{"id":113760,"date":"2021-01-29T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113760"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:57:34","slug":"nbc-news-covers-the-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-news-covers-the-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News Covers the Biden Administration\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbc-news-covers-the-biden-administration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-27-at-12.04.55-PM-768x528-1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Piggybacking on a report from the left-wing rag <em>Mother Jones<\/em> on Wednesday, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/foundation-linked-biden-pick-cybersecurity-gave-500-000-pro-israel-n1255931\">revealed<\/a> the generous charitable donations to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee from a family foundation linked to one of President Joe Biden\u2019s new deputy national security advisers, Anne Neuberger.<\/p>\n<p>The donations, NBC News investigative reporter Ken Dilanian wrote, risked &#8220;creating the possible appearance of bias in favor of Israel by a top American official.&#8221; In case the implication wasn\u2019t clear, Dilanian added that Israel &#8220;operates in its own interest,&#8221; not that of the United States, and asserted incorrectly that AIPAC &#8220;represents the interests of the Israeli government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Media<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nbc-news-covers-the-biden-administration\/\"><strong>NBC News Covers the Biden Administration\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nbc-retracts-piece-critical-of-biden-officials-aipac-donations\/\"><strong>NBC&#8217;s Dilanian Stands By Story Network Retracted Amid Accusations of Anti-Semitism<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/meet-the-woman-behind-salons-sloppy-tom-cotton-piece\/\"><strong>Meet the Woman Behind Salon&#8217;s Sloppy Tom Cotton Piece<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>NBC News retracted the story shortly after its publication, offering some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/amp\/ncna1255848\">weasel words<\/a> to the effect that it did not meet their basement-level &#8220;reporting standards.&#8221; The critics of Neuberger\u2019s generosity should have been forced to sully her on the record rather than take pot shots behind a veil of anonymity, the network said.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting the new national security officials who have escaped scrutiny from the eagle-eyed reporters at NBC News. Take Neuberger\u2019s colleague Maher Bitar, now the top intelligence official on the National Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Bitar\u2019s activism for the Palestinian cause is longstanding. As a college student, he was a leader of Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsjp.org\/about\">dedicated to fighting<\/a> against &#8220;Zionism&#8221; and &#8220;all other institutions that continue to oppress marginalized folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organization is a leading proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that seeks the destruction of Israel through economic isolation. In case there was any confusion about where Bitar stands, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-taps-anti-israel-bds-activist-for-top-white-house-intel-job\/amp\/\">photographed<\/a> as a college student dancing with a raised fist in front of a banner that reads, &#8220;Divest From Israel Apartheid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian\u2019s piece gave oxygen to those wringing their hands over the &#8220;appearance problem&#8221; created by Neuberger\u2019s charity.<\/p>\n<p>Precisely zero mainstream media outlets have raised questions about whether Bitar\u2019s explicit embrace of a movement that seeks the destruction of the Jewish state might risk creating the &#8220;possible appearance of bias in favor of&#8221; a <em>Judenrein<\/em> Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Such egregious double standards explain the precipitous loss of trust in the news media, which during the Trump era dropped the last remaining pretense of objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Biden administration, the National Security Council decried attacks on Bitar and Neuberger alike, saying that there is &#8220;no justification for false and ad hominem attacks based on ethnic, racial, or religious identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the two are not equivalent. Neuberger\u2019s family foundation donated to a pro-Israel group whose views are consistent with longstanding U.S. policy in the region\u2014and the views of the president. Bitar has aligned himself with a fringe political cause that undercuts those views and seeks the destruction of a U.S. ally. Her generosity, unlike his radicalism, should raise no concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Dilanian, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nbc-retracts-piece-critical-of-biden-officials-aipac-donations\/amp\/\">stands by his reporting<\/a>. Calling NBC\u2019s bluff, he told our Matthew Foldi that the story went through the &#8220;normal editing and vetting process, which includes review by our legal and standards departments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We await his expos\u00e9 on Bitar.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nbc-news-covers-the-biden-administration\/\">NBC News Covers the Biden Administration\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piggybacking on a report from the left-wing rag Mother Jones on Wednesday, NBC News revealed the generous charitable donations to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee from a family foundation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892249,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4106,3620,4134,4133],"class_list":["post-113760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-administration","tag-biden","tag-covers","tag-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}