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Fake News gets even Faker
Opinion
US politics
The media is blowing Bidenās documents āscandalā out of proportion
Margaret Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan
The news media has greeted the supposed scandal of Bidenās mishandling of classified documents with breathless glee
Tue 31 Jan 2023 06.12 EST
On Sunday morning, NBCās Chuck Todd hosted the Ohio Republican congressman Jim Jordan on Meet the Press, where the querulous conservative ranted about President Bidenās sloppy handing of classified documents.
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Todd showed more tenacity than usual in challenging this combative guest (he āincineratedā Jordan, applauded the Daily Kos) but Jordan nevertheless managed to drive home his ill-conceived accusations through sheer volume, repetition and speed.
Jordanās real victory was being given the chance to do so, at such length, on national TV. Meanwhile, over on Fox News, the Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz was trying his sneering best to connect Hunter Biden to the document dustup, and the rightwing network was helping by showing various file photos of the presidentās troubled and troubling son, always with a crazed look in his eye. And social media, of course, overflowed with memes about Corvettes stuffed with boxes, a not-too-subtle shot at classified papers discovered in Bidenās Delaware garage.
Deprived of Trump-style excitement by a mostly competent, sometimes boring president, the news media has greeted the supposed scandal of Bidenās mishandling of classified documents with breathless glee. CNN has devoted hours of coverage to chewing it over. The broadcast networks have, in some cases, led their evening newscasts with it.
Finally, all this coverage seems to say, a chance to get back to the false equivalence that makes us what we truly are! And make no mistake, any effort to equate Bidenās sloppy mishandling with former president Trumpās removal of hundreds of classified documents to his Florida hangout at Mar-a-Lago is simply wrong.
As Todd pointed out, Biden has cooperated with the justice departmentās search for documents, while Trump has obfuscated and resisted. And although much of the news coverage has pointed this out, it has nevertheless elevated the supposed Biden scandal by giving it so much time, attention and prominence.
It might even remind you of the mediaās appalling obsession with Hillary Clintonās email practices during the 2016 presidential campaign ā an obsession that may have affected the electionās outcome, helping to give us four years of a president with no respect for the democracy he was elected to lead.
Why does this keep on happening?
No one has described the cause better than two thinktank scholars in a 2012 Washington Post opinion piece (and the italics are mine): āWe understand the values of mainstream journalists, including the effort to report both sides of a story. But a balanced treatment of an unbalanced phenomenon distorts reality. If the political dynamics of Washington are unlikely to change any time soon, at least we should change the way that reality is portrayed to the public.ā
The scholars ā one from the conservative American Enterprise Institute, the other from the progressive Brookings Institution ā were Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, who had written a book, Itās Even Worse Than It Looks, about the rise of Republican party extremism and the resulting threats to American democracy. That movement has only metastasized over the past decade, helped along by Trumpās chaotic term and aftermath.
PAT099 Circling near Rehoboth Beach
>>18264671, >>18264674, >>18264730, >>18264732, >>18264753, >>18264792 FBI searching Bidenās home in Rehoboth Beach
>PAT099 Circling near Rehoboth Beach
The Beechcraft C-12 Huron is the military designation for a series of twin-engine turboprop aircraft based on the Beechcraft Super King Air and Beechcraft 1900. C-12 variants are used by the United States Air Force, United States Army, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. These aircraft are used for various duties, including embassy support, medical evacuation, as well as passenger and light cargo transport.Some aircraft are modified with surveillance systems for various missions,including the Cefly Lancer, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail and Project Liberty programs.
A U.S. Air Force variant of the plane for surveillance roles primarily over Afghanistan and Iraq was the MC-12W Liberty. For that variant, Beechcraft built the basic plane and then sent it to Greenville, Texas where sophisticated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) equipment was installed by L-3 Communications Missions Integration.[2] As of 2013 the Liberty program had exceeded 300,000 combat flying hours.[3] The MC-12W was rushed into combat as a supplemental surveillance and signals intelligence asset; since its first combat mission on 10 June 2009, the aircraft flew 400,000 combat hours in 79,000 combat sorties, aiding in the kill or capture of "more than 8,000 terrorists" and uncovering 650 weapons caches. With its roles taken over by the growing MQ-9 Reaper fleet, the Air Force decided to divest itself of the 41 Liberty aircraft and turn them over to the U.S. Army and U.S. Special Operations Command, which was completed by October 2015.[4] The Air Force's final MC-12W deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom ended on 13 October 2015.[5]
C-12J
To meet the needs of transporting larger groups, the U.S. Army purchased six C-12J aircraft, based on the Beechcraft 1900C commuter airliner.One of the military C-12Js is used for GPS jamming tests at the 586th Flight Test Squadron,Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.[6] Another is based at the 517th Airlift Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.[7] Three were based at the 55th Airlift Flight, Osan Air Base, South Korea.[8] They have been relocated to the 459th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan. The remaining two are used by U.S. Army Aviation.[9]
C-12R
Support aircraft for US Army based on King Air B200C, powered by 850 shp (630 kW) PT6A-42 engines driving 4-bladed propellers and with EFIS glass cockpit instrumentation. 29 built. Modifications for Global air-traffic management given designation C-12R1.[23]
C-12V
Upgraded C-12R with Proline 21 FMS
>What does this mean? Anon is ground crew in the scheme of things.
Looks like a signals intelligencevariant >>18264993
Jamming or hoovering would be my guess.
maybe both
>Joe's Garage
saved.
Now need Joe's Beech House