On Monday, Hunter Biden will finally make it to Arkansas. The Natural State is not a Biden family favorite but there is one thing that would ordinarily be an attraction: Biden’s daughter Navy Joan. In the Biden family, the four-year-old girl remains “she who must not be named” literally. Not only has President Biden refused to refer to her as a grandchild or even include a Christmas stocking with the other children, her father Hunter is fighting to prevent her from using the Biden name. Indeed, the only reason that Hunter is coming to the same state with his daughter is to seek to limit his child support.
The viciousness of the Biden family in dealing with this little girl is only matched by that of the media. Reporters who profess to support women and denounce deadbeat dads have either ignored this story or belittled her mother, Lunden Roberts.
Roberts is widely dismissed as a “former stripper.” That appears how she met Hunter, but it is often used to paint her in the same way that the media gleefully reported Hillary Clinton denouncing women involved with her husband as mere “bimbo eruptions.”
The media ignores Roberts because it wants to ignore what the Bidens have done collectively. This is one single mother’s story that is not considered fit to print.
Yes, Roberts was an exotic dancer. She used that job to go to one of the most expensive colleges in the country, George Washington University where I teach. When she became pregnant, she decided to have her child and raise her on her own. She has raised this child without a father and fought one of the most powerful families in the world.
When Navy Joan is older, there is every reason for her to be proud of the struggle that her mother went through in seeking a college education and raising her against all odds.
Despite Joe Biden long campaigning against deadbeat dads, his son refused to acknowledge that he was the father of Navy Joan and, after a court forced him to confirm his paternity through DNA testing, he continued to fight support for his child. Hunter’s delay and evasion of filings and depositions led a court to repeatedly threaten sanctions.
However, the effort to bar this child from using the Biden name has moved this scandal from the realm of hypocrisy to monstrosity. It is hard to imagine the pain that this child will experience upon learning of how the Bidens erased any reference to her and fought even her ability to claim to be a member of their family. (Even the Biden’s dogs and cats got stockings at Christmas but not their granddaughter who they have never asked to even see, let alone support).
After opposing efforts to even establish that he is her father and his continued efforts to limit child support, Hunter is telling the court that he would not want the child to bear his name for her own good and to guarantee her a “peaceful existence.”
If one were to combine all of Hunter’s influence peddling, drug abuse, orgies and prostitution controversies, they would not hold a candle to the utter depravity shown toward this little girl.
Despite assembling a new Legion of Doom of high-priced lawyers and advisers, Hunter is claiming that he simply cannot meet demands for child support. Given his opposition to such support for years and reported millions in foreign dealings, it would seem transparently absurd. It is even more difficult to accept as he jets between his luxurious mansion in Malibu to digs at the White House. The public reportedly pays more for his security in his mansion than he does in monthly support for his daughter.
There is, however, a crushing Karmic aspect to Hunter being forced to appear in Arkansas. His efforts to limit his child support may have backfired and could prove costly. Hunter has struggled to conceal his finances, including money that he received from alleged influence peddling. Now the court is considering the laptop as possible evidence in millions of past assets. While a U.S. Attorney in Delaware is exploring criminal charges and House committees are looking into the influence peddling, his fight against this toddler could force a decision on the authenticity of the laptop.
In the last hearing, Hunter’s counsel tried again to maintain deniability.
Here is the exchange after Judge Meyer referenced Garrett Ziegle as a potential expert witness on the contents of the laptop:
Langdon: “There has never been, to my knowledge, an acknowledgment that this so-called laptop — he continuously calls it Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop …”
Meyer: “Well, let’s clear that issue up right now. Is it your client’s laptop or not?”
Langdon: “Your honor, I’m not involved in all of that stuff. It’s not my client’s laptop as far as I know.”
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Meyer: “Is it your client’s position, you’re representing to this court, that it is not his laptop?”
Langdon: “Your honor, I am not in a position to even begin to answer that question.”
It is bizarre to continue to this obfuscation years after the release of the laptop. Hunter is facing the use of the laptop as evidence in this case as well as the federal prosecution and House investigations. Yet, his counsel is still claiming ignorance as to whether it is authentic.
It is the continuation of a long campaign of disinformation. Before the 2020 election, the media repeated the false claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely “Russian Disinformation.” Despite the denial of American intelligence and self-verifying emails on the laptop, the media accepted without question the dubious claims of former intelligence figures organized by longtime Democratic operatives.
It worked beautifully. It was not until two years later that NPR, The New York Times, and other media outlets got around to telling the public the truth.
Hunter has long refused to acknowledge ownership of the laptop. When asked years ago by CBS News, he shrugged “There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the — that it was Russian intelligence.”
In some ways, it is a continuation of Hunter’s long denial of his child. Yet, the DNA did not lie.
Hunter could now be forced to accept this laptop as his own. That could prove far more costly than the child support that he is seeking to avoid in Arkansas.
None of this, of course, will get Navy Joan a stocking on next year’s Biden family fireplace. According to Joe Biden, she is not one of his grandchildren despite being sired by his own son. Nor will this make Hunter Biden a better person. However, if she succeeds in using the Biden name, she will certainly prove the best of the lot.
This column first appeared otn Fox.com.
The issue beyond the lap top that has always puzzled me what is the family structure of the Biden’s. Is it a paternal, maternal or “nonatriarchal”? Since President Biden first announced his bid for the presidency, it became clear that it wasn’t a patriarchal clan; I mean how could he cipher and state goals to the public without coaching. This forced me to conclude the clan was not paternal but matriarchal, and since it’s a maternal clan the matriarch has chosen to dishonor the grandchild.
