The US Media is Beneath Contempt: Russian Bounties Edition

So remember that BS story about "Russian bounties" on US troops in Afghanistan? Well, turns out it was BS. Who could have seen that coming?

The Biden administration Thursday said it didn’t have solid intelligence that Russia had offered bounties to Afghan militants to kill U.S. troops, reports that last summer shook up U.S.-Russia relations, increased tensions between the U.S. and the Taliban during a troop drawdown and prompted bipartisan condemnation over the Trump administration’s inaction.

And of course this all happened when Trump was trying to draw down troops in Afghanistan. What a coinicdence! 

Now that Biden istrying to beat the clock before Afghanistan becomes our first 20 year war, it's OK to admit it was "low confidence."

But let's look back at how the US media behaved with this "low confidence" story, shall we?

SUPERCUT:

A look back on how cable news went all in on the discredited Russian bounties story. pic.twitter.com/QaG9xAqiuR

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 15, 2021

I'll remind you that these are the clowns calling everyone outside of the mainstream liberal discourse a "conspiracy theorists."

Speaking of which, remember that Hunter Biden laptop that was an obvious Russian disinformation campaign/conspiracy theory? Well, neither Joe Biden nor Hunter Biden ever denied it and now Hunter Biden even said it "certainly" could be his in a long, disjointed answer that sounds like what someone says when they're trying to deflect the obvious truth. 

Worry not mainstream Left, a bunch of former spooks will, without evidence, claim its "Russian disinformation" and the big tech platforms will ban sharing the link and lock The New York Post out of its acocunt. Well, aside by the lack of denials and the question of how exactly Russian hackers put together tens of thousands of texts, emails and I guess photoshopped thousands of pictures, John Ratcliffe, Trump's Director of National Intelligence through cold water on that "Russian disinformation" nonsense,

“To your point earlier about his book tour and the things that he doesn’t remember over the last four years, again, there was an FBI investigation ongoing at the time, before the election. It was Hunter Biden’s laptop. The things on that laptop that the FBI and the Department of Justice have — those are real."

The media and the big tech companies are out of control and just shilling for the establishment. Something has got to bring them in line.