{"id":1401018,"date":"2023-08-13T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1401018"},"modified":"2023-08-13T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T22:45:00","slug":"illusion-of-influence-the-media-moves-the-goalpost-again-on-biden-corruption-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/illusion-of-influence-the-media-moves-the-goalpost-again-on-biden-corruption-coverage\/1401018\/","title":{"rendered":"“Illusion Of Influence”: The Media Moves The Goalpost Again On Biden Corruption Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Illusion Of Influence”: The Media Moves The Goalpost Again On Biden Corruption Coverage<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

With the new disclosures in the Biden corruption scandal, the media has, again, pivoted to avoid acknowledging the obvious. <\/strong>It now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son\u2019s foreign business deals, the media must now recognize that Hunter was selling influence and access.<\/p>\n

So they have added yet another task: show Joe Biden actually accepting money.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is what in literature is called the \u201cimpossible task\u201d demand like the Slavic tale of\u00a0a Tsar ordering a suitor<\/a>\u00a0\u201cto go\u00a0there\u00a0<\/em>he does not know where\u201d and to \u201cget\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0he does not know what.\u201d<\/p>\n

A direct bribe given to Joe Biden in an envelope or a direct deposit is obviously not impossible. Call it the \u201chighly improbable task,\u201d After all, former Rep. William Jefferson was\u00a0found with cold-hard cash in his freezer<\/a>. However, among professional influence peddlers, a direct payment to the principal would be viewed as sacrilegious \u2014 enough for a lifetime ban from the major corruption league.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jefferson was an amateur. The Bidens have been in the influence peddling business for decades and Hunter told his Chinese contacts that\u00a0they are \u201cthe best\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at what these foreign figures wanted from them.<\/p>\n

Only a certifiable moron today would deposit any of the $20 million documented by the House committees in an actual account of Joe or Jill Biden.<\/strong> Those accounts are subject to continual monitoring and potential subpoenas.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Congress has found dozens of shell companies and accounts used by the Bidens to help conceal the transfer of millions to Biden family members, including grandchildren. This includes references to bills of Joe Biden being paid out of joint accounts and benefits from deals that might include free offices. At the same time, these foreign sources sent direct money to the Biden Family Fund, a financial legacy that Joe Biden would leave in the form of millions of foreign contributions. At 80 with millions in wealth, Joe Biden is likely more motivated by moving wealth to his descendants than himself.<\/p>\n

There were also alleged deliverables. Recently,\u00a0Devon Archer confirmed<\/a>\u00a0that Hunter\u2019s Ukrainian clients wanted the help of the Bidens in removing Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Biden would later insist on his being fired as a condition for a billion dollars in U.S. aid.<\/p>\n

For years, the media insisted that there was no evidence of influence peddling or evidence contradicting the President. <\/strong>While most of these reporters required little to push false accounts of Russian collusion or Russian disinformation (including the dismissal of the Hunter Biden laptop), they are now demanding a virtual confession from the President or an actual deposit slip to his bank account.<\/p>\n

When confronted with the transfer of millions and what Devon Archer now calls \u201ccategorically false<\/a>\u201d denials by the President, the media seems positively exasperated like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. It is insisting that the public should not assume that the influence sold was influence realized. They just need to believe in the Bidens and the \u201cillusion of influence.\u201d<\/strong> When Alice says that she \u201ccannot believe impossible things,\u201d the Queen snaps back \u201cI daresay you haven\u2019t had much practice. Why, sometimes I\u2019ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The media has shown that it is possible to believe six impossible things to avoid the reality of the Biden scandal.<\/strong> Accordingly,\u00a0the media now will accept that there was influence peddling but will treat it as \u201can illusion\u201d until a direct payment is shown to President Biden himself rather than his family.<\/p>\n

In this final demand, the media is relying entirely on the skill of the Bidens in hiding payments and avoiding such incriminating deposits. Biden himself has laughingly taunted reporters and asked \u201cwhere\u2019s the money?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

When confronted on his calling Hunter and his business partners roughly 20 times, he and the White House have pointed out that he merely discussed the weather and pleasantries. The media has largely ignored that only a moron would conduct \u201cbusiness\u201d on a speakerphone at a dinner at the popular Cafe Milano.<\/strong> The point of the calls was to prove the bona fides of Hunter selling influence and access to his father.<\/p>\n

The Bidens have perfected what Uncle Earl Long said was the key to maintaining corruption:<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t write anything you can phone. \u00a0Don\u2019t phone anything you can talk.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t talk anything you can whisper. \u00a0Don\u2019t whisper anything you can smile.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t smile anything you can nod. \u00a0Don\u2019t nod anything you can wink.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The true illusion was the Bidens in getting this scandal to disappear in front of millions.<\/strong> As\u00a0I wrote years ago<\/a>, the key to this Houdinesque trick was to get the media to invest in the deception like audience members called to the stage. The reporters have to back the illusion or admit that they were part of the deception. Even with millions funneled to the Biden family and acknowledgments that they were \u201cselling the [Biden] brand,\u201d it cannot be enough.<\/p>\n

Even the use of a ridiculously complex array of two dozen entities to transfer money without any known purpose, it cannot be enough.<\/p>\n

It is far easier to demand to see something no self-respecting Beltway bandit would commit: that after creating this labyrinth of shell companies and accounts, the Bidens went ahead and just did the equivalent to a Venmo payment directly to Joe and Jill Biden.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It may not be impossible but it is as improbable as Hunter Biden being an energy expert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 08\/13\/2023 – 14:45<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/illusion-influence-media-moves-goalpost-again-biden-corruption-coverage<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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