{"id":1399309,"date":"2022-03-24T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399309"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T23:45:25","slug":"ann-coulter-protecting-biden-is-a-full-time-job-for-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ann-coulter-protecting-biden-is-a-full-time-job-for-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter: Protecting Biden Is a Full-Time Job for the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fann-coulter-protecting-biden-is-a-full-time-job-for-the-new-york-times%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=1399309&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 class=\"subheading\">This is an odd\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/project-veritas-ashley-biden-diary.html\">line<\/a>\u00a0to read in the <em>New York Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>In \u201ca still-emerging story\u201d (exciting, no?), Project Veritas \u201cworked to expose personal information about the Biden family at a crucial stage of the 2020 campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Isn\u2019t that what journalists are supposed to do?<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding! As we saw with Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, the job of journalists is to suppress negative information about Democrats. Instead of reporting news \u201cwithout fear or favor\u201d \u2014 <em>Times<\/em> founder Adolph S. Ochs, 1896 \u2014 the U.S. media now function as the Praetorian Guard for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you\u2019d think the <em>Times<\/em> would be embarrassed to attack others for doing the reporting they won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The story was about how Project Veritas got its hands on the diary of the president\u2019s daughter, Ashley Biden. (She\u2019s the good child by virtue of being less of a drug fiend than Hunter.) It was titled: \u201cAshley Biden\u2019s Diary Was Shown at Trump Fund-Raiser. Weeks Later, Project Veritas Called Her.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5298942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undercover journalist James O\u2019Keefe holds a news conference at the National Press Club on September 1, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> no longer reports news about the president: It berates other journalists for reporting news about the president.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the <em>Times<\/em> breathlessly reveals:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cThe diary\u2019s highly personal contents, if publicly disclosed, could prove an embarrassment or a distraction to her father at a critical moment in the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>THAT\u2019S NOT JOURNALISM! THAT\u2019S HURTING A DEMOCRAT! IT\u2019S LIKE ANTI-JOURNALISM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201c[The Project Veritas] caller was seeking to trick Ms. Biden into confirming the authenticity of the diary \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>So? Has the Times heard of Woodward and Bernstein? \u201c60 Minutes\u201d? Journalism?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cThe caller did not identify himself as being affiliated with Project Veritas, according to accounts from two people with knowledge of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I like the \u201caccording to accounts from two people \u2026\u201d \u2014 as if the Times is describing something really sinister, as opposed to what it was: Project Veritas trying to get Ashley Biden to tell the truth to a stranger.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The greatest journalists ever to walk the Earth (so I hear), Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, repeatedly hid their identities from sources, as described in their book, \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men.\u201d Bernstein even called Nixon\u2019s chief \u201cPlumber,\u201d Gordon Liddy, pretending to be dirty trickster Don Segretti. They also used insiders at phone and credit card companies to obtain private phone and travel records. Woodward approached grand jurors to try to get them to break the law by revealing evidence they\u2019d heard.<\/p>\n<p><em>PULITZER PRIZE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times Book Review: \u201ctwo young reporters left by default to play the hero.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20365931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20365931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1230693745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden (left) hugs First Lady Jill Biden (left), his daughter Ashley Biden (center), and his son Hunter Biden (right) after being sworn in as president, on January 20, 2021. (Patrick Semansky\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To round out its indignation, the <em>Times<\/em> provided this bad-ass quote from the federal prosecutors investigating Project Veritas \u2014 oh yes, I forgot to mention:\u00a0<em>Federal prosecutors are investigating Project Veritas<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 \u201c[T]here is no First Amendment protection for the theft and interstate transport of stolen property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project Veritas didn\u2019t steal anything. Maybe nobody did. Ashley left her diary behind in a house she\u2019d been renting while in rehab, and a Trump supporter found it. That person later brought it to a Republican fundraiser, then offered to sell it to Project Veritas.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s say the girl who found the diary in Ashley\u2019s rental \u201cstole\u201d the diary. Has the <em>Times<\/em> ever published anything obtained illegally?<\/p>\n<p>QUIZ: What is the most important event in world history?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: The Pentagon Papers!<\/p>\n<p>What was the name of that case, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK TIMES v. UNITED STATES.