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Tabloids? Not when 51 intelligence professionals sign a letter, claiming the laptop to be false when in fact it was not. I think the laptop story is a classic e

Tabloids? Not when 51 intelligence professionals sign a letter, claiming the laptop to be false when in fact it was not. I think the laptop story is a classic example of why people distrust a journalists. You had many media outlets, backed by government officials, essentially covering up for Hunter Biden and lying to the public. The laptop exists. It's contents exist. But for years all we heard was that this was a false flag operation from Russia. That was a lie

lapcat 2y ago
> Not when 51 intelligence professionals sign a letter, claiming the laptop to be false when in fact it was not. No, that's not what they said. Here's what they said: "We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case." https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000 https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9... > The laptop exists. It's contents exist. So what? Several Republican-led Congressional committees found no wrongdoing by Joe Biden in the matter. So yes, it's nothing but a tabloid story.
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- paleotrope 2y ago
  The cynicism in the 51s statement is what's wrong. And the media taking the expected cynical take. The 51 can say we didn't say it was fake we simply strongly implied it. And the media reported the implied lie. The media is either ignorant or more likely complicit.
  - lapcat 2y ago
    > And the media reported the implied lie. The media reports a million lies verbatim, because politicians lie.
    - paleotrope 2y ago
      These 51 intelligence professionals were not supposed to be politicians, they are supposed to be "experts" in the field.

lapcat 2y ago

> Not when 51 intelligence professionals sign a letter, claiming the laptop to be false when in fact it was not. No, that's not what they said. Here's what they said: "We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case." https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000 https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9... > The laptop exists. It's contents exist. So what? Several Republican-led Congressional committees found no wrongdoing by Joe Biden in the matter. So yes, it's nothing but a tabloid story.

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paleotrope 2y ago
The cynicism in the 51s statement is what's wrong. And the media taking the expected cynical take. The 51 can say we didn't say it was fake we simply strongly implied it. And the media reported the implied lie. The media is either ignorant or more likely complicit.
- lapcat 2y ago
  > And the media reported the implied lie. The media reports a million lies verbatim, because politicians lie.
  - paleotrope 2y ago
    These 51 intelligence professionals were not supposed to be politicians, they are supposed to be "experts" in the field.