The WaPo's blatant lies about Hunty's laptop, and unwillingness to correct their lies

Paul Sperry at RealClearInvestigations takes down the lying rat-bastards at the Washington Post--specifically their so-called "fact-checker," a son of a whore named Glenn Kessler.

The main issue Sperry roasts the Post and Kessler for is Kessler's so-called "fact checks" about Hunty biden's laptop, and the biden regime's strident denials that Porridge ever met with Hunty's bribe sources.

For those who've been off-world for the last 3 years: three weeks before the crucial 2020 presidential election, the NY Post published a story about a broken Mac laptop, belonging to Hunty, that he'd taken to a computer repair shop.  The owner--a stalwart Democrat but honest--positively identified Hunty as the person who dropped off the laptop.  He also had a repair order signed by Hunty.
 
The owner of the repair shop repaired the laptop and called the number Hunty wrote on the repair ticket to tell him it was ready.  The calls always went to voicemail, and Hunty never picked up the laptop, so after 90 days the owner assumed the laptop was abandoned and took possession, as provided in the signed repair agreement.

The owner of the repair shop then began looking thru the hundreds of thousands of files on the device, and discovered tens of thousands of incriminating pics of Hunty doing crack with various women.  He also discovered tens of thousands of emails and text messages showing biden family corruption.

Aghast by what he'd found, the owner of the shop contacted the FBI--which initially took no action.  After several weeks without getting so much as a reply from the FBI, the astonished owner contacted Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani, and gave him a copy of the laptop's hard drive.
Rudy's office gave a copy to the NY Post--and as you could have guessed, that finally pushed the FBI to act.  They immediately descended on the repair shop and seized the damning laptop AND the signed repair ticket.

See, citizen?  Your FBI at work, safeguarding the fucking Democrat monsters who are destroying this nation.  And if you don't understand that, you deserve what you're getting--and will continue to get until we're finished.

If we had an honest Mainstream Media, the revelation of the contents of Hunty's laptop would have utterly destroyed any chance of biden winning the presidency.  But since the Media is indistinguishable from the Democrat party, the reverse happened: the Media marshalled all its power to discredit the story, claiming the laptop was "Russian disinformation."

The "Russian disinformation" Narrative was a brazen lie--a totally fabricated construct initiated by biden chief of staff Ron Klain and biden advisor (later, stunningly, named by Porridgebrain as the nation's Secretary of State!) Tony Blinken.  They reached out to their contacts in the CIA, who quickly drafted a letter claiming the story was Russian disinformation.  They were able to get 51 "former intel agents" to sign the letter--*even though not one of the signers had examined the laptop.*

You may well wonder how these vaunted, oh-so-trustworthy intel "experts" could rationally determine that the laptop was "Russian disinformation" without ever examining it, eh?  

Yeah, me too.

The WaPo's alleged "fact checker," the lying piece of shit Glenn Kessler, didn't wonder, and didn't bother to ask, since his job was to defend the Dem party, regardless.

SO...to get people to ignore the bombshell story about Hunty's abandoned laptop, the lying WaPo bleated to all Americans that the story of Hunty's abandoned laptop--with all the totally devasting, damning emails and texts it contained proving Hunty was raking in millions every year for access to his father--was "Russian disinformation."

Now this next is crucial: The FBI had seized the laptop in December of 2019.  They quickly moved to see if the emails were authentic.  And can you guess what they determined--way back in December of 2019?

That's right, kiddies!  They determined the emails were authentic--which would suggest that *all* the contents were equally authentic.

Whoa.

Say, lying sack of shit Glenn Kessler--you who bleated to all Americans that the laptop was "Russian disinformation:"  Ddid you ever even bother to ask the FBI whether they agreed that the laptop was Russian disinformation?

Either you did or you didn't.  Pick one, you lying rat-bastard Democrat shill.

Either you didn't bother to ask, or you can tell us what the FBI's answer was, eh?  But of course you won't do either, because either answer reveals utter corruption in the Dem party, the FBI and the WaPo.

SO...one of the key issues the laptop raised was that Hunty asked his dad to come to a dinner meeting with Hunty and his foreign "business partners" in 2015, when Joe was VP.

By itself this would have been no big deal--"my son was having a dinner and asked me to stop by and say hi," eh?  But the regime--confident that they'd never be contradicted--chose to deny that that ever happened.

This was before we had bank-wire-transfers proving that Ukrainian energy company Burisma was paying Hunty a million dollars a year--literally exactly $83,333.33 per MONTH (do the math)--to be on their board of directors, insulating them from any U.S. scrutiny.

By coincidence, the original article by WaPo "chief fact checker," Glenn Kessler, was published the same day as the New York Post’s bombshell story revealing that Joe Biden had attended a 2015 dinner with a top executive of a Ukrainian energy firm, Burisma, which was paying his son $83,000 per month.

Kessler’s so-called "fact-checking" consisted of interviewing Biden aides who totally denied that biden had attended the dinner--and who pushed the Narrative that the NY Post's story about Hunty's abandoned laptop was Russian disinformation.
 
Hey, that's *some* serious "fact-checking," eh?

