{"id":2017695,"date":"2023-08-31T03:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-the-media-insisted-on-calling-trump-a-liar-that-standard-must-be-applied-to-bidens-corruption-lies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T03:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:55:53","slug":"if-the-media-insisted-on-calling-trump-a-liar-that-standard-must-be-applied-to-bidens-corruption-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-the-media-insisted-on-calling-trump-a-liar-that-standard-must-be-applied-to-bidens-corruption-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"If media called Trump a liar, they must do the same for Biden&#8217;s corruption lies."},"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\">30<\/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%2Fif-the-media-insisted-on-calling-trump-a-liar-that-standard-must-be-applied-to-bidens-corruption-lies%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=2017695&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>The Media&#8217;s Treatment of Trump \u2064and Biden: A Tale of Lies\u2064 and Hypocrisy<\/h2>\n<p>In August of 2016, The New York Times did something rather unprecedented \u2014 the paper \u2064ran a front-page editorial by columnist Jim \u200bRutenberg\u200b that stopped just short of\u200d openly saying the media should openly oppose Donald Trump, regardless of journalistic\u200d ethics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/08\/business\/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html\">According to Rutenberg<\/a>, journalists who believed Trump\u200c was \u201cracist and \u200cnationalist\u201d\u2062 would have to \u201cthrow out the textbook American journalism has \u2064been using for\u200b the better part of \u200dthe past half-century. \u2026 You would move closer than you\u2019ve ever been to being oppositional.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, Rutenberg was greatly \u2062flattering himself and his journalistic peers by pretending that any vestigial attempts at objectivity in the American media were anything more than farce, \u200band all but the most\u2062 blinkered Americans knew it. Still, the\u2063 shift in tone during the Trump years was palpable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Media&#8217;s Eagerness to \u2064Call Out Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Lies&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps the most visible \u2062sign was \u2062the media\u2019s eagerness to call Trump a liar and to specifically call out his\u200b supposed\u2064 \u201clies,\u201d even to \u2064his face in\u2062 real-time if necessary. The resulting coverage was something to behold. A Washington\u2063 Post media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/lies-the-news-media-is-starting-to-describe-trumps-falsehoods-that-way\/2019\/06\/05\/413cc2a0-8626-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column from\u2063 2019<\/a> took a rhetorical\u200b victory lap\u2062 and rounded up just a few of the then-recent headlines about Trump\u2019s presidency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/30\/politics\/mueller-report-trump-team-lies-falsehoods\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe Mueller report: A catalog of 77 Trump team lies and\u2064 falsehoods.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/president-trump-lies-to-troops-about-pay-raise\/503590142\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump lies to troops about pay raise.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b752121c-127a-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Financial Times<\/a>: \u201cThe real reason Donald Trump lies.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the list goes on.<\/p>\n<h3>The\u200d Hypocrisy of the Media&#8217;s Treatment of Biden<\/h3>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t want to even go down the road of relitigating the veracity of various Trump statements. This has been debated \u2062and cataloged endlessly; Trump has\u2064 lied. But I will say that there\u2019s \u2063good reason why you don\u2019t \u200dthrow around the word liar with such abandon. That\u2019s because ascertaining what\u200c constitutes a \u201clie\u201d \u200boften depends on determining motive or circumstantial \u2064assessments that often reveal as much or more about the biases of the person making the accusation.<\/p>\n<p>And the media was often so hysterical they\u200c didn\u2019t just throw out the journalism rulebook when it came to fairly evaluating Trump \u2014 Pulitzer Prizes for completely discredited Russia collusion accusations are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/22\/for-five-straight-years-the-pulitzer-prizes-have-rewarded-misinformation\/#:~:text=For%20Five%20Straight%20Years%2C%20The%20Pulitzer%20Prizes%20Have%20Rewarded%20Misinformation&#038;text=This%20many%20high%2Dprofile%20failures,like%20a%20mark%20of%20ignominy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretty solid evidence \u2063of their inability to do that<\/a> \u2014 they\u200d threw out the logical one as well.