The evolution of how the media handle piling evidence of Joe and Hunter Biden’s involvement in a foreign influence-peddling scheme is a master seminar in narrative shifting, playing out for us in real time.
First, they smeared anyone who asked questions about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine — specifically, Joe Biden’s public role in getting rid of a prosecutor who had been investigating a company Hunter worked for — as perpetuating a conspiracy theory. By 2020, right before the presidential election, this tactic had expanded to flatly refusing to cover evidence of shady international deals involving Hunter and the “Big Guy,” sourced from a laptop Hunter had evidently abandoned at a repair shop, by branding it “Russian disinformation.”
As more documents and testimony built the case of Biden family corruption, the narrative forayed into, “This is actually just about Joe Biden’s love for his son,” and, “Did we say Joe Biden wasn’t in contact with Hunter’s business partners? Actually, he was a lot but that was totally normal — and they just talked about the weather!”
As the Biden family business becomes indefensible, more media outlets and other Democrats are reallocating their resources to defending only one Biden — the Big Guy in the White House. If they can show their love for defending democracy by saying a few mildly reproachful things about Hunter, then use their shiny new credibility to self-righteously shut down questions about Joe, what’s the downside? Hunter knows the bagman always ends up thrown under