The difference between the film “Weekend at Bernie’s” and Biden’s “presidency”? the film was fictitious
sad but true
This column was noticeably different than others. Longer than usual and more emotive than usual. Prof. Turley sounds, well, angry about this situation. Interesting.
That you too are not angry about a wealthy, privileged white father ignoring his paternal responsibilities, is a misogynist, uses women for personal pleasures as opposed to as meaningful pursuits, that he denigrates the institution of the family, innocent children, uses his father’s political power for unjust enrichment, that his father and mother also demean their 4 year old grand-daughter while preaching advocacy for families and children, and much much more, is concerning. Are you brain dead or just soul-less like Hunter, Joe and Jill?
Professor Turley, to many of us, is showing abundant restraint and charity
Talk about white privilege!
“Prof. Turley sounds, well, angry….”
– Rubenito
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The American Founders were ANGRY about the corruption of paying taxes without representation, not enjoying all conceivable natural and God-given rights and freedoms, and suffering under the dictatorship of the monarchy. Have you looked around America lately? It’s an anti-American, illegal alien, foreign invader, dependent and parasite’s paradise and total freak show. What’s next, NAMBLA?
It’s time, Men!
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“What fresh hell can this be?”
– Dorothy Parker
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“We the People of the United States…secure the Blessings of Liberty to OURSELVES and our POSTERITY….”
– Preamble, 1789
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
It is said by some, that to save one life saves the world. The Biden’s have a child they refuse to acknowledge, much less help.
That demonstrates the depravity of the Democrat Party and those who support it in its present fascist and racist state.
“Do it for the children”!
Professor Turley: “While a U.S. Attorney in Delaware is exploring criminal charges and House committees are looking into the influence peddling, his fight against this toddler could force a decision on the authenticity of the laptop.”
Delaware will do nothing about the obvious felon, Hunter Biden. The Democrats revel in corruption and immorality.
Don’t hold your breath, the fix is in.
JT, Thanks for letting us know who received Christmas stocking stuffers in the Biden family. Please keep us posted on who gets what in the Biden family for the upcoming Mother’s Day and birthdays.
It seems improbable Navy Joan will get anything for Mother’s Day, dontcha think?
*Lunden Roberts (not Navy Joan)
JT, Thanks for letting us know who received Christmas stocking stuffers in the Biden family. Please keep us posted on who gets what in the Biden family for the upcoming Mother’s Day and birthdays.
Marxists like “Koncerned Komrade” lacks the cojones to state courageously what his lord and saviour, Karl Marx, preached proudly. True, Karl Marx died as a disgrace, alone, in England, living in London libraries like a madman, banished from several European countries including his home Germany, France and Belgium. True also that Karl Marx came from a secure, affluent, privileged Jewish family, rabbis on both sides of his family, marrying a wealthy, educated baroness, Jenny von Westphalen. Oh the life he lived as a privileged, bourgeois capitalist who studied law in Bonn, because his dahdee paid for his education, and later at the prestigious Univ of Berlin.
Alas, Marx was accepted by none of his targeted audiences within the continent of Europe and died a miserable, sad death: alcoholic, chain smoker, boils throughout his body, all of course self-inflicted. It was after his death, in a country in Asia he never had in mind when he wrote Das Kapital, that Vladimir Lenin resurrected his writings to initiate the Bolshevik Revolution. Naturally Mao Zedong followed Marx’s anti-family, anti-religion shtick. Stalin and Mao, under the promise of Communism, killed over 70 million innocent lives so as to build, back better
Since said Komrade lacks testicular fortitude, naturally I am here to help xim/xer/xey and shed light as a disinfectant:
Law, morality, religion, are to (the proletariat) so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Written: Late 1847;
First Published: February 1848;
Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Vol. One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1969, pp. 98-137;
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
Estovir…Excellent!
Thanks Cindy. I do hope you are getting the best medical care possible for your ❤️. you have been in my prayers
Re: the Marxist stuff, it is an issue for which I am very passionate. Can you tell? Most Cubans are, so there you go
Blessings
Concerned citizen is so concerned but not at all concerned about the welfare of an innocent 4 yr old child who is being denied support by her father and her fine upstanding grandfather oe Biden has never met her and shuns her!
People like you make me sick. Mean and nasty.
Estovir and Diane, Thanks for your support and civility!
He is DARVO-ing, a Marxist trait
As the acronym suggests, the common steps involved are
The abuser denies the abuse ever took place
When confronted with evidence, the abuser then attacks the person that was abused (and/or the person’s family and/or friends) for attempting to hold the abuser accountable for their actions, and finally the abuser claims that they are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing the positions of victim and offender. It often involves not just playing the victim but also victim blaming
Wikipedia
I’m hoping that there will be less attention paid to Navy Joan’s mother winning the right to use the Biden name, –and MORE attention when she subsequently and very visibly, -with massive MEDIA coverage-, publicly denounces the Biden name for its associative depravity, corruptness, and scandal, and then petitions the court to modify Navy Joan’s surname to “Dr. Navy Joan nee Former Biden.” After all, if we can call Jill “Dr.” outside of academic circles, then we can allow “Former Biden” as part of a surname.
–Or maybe, “Dr. Navy Joan nee Former Burden” ????
Yours truly, Dr. lin
(after all, a JD is a doctorate degree…)
The Biden Family story is a disturbing and disgusting saga for an innocent child involuntarily made to suffer a role. It is far from a good thing that could happen to Navy Joan that she be named Biden. Having such an infamous and ignoble surname is opposite of what she will need to be happy and prosper. She may have her father’s genes, but fortunately she also has her mother’s. Surely the perseverance and fortitude of her mother will favor her far more than the weakness and cowardice of her father.
