How dangerous is it to investigate Joe Biden? How protective of Biden are most of what passes for our mainstream media the media that, just last week, buried devastating testimony about Biden’s influence peddling by former insider Tony Bobulinski?
Here’s a truly unsettling clue, from Alexandra Steigrad’s article in the New York Post:
Catherine Herridge — who is the middle of a First Amendment case being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among 20 CBS News staffers let go as part of a larger purge of hundreds of employees at parent company Paramount Global.
Her firing had stunned co-workers, but the network’s decision to hold on to her personal materials, along with her work laptop where she may have other confidential info, has left many staffers shaken, according to insiders.
“It’s so extraordinary,” a source familiar with the situation told The Post, noting that the files — which are presumptively now the property of CBS News — most likely contain confidential material from Herridge’s stints at both Fox and CBS.
The source said the network boxed up all her personal belongings except for Herridge’s notes and files and informed her that it would decide what — if anything — would be returned to her.
“They never seize documents [when you’re let go],” a second source close to the network said.
Sources feared the network’s actions could have an impact on Herridge’s First Amendment case because her documents may contain privileged conversations she had with her lawyers or the identities of sources.
Looking into that hunter biden laptop thing, eh? We’ll fix your wagon. We’re letting some people go, so this will look like you were just one of the crowd….except we’re keeping your files; you know, the ones that might have information that would be troublesome to the Bidens. Have a nice day.
At one time, this is what I would have expected from state-controlled media in a third world country, not in the (at least supposedly) free United States Of America.
But under Biden and his leftwardly weaponized FBI and DOJ, zealously protected by most mainstream media? It kills me to say it, but I expect the same thing here as well. These days it is hard to distinguish them from the USSR’s KGB.
You learn by experience. And as I see Biden get a virtual free pass on his overt, entirely obvious level of senility/dementia, a free pass on the classified documents he took and held when he was NOT president and had no legal right to do so (a president can unilaterally declassify documents, a senator and vice president cannot), a free pass on his lies about what he has accomplished as president, etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum ad nauseam, it is hard to come to any other conclusion.
What country do I live in? I don’t recognize it anymore.