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to \u200bJoe Biden. It\u2019s hard to \u2063think\u2063 of\u2064 a more categorical denial than the one Biden issued in August 2019 about his role in his\u2064 son\u2019s business dealings. &#8220;First of all, I have never discussed with my son, or my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses, period&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This \u200bwas never remotely believable, but now\u2064 the evidence is overwhelming.\u2064 The National Archives recently released 5,400 emails\u2063 from \u2062his time \u2063as vice president, where he \u2063was using pseudonyms to, among other \u2064things, communicate \u200dwith his\u2063 son, Hunter Biden, about his \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-bidens-private-secret-easter-weekend\/\" title=\"Joe Biden's Private Secret Easter Weekend\">questionable foreign business dealings<\/a>. Devon Archer, Hunter\u2019s business partner, has talked extensively and publicly \u2063about Joe Biden being \u2064involved in his son\u2019s lucrative dealings with corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs and business deals tied to China\u2019s repressive communist government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even the Democrat hacks in Congress, such as Dan Goldman whom corporate media called out\u200c for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kevin-tober\/2023\/08\/03\/cbs-calls-out-dan-goldman-lying-about-devon-archer-testimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misrepresenting what\u2064 Archer said about Biden<\/a>, now concede that Joe was playing along with his son to only sell the \u201cillusion of access\u201d rather than a blatant quid pro quo.<\/p>\n<h3>The Media&#8217;s Double Standard<\/h3>\n<p>On the question of motives and \u201cquid pro quo,\u201d the media hypocrisy is absolutely astounding. In his recent interview with \u2063Fox News, Shokin asked a pretty salient question: \u201cThe fact that \u200cJoe \u200cBiden gave away $1 billion\u200d in U.S. money in exchange for my\u200c dismissal, my firing, isn\u2019t that alone a case of corruption?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s\u200c not. U.S. foreign aid is often conditioned on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-the-media-insisted-on-calling-trump-a-liar-that-standard-must-be-applied-to-bidens-corruption-lies\/\" title=\"If media called Trump a liar, they must do the same for Biden's corruption lies.\">countries taking official actions<\/a> that the U.S. government regards as important. That\u2019s especially the case, as\u2062 it was in Ukraine, with rooting out corruption,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/08\/28\/viktor-shokin-fox-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post\u2019s Aaron Blake retorted<\/a> in a column earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019d\u2063 that defense work out for the Trump\u200c White House? I seem to recall that the Democrats didn\u2019t buy that claim, proceeded to allege quid pro quo was occurring, and impeached Trump over it. All while much of the media establishment was cheerleading.<\/p>\n<p>But consider for a moment the irony that, whether or not the issue of foreign aid to Ukraine\u200d was being used as leverage, Trump was asking about an investigation \u2063into Biden family corruption in Ukraine that now appears wholly merited. How do we\u200c reconcile that? It\u2019s all a\u200c matter of disingenuous relativism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMulvaney was right,\u201d \u2062says Blake. \u200d\u201cBut the issue with Trump was whether he was leveraging Ukraine for personal gain \u2014 \u200cand there was more evidence that this was true of\u2064 him than of Biden. Trump wanted\u200c Ukraine to announce it was investigating Hunter Biden \u200dat a time\u2063 when Joe Biden\u200b was Trump\u2019s likeliest 2020 election opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First off, this \u2064isn\u2019t a contest here\u200b \u2014 if Trump was seeking to exploit a corruption investigation \u200bto help him\u2064 politically,\u200c that was enabled by the fact that Joe Biden and his son were indeed corrupt. They were able \u200cto paint Trump\u2019s suggestive words on the call as outrageous in large part because everyone was still committed to this notion that Biden was kept apart from \u2062his \u2062son\u2019s shady business dealings. While that\u200d was always dubious, the charade is quite definitively over.