ANALYSIS – In yet another egregious case of “what if Trump had done this?” and “Biden doesn’t care,” the White House is blatantly pressuring major news media executives to toe the Democrat line on the Biden impeachment process.
Just as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he’s directing House committees to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden over his family’s shady overseas business dealings, the White House sent a letter to major news outlets telling them how to cover it.
Essentially insisting that they should bash it. (RELATED: Jordan Releases Smoking-Gun Docs, Proving Facebook Censored Americans Under White House Pressure)
CNN reported that Ian Sams, spokesperson for the ‘impeachment war room’ in the White House Counsel’s Office sent the offending letter to the heads of news organizations such as The New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, CBS News and others.
“It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies,” Sams wrote.
The letter, which said an impeachment inquiry with no supporting evidence should “set off alarm bells for news organizations,” is only the most recent example of how shameless Democrats are about abusing their power and manipulating the media.
McCarthy on Tuesday said the House Oversight Committee’s investigation found a “culture of corruption” around the Biden family dating back years, especially to Joe Biden’s time as vice president under Barack Obama.
“These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption, and they warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives,” McCarthy said. “That’s why today I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.” (RELATED: Gaetz Unmoved By McCarthy’s Flip-Flop On Impeachment)
CNN, apparently already following the White House’s lead, ‘reported’ on the outrageous letter:
In its letter Wednesday, the White House asked news organizations to be more clear-eyed in their coverage of the impeachment inquiry, and not to fall prey to the traps of false equivalency in reporting.
“Covering impeachment as a process story – Republicans say X, but the White House says Y – is a disservice to the American public who relies on the independent press to hold those in power accountable,” Sams wrote.
“And in the modern media environment, where every day liars and hucksters peddle disinformation and lies everywhere from Facebook to Fox, process stories that fail to unpack the illegitimacy of the claims on which House Republicans are basing all their actions only serve to generate confusion, put false premises in people’s feeds, and obscure the truth,” Sams added.
McCarthy launched the impeachment inquiry Tuesday without a formal House vote in a bid to appease Republicans on his far-right, including those who have threatened to oust the California Republican from his speakership if he does not move swiftly enough on such an investigation.
The discredited left-leaning cable network then repeated the false, boilerplate talking point that: “The Republican House-led investigations into Biden have yet to provide any direct evidence that the president financially benefited from Hunter Biden’s career overseas.”
In doing so, it ignored the mountain of evidence pointing to the likelihood that Joe Biden did benefit financially, and avoided the fact that this is the reason an inquiry is needed to demand the documents that may prove it. (RELATED: National Archives Reveals It Has Thousands Of Biden Pseudonym Emails)
As Newsmax properly reported:
“This is not OK,” journalist Matthew Keys tweeted. “The White House should not be encouraging, influencing or interfering in the editorial strategies of America’s newsrooms, including CNN and the New York Times.”
“Now, any time the media DOES try to hold Republican lawmakers to account, those lawmakers can simply counter by questioning whether it’s actual journalism or something encouraged by the Biden administration,” Keys wrote.
“All this demonstrates is that the Biden administration has lost confidence in the news media – which I guess mirrors public sentiment over the last few years, too.”
“The problem is they’re trying to influence coverage. The government should never do that. It is inappropriate,” Keys wrote.
Of course it is inappropriate. Highly inappropriate. And if Trump’s team had done this during either of his TWO partisan impeachments, all hell would be breaking loose. But Team Biden just doesn’t care.
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Gee really why Biden?
Goes both ways
Look at what Trump had to endure
$5 MILLION TO JOE AND HIS EVIL SPAWN EACH CORROBORATED BY THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCH THAT PAID IT HARDLY QUALIFIES AS LIES OR MISINFORMATION. 20 NON PRODUCING SHELL COMPANIES OWNED BY THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY AND FRIENDS ALSO DOES NOT QUALIFY AS LIES OR MISINFORMATION. 5,400 EMAILS SENT BY JOE BIDUMB USING MULTIPLE PSEUDO-NAMES TO HID HIS IDENTITY ALSO DOES NOT QUALIFY AS LIES. JOE BIDUMB RECORDED BRAGGING ABOUT HAVING A UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR FIRED FOR PURSUING CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST ENERGY COMPANY TO GET SEVERAL BILLION IN U.S. AID SURE SOUNDS LIKE A QUID PRO QUO CRIME TO ME. THE CAT IS REALLY OUT OF THE BARN AND THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA KNOW IT. THE MSM CAN NO LONGER COVER UP THIS MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE OF MASSIVE CORRUPTION OF THE ALLEGED U.S.PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS AS WELL.
Ah, the Corrupt News Network doing business as usual.
Or The Corrupt president Guiding business with the corrupt news
They thought they needed to TELL the media to lie? That’s what they’ve been doing all along. It will get much, much worse now that the truth about the Bidens is out there. But lefties will pretend to believe it.
Democrats are okay with the concept of eating their own.
Unless THEY’RE the ones actually being eaten. Then not so much.