“he would not want the child to bear his name for her own good and to guarantee her a “peaceful existence.”” I think this probably the only honest thing Hunter Biden has ever said. Ms Roberts has said that Navy Joan carrying the Biden name would open doors, so to speak, she may not like the wish she gets if those doors are the jail cell the father ends up in. It may set the child up for misery…..”oh, you are part of THE Biden family?”…”yes, but they never acknowledged my existence.”
Considering that Grandpa Joe likes sniffing little girls hair maybe it is for the best she never meets him. Would she really want to be associated with a family that is corrupt and amoral? Ms Roberts should get whatever she can from Hunter Biden, set aside a really great college fund for Navy and stick it to them. I certainly have more respect for Ms Roberts, no matter how she put herself through school, than I ever could for any member of the Biden family.
As an aside, maybe the court could find out just how much that art work sold for and especially to whom.
Need a Biden family character reference?
Here ya go.
This is the worst thing ever. I can’t believe what I just read. I knew Biden was an old school political hack and scam artist, I knew his son was a spoiled oligarchs son who like Trumps son lives off daddys name and influence and does NOTHING related to actual work but I did not know they were such scumbags Not of this order. Its like the Royal Family.
Who are these morally bankrupt things we supposedly keep electing to govern us?
Why do we need people with morals and values like this, telling the rest of us what to do?
It depends on what you consider ‘actual work’. The Trump sons both worked on construction sites when they were younger (as Trump did in high school) and now work for the Trump Organization as executives in different divisions. Hunter’s ‘job’ seems to have been flying around the world telling people ‘give me (us) money and I will give you access’.
But but But But But TUMPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
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Com-on man!
If JT’s reporting is accurate, then shame on HB for not acting as a father to his daughter and for fighting child support, and shame on JB for not acting as a grandfather to his granddaughter.
That said, JT’s regular focus on HB, who is not in office or running for office, while ignoring things like the civil trial for rape and defamation against Trump, when he has already announced his candidacy for President, is just another example of JT’s political bias. Mike Pence also testified before the Jan. 6 grand jury this week.
You dishonestly ignore the fact he is influence peddling, so the strawman argument that he’s “not elected” backfires in the face of that reality. Because the fact he wasn’t elected, makes his influence peddling all the more egregious. The “what about Trump” argument is a trolls argument.
For better or worse, influence peddling is generally legal, and people in both parties do it. If you object to HB doing it, you should also object to Jared Kushner doing it, and to Trump not putting his businesses into a blind trust while in office. Trump should have followed Carter’s lead but didn’t. And if you cannot admit the problem on both sides, that reflects on you, not me.
“For better or worse, influence peddling is generally legal, and people in both parties do it. If you object to HB doing it, you should also object to Jared Kushner doing it… “
Influence peddling is what politicians do when they try to get things done. That is why it is legal and accepted.
The Biden’s are different. Their hands are in the till continuously, and they have sold America out. Some other politicians have done the same to a lesser extent. However, you cannot distinguish between influence and quid pro quo.
Your example of Kushner is wrong. and was explained numerous times while you were out to lunch. Go ahead and tell us the quid pro quo of Kushner where the money went into his pocket. His deals with the Saudis were up-front, investigated, and controlled, in great part, by the Saudis. The Saudis intended to make a big profit from their investments which is what investment firms do.
As the big guy said, “You don’t F— with the Bidens!
Well since I don’t hide behind an anonymous non-deplume a quick peruse of my previous comments would show the impotence of your charge. I’ve called out the Trump nepotism repeatedly as well as all the nepotism, and the oligarchy from which they all sprout from as well. You know nothing about me, other than I’m not a troll hiding behind an anonymous name trolling nonsense.
This ain’t about Trump right now this is about Biden and influence peddling tied to the oval office IS illegal, the influence peddling act makes it so and the President at the end of the day draws a federal paycheck making him subject to the act.
So the only thing reflecting on me right now is accuracy.
As for you you have no reflection. You’re a non deplume. A troll hiding behind the most common anonymous name there is , “anonymous”, so you could be 6 different people depending on what time of day it is and which shift you’re working.
If there was no problem with influence peddling, why did Joe Biden deny the legitimacy of the laptop? Why didn’t he say “Heck yeah, I did it, so what?”
Retainer! 😉
https://youtu.be/OHSYWIAAY2o
. . . just another example of JT’s political bias.
Possibly. Just like Fox News, AM talk radio, and a few newspapers like the NY Post or Washington Times have a right-leaning political bias. But . . . 90% of the major media in America are emphatically biased to the left. Fox, talk radio, and a handful of conservative blogs like this one provide a little bit of balance.
“90% of the major media in America are emphatically biased to the left”
I look forward to your producing evidence that lets you calculate the percentage.
I also don’t see why you limit it to whatever you characterize as “major media,” when the issue is what the bias is among all media that people use for their news. JT’s blog certainly isn’t “major media.”
A.N.D.
I look forward to your producing evidence that lets you calculate the percentage.
Ugh, A.N.D., I don’t always have to “produce evidence” for everything I say; I’m not representing a client in a courtroom whenever I post a comment. If you want to convince me I’m wrong, fine too, argue the point and produce your own evidence.
I know this to be true because I’ve read enough statistics over the years about how the reporters and editors vote – 91% democrat, for decades on end. If you don’t believe me, fine, I’m not trying to convince you of anything.
I like you, but sometimes you can be a noodge.
Major media is important because that’s how we get our news now. It’s mostly national news. I didn’t realize that had to be explained.
