Home Republicans are nonetheless all-in on their plan to question President Joe Biden for One thing One thing Hunter Biden, even when they nonetheless have not been capable of work out the pesky particulars. However Hunter threw a wrench within the gears Tuesday morning with a suggestion to testify, in individual, to the Home Oversight Committee investigating him—however provided that his testimony is public.
Crack Republican investigator and committee chair James Comer instantly shot that concept down, as a result of at no level within the course of did Republicans intend for Hunter Biden to really reply to any of this. No, Republicans completely are not looking for Hunter to return in and testify publicly about their speculations and accusations.
Now Fox Information and different Republican disinformation factories should provide you with some spin on why the Home committee is correct to not need the American public to listen to Hunter’s keen testimony. Acyn has the clip, so this is your shit present:
Michele Tafoya: However I agree, I want hearings to be finished behind closed doorways, as a result of I believe they really get to the guts of the matter, and so they get some reality, and so they can ask questions with out preening for the digital camera, with out all of the grandstanding.
Sure, that is what the Republicans investigating the One thing One thing Hunter Biden conspiracy hate greater than the rest: grandstanding. Comer and Jim Jordan are identified nationwide for his or her unwillingness to do something that appears like grandstanding. Republicans particularly chosen lawmakers who can be least more likely to tolerate grandstanding, which is why Comer and Jordan are joined on the committee by such degree heads as—taking a deep breath right here—Virginia Foxx, Glenn Grothman, Pete Classes, Clay Higgins, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Anna Paulina Luna, Paul Gosar, and Marjorie Taylor “Completely No Grandstanding Right here” Greene.
The Home hearings on Hunter Biden are seemingly probably the most dignified and least showboating hearings to ever have occurred in any Congress wherever, in reality. They ooze decorum like Jordan oozes concern for school athletes’ welfare.
Hmm. The chyron identifies Tafoya as a “former NFL sideline reporter.” Throughout her a few years on the sector, I ponder if she ever found a soccer sport happening.
“That’s my desire, and for Abby Lowell, for his lawyer to say, ‘nicely you all use that to misinform, and to distort the info,’ nicely you understand what? You are able to do that too. After he comes out of his closed door session, you be happy to knock your self out and you’ll distort too.”
Ah, and there we now have the proper encapsulation of the Fox Information mindset: The reality is not vital! No one needs to see the reality for themselves! What’s vital is how partisans wish to “distort” the info, and the opposite aspect can distort the info too, after which Fox will broadcast the distorted info that it thinks are finest and people are what you, loyal sofa potato, ought to then base your complete mushy worldview round. That is how America is meant to work.
It looks like simply final week Home Republicans have been loudly crowing about how America wanted to see all the Capitol safety digital camera footage from the Jan. 6, 2021 rebel—completely wanted to see each little bit of it (aside from the bits they’ll withhold due to causes and the bits the place they’ll blur out faces in order that nasty, nasty law-abiding Individuals cannot snitch on any extra rioters than they’ve already snitched on). Now we’re listening to that cameras and public broadcasts are dangerous and what Individuals actually wish to know is what the loudest conspiracy freaks in Congress suppose they need to know.
I imply, you may’t say she’s mistaken right here. Roger Ailes constructed an entire community round that concept and he died wealthy and solely mildly discredited, shunned, and a social pariah.
“I imply, it is a foolish argument and Comer has stated, ‘tremendous, sit earlier than us publicly, a public listening to, we’ll do this later. We wish the closed door one first.’”
And if you cannot belief Comer and Jordan to maintain their phrase, who are you able to belief? Ask Jordan’s outdated wrestling staff: This can be a man who’s by no means informed a lie.
“And I believe it’s very, completely applicable. Hunter Biden would love nothing greater than to sit down, have cameras pointed at him, and attempt to generate the narrative that he needs to kind.”
That darn grandstanding Hunter Biden. He tricked Rudy Giuliani into possessing his criminally hacked laptop recordsdata. He tricked the least grandstand-y group of Home Republicans to ever exist into displaying his hacked, non-public nude pictures throughout a public listening to. He tricked them into focusing obsessively on all the lowest moments of his life, utilizing all of his worst failures as tabloid fodder for the sake of discrediting his father. Now he is attempting to trick them into permitting him to inform his aspect of the story, after years of Republicans broadcasting their very own model?
Absolutely the gall.
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