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, what on earth does Blake mean when he says there was \u201cmore evidence that\u200d this was true of him than of Biden\u201d? Since nothing ever\u2064 came to fruition, whatever nefarious\u200b things it is assumed\u2064 Trump was trying to put in motion\u200c on that phone call are premised on a heavy amount of assumption and interpretation. \u200cWith Biden, we now have emails, \u200cbank transfers, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/09\/hunter-biden-linked-foreign-haul-at-20m-with-russia-ukraine-kazak-transfers-comer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photos of the vice president \u2063apparently dining with Hunter\u2019s foreign partners<\/a>, and \u2064credible testimony from those in the know, all pointing to the fact he was enabling and an active participant in his son\u2019s corrupt deals.<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, the default assumption for Trump is corrupt \u200cmotives, where Biden gets\u2064 the benefit of the doubt to an absurd degree. \u200cThe idea\u200d that it was necessary to call Trump a liar in\u2062 no way precludes doing the same to Biden who \u2063is a world-class liar in\u200d his\u200c own right. However, \u2063if the press were to take the most obvious reading of Biden\u2019s \u200dmotives, they would have to conclude that \u2064the man is a corrupt and brazen liar. They would\u2064 have to, according to \u200dthe \u2064new rulebook, \u201cmove \u2064closer to being oppositional.\u201d But that\u2019s not going to happen because political reporters are not a particularly \u2062consistent or principled bunch.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Troubling History of Lies<\/h3>\n<p>Of course, the problem with Biden\u2019s lying goes well beyond the issues of foreign corruption; the issue\u2063 of character and personal\u2062 flaws was one that was frequently hung around Trump\u2019s \u200cneck. Again, I fail to see how\u200d Biden faces a different\u2063 standard. His issues with lying \u2063might be the worst of any politician \u200bof the modern era.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s blatantly lied about so many things it\u2019s\u200b difficult to keep track, but it\u2019s not just the quantity \u2014 it\u2019s the abhorrent \u2064specifics of some of these lies. After he lost\u200d his wife and young daughter in a tragic car wreck, he went around saying that \u200bthe \u200dguy driving the truck that \u200bhit them \u201cdrank his\u200c lunch.\u201d Not only \u2062was the guy sober, but he did everything\u2062 he could to \u200badminister aid at the scene and\u2063 was haunted by the accident for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-repeats-shifting-claim-civil-rights-activism-1960s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming he was involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-snaps-at-civil-rights-leaders-in-leaked-call\/\" title=\"Biden Snaps at Civil Rights Leaders in Leaked Call\">civil rights movement<\/a><\/a> when he was not \u2014 and earlier this week,\u2063 he made\u2064 the absurd claim he \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1696331311827370031?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">literally, not figuratively<\/a>\u201d talked former South Carolina Sen. Strom\u2063 Thurmond into voting for the Civil Rights Act. Biden didn\u2019t get elected to the Senate \u2062until eight years\u2064 after\u2062 the Civil\u2063 Rights Act passed, and in any event, Thurmond voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve barely <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/08\/heres-the-full-list-of-every-lie-joe-biden-has-told-as-president-part-three\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scratched the surface of the lies here<\/a>. So how exactly do the media cover an inveterate pathological liar who will say anything to anyone \u2014\u2064 including exploiting \u2062the tragic deaths of\u200d his wife, 13-month-old child, and son, as well as pandering to perceived racists \u2014 that he thinks will further his political career?<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, it\u2019s hard to tell whether voters have decided Biden\u2019s lies don\u2019t matter when so many people are working to \u2064obscure them. But heading into 2024, it does provide\u2062 a simple litmus test for who to take\u2063 seriously. Shouting \u201cWhat about\u2064 Trump?\u201d is not \u2063an acceptable way to avoid acknowledging the obvious extent of Biden\u2019s corruption and his rank dishonesty about it. And anyone who is\u200c unwilling to plainly\u2062 state that Biden\u2019s a particularly troubling liar\u200d is someone who is putting\u200d politics over facts, and they cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2016, The New York Times took an unusual step by publishing a front-page editorial by columnist Jim Rutenberg. It almost advocated for the media to openly oppose Donald Trump, disregarding journalistic ethics. 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