I worked for decades as a researcher, and evidence is essential to scientific work in both the social and natural sciences. The person who makes the claim is the one with the burden of proof for it, so I’m not going to invest my own time in testing your claim when you can’t be bothered to back it up.
“how the reporters and editors vote – 91% democrat for decades on end”
I doubt that. For example, this has a majority of journalists identifying as independents:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140507070048/https://news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2014/05/2013-american-journalist-key-findings.pdf (see the chart on p. 11) Of course, party affiliation and voting aren’t identical, but I don’t see how you’d know how people voted.
“Major media is important because that’s how we get our news now. It’s mostly national news.”
I have no reason to believe that either. Lots of people get their news from local news sources, social media, etc. I don’t know what the % breakdown is, and I doubt that you do either.
I question evidence because I know that lots of people believe things that aren’t actually true (your comment about our having an open border comes to mind). If I’m wrong about something, I’d rather learn that and change my mind.
The person who makes the claim is the one with the burden of proof for it.
Only if the person is trying to prove something, which I’m not. As I said, I don’t care if you don’t believe me. This is blog for cripe’s sake, not a court of law.
Again: courts of law are not the only place where evidence matters.
I think it’s sad that you don’t care whether other people believe you. How can the country survive if people do not care about distinguishing true from false?
FWIW, the person who makes the claim has a burden of proof even if they’re not trying to convince the other person. The holder of the burden is a basic aspect of philosophic burden of proof. You can certainly choose not to satisfy that burden for whatever reason, including because it’s a blog, but that doesn’t eliminate its existence, it only means that the burden goes unsatisfied.
I think it’s sad that you don’t care whether other people believe you.
Seriously? You’re heading for a nervous breakdown, my friend. You need to lighten up.
To resolve this dispute: in the courtroom of your mind, I lose, I concede. Happy? Most readers, I believe, will understand what I’m talking about because they’ve lived it themselves. If not, I can live with that. Again, it’s just a blog. Furthermore, I have exactly zero influence on any of the issues we discuss. I’m not in a position to make such decisions. I just like having discussions with other people on the internet. Why? It’s fun.
I complimented you yesterday on the way you argued a point. Whether I agree with the point or not is irrelevant – I liked the way you argued it. To me that is more important than convincing anyone that I’m right.
To give you an idea of where I’m coming from. I spend a lot of time involved in some way or another with appellate advocacy. In an appellate court there is no jury, no witnesses, usually no client, just a panel of judges and two opposing attorneys having a conversation about the law and how it applies to the situation at hand. When they argue well, the judges usually compliment them with a phrase like, “Well argued, thank you.” It’s typically very collegial among all involved, and no bad blood between the attorneys, who generally respect each other even if they’re on opposite sides of the issue.
I suspect that a lawyer cannnot argue something well without providing valid evidence for their claims. A scientific researcher certainly can’t.
I distinguish between facts and opinions. People often have different opinions but should be able to come to agreement on facts. But I find that a lot of people aren’t interested in testing whether their T/F claims are actually true. Many people just want to believe what they already believe. I think this is bad for the country, because a lot of people believe some things that are false. They may even commit crimes (like the J6 crimes and hate crimes) because they believe a lie.
“I concede. Happy?”
I’m not looking for a concession. I’m looking for evidence. Conceding in the absence of evidence doesn’t make any progress on the question of whether the claim was true vs. false. But of course you’re free not to share my interest in evidence. You’re not alone in that.
A scientific researcher certainly can’t.
I’m not a scientific researcher, and moreover, nobody here is a scientific researcher trying to prove something in a scientific context. This is an informal discussion forum.
Conceding in the absence of evidence doesn’t make any progress on the question of whether the claim was true vs. false.
I’m not trying to make any progress on the question.
Understanding what is true or not sometimes requires a little imagination. For example, ask yourself why conservative talk radio has such a large audience. Or why Fox News has such a large audience. It’s because there is a market for news that is not delivered with a liberal bias. Why is there such a market? Because the major media are biased to the left in a very pronounced way. That annoys approximately 50% of the country, which then is pleased to find a source, even if it’s just one source, that is not so annoying. I believe most of the people reading my comment would have understood that right away, since they’ve lived it (as I pointed out before). I don’t expect someone who is liberal to understand it right away because they haven’t lived it. (I speak from experience: I come from a very liberal-Democrat family, and my family members don’t perceive the bias in the way the major medial deliver the news.). I don’t really care if those people don’t believe me. It doesn’t affect me in any way.
But lest you kill me from exhaustion, I’ll provide a link, and thereby shift the burden to you to rebut my prima facie case:
https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/confirmed-white-house-reporters-are-democrats-by-a-12-1-margin/
First, thanks for providing a source for your claim.
No offense, but you moved the goalposts from “how the reporters and editors vote – 91% democrat for decades on end” to “white-house-reporters-are-democrats-by-a-12-1-margin.” Most reporters and editors aren’t WH reporters. I’d still want to look at the data itself from Delve, which I just searched for but didn’t find (it’s not even clear to me which of several companies named “Delve” it is). And I already gave you evidence in my 1:02 PM comment that most reporters identify as Independents. But since you’ve now shifted to the WH Press Corps, here’s another poll of the WH Press Corps where the Political Affiliation results were “Not registered 37%; Independent 37%; Democratic 16%; Republican 5%; Other 5%”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/28/poll-trump-white-house-press-corps-journalists-215051/ (scroll to the bottom)
So what we have are inconsistent results, which means that we’d need to investigate further to find out the truth. I accept that that doesn’t interest you. We can leave it as undetermined.
