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What should be the attitude of the media towards someone notable for being the purveyor of the biggest election 2020 fake news story? Shun them? That would be the correct attitude for such journalism malpractice. However‚ in the case of CNN it actually promoted such a person. Natasha Bertrand who was the main person behind promoting the fake news story in Politico that the New York Post report in October 2020 revealing the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop was a result of Russian disinformation. The CNN announcement on Tuesday of Bertrand's promotion on X (which everyone still calls Twitter) went over like a lead balloon to the extent that CNN has had to limit responses to that post according to Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist.   CNN is limiting responses to this tweet announcing that it is rewarding Natasha "Fusion GPS" Bertrand for her