I’ve never heard of Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. – at least until a few moments ago, when I read his superb commentary (in the Wall St. Journal, via msn.com) on how our supposedly neutral mainstream media have, for years, handled the hunter biden debacle.
But you can bet I’ll be reading his future commentaries when I see them.
Here is how it begins:
Politics is a cynical business, but it’s unusually cynical for a president to blame his failed re-election bid on massive vote fraud for which he has no evidence.
It’s cynical for a presidential campaign to fabricate and promote evidence that its rival is a Russian agent.
It’s cynical for a candidate to coordinate with the country’s intelligence establishment to lie to voters and say his son’s embarrassing laptop was fabricated by a foreign power to benefit his rival, the sitting president.
As you can see, Jenkins makes it clear he is perfectly willing to skewer both sides of the aisle.
He then continues:
The conviction of Hunter Biden took a jury about zero minutes, given clear-cut law and overwhelming evidence, even in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware. Perhaps our accumulating cynicism might be redressed if 75% of the press didn’t bend over backward to tell fairy stories about what happened and why.
Any Justice Department wouldn’t be in a hurry to throw the book at the president’s son and Mr. Biden’s tried for several years to end the investigation without charges at all, according to credible whistleblowers. The department succeeded at least in permitting the statute of limitations to expire on the most politically irksome tax charges related to Hunter’s earnings from a Ukrainian oligarch when his father was vice president.
Letting Hunter walk, though, seemed to become politically untenable after the whistleblowers spoke up. Even so, a generous plea deal was arranged that, contrary to normal practice, and in a fashion inherently suspicious, granted sweeping immunity for uncharged offenses in a side agreement that spared Hunter any embarrassing gun charges altogether.
There’s no reason for a straight-shooing press not to report this background.
Very well worth your while.