Anon – okay, you got me. How they vote is more important than how they’re registered. But it’s not all that hard to find such information. Here’s one to start. It’s chock full of statistics. They may not prove my 90% figure, but they do show that a large majority of journalists in America vote Democrat over Republican, even when the Republican wins in a landslide among the general population.
https://www.mrc.org/liberal-mediaevery-poll-shows-journalists-are-more-liberal-american-public-and-public-knows-it
OK, but that has a lot of claims that also don’t back up your claim that “90% of the major media in America are emphatically biased to the left.”
For example, they simply try to exclude those reporters who don’t vote (“Of those who say they voted for major party candidates …”), and then they present evidence like “51 percent cast a ballot for President Jimmy Carter and another 24 percent chose independent candidate (and liberal Republican Congressman) John Anderson. Only 25 percent picked conservative Ronald Reagan, who won 51 percent of the public’s vote that year.” So it was split 51-49 for the Democrat vs. Republicans. As for whether Anderson was “liberal,” that’s a matter of opinion.
It seems to me that the more data we actually look at, the clearer it is that the data are all over the place and don’t converge on “90% … biased to the left” that you claimed.
Is 90% of the media left biased ? of course not. Fox alone owns more than 10% of the market.
Is most of the media today bat $hit crazy on the left ? Absolutely.
Today is NOT the Reagan era. While the media then was LEFT biased it was left center not left wing nut biased.
Evidence ? Read the media, watch them. They are at odds with reality and in a far left fashion.
And it is obvious.
We do have a huge problem today – the left has successfully infiltrated so many institutions that we are seeing the destruction of the concept of truth.
The left does not YET have sufficient control on information to supress the truth everywhere about everything – but that is the direction we are headed.
It has taken time and prying teeth but the Truth about Covid and Covid policies eventually eaked out.
Science is not yet so universally corrupt as to have burried or spun the truth regarding covid.
But we do see that elsewhere. Warmist nonsense has been an absolute disaster. There was been very little – possibly no warming in the past 20+ years.
and we are BELOW 250 years trends since 1979. Yet the left rants the end of the world is nigh and even much of Fox parrots that nonsense.
CAGW is religion posing as science – and most people are unwilling to speak that the emperor has no clothes.
Had the public health community so dominated as the CAGW nut jobs do – we would still all be like GiGi claiming that everything public health experts told us was True when many of us knew it was nonsense at the time and most of us know it is nonsense now.
P.S. I should have thanked you again for delving into some data and for agreeing that “They may not prove my 90% figure.”
We can quibble about the exact percentage, but that’s straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel. The larger point is that the legacy media is overwhelmingly biased in a way that is not noticed by people who agree with the bias, but is noticed by people who don’t, which means conservatives. A huge segment of the population (conservatives) is annoyed by it and turns to alternative media – such as this blog which leans right. The liberals then get on this blog and bash it for its conservative bias. Those kinds of crocodile strike me as tears shed by commenters who benefit from a favorable bias of the vast majority of media outlets, and so I remain unsympathetic. Not only that, I thumb my nose their general direction.
@Anonymous. If it is evidence based research you support there’s data aplenty gathered by organizations which monitor the media. This data provides the number of minutes a network devotes to a matter of national interest or citizen’s ‘need to know’. Said need often determined by the media source itself. As a first step, a meta analysis of the aforementioned should be sufficient to raise questions to be pursued further.
Thanks, but if the issue is left-right bias, the first challenge is figuring out where “neutral” is, which is not actually a simple task. For example, there is no unbiased source for determining which matters are “a matter of national interest.” Moreover, the number of minutes doesn’t tell you whether the reporting itself is neutral vs. biased.
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Turley is not a conservative, and is blog is not conservative.
Both promote the Constitution, and the rule of law.
I’ll leave to you to explain why you consider that conservative.
Both promote the Constitution, and the rule of law.
In today’s world, doing that in the clear-headed way Professor Turley does is conservative. He promotes free speech and calls out the woke attack on that freedom as well as academic freedom. That’s what I was referring to.
The meaning of words sometimes changes over time. A “classical liberal” would today be considered very conservative. In his preface to his book The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek has an extended discussion of this phenomenon.
In Mr. Trump’s case these law suits are about as close to malarkey you can get, in fact the same malarkey the Biden family has been selling for years to abuse the citizens of this nation. The treatment of this little innocent child is indicatve of the contempt the Bidens have for anyone not involved in their criminal schemes. Strange how a died in the wool liberal like JT can see that but you have yet to have the scales lifted from your eyes.
Why can’t you just stick to the subject? Must you make every subject about Trump? He has nothing to do with this.
This is about a little girl who needs support.
Hunter Biden is the father and Joe Biden is the grandfather. While the Democrat base claim Joe is such a fine upstanding citizen…what kind of person denies the existence of therir own grandchild or denies their child basic support?
Yeah, that is the fine Biden family.
Diane, but Trump.
In line with the above, the 90% of the national media that is liberal is reporting profusely on the matters you mention. Not many are reporting on this HB story.
It’s not hard to find MSM reporting on this. A few examples:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/politics/hunter-biden-arkansas-contempt-hearing/index.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hunter-biden-must-attend-court-next-month-for-child-support-case-troubled-attorney-still-hasn-t-met-4-year-old-daughter/ar-AA1ajVsd
washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/31/hunter-biden-legal-defense-fund/
news.yahoo.com/hunter-biden-ordered-appear-court-110518171.html
newsweek.com/hunter-biden-dealt-blow-judge-rejects-effort-avoid-court-appearance-1797502
Your compromised china brandon is the target…
https://youtu.be/JRmlcEBAiIs
Talk about stupid. If Hunter would have kept his mouth shut and just paid his child support we wouldn’t be talking about this. To claim that his finances wouldn’t allow the continuance of his payments while he was raking in millions from the Ukrainians and the Chinese is beyond laughable. He was willing to spend thousands on crack and cocaine but he couldn’t support his child. If Joe was a real man he would have insisted that Hunter meet his obligations. Short of that Joe could have agreed to support his grandchild himself. I don’t have anywhere near the money that Joe Biden has but I supported my two grandsons who were abandoned by their father and I worked three jobs to do it because it was the right thing to do. As usual with Joe and Hunter it’s a morality issue. The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Another day, another mass murder.
