(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Alleged journalist Juan Williams defended the actions of Big Tech and the mainstream media on a panel discussing the New York Times admitting to the validity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, NewsBusters reported.
“I think there’s a larger context here, which is that what was this about?” Williams said.
“What does it prove? Nobody said it wasn’t true. What was said was that you can’t authenticate it.”
Howard Kurtz, another Fox News journalist, rebuffed this claim:
“Juan, it is an absolute embarrassment that the way that the media downplayed or ignored or mocked or minimized this story, that The New York Times now says is under active federal investigation for possible tax violations or lobbying violations by the president’s son,” Kurtz said.
“And they’re still not covering it… It doesn’t mean that Hunter Biden‘s going to be indicted. It may or may not have political fallout for his father. But when you look back at the way Facebook—Twitter, for example, said, well you can’t even share this information from the New York Post.”
Williams attempted to justify the actions of Big Tech partisans and the mainstream media again, claiming they were simply being cautious.
“Howie, this was in the middle of a heated political campaign intended to damage one candidate in the aftermath of Russian disinformation,” he said. “I think we were all properly cautious.”
Twitter users largely disagreed with his sentiment:
You can’t be a Democrat unless you’re willing to be a revisionist.
— R.J. Kendall 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@RJ_Kendall) March 20, 2022
The Steele Dossier was Russian disinformation and treated by the media as fact. Hunter Biden laptop email story was true and dismissed and ignored by the media as Russian disinformation. All because of what fit and did not fit the media narrative. Journalism today. Sigh.
— Chuck (@Chuck32431571) March 20, 2022
I don’t always agree with Howie Kurtz, but he’s always fair and balanced, and 100% correct here.
Juan Williams is a partisan hack. Period.— 𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓊𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉 (@MSMCali) March 20, 2022
