{"id":1416554,"date":"2022-04-03T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416554"},"modified":"2022-04-03T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:45:44","slug":"bill-maher-says-left-wing-media-buried-hunter-biden-laptop-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-says-left-wing-media-buried-hunter-biden-laptop-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Says \u201cLeft-Wing Media Buried\u201d Hunter Biden Laptop Story"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbill-maher-says-left-wing-media-buried-hunter-biden-laptop-story%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=1416554&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Political comic Bill Maher mocked how several major news outlets have only just come around to reporting on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a>, saying the lack of coverage is \u201cwhy people don\u2019t trust the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher said left-leaning media ignored the laptop because it wasn\u2019t \u201cpart of their narrative\u201d when The Post published its first, exclusive report on the topic in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like the left-wing media has buried the story because it wasn\u2019t part of their narrative and that\u2019s why people don\u2019t trust the media,\u201d Maher said on Friday\u2019s episode of \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after the New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/hunter-biden-paid-off-tax-bill-in-2021-but-investigation-continued-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">verified the laptop just last month<\/a>. The initial coverage had detailed how Hunter leveraged the political clout of his father Joe Biden to make money overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The exclusive Post report was published less than a month before Biden\u2019s victory in the 2020 presidential election, but led to a ban of the story on social media platforms and several platforms questioning the validity of the story.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/bill-maher-469.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>A picture from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maher also lumped The Post into a partisan view of media outlets, referring to it as \u201ca Republican paper\u201d as he noted how long it took other outlets to acknowledge the laptop. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New York Post got ahold of what was in the computer, and um, because the New York Post is a Republican paper and the New York Times and Washington Post are the Democrat paper. That\u2019s where were are again kind of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the Republican paper, Twitter canceled their account. Can\u2019t even report on this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now two years later, the New York Times and the Washington Post have come around to say \u2018okay there was something there.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political comic Bill Maher mocked how several major news outlets have only just come around to reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, saying the lack of coverage is \u201cwhy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"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-1416554","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\/1416554","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416554\/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=1416554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}