Saturday, January 25, 2025
So now they tell us
So now they tell us - American Thinker https://t.co/7gNd7eBzTs
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) January 25, 2025
It’s better late than never. Thanks for confirming what many of us suspected. In other words, much of the media was in the tank against Trump. This is the story:
Two former Politico reporters, Marc Caputo of Axios and Tara Palmeri of Puck, claimed there were instances in which they felt their ex-employer either killed or resisted negative stories about former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden on a podcast earlier this week.
Their conversation on Palmeri’s podcast Somebody’s Gotta Win arrived at that point after Caputo submitted that the press has lost the public’s trust by erroneously declaring true or plausible information “misinformation,” and cited the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story as an example.
“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation. Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true,” he observed.
“But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too,” jumped in Palmeri.
“Correct, they punished the New York Post, that didn’t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” said Caputo. “I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”
Gosh — I remember when we were called “conspiracists” for thinking that the media was out to protect Hunter Biden.
To be fair, we need to hear from Politico. They need to deny these charges and convince us that everything was on the level. Furthermore, the infamous “51” need to come before Congress and tell us how they knew that the laptop was disinformation.
Maybe it does not matter because Trump won, CNN is laying off people and MSNBC is a national joke. At the same time, it would be nice to know how the news was manipulated to benefit one side. My guess is that they were caught up in Trump Derangement Syndrome and hung their credibility at the door. Everything in the name of beating Trump, or something like that.
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We remember Etta James 1938-2012
Jamesetta Hawkins was born in Los Angeles on this day in 1938.
We know her as Etta James, one of the most unique voices of pop music. Her career started with gospel music and she eventually recorded in Chicago.
She was the opening act with The Rolling Stones for a time in the 1980's and sang in the opening ceremonies of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics.
Etta won 2 Grammys for her work.
1964: "I want to hold your hand" by The Beatles was # 1 this month
A week later, The Beatles landed in New York for The Ed Sullivan Show. To say the least, pop music would never be the same!
In the US, the B-side was "I saw her standing there", a song from the first LP in the UK. In the UK, it was "This boy", a song featured on "Meet The Beatles", the first US LP.
"I want to hold your hand" was # 1 for seven weeks. It was one of the best selling singles of the pop era. And it is also now available in a digital format.
1978: "Saturday Night Fever" was the # 1 LP this week
Who saw the movie "Saturday Night Fever" many years ago?
Maybe you danced to "More than a woman" and some of the other songs by The Bee Gees.
On this day in 1978, the soundtrack LP moved to # 1 on Billboard USA. It stayed at # 1 for a long time!
It was the soundtrack of 1978 with 3 # 1 songs, "How deep is your love", "Stayin' Alive" & "Night fever". "More than a woman" was not released as a 45 but was hugely popular on the radio as well.
We remember Don Maynard (1935-2022)
We remember Don Maynard who was born in Texas on this day in 1935 and passed away January 2022. Maynard played with the Jets who won Super Bowl III. We remember him for a clutch catch in the AFL championship against the Raiders. It was that TD that put the Jets in the Super Bowl against the Colts.
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