The bombshell @nypost story about Joe & Hunter Biden has caused some bluechecks to suddenly worry about pushing a story that may not be true.
Where was that sentiment during the Russian collusion hoax?
Your latest class of the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame. #HypocrisyHOF
Perhaps the richest about-face comes from @jonathanchait. The same guy who suggested, with a straight face, that Trump has been a Russian asset since the 1980s & endlessly pushed the Steele dossier is worried that the Post’s story is a Russian hack. True #HypocrisyHOF material.
Right behind him in lack of self awareness is @kylegriffin1.
He didn’t want anyone sharing the link to the Post story, but he was happy to share @RepAdamSchiff’s conspiracy about Russian collusion even post-Mueller report.
And that wasn’t all for @kylegriffin1. He was fine to trust Michael Avenatti (remember him?) about allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. (Link included in the post, mind you).
But the Post story? Forget it.
It shouldn’t surprise you to see the committed Russia truther and former Harry Reid (an expert in avoiding the truth, if there ever were one) staffer @AJentleson on here.
Promoting the Post story? Russian propaganda helper.
Love letters to the Steele dossier? Committed patriot.
And it wasn’t just the Steele dossier as a whole.
Remember the infamous “pee tape” allegation? Well, that Russian propaganda was good enough for @JuddLegum.
But the Post story is a five alarm fire. #HypocrisyHOF
Speaking of those who bought the pee tape allegations but treat the Post story like its Voldemort, here’s @KevinMKruse.
Also, does this count as “mansplaining” or is that only if a Republican rebukes a woman? Asking for a friend.
Last but certainly far from least is @danielsgoldman, who managed to reference both the pee tape and the Cohen tape in the same tweet.
Perhaps you “should’ve done more diligence” before “peddling” that story, Daniel?
It’s a pleasant thought to hope that, all of a sudden, the scales have fallen from these gentlemen’s eyes and they realize that we should all be more dubious of reporting.
But it seems more likely that, for once, the dubious allegations have hurt their team, so they’re upset.
Also congrats to @JRubinBlogger for her first non-entry in a Hypocrisy Hall of Fame thread.
Honorable mention goes to @neeratanden, whose impulse to censor her political opponents I find zero percent surprising.
OF COURSE @brhodes waited until after the threading hour to post this awful bad take.
It’s become fashionable to criticize the US response to coronavirus. Perhaps that’s warranted. But cases are spiking across Europe and it’s gone unremarked across much of the media.
I ran the numbers. It’s grim, particularly compared to new US cases.
France
New cases: 29,641
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 145,108
Actual US cases: 55,291
There’s still apples to oranges a bit, here, but for context, that would be about double the highest single-day case total in the US so far.
United Kingdom
It isn’t just France, either. This is all over Europe.
New cases: 17,502
Population: 67 million
Cases adjusted for US pop: 85,681
Actual US cases: 55,291
Much like Antifa in the Democratic telling, libertarians are an idea, a loose collection of ne’er-do-wells, marching under the same banner, burning cities in their wake.
Every time a man between the ages of 18 and 22 waxes poetic about the power of the inv*sible h*nd, a new libertarian hatches.
By now you’ve heard that @SteveScully’s allegation of being hacked was a lie.
I thought that, surely, there wouldn’t be a need for a thread on this, because no one could have possibly believed his original claim, but...
Nope. We had bad takes.
Starting off, we have the inimitable @joelockhart who thinks you are - I kid you not - “a damn liar” for so much as QUESTIONING Scully’s allegation that he was hacked.
I thought it would only be Joe out on gullible ledge on this one.
It’s a day that ends in y, which means there’s a new component of “Russian collusion” that has fallen apart.
Today’s is that Cambridge Analytica was the smoking gun, which was torn to shreds by a 3-year UK investigation.
I think some apologies are in order👇
This story starts, as so many Russian Collusion hoaxes do, with @HillaryClinton. As part of her efforts to pin her electoral defeat on anyone else, she suggested Cambridge Analytica might be the culprit.
And much like every other conspiracy theory that purports to tie Trump and Putin together, Congress quickly picked up her lead.
No surprises that @RepAdamSchiff led the pack down the same unverified rabbit hole.