A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five of his Texas neighbors, including an 8-year-old, after they asked him to stop shooting his AR-15 in the front yard.
Another day, another 200 opioid overdose deaths in America. Thanks JB for the open border.
There isn’t an open border, and the Biden Admin. has seized tons of fentanyl at that non-open border: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fentanyl-seizures-rise-u-s-mexico-border-heres-why/
There isn’t an open border . . .
That’s a funny joke. Did you think of that yourself?
Regardless of how much is seized, the open border allows way too much to come in, hence over 70,000 overdose deaths per year. Not to mention the thousands of girls’ lives ruined due to sex trafficking.
Not.so.old.man: The comment from Anonymous is analogous to the Media proclaiming that Biden has created more jobs than any other president in U.S. history.. An analysis of the statistic (and what it counts/considers in its conclusion) is truly humorous.
The border isn’t open, no matter how much you claim otherwise.
ATS, Trump was sealing the border. Biden made sure it stayed open while saying what a wonderful job he was doing closing it. Biden lies, but in time you will suddenly reverse course to resurrect yourself once again.
Here’s a border that’s “not open” –
https://thehill.com/latino/3699951-illegal-border-crossings-hit-annual-record-government-data/
Right!
If the border were open, none of those people would have been apprehended. It amazes me that you apparently don’t understand that straightforward fact.
I know that the border isn’t open. How many millions have just walked across the border since the big guy got elected? Tell the politicians in New York City that there is no open border. They’ve been asking the big guy for federal assistance to help cope with the amount of illegals they are stuck taking care of. No, the borders not open.
Correct, the border isn’t open.
Up is down and down is up.
Nope.
Perhaps we’re using different definitions of “open” – one de jure (no) and the other de facto (yes – and by design).
You haven’t presented any definition. You just keep using the word without defining it.
The border is not de facto open either, since DHS apprehends many people who attempt to enter illegally, others are prevented from entering, and yet others are deported. Or perhaps you just have some bizarre definition.
The border is not de facto open either . . .
When someone is that in denial of reality, rational discourse is impossible. Enjoy your evening.
LOL. You can’t bring yourself to even define it. Enjoy your evening as well.
The more the border is sealed shut.
The less people apprehended
The less drugs apprehended.
That is the reality today. You are confusing yourself with your false reality.
The last time this subject came up anonymous was proud of the fact that Biden was seizing more drugs than before. This demonstrates how little he knows. Generally, there is a direct relationship to what is seized to what enterred the country. The more seized, the more that got in.
Anonymous didn’t realize his ignorance when he said the border is more secure as we are seizing more drugs. We all know who that anonymous is.
“There isn’t an open border.” By official (and thus likely too low) estimated, there are almost 12,000,000 “undocumented” residents in this country. If the border is not open, how did they get here? Wikipedia, “Undocumented immigration population of the United States.”
First of all, the majority of the people who are in the country illegally entered legally and then overstayed their visas. Secondly, the fact that we do not have an open border does not prevent people from crossing the border illegally. A non-open border means that there are restrictions on who can legally enter the country, and there’s an attempt to apprehend both people and items (like opioids) that enter illegally. Just as was the case under Trump, our ability to apprehend people/items is imperfect, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.
Anonymous – can you provide the source of your statement that “the majority of the people who are in the country illegally entered legally and then overstayed their visas”?
As to your apparent belief that we are in control of the border, I refer you and other readers to the recent Contressional testiomy Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz who explicitly stated that we are NOT in control of our southern border. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11864081/Border-Chief-admits-NOT-operational-control-border.html
But I notice on a close reading that your argument is somewhat slippery. You state: “A non-open border means that there are restrictions on who can legally enter the country, and there’s an attempt to apprehend both people and items (like opioids) that enter illegally.” It goes without saying that there are legal restrictions on who can enter the country because our immigration laws have not been removed from the statute books. The problem is that the Democratic Party has decided to “relax” enforcement of those restrictions. Under the “catch and release” policy of the immigration service, illegal immigrants, even when they are caught, are released into the general population, pending their adminstrative hearings for migrant status. Not suprisingly, most do not show up for the hearing. As stated by Sen. Grassley:
“The GAO report also found that over 75 percent of all ATD participants were unenrolled before the conclusion of their immigration proceeding.”
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-tillis-demand-answers-on-bidens-failed-catch-and-release-policy
But even this shocking incompetence understates the problem because it only applies to illegal migrants who are caught. It has been estimated that a third of illegals are not apprehended when they initially cross the border. cis.org/Arthur/Report-Just-68-Illegal-Border-Crossers-Get-Caught
“can you provide the source of your statement that “the majority of the people who are in the country illegally entered legally and then overstayed their visas”?”
Here’s an example: https://cmsny.org/publications/essay-2017-undocumented-and-overstays/
“on a close reading that your argument is somewhat slippery”
It isn’t. What I said was clear. An open border is unrestricted entry. We don’t have that.
