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i wonder why they are cherry-picking and releasing things like this in a drop-drop fashion... shouldn't just release everything and let the media (and that incl

• acdha 4y ago
  The problem is that so far there hasn’t been much of interest here. Having a few people tweet unsupported claims gets more traction because some people won’t read past the spin and it allows the more journalistic end of the right-wing media to talk about it without being directly criticized for the spin: Fox News can run a “people are saying” story rather than claiming it as an original story. The story about Hunter Biden’s laptop was similar: if there’d been anything significant revealed the WSJ or Fox would have covered it directly. There wasn’t and Giuliani’s sloppy handling made it unreliable, so they didn’t want to put their reputations on the line.