{"id":1423623,"date":"2022-04-07T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423623"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:44:49","slug":"college-freshman-corners-liberal-journalist-at-q-and-a-for-dismissing-hunter-biden-laptop-in-viral-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-freshman-corners-liberal-journalist-at-q-and-a-for-dismissing-hunter-biden-laptop-in-viral-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"College Freshman Corners Liberal Journalist At Q And A For Dismissing Hunter Biden Laptop In Viral Exchange"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fcollege-freshman-corners-liberal-journalist-at-q-and-a-for-dismissing-hunter-biden-laptop-in-viral-exchange%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=1423623&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1356375284.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Left-leaning journalist Anne Applebaum was questioned on Wednesday about her dismissal of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop before the 2020 presidential election, since contents of the laptop have now been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-rest-of-the-country-is-starting-to-open-their-eyes-major-outlets-confirm-contents-of-hunters-laptop\">confirmed<\/a> by major outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>At a \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference at the\u00a0University of Chicago, college freshman Daniel Schmidt pressed Applebaum about her past writing on the president\u2019s son\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who live outside the Fox News bubble and intend to remain there do not, of course, need to learn any of this stuff,\u201d Applebaum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/10\/smears-against-biden-dont-need-make-any-sense\/616824\/\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in October 2020, Schmidt read to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA poll, later after that, found that if voters knew about the content of the laptop, 16% of Joe Biden voters would have acted differently,\u201d the school newspaper editor continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as \u2018Russian disinformation,\u2019 and what can we learn from that in ensuring that what we label as \u2018disinformation\u2019 is truly disinformation, and not reality?\u201d he pressed Applebaum.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic writer again dismissed the laptop story, this time claiming the Biden family\u2019s business dealings are uninteresting and irrelevant to a presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy problem with Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop is, I think, totally irrelevant. I mean, it\u2019s not whether it\u2019s \u2018disinformation\u2019 \u2026 I don\u2019t think Hunter Biden\u2019s business relationships have anything to do with who should be President of the United States,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cSo, I don\u2019t find it to be interesting. That would be my problem with it, that being a major news story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH The Atlantic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anneapplebaum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@anneapplebaum<\/a> refuse to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDSchmidt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealDSchmidt<\/a>&#8216;s\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 question about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop during <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UChicago<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1OgXBBiiI0\">pic.twitter.com\/1OgXBBiiI0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Chicago Thinker (@ThinkerChicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThinkerChicago\/status\/1511839490356228098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The clip went viral, garnering over 1.5 million views in a matter of hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Schmidt responded to the exchange on his Twitter account. \u201c[Anne Applebaum]<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, who we are supposed to believe is some esteemed and highly intelligent journalist, cannot even answer a basic question posed by me, a college freshman,\u201d he wrote, adding that moderator David Axelrod <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">proceeded \u201cto quickly end the session.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anneapplebaum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnneApplebaum<\/a>, who we are supposed to believe is some esteemed and highly intelligent journalist, cannot even answer a basic question posed by me, a college freshman. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DavidAxelrod<\/a> proceeds to quickly end the session. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jkhb2k4pSe\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jkhb2k4pSe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Schmidt (@RealDSchmidt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDSchmidt\/status\/1511860954472099848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In late March, the Washington Post joined the Times \u201cin verifying some of the contents pulled off of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden and abandoned at a Delaware computer store in 2019,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-rest-of-the-country-is-starting-to-open-their-eyes-major-outlets-confirm-contents-of-hunters-laptop\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. Notably, the story, first broken by the New York Post ahead of the 2020 presidential election, was widely dismissed by the mainstream media as fake news and even censored on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The confirmations by the major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined\/\">news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\">publications<\/a> come weeks apart and roughly 18 months after the New York Post broke stories on Biden\u2019s overseas business dealings, citing information from the laptop. The NY Post\u2019s stories, published weeks before the 2020 election, were censored on social media and downplayed as likely products of Russian propaganda. At the time, neither Biden nor his father, now the President of the United States, claimed that the laptop or its contents were fake.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-is-heating-up-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">The Criminal Investigation Into Hunter Biden Is Heating Up: Here\u2019s What You Need To\u00a0Know<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-stands-by-claim-that-hunter-biden-did-not-profit-off-chinese-business-deals-docs-show-his-companies-made-millions\">White House \u2018Stands By\u2019 Claim That Hunter Biden Did Not Profit Off Chinese Business Deals. Docs Show His Companies Made\u00a0Millions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-rest-of-the-country-is-starting-to-open-their-eyes-major-outlets-confirm-contents-of-hunters-laptop\">\u2018The Rest Of The Country Is Starting To Open Their Eyes\u2019: Major Outlets Confirm Contents Of Hunter\u2019s\u00a0Laptop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning journalist Anne Applebaum was questioned on Wednesday about her dismissal of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop before the 2020 presidential election, since contents of the laptop have now been confirmed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"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-1423623","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\/1423623","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423623\/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=1423623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}