rule. It was the politics of the crowd. It was devoid of reason. It was fickle, impetuous, ignorant, irresponsible, and easily manipulable by the rhetoric of sophists and demagogues who used rank flattery of base passions and fears to move public opinion whichever way they wished [ring a bell? like the Demagogue Party mobilizing Antifa and BLM to burn down the country over a lie?]. This is why (as Andrew Sullivan recently explained in an important essay for New York magazine) Plato held that a pure democracy is always one step away from devolving into tyranny, the worst form of government of all: Because a sufficiently accomplished manipulator of the crowd can ride to power on waves of popular adulation and then turn himself into a tyrant. Aristotle shared Plato's dark view of democratic government."

Democracy vs. the mob

This is your cue to refuse to read the answer and then indignantly demand that I answer your question for a fourth time.

[Charoite]

just say nothing when you have nothing to say, ok, troll?

Don't be silly, the troll here is Captain Bullshit in the OP. None of us are socks, not me, or Aproudlefty. Why would you think we are trolls anyway? I've barely spoken with you as you are a noob and I even just defended you to the mods. Here, take a look. https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...-Personal-Porn It went on for pages with Damo.

[artichoke]

Why can't you just post the relevant paragraph, lazy bum?

Because then he would have to make a VALID point.

[votebiden]

Don't be silly, the troll here is Captain Bullshit in the OP. None of us are socks, not me, or Aproudlefty. Why would you think we are trolls anyway? I've barely spoken with you as you are a noob and I even just defended you to the mods. Here, take a look. https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...-Personal-Porn

get lost troll. don't responding to you again

[artichoke]

get lost troll. don't responding to you again

"Don't responding to you?"

You're sputtering semi-literate sentence fragments again.

Someone's butthurt about being proven wrong on something most 5th graders already knew.

[Charoite]

get lost troll. don't responding to you again

Are you OK, man? Why do you think so many are trolls? I'm trying to be a good guy here defending a friend and you think I'm a troll. What troll defends people? Do you think I'm another poster or something?

[artichoke]

Are you OK, man? Why do you think so many are trolls? I'm trying to be a good guy here defending a friend and you think I'm a troll. What troll defends people? Do you think I'm another poster or something?

Democrats aren't very bright, are they?

[Charoite]

Are you saying I am faking it?

I don't know what his deal is, he apparently thinks we are socks of someone. Yeah, this after I defended him. Oh well, his decision, I guess we both should just ignore him.

[ExpressLane]

After reading his article, I know why.

So does he

[RB 60]

Democrats aren't very bright, are they?

Apparently not bright enough to know when another Dem is trying to kiss their ass

[cancel2 2022]

Read the piece The Intercept refused to run: GLENN GREENWALD'S blistering attack on the US media's conspiracy of silence over Hunter Biden's laptops and the serious questions Joe still has to answer over son's sketchy Chinese and Ukrainian business deals

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from news outlet The Intercept which he co-founded after claiming he was being silenced over an article on Presidential candidate Joe Biden.

He says he was told his article would only be published if critical points against the Democratic candidate were removed and he says this forms part of a US media conspiracy of silence over Hunter Biden's laptops and the serious questions Joe still has to answer over his son's sketchy Chinese and Ukrainian business deals.

He argues that political censorship has 'contaminated virtually every mainstream centre-left political organization, academic institution and newsroom.'

Because his article was censored, Greenwald published it in full on his website.

Read the full blistering article here…

Publication by the New York Post two weeks ago of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop, relating to Vice President Joe Biden's work in Ukraine, and subsequent articles from other outlets concerning the Biden family's pursuit of business opportunities in China, provoked extraordinary efforts by a de facto union of media outlets, Silicon Valley giants and the intelligence community to suppress these stories.

One outcome is that the Biden campaign concluded, rationally, that there is no need for the front-running presidential candidate to address even the most basic and relevant questions raised by these materials. Rather than condemn Biden for ignoring these questions -- the natural instinct of a healthy press when it comes to a presidential election -- journalists have instead led the way in concocting excuses to justify his silence.

After the Post's first article, both that newspaper and other news outlets have published numerous other emails and texts purportedly written to and from Hunter reflecting his efforts to induce his father to take actions as Vice President beneficial to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, on whose board of directors Hunter sat for a monthly payment of $50,000, as well as proposals for lucrative business deals in China that traded on his influence with his father.

Individuals included in some of the email chains have confirmed the contents' authenticity. One of Hunter's former business partners, Tony Bubolinski, has stepped forward on the record to confirm the authenticity of many of the emails and to insist that Hunter along with Joe Biden's brother Jim were planning on including the former Vice President in at least one deal in China. And GOP pollster Frank Luntz, who appeared in one of the published email chains, appeared to confirm the authenticity as well, though he refused to answer follow-up questions about it.

