Howard Kurtz and liberal activist Juan Williams clash in a huge way on Mike Gallagher’s show Sunday. Kurtz slammed the media for burying the Hunter Biden laptop story while Williams tried to pull off some damage control and claimed that the media never said the story wasn’t true—Which is a huge freaking lie.
WILLIAMS: No, but I think there’s a larger context here, which is that what was this about? What does it prove? Nobody said it wasn’t true. That — what was said was that you can’t authenticate it. And then you had certain publications that said, we have authenticated it.
GALLAGHER: The analysts said it wasn’t true. The analysts, the intel analysts said they didn’t — couldn’t prove it. It sure looked like Russian disinformation.
WILLIAMS: Right, couldn’t prove it was the key point for organizations.
Couldn’t authenticate it? This is a pretty strange standard for liberals and their Big Tech friends who never stopped Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers from making unsubstantiated claims of teenage rape in 2018. The main accuser was lionized.
Then Howard Kurtz offered a rebuttal:
KURTZ: Juan, it is an absolute embarrassment that the way that the media downplayed or ignored or mocked or minimized this story, that The New York Times now says is under active federal investigation for possible tax violations or lobbying violations by the president’s son. And they’re still not covering it. None of the other networks have touched this story.
It doesn’t — you know, it doesn’t mean that Hunter Biden’s going to be indicted. It may or may not have political fallout for his father. But when you look back at the way Facebook — Twitter, for example, said, well, you can’t even share this information then from the New York Post.”
WILLIAMS: But Howie — Howie, this was in the middle of a heated political campaign intended to damage one candidate in the aftermath of Russian disinformation. I think we were all properly cautious.
KURTZ: It was censorship.
Not only did the media claim it wasn’t true but they banned anyone on social media for simply talking about it. Hunter’s laptop came out just before his crooked father infected the oval office. If the media had done their jobs, back then, we would not be in the mess we are all in now.
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