{"id":1979859,"date":"2023-07-21T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-loved-whistleblowers-until-they-were-blowing-the-whistle-on-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T18:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:27:05","slug":"the-media-loved-whistleblowers-until-they-were-blowing-the-whistle-on-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-loved-whistleblowers-until-they-were-blowing-the-whistle-on-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Media adored whistleblowers, until they exposed Joe Biden."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fthe-media-loved-whistleblowers-until-they-were-blowing-the-whistle-on-joe-biden%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=1979859&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>\n<h2>The Media&#8217;s Changing \u200dAttitude Towards Whistleblowers<\/h2>\n<p>The media \u2062celebrated and defended whistleblowers in former president \u2062Donald \u2062Trump&#8217;s administration. Not so much these days.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When two veteran\u2064 IRS investigators testified\u200b before\u200b Congress on Wednesday\u2064 that the Justice Department interfered in their probe of the president&#8217;s son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-largely-ignore-damning-report-about-ny-nursing-home-deaths\/\" title=\"Legacy Media Largely Ignore Damning Report About NY Nursing Home Deaths\">major news networks<\/a> had other places to be.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN, MSNBC skip live \u2062coverage of IRS whistleblower \u200dhearing on explosive Hunter Biden probe claims <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c4TTZCyyZz\">https:\/\/t.co\/c4TTZCyyZz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1681850188262961152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ABC completely avoids on-air \u200dcoverage of IRS whistleblowers\u2063 in explosive \u2062hearing on Hunter Biden probe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gXbVs79T5t\">https:\/\/t.co\/gXbVs79T5t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1682138421639168001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July\u200d 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On &#8220;Mornings with Maria Bartiromo,&#8221; the host\u2063 mentioned\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theMRC<\/a> \u200d study on how the\u200d networks have done nothing on Biden bribery allegations. She also slammed how ABC\u200b &#8220;News&#8221; simply skipped the IRS whistleblower hearing because it doesn&#8217;t \u200bfit their narrative.\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KJF4qO84PW\">pic.twitter.com\/KJF4qO84PW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Graham \u200d(@TimJGraham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimJGraham\/status\/1682354268236292097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What coverage\u2062 mainstream media gave the hearing was often dismissive of the whistleblowers\u2014or critical of \u2062the \u200bRepublicans once again <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/republican-jerks-need-to-leave-vulnerable-addict-hunter-biden-alone-media-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pouncing<\/a> on\u200b the president&#8217;s beleaguered son.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MSNBC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeNBC<\/a> slams &#8220;lies&#8221; from the anti-DoJ\/IRS\/FBI &#8220;so-called&#8221; whistleblowers: &#8220;They\u2019re just\u200c throwing things\u200d at the wall because they\u2019re \u2062so\u2062 desperate. They don\u2019t \u2064want Americans to hear that a judge\u200c called Donald Trump a rapist &#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6IuxaTkHR\">pic.twitter.com\/L6IuxaTkHR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1682005902025535488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nicolle Wallace accuses the FBI whistleblowers of &#8220;insubordination.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gGkuNA5RcJ\">pic.twitter.com\/gGkuNA5RcJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1659311338038992899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May \u200d18,\u200c 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NBC News\u2019s Ali Vitali Reports on \u2018IRS So-Called Whistleblowers\u2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AjoPFrQ4vlo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-irs-justice-department-congress-republicans-32d9f33fb0d05c483d76926504d45bef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>: \u2064&#8221;House Republicans raised\u2062 unsubstantiated allegations Wednesday\u2062 against President Joe Biden over his family\u2019s finances as \u2063they summoned\u2064 IRS whistleblowers to testify publicly \u200dfor the first time about claims the Justice Department improperly interfered with a\u200c tax investigation into\u2063 Biden\u2019s \u200dson Hunter. &#8230; Still, House Republicans\u200c are deepening their own investigation, making broad claims of corruption and wrongdoing by the Bidens, which they acknowledge \u200bhave not been proven to\u200c be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/19\/politics\/oversight-committee-hearing-irs-whistleblowers\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN:<\/a> &#8220;Throughout the six-hour hearing, Democrats poked holes in some \u200cof the whistleblowers\u2019 claims and repeatedly\u2062 noted that \u200cthe Hunter Biden probe began under then-President Donald Trump and\u200c was overseen by a\u2062 Trump-appointed \u2062prosecutor. \u2063They also accused Republicans of hypocritically \u2063focusing\u200c on the Biden\u2062 family\u2019s finances while\u2064 ignoring possible conflicts tied to Trump\u2019s\u2064 business empire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/07\/19\/marjorie-taylor-greene-hunter-biden-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington \u2062Post<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s Explicit Visuals at Hunter Biden Hearing Draw Rebuke&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>Rep.\u2062 Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday showed what \u2063appeared to be sexually\u2063 explicit images of Hunter Biden, President Biden\u2019s son, during a hearing of the House \u200dOversight and Accountability Committee, drawing immediate rebukes from \u2063Democratic members of the panel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flashback: <\/strong>It was just a few years ago that the media were hailing whistleblowers in the federal\u2064 government as brave truth tellers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSNBC Host Brian Williams Breathlessly Reports on Trump Whistleblower\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJh9Pz9D8Ac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lt. Col. Vindman invoked \u200bhis father in\u200d telling the nation why he \u2064decided to testify in Trump impeachment inquiry: &#8220;Do not worry. I will be fine for telling the truth.