Anonymous – this report uses 2017 figures when Trump was President. He was actually enforcing immigration laws. Also, it focuses on entries, not stays. Visa overstays are common and generally short lasting. Illegal immigrants who enter the country come here to stay. Finally, the report ignores people who are in the country but who have come into contact with the immigration service. As noted, a third of illegal entries are not apprehended by immigration services.
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Up is down, down is up. In is out, out is in. See it’s that easy. Now repeat after me.
Go back to sleep. If you don’t think there is an invasion at the border…you are brainwashed by the media you love, that lies to you as much as Joe Biden.
Anonymous, another day of comments that don’t have anything to do with the subject. Where is your outrage about Antifa carrying AR-15s. I ask you. Are you defending Hunter not being willing to pay child support or not? Are you defending Joe Biden not recognizing his granddaughter or not? Instead of addressing the immoral abandonment of a little girl you change the subject. What say you. Are you in favor of men abandoning their children or not? I know, as usual it’s just your selective compassion.
Posted by me before your response: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/30/daddy-dearest-hunter-forced-to-appear-in-arkansas-in-fight-his-childs-name-and-support/comment-page-2/#comment-2284235
ATS, you had to be hit over the head before acknowledging anything of the kind. Look at all your postings. One can see continuous denial until the light starts to show through. You were wrong then and are wrong now with your belated and half-hearted attempts to resurrect your past statements.
Anonymous, you say that you posted a link prior to my response. I we t back through all the posts. Maybe I missed it . Please provide the time. I await your truthful response.
I provided a link to the comment, idiot, so you didn’t have to search for it, just click on the link. I posted it at 11:55 AM, which is before your 12:01 PM plaint.
“Another day, another mass murder.”
Another day and another mass murder, but who is doing the murdering and creating the atmosphere for murder Who is creating havoc?
Democrats, of course, while being supported by much of the media. Here are headlines that state a bit of yesterday’s news.
“5 dead after confronting still-at-large Texas gunman firing AR-15 as baby slept: ‘Basically executed them’”
The killing was performed by a Mexican national, likely an illegal immigrant. Thank you, Joe Biden, for making the nation unsafe for American Citizens. Joe, spend less time with your hands in the till and more in MAGA.
“BLM activist ruined white University of Virginia student’s rep over ‘misheard’ remark: report”
The remark made was confirmed to have been misheard by the one who was the recipient. Yes, Democrats supporting Joe Biden and BLM support violence and intimidation of good people. Slander and libel are how the Democrats of today survive.
“ABC News cuts Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vaccine remarks out of interview”
The Democrat press can’t seem to accept alternative ideas, especially when those ideas have more scientific support than their own.
To those Democrats out there, do you still believe the Democrat party is the party of JFK? It isn’t. It is the party of fascists and racists, along with many stupid people.
“Biden can’t recall recent Ireland visit, seems to forget Hunter’s love child during Q&A with kids”
Talking about stupid people, the leader of the Democrats of today is a plagiarist who rarely had a bright idea in his head. Gates, in his book, said that every foreign policy Biden promoted was wrong.
Yes, the racists and fascists have a great party, the Democrat Party, where their leader sells America down the drain for his personal gain.
It’s time for those Democrats who are not stupid to wake up and walk away from that party that promotes the culture of death. I don’t advocate switching parties. I advocate people using common sense to stay away from racists and fascists and to support America and its ideals.
{The above headlines can be Googled for the full story}
An illegal alien who was deported many times.
There is a child in Arkansas whose mommy is a stripper…her daddy is a crackhead…and her grandpappy is the President of the United States.
Ingmar – except that the mom – who was a stripper to pay for college and raise a child as a single mother – is far more admirable that the crack-head dad or the dementia-addled POTUS.
@Ingmar Kellogg;…through no fault of her own. Now THERE is the rub! Beyond the need to establish an incontrovertible lineage to what ever purpose that might rise, she is free to opine that it was a conception to which her presence is the result of, and to which she had no party. It will, unfortunately, be part of the patchwork quilt of her life going forward.
To borrow a phrase from Dave Chappelle. “If they can kill them why can’t we abandon them.” Joe and Hunter make sleaze balls look good. Don’t you know? Democrats are all about the children.
“The viciousness of the Biden family in dealing with this little girl is only matched by that of the media. Reporters who profess to support women and denounce deadbeat dads have either ignored this story or belittled her mother…”
Trump was right again when he exposed the dishonest press and called them “fake news.”
The corporate mainstream “news” is captured, biased and corrupted.
President Biden was delighted to use his remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night to once again bash his political opponents and more than half of the country. The corporate press clapped and cheered Biden mocking Republicans and conservative media, including the firing of Tucker Carlson. Wait, aren’t these press folks supposed to be mocking the current president at this event, not teaming up with him to smear Republicans and conservative voices and clap for censorship?
These partisan “reporters” are merely stenographers (and political activists) in service to their masters in the Biden White House. They will never hold Biden, or any Democrat, to account for anything. They are state media. They are fake news.
“They are fake news.”
When a reporter relies on his proximity to those he reports on, he is no longer a reporter. He becomes a groupie who should only publish in fan magazines.
Reporters should have limited social contact with those they report on. Today, reading the NYTimes or Washington Post is a waste of time that can be better spent reading Glamour Magazine.
It’s incestuous. They all mix and mingle together. It’s one big corrupt swamp.
CNN’s Dana Bash covers politics, for example, while being married to Jeremy Bash who is one of the of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the letter saying that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian disinformation operation. Dana Bash covers politics for CNN, while her own husband actually conspired with the Biden campaign to interfere in the 2020 election.
That’s just one example of how biased, corrupted and fake the “news” media are.
