NBC News debunks old Hunter Biden non-story to distract from real story of influence peddling
NBC News playing the equivalent of three-card monte.
An NBC News story about a fake dossier espousing Hunter Biden consipracy theories recently trended on Twitter.
I saw it in “trending” and clicked on it, How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge:
One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden’s laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and business in China.
The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake “intelligence firm” called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.
The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen’s profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.
My first reaction was that I had never heard of the 64-page document, which is strange since I follow these things and it supposedly went viral. I also picked up on the detail that this document was a month before the Hunter Biden documents from the laptop which is what we are all focused on.
Deeper down in the story, if you read that far, NBC News made clear that this dossier has nothing to do with the Hunter Biden laptop story, other than both could hurt Joe Biden:
The document and its spread have become part of a wider effort to smear Hunter Biden and weaken Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, which moved from the fringes of the internet to more mainstream conservative news outlets.
An unverified leak of documents — including salacious pictures from what President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and a Delaware Apple repair store owner claimed to be Hunter Biden’s hard drive — were published in the New York Post on Oct. 14. Associates close to Trump, including Giuliani and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, have promised more blockbuster leaks and secrets, which have yet to materialize.
The fake intelligence document, however, preceded the leak by months, and it helped lay the groundwork among right-wing media for what would become a failed October surprise: a viral pile-on of conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden.
Others who perhaps don’t follow the story closely, or who only read the headline, could reasonably conclude that the documents in question were the laptop documents. And that clearly was NBC News’ purpose — distracting people by focusing on a document no one was talking about and which never, as far as I can tell, actually went viral, in order to create the misimpression that the Hunter Biden laptop and Tony Bobulinski stories were disinformation.
This is how dishonest NBC News is, debunking a non-story to distract from a real story of Biden family influence peddling.
In order to avoid scrutinizing the real story, NBC is busy debunking a fake story about Hunter Biden that was shared a grand total of 5,000 times across Facebook and Twitter https://t.co/BPq90UMQws pic.twitter.com/oXFL94bY5c
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 30, 2020
how media/big tech work in tandem:
NBC digs up some random hunter biden conspiracy nobody’s ever heard of, discredits, then twitter trends it to gloss over actual reports because they know a lot of people can’t differentiate pic.twitter.com/76x0OyX5xK— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) October 30, 2020
NBC is trying to dupe you into thinking the Biden pay-to-play scandal has been debunked. It has not.
This NBC tweet is about a random document almost no one has seen. It’s not connected to what Bobulinski is accusing Joe Biden of.
NBC is actively running interference for Biden. https://t.co/AOA34uafV8
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) October 30, 2020
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“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
– William T. Sherman
NBC ‘News’? Since when?
Nuts-full Barrack Crap, this will not do the Bidens any good.
The Democrat Party lost Minnesota today
We might as well blame NBC and the media for that.
https://youtu.be/LaP880a5BNU
Here’s what happened: NBC ‘News’ has heard from some of their audience (meaning, their mothers. Who else pays any attention to that once mediocre network?) something like, “I keep hearing people talk about this Hunty Biden documents or something. What’s that all about?”
Well, they couldn’t tell the truth! That might hurt this cycle’s chosen one (not to mention raising the question, “Why haven’t you told us about this before?”). So they dug up something that they could pretend answered the question, without letting on that there’s something much bigger going on.
It’s a sleazy game, even for NBC.
My centenarian mother likes to refer to her local NBC channel as “our conservative news station.” Given the choice down there, I’m not sure correcting her would be rigorously logical.
Has anybody else seen the video of Hunter Biden reclined with his legs spread eagled while a woman from the right of the frame “stimulates” his … well, you know … with her feet? That was about two minutes into the video. I couldn’t stomach any more of the much longer piece. I’ve been around a while but I have never seen anything quite like that pure porn.
The Bidens are an organized crime syndicate. RICO them!
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NBC is afraid QANON is going to get them.
The Big Tech and media obsession with Qanon explained.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Qanon.jpg
NBC: a reputation is a terrible thing to waste.
Qanon is going to get NBC.
The report itself was shared across Facebook and Twitter around 5,000 times
It’s just so adorable that they consider small potatoes like that to be “viral”.
What? Twitter did censor this story?
Twitter and FB can’t bury the story anymore, so they’ll drown them with a sea of other non-news stories.
Make no mistake, this was coordinated.
This is nothing new. The MSM has been manufacturing propaganda for the Dems, in earnest, for the last 5 years. Their candidate is going down in flames. What do people expect? They knew that poll numbers were not accurate. That is why they pushed the COVID reactions and the civil unrest based on totally manufactured stories. They expected the combination to suppress Trump voters as well as allow them to manufacture a real opportunity to commit vote fraud. It all fell apart. Now, they are beyond desperate. They are in total panic mode.
Then, the October Surprise rears its ugly head. And, the unfortunate thing about it is that the scandal is all true and verifiable. I’m surprised we haven’t seen reporters leaping from building windows, a al Black Tuesday during the Great Depression. Well, there are still four days until the polls close.
They’ve thrown everything at Trump for 4 years. They had nothing left that anyone would believe at this point
Democrats aren’t used to being on the receiving end of October surprises.
The demented, delusional, lying criminal speaks:
Biden responded, “By the way, there’s nothing to any of that, nothing to any of that. It’s all a smear. Every major outfit, every serious investigator has pointed out that this is a smear. This is classic Trump. We have four days left, and all of a sudden, there’s a laptop. And you may recall, there’s also talk about, four months before, there was a similar thing that somebody had, allegedly. There’s overwhelming evidence that — from the intelligence community that the Russians are engaged. I mean, look, this is — my son’s an honorable man. And all the investigations that were done around the issue of what was going on in Ukraine, if you noticed, every one of the major people who worked for Trump, during the impeachment, went under oath, and under oath said, [Joe] Biden did his job. No law was broken. … Hunter Biden broke no laws.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/30/biden-nothing-to-hunter-laptop-story-my-sons-an-honorable-man/#
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!
Get ‘im, Toto.
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NBC News playing the equivalent of three-card monte???
Anything involving Grunter is called the Full Monty!
when in doubt, deflect and distract
This is a favorite tactic of Snopes and other “fact checkers”. They don’t lie, but by carefully choosing how they represent a story they can misleadingly say it’s false.
If a story is basically true, they can hunt for one idiot who went farther than the evidence will bear, and report that version as the story to be verified or debunked.
So instead of “the Wuhan virus escaped from a lab”, for which there’s a reasonable amount of evidence, it becomes “the virus is a Chinese bioengineered weapon”, for which there is none, and which is ridiculous. Or instead of “0bama is deliberately helping Iran”, which is likely, it becomes “0bama is a secret Moslem”, “Jarett is Iranian”, “Kerry is connected to the Mullahs”, all of which are easily proven false.