Thus far, no proof has been offered by Bubolinski that Biden ever consummated his participation in any of those discussed deals. The Wall Street Journal says that it found no corporate records reflecting that a deal was finalized and that 'text messages and emails related to the venture that were provided to the Journal by Mr. Bobulinski, mainly from the spring and summer of 2017, don't show either Hunter Biden or James Biden discussing a role for Joe Biden in the venture.'

But nobody claimed that any such deals had been consummated -- so the conclusion that one had not been does not negate the story. Moreover, some texts and emails whose authenticity has not been disputed state that Hunter was adamant that any discussions about the involvement of the Vice President be held only verbally and never put in writing.

Beyond that, the Journal's columnist Kimberly Strassel reviewed a stash of documents and 'found correspondence corroborates and expands on emails recently published by the New York Post,' including ones where Hunter was insisting that it was his connection to his father that was the greatest asset sought by the Chinese conglomerate with whom they were negotiating. The New York Times on Sunday reached a similar conclusion: while no documents prove that such a deal was consummated, 'records produced by Mr. Bobulinski show that in 2017, Hunter Biden and James Biden were involved in negotiations about a joint venture with a Chinese energy and finance company called CEFC China Energy,' and 'make clear that Hunter Biden saw the family name as a valuable asset, angrily citing his 'family's brand' as a reason he is valuable to the proposed venture.'

These documents also demonstrate, reported the Times, 'that the countries that Hunter Biden, James Biden and their associates planned to target for deals overlapped with nations where Joe Biden had previously been involved as vice president.' Strassel noted that 'a May 2017 'expectations' document shows Hunter receiving 20% of the equity in the venture and holding another 10% for 'the big guy'—who Mr. Bobulinski attests is Joe Biden.' And the independent journalist Matt Taibbi published an article on Sunday with ample documentation suggesting that Biden's attempt to replace a Ukranian prosecutor in 2015 benefited Burisma.

All of these new materials, the authenticity of which has never been disputed by Hunter Biden or the Biden campaign, raise important questions about whether the former Vice President and current front-running presidential candidate was aware of efforts by his son to peddle influence with the Vice President for profit, and also whether the Vice President ever took actions in his official capacity with the intention, at least in part, of benefitting his son's business associates. But in the two weeks since the Post published its initial story, a union of the nation's most powerful entities, including its news media, have taken extraordinary steps to obscure and bury these questions rather than try to provide answers to them.

The initial documents, claimed the New York Post, were obtained when the laptops containing them were left at a Delaware repair shop with water damage and never picked up, allowing the owner to access its contents and then turn them over to both the FBI and a lawyer for Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani. The repair store owner confirmed this narrative in interviews with news outlets and then (under penalty of prosecution) to a Senate Committee; he also provided the receipt purportedly signed by Hunter. Neither Hunter nor the Biden campaign has denied these claims.

Publication of that initial New York Post story provoked a highly unusual censorship campaign by Facebook and Twitter. Facebook, through a long-time former Democratic Party operative, vowed to suppress the story pending its 'fact-check,' one that has as of yet produced no public conclusions. And while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for Twitter's handling of the censorship and reversed the policy that led to the blocking of all links the story, the New York Post, the nation's fourth-largest newspaper, continues to be locked out of its Twitter account, unable to post as the election approaches, for almost two weeks.

After that initial censorship burst from Silicon Valley, whose workforce and oligarchs have donated almost entirely to the Biden campaign, it was the nation's media outlets and former CIA and other intelligence officials who took the lead in constructing reasons why the story should be dismissed, or at least treated with scorn. As usual for the Trump era, the theme that took center stage to accomplish this goal was an unsubstantiated claim about the Kremlin responsibility for the story.

Numerous news outlets, including the Intercept, quickly cited a public letter signed by former CIA officials and other agents of the security state claiming that the documents have the 'classic trademarks' of a 'Russian disinformation' plot. But, as media outlets and even intelligence agencies are now slowly admitting, no evidence has ever been presented to corroborate this assertion. On Friday, the New York Times reported that 'no concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation' and the paper said even the FBI has 'acknowledged that it had not found any Russian disinformation on the laptop.'

The Washington Post on Sunday published an op-ed -- by Thomas Rid, one of those centrists establishmentarian professors whom media outlets routinely use to provide the facade of expert approval for deranged conspiracy theories -- that contained this extraordinary proclamation: 'We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren't.'

Even the letter from the former intelligence officials cited by The Intercept and other outlets to insinuate that this was all part of some 'Russian disinformation' scheme explicitly admitted that 'we do not have evidence of Russian involvement,' though many media outlets omitted that crucial acknowledgement when citing the letter in order to disparage the story as a Kremlin plot:

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-laptops.html

[Bigdog]

I know that with your obvious bias, you cannot see it.

I knew you were lying the whole time. That's why you were afraid to post the significant quote on this board. There is none.

[AProudLefty]

So does he

I know.

[anonymoose]

I am very suspicious of the Intercept
Frankly, the Intercept has no credibility.

Agreed. I'm not even suspicious. Any publication that censors truthful articles absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden is not journalism at all. It's propaganda.