Five Quick Things:
Pointless Sympathy for the Devil

The partisan Democrat media is trying to humanize Hunter Biden to defend his father. It isn’t working.




Via American Spectator

On a day when a lot of polling information was released — and it was announced that more information wouldn’t be forthcoming — it’s time to consider just how much of a failure America’s corporate legacy media has become.

And we don’t even have to examine the literal and figurative onanism of Jeffrey Toobin in order to conduct our analysis. Thank God.

If you’ve paid attention over the last few days, you might have noticed that the left-wing media’s hive-mind take on the bombshell disclosures emanating from Hunter Biden’s laptop has begun to settle on the narrative that President Trump and his team have resolved to beat up on a poor crack addict in a desperate attempt to pull an upset on his father.

Yes, this column is a brilliant summation of the obvious. We admit this fully from the outset. But it bears saying nonetheless that the legacy media defense of the Bidens is a colossal failure in the making. To wit:. . .

1. Those polls are moving in conjunction with the laptop disclosures. One of the Biden campaign’s favorite talking points had to do with poll numbers showing him ahead in Florida through the first part of October. Well, that’s in the past. A University of North Florida (UNF) poll that had Biden up six points on Trump in the Sunshine State as of Oct. 4 is now a 48-47 statistical tie.

2. No, Hunter Biden is not a sympathetic figure. The utter stupidity of a narrative that attempts to make Kid Biden lovable and pitiable is something to see. One might argue only the Democrat Party is capable of such an arrogant, lead-balloonish move.

3. Nobody is going to take that kind of money in stride. Initially there was a denial that Hunter Biden took $3.5 million from the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. Nobody is denying that anymore. Not while they cringe in waiting for the evidence to come out as to what that $3.5 million paid for.

Then there’s all the Chinese money. Some being held for “the big guy.”

4. The blanket denials and calumnies don’t sound very truthful. Remember when this first started popping? Joe Biden said he never asked his son about his foreign business dealings. That was absolutely ludicrous on its face at the time.

And then it was revealed, as one of the first disclosures from the laptop, that Biden had met with Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi, who had explicitly asked Hunter to use influence to get Burisma in front of American policymakers. The Biden camp’s denial came in the form of a statement that no meeting with Pozharskyi was on his official calendar; within 48 hours they had backed off that position and grudgingly admitted it was “possible” a meeting had taken place.

Then there was the legacy media narrative that the entire affair was Russian - 😂 -disinformation.

5. Remember what happened to ACORN. This agonizing (or delicious!) drip-drip-drip of damaging revelations from that laptop is straight out of the playbook Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe wrote when the two combined to utterly destroy the urban leftist ACORN machine with a series of hidden videos showing ACORN employees flagrantly breaking the law. ACORN twisted in the wind for weeks as O’Keefe dragged them mercilessly through a pattern of revelation, denial, and further revelation invalidating the denial.

And Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, and the conservative news organizations (the New York Post, Fox News, and a number of others) who have imposed this water torture on not just Biden but the legacy and social media giants protecting them have done precisely what O’Keefe did.

You haven’t heard much from ACORN lately, have you?

That seems true of Joe Biden as well, since he called a “lid” on his campaign Monday for more or less the rest of the week, or at least until Thursday night’s debate, at which NBC News journo and Democrat partisan Kristen Welker will do everything she can not to raise the subject of the Biden crime family.

But that isn’t going to work, because Trump is going to bring it up in every answer he gives at that debate.

There’s no saving this dead campaign. They’re all starting to realize it.

On Tuesday the New York Times announced it was suspending all polling operations for the final two weeks of the election cycle. . . . This has been a Summary ... Full Article By Scott McKay @ American Spectator