Kessler would later boast that his "fact-checking" article was “one of the most read articles in our 13-year history” of the fact-checking feature.
 
But two weeks ago Kessler's lies were contradicted by a totally unexpected witness: one of Hunty's business partners, Devon Archer.  

Democrats: "Archer was never a partner with Hunter.  Hunter barely knew the guy."  
   "Well, maybe Archer was a partner with Hunter in *some things,* but not in this."  
   "Well, maybe he was still a partner when the meeting took place, but he wasn't there."
   "If he claims to have been there, he's lying."

So after Devon Archer testified before Congress that Kessler's "fact check" in the WaPo was “not correct reporting," did the WaPo retract their earlier article?  Or print a correction?  Nope, they "updated" the story.

Original article: “Officials who worked for Biden told The Fact Checker that *no such meeting took place.”*

Kessler's original article was titled “Hunter Biden’s *alleged* laptop: An explainer.”

Oh, I see: an "explainer."  What are you trying to explain, Glenn?

Kessler wrote that the New York Post stories “purportedly” came from a Hunter Biden laptop “supposedly” left at a repair shop.  Kessler questioned the authenticity of the emails on the laptop. The specific email in question – the New York Post called it a “smoking gun” – was an April 17 message from Pozharskyi thanking Hunter Biden for the “opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.”   
 
“Officials who worked for Biden at the time told [me] that no such meeting took place,” Kessler claimed, *noting that it was not listed on the former vice president's schedule* and that it was unlikely Biden even went to the restaurant.

In June of 2021--after the WaPo had quietly confirmed that the laptop was authentic--the Post "revised" its article: the headline no longer contains the word "alleged."  Instead, at the top of the piece is this: "This article, first published in 2021, has been updated."  Not "corrected."  So readers would reasonably conclude NOT that the original article was utter horseshit, but that *new information* that wasn't available before has emerged.

Yeah.

After the election, with Biden in office, and as more details about the dinner emerged over the next several months, on June 7, 2021, the WaPo revised Kessler's story again.  The new version totally reversed the original claim, and was now headlined “Hunter Biden’s laptop: The April 16, 2015, dinner.”

You know, the one Kessler and the Post originally claimed Porridgebrain didn't attend, eh?  

In the new article, Kessler acknowledged Biden did in fact attend the 2015 dinner at the Cafe Milano in Georgetown. But fighting to the bitter end, Kessler insisted “there was less to the story than one might imagine.”

Kessler quoted Biden allies who said the vice president had “only dropped by briefly,” and only to say hello to a personal friend tied to a Biden family charity, adding that Biden “didn’t even sit down” at the table with his son. 

Kessler cast doubt that Vadym Pozharskyi, the Burisma executive, was part of the group ‒ even though New York Post reporter Miranda Devine pointed out to Kessler that a “Vadym” was on the guest list Hunter sent to Archer before the event.  Kessler ignored Miranda.
 
For the next two years Kessler and the WaPo stubbornly stuck to the original Narrative that the dinner was much ado about nothing and that Republicans were falsely trying to tie Biden to his son’s obvious bribe by the corrupt Ukrainian energy company.

But transcripts released last week reveal that Archer--who was also on the Burisma board with Hunter and attended the Cafe Milano dinner--confirmed the New York Post's reporting about the event.
 
Asked last Thursday if the paper still stands behind Kessler’s story, a spokeswoman for the Post said the paper was "addressing Archer’s revelations."

In the latest version, published Aug. 3, Kessler added a parenthetical “update" several paragraphs into the piece that Archer--who was at the meeting--in his sworn deposition before congress,  “disputed” the recollections of Kessler’s Biden sources about the dinner.

Kessler's "biden sources" weren't at the dinner.

The Post also quietly noted that the laptop Kessler had loudly, consistently claimed was “disinformation” had in fact been authenticated.


Despite the emerging disclosures showing the Post lied, the paper has never admitted its deliberate lies to mislead voters ahead of the November 2020 presidential election.  But of course we never expected they would, eh?
 
Tellingly, this year the Society of Professional Journalists gave Kessler an award for a series of fact checks in 2022 concerning claims about Hunter Biden's "alleged" laptop.  The award claimed Kessler had provided “a very detailed, balanced analysis of a complicated and horrifically convoluted story that spawned a thousand rumors and falsehoods.”

Except it was all true.

Also interesting: the Post’s national-news section is headed by a woman named Matea Gold, who last year had to recuse herself from DOJ and FBI coverage over a conflict of interest: She's married to FBI chief of staff Jonathan Lenzner.
 
Kessler, who co-authored the book, “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies,” portrays himself as a neutral arbiter of truth in journalism. He promises readers that he "will strive to be dispassionate and non-partisan, drawing attention to inaccurate statements on both left and right."
 
Wow, gonna "draw attention to inaccurate statements on both left and right," eh?  How about pointing to a single example where you called out a lie by the Democrats.

Source.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/08/09/for_washington_posts_feared_pinocchio_fact-checker_forthrightness_dies_in_updates_over_biden-burisma_story_971280.html