How a fictitious Hunter Biden controversy went from being invented on Twitter to a congressional investigation in 5 days
- A random wingnut posts a form that Biden filled out that lists office expenses and misinterprets it.
- Miranda Devine, a NY Post reporter with 350K followers tweets out the false claim.
- Fox News (also Murdoch-owned) goes all in on the story, with Tucker Carlson claiming that “Miranda Devine of the New York Post has also done extensive reporting on it.” (She hadn’t)
- Fox has members of Congress on, and asks them what they are doing to investigate the false claims.
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Rep James Comer agrees and promises investigations.
- Done and done. From one erroneous tweet to govt investigations in 5 days.
Fox has members of Congress on, and asks them what they are doing to investigate the false claims. Rather than refute them @RepJamesComer agrees and promises investigations.
We've gone from one erroneous tweet to govt investigations in 5 days. pic.twitter.com/r9j6Aaqzgw— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) January 21, 2023
You can’t find better political satire than the IRL GOP.
I still say if there was anything on the famed laptop it would have been on Fox,OAN and Newmax 24/7. Notice all is quiet as the Republicans move on to destroying Social Security and Medicare, their cause eternal and an article of faith for much of the far right. Right this down: Any Dem who backs this must be flushed. And yes, Chris Coons comes to mind.