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PNxse9wSy7\">pic.twitter.com\/PNxse9wSy7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1225891079129485312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;I Am Part of the Resistance Inside \u200cthe Trump Administration&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times is \u200btaking the rare step of publishing an anonymous\u200d Op-Ed essay. We \u2064have done so at\u200c the request \u2062of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by\u2062 its disclosure. We believe publishing this\u2063 essay \u200canonymously is the only way to deliver an \u200bimportant perspective \u2062to our readers. We invite you to submit a\u200c question about the essay or our vetting process here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/28\/politics\/anonymous-new-york-times-oped-writer\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;Author of 2018 \u2018Anonymous\u2019 Op-Ed Critical of Trump Revealed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u200d anonymous senior Trump \u2064administration official who wrote a 2018 New York \u2062Times op-ed and a subsequent book \u2063critical of President\u2063 Donald Trump is Miles Taylor, he\u200b revealed \u2064in a \u2062statement to CNN on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Taylor, who \u200dwas chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, wrote a lengthy statement explaining why he penned the 2018 op-ed declaring he \u200bwas \u2063part of the &#8220;resistance&#8221; inside\u200b the Trump administration working to thwart Trump\u2019s worst inclinations. \u200cTaylor said that he wanted to force Trump to respond to the charges he was leveling without the ability to attack \u2062the messenger specifically. Trump \u200ccalled \u200cthe op-ed treasonous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Taylor\u200b joined CNN as a contributor in \u200dSeptember 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/29\/us\/politics\/who-is-alexander-vindman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Meet Alexander Vindman, the\u200d Colonel\u200b Who Testified\u2064 on Trump\u2019s Phone Call&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>He fled Ukraine at age 3 and became a soldier, scholar and official\u2063 at the White House. That\u2019s where, he told impeachment investigators, he witnessed alarming behavior by \u2062President Trump. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And on Tuesday, Colonel Vindman\u2019s past and present converged as he became a star\u2062 witness in the impeachment inquiry into President\u200b Trump, which is centered on the president\u2019s dealings with the colonel\u2019s native\u200b Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ensconced in \u200dthe secure hearing rooms of the House Intelligence Committee \u200con \u200bCapitol Hill in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-the-media-used-to-love-government-whistleblowers\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Media Once Adored Government Whistleblowers\">midnight-blue dress uniform<\/a>, a bevy of ribbons pinned\u200c to his chest, Colonel Vindman \u200ctestified \u200bprivately from morning until night. He recounted for House\u200d investigators how he was so\u200d alarmed by\u2062 the president\u2019s request to \u200benlist Ukraine to smear his political rivals, \u200band similar efforts\u2064 by\u200c Mr. Trump\u2019s allies, that he reported them to his superiors\u2014twice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His heritage gave Colonel Vindman, who is fluent\u200c in\u200b both Ukrainian and Russian, unique insight into Mr. Trump\u2019s pressure campaign; on \u2064numerous \u2063occasions, Ukrainian officials sought \u200dhim \u200dout \u2062for advice about how to deal \u2063with Mr. Giuliani.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Colonel\u2064 Vindman\u2019s testimony was sprinkled with references to \u2063duty, honor and patriotism\u2014but also his life as an immigrant and a refugee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/i-was-a-whistleblower-the-trump-whistleblower-is-about-to-go-through-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;I Was a Whistleblower. The \u2064Trump Whistleblower Is About to Go \u200dThrough Hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>In my two decades of helping federal\u2063 whistleblowers, I have never seen a professional\u200b and constitutional crisis of this \u2064magnitude. \u200bBut now a whistleblower has effectively completed the task Special Counsel Robert Mueller failed to do: focus the public debate on the president. The American people now understand the question before the \u2062Republic, even if they have not provided the answer, yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Same energy: <\/strong>On Thursday, Republicans released evidence in\u2064 another of their investigations of alleged Biden family corruption. But the FBI report detailing \u2062claims \u200cof a bribery scheme involving Joe and \u2062Hunter \u200dBiden failed to meet the media&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/15\/opinion\/steele-dossier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suddenly<\/a> lofty standards for scandalous intel about a president.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the entirety \u200bof CNN &#038; MSNBC&#8217;s coverage of new, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-is-an-emblem-of-institutional-decline\/\" title=\"Adam Schiff Is An Emblem Of Institutional Decline\">hard evidence implicating<\/a> the\u2063 president in a\u2062 criminal bribery\u2063 scheme <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White \u200cHouse \u2063sharply criticized Republicans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-loved-whistleblowers-until-they-were-blowing-the-whistle-on-joe-biden\/\" title=\"Media adored whistleblowers, until they exposed Joe Biden.\">pushing long-debunked claims<\/a>.&#8221;\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6bNbb6ZbO\">pic.twitter.com\/x6bNbb6ZbO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1682355358193287168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21,\u2064 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fbi-furious-grassley-released-document-unverified-claims-joe-hunter-biden-2023-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Business Insider<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;The \u2064FBI is Furious Chuck Grassley\u200b Released an\u2062 Internal Document That Makes Unverified \u2063Claims \u200dAbout Hunter And Joe Biden Accepting Bribes&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media&#8217;s support for whistleblowers in Trump&#8217;s era has waned. 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