by Jonathan Turley:
When IRS supervisory special agent Greg Shapley and agent Joe Ziegler, testified this week, most honest observers were impressed by how they stuck to the details and the facts of their investigation. Even in friendly questioning, they refused to make judgments about motivations or conclusions. They were two of the most credible witnesses that I have seen on the hill. They were also the prototypical whistleblowers, civil servants who tried to raise concerns over special treatment and political interference internally and only came to Congress after all such efforts failed. They were then both allegedly retaliated against by the Biden Administration. Yet, in its coverage, NBC referred to the men as “so called whistleblowers.” That was not the disparaging description given other such witnesses, including figures in the Trump impeachment. They were just “whistleblowers” or “respected public servants.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Now,” NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali discussed the new release of the 1023 form “to bolster these investigations that we saw them do earlier this week with IRS so-called whistleblowers about Hunter Biden.”
Figures like Joe Scarborough on MSNBC joined in the disparagement. In interviewing House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) who actually called the corruption investigation “dangerous,” Scarborough said “we have these so-called whistleblowers who are saying, yeah, we’re really angry … It’s just a clown show with these House Republicans, isn’t it?”
It was reminiscent of how Democrats attacked journalists who came forward to offer detailed records of censorship by the Biden Administration. Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-VI, the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee, attacked the reporters appearing as witnesses as “so-called journalists” and said they were “a direct threat” to the safety of others by reporting the censorship story. Plaskett also later called for the possible arrest of Taibbi.
It is all part of an effort to attack the credibility of those who raise corruption or censorship. Even Special Counsel John Durham was warned by Rep. Steve Cohen that he would end up burning “at the bottom of a pyre” if he did not change his views of basis for the Russian collusion investigation.
NBC, leftist handmaiden media, also called a black member of the CA Board of (university) Regents member a “so-called black person,” after he came out against using affirmative action quotas years ago.
Seems the Left has no trouble telling other people who and what they are.
But they get it so wrong, so often, it makes you wonder if it’s a coordinated talking point.
As opposed to the quote un quote dirtbag vindman and others who lied through their teeth during the first hoax impeachment.
NBC Fake News the Lying Peacock Fake News
The leftist media can’t stand the fact that idiot Biden’s corruption is exposed and they have failed to keep it suppressed, as they usually do.
biden is the most corrupt politician ever. We know it and the entire world knows it.
Trump is the worst thing to happen to America since the Civil War. He has destroyed truth, divided families, alienate friends and neighbors, and diminished America in the eyes of the world. What a second term could bring is unthinkable.
My God, is that how you deal with the disgusting corruption of the Democrat Party; just blame it all on Trump? You have acknowledged (through your cowardice in addressing questions) that idiot Biden is a liar, corrupt, a thief and a pedophile. This must eat at you so you try to transfer it all upon Trump or any other conservative you find convenient.
The world laughs in idiot Biden’s face and, in doing so, they laugh at the entire nation. Idiot Biden is a complete embarrassment. Compared to Trump, he is an ass zit.
Democrats and idiot Biden are utterly destroying this nation and, possibly, the free world.
This is the corner moronic Democrats have painted themselves into with their stupid “cancel culture”, Democrats can’t shun Laughton because he is a degenerate, child molesting scumbag, because he is also a tranny and these gutless Democrats fear being accused of judging him for that, not the children he abuses. Of course, it could also be that they enjoy sexually abusing children. It is a favored activity among leftists.