<\/p>\n<p>The hero of the Pentagon Papers, according to innumerable books, movies, TV specials, documentaries, poems and folk songs, was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/ellsberg\/indictment.html\">Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>\u00a0because he stole a highly classified government study of the Vietnam War and gave it to the media.<\/p>\n<p>No skin off my back: The study revealed the mendacity of Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy and (especially) Lyndon B. Johnson in lying to the American public while escalating the war in Vietnam. In fact, I wish all you Ukraine hawks would read the Pentagon Papers right now. Lots of parallels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20366057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20366057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP7107010121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1172\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New York Times resumed publication of its series of articles based on the secret Pentagon papers in its July 1, 1971, edition, after it was given the green light by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo\/Jim Wells)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But after hearing for my entire life Homeric epics to the <em>Times<\/em> for publishing the Pentagon Papers, it\u2019s a little odd to have the protagonists of that story bashing a journalist merely for attempting to authenticate a document that may have been stolen by someone else.<\/p>\n<p><em>That was about lying at the highest level of government! How can you compare Vietnam to the idle ramblings of a reformed drug addict daughter of the president?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think Ashley\u2019s diary is far more interesting, especially her showers with dad that she says were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/greatgameindia.com\/ashley-biden-diary\/\">probably not appropriate<\/a>.\u201d The Pentagon Papers drag a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody remember when a mundane political conversation among Republicans was illegally recorded, passed to a Democrat, and then printed in the <em>Times<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Back in the \u201990s, when House Speaker Newt Gingrich was the media\u2019s most loathed biped, a completely random Florida couple (Democratic activists) recorded a private phone call between the then-speaker and his leadership team. The Republicans were discussing what they were and weren\u2019t allowed to say about Gingrich\u2019s impending settlement with the House Ethics Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Asleep yet? Wait until you hear the charges.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of the <em>Times<\/em> \u2014 which wasn\u2019t\u00a0<em>trying<\/em>\u00a0to make the charges against Newt sound boring \u2014 he stood accused of \u201cgiving untrue information to the Ethics Committee [and of] failing to get proper legal advice about the way he used money from tax-exempt foundations for a college course and televised town meetings with political overtones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A college course with \u201cpolitical overtones\u201d??? THE DEPRAVITY OF THE MAN!<\/p>\n<p>But the point is: A perfectly appropriate conversation about the settlement of a nonsense ethics charge was recorded in flagrant violation of the federal wiretapping statute by Democratic activists.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida couple, Alice and John Martin, just happened to be driving around, using a police scanner to capture private telephone calls near where Rep. John Boehner, chairman of the Republican Conference, on vacation in Florida, also just happened to be driving, while having one of those private telephone calls with other top House Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh my gosh! I think that\u2019s Newt\u2019s voice! Quick, get out the recording equipment, Alice! Yes, it\u2019s illegal, but let\u2019s do it for \u201chistory\u201d!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alice, who apparently had never heard of \u201ctelevision\u201d or \u201cradio,\u201d but had a high-tech scanner and recording equipment in her car, later explained: \u201cI was so excited to think I had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/01\/14\/us\/2-floridians-talk-of-how-they-taped-the-speaker.html\">actually heard a real politician\u2019s voice<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was another fantastic stroke of luck: The Martins happened to have a tape recorder in their car. They also happened to be flying to Washington, D.C., a few days later, where they personally handed the tape to Gingrich\u2019s main antagonist, Rep. Jim McDermott. He made copies of the illegally obtained tape recording and gave them to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Guess who published excerpts of the illicit recording? Yes! The <em>New York Times<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>There were no early morning FBI raids on the <em>Times<\/em>, the editors thrown in handcuffs, and their phones and computers confiscated \u2014 all of which has happened to Project Veritas\u2019 James O\u2019Keefe and his investigators. Nor did the <em>Times<\/em> seem troubled in the least by the blatantly illegal methods the Democratic activists had used to obtain the tape.<\/p>\n<p>One year later, the Martins each were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1997\/04\/26\/couple-fined-over-gingrich-call\/197c1dc0-798e-43fc-a2f1-20ec2865688e\/\">fined $500<\/a>, and that was the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals seem to have no concern that the GOP will ever discover the phrase \u201cturnabout is fair play.\u201d From where I sit, I\u2019m sorry to say, they may be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an odd\u00a0line\u00a0to read in the New York Times: In \u201ca still-emerging story\u201d (exciting, no?), Project Veritas \u201cworked to expose personal information about the Biden family at a crucial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399309","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}