I can’t help but compare this situation with the Dixiecrat segregationist, and later Republican, Strom Thurmond having fathered a child with a black woman. While it is true Strom never publicly acknowledged her. Nor did his daughter ever disclose he was her father until after he passed away. Despite the fact she knew he was her father at a very young age. He met with her occasionally (they lived in different states most of the time). He paid for her college. When he went to California where she was living to give a speech, he asked her to visit with him so he could meet her children, his grandchildren. If you have an extra 30 minutes, listen to the interview she gave to Terry Gross at NPR back in 2005. Despite Gross’s leading questions trying to get her to say negative things about him, it is obvious she had very warm feelings for him. Her made her feel like he cared for her and her mother. She comes off as sincere, honest and a genuinely good person.
https://www.npr.org/2005/02/01/4473680/dear-senator-from-strom-thurmonds-daughter
Strom Thurmond died a Democrat, Dipsh*t. And your attempt at a moral equivalency shows that you approve of the outrageous and horrible treatment of this child. You are ok with and sanction it by trying to pivot and say, “but look over at what a big bad racist (not) Republican did!!!”. You are a monster and support the behavior of others like you. Hunter Biden could fly down to Arkansas and murder this child and her mother in cold blood, and you would nod along approvingly as long as your side advanced it’s cause.
Strom Thurmond switched to the Republican party in 1964 and remained a Republican for the rest of his life “Dipsh*t.”
” remained a Republican for the rest of his life”
When Joe Biden had a few more marbles, though still lacking, he made a statement about Strom Thurmond in his eulogy. Thurmond had “moved to the good side.” Think of the Voting Rights Act and the establishment of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
One should look deeply at Biden’s history. He is not a leader nor an intellect. He is a follower that blows with the wind to the advantage of his personal career and pocketbook. That is what this anonymous supports. One cannot pay attention to those anonymous figures with such low intellect.
S. Meyer: You say, “[Biden] is not a leader nor an intellect. He is a follower that blows with the wind to the advantage of his personal career and pocketbook.”
That is one of the most succinctly-captured truisms I’ve ever read or heard. Good for you.
Wow. Sorry you interpret my comment that way.
I was trying to point out that despite Thurmond being a segregationist who was unwilling to publicly acknowledge his bi-racial daughter, in private he cared for her. He often tried to visit with her when they were in the same vicinity. He helped her financially. He wanted to meet the grandchildren she gave him. All of that is how a normal person behaves toward a direct family member.
Compare that to the Bidens. It’s scientifically proven that Navy Joan is Hunter’s daughter. Yet the Bidens refuse to acknowledge her. They shun her. Never visit her. They go to court to deny her financial support. They do nothing to show they care for her or love her. It’s not normal to treat an innocent family member that way. It’s heartless, compassionless, mean, and nasty to treat an innocent direct family member the way the Bidens have treated Navy Joan.
I’m no psychologist, but the way they’ve treated her strikes me as sociopathic.
This moron is defending HB by saying Strom Thurmond did it too. Strom Thrumond was a DEMOCRAT, never a REPUBLICAN, he was the type of DEMOCAT that Biden loved, like Robert Byrd for example.
Now try not going back 50 years to defend the indefensible. Man it is something how one or two morons can almost ruin a site.
Correction, he ended up a Republican at about the age of 8o, the same demented age as Biden.
If this child’s simple existence (compounded by her mother’s stubborn refusal to be relegated to invisibility) succeeds in getting the courts — plural — to officially examine the laptop’s contents and determine once and for all that its contents are legitimate and NOT bogus information planted by “Russians” (or whomever) — something that SHOULD have been done YEARS ago — then this child could end up being the Best Biden of them all — admittedly not much of an accolade, given the weakness of moral competition from the other Bidens we know about — but not a bad accomplisihment for a child having to go up against the mafioso power of our corrupt federal government.
Garrett’s name is spelled ZIEGLER – It follows the “i before e, except after c” rule. Otherwise, great article and great details.
Just remember: All that pudding brain idiot had to do was retire to the nursing home where he belongs, to wither away privately, with as much dignity as a career criminal can have. Yet instead, his criminal family’s greed, Obama desperately needing a 3rd term, and the establishment’s manic pursuit for Trump drove all parties to run a dementia addled empty suit and overtly manipulate an election to get him installed. Now that the useful idiot’s cognitive thought capability has outpaced his usefulness, not just Joe, but the whole Biden Crime Family are being (rightfully) sacrificed. All because low intellect societal leeches just couldn’t let their sponge-brained cash cow retire to pasture. It tells you everything there is to know about the degeneracy of the Jerry Springer First Family that without the Biden name and Joe in a position to sell influence, his family has nothing to offer to sustain their grifter lifestyles since not a one of them has ever honestly made or created anything of value. Truly vile and pathetic people.
“great article and great details”
This story [1] was broken by NYP’s Miranda Devine last Sun, details about tomorrow’s hearing [2] by Beacon’s Alana Goodman last Monday. In the meantime countless outlets had a follow up.
[1] https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/hunter-biden-may-be-living-at-the-white-house-to-evade-legal-papers-from-his-baby-mama/
[2] https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/hunter-biden-custody-case/
Reporters who profess to support women and denounce deadbeat dads have either ignored this story or belittled her mother, Lunden Roberts.
This is reminiscent of how the Clintons (especially Hillary) and their allies referred to Paula Jones as trailer trash. Organizations such as NOW who purport to support women were silent or sided with the Clintons. The reason is not difficult to understand: it is all about partisan politics. That also explains the corporate media’s approach. They by and large don’t report stories that, while true, would harm the political prospects of Democrats.
Old man, they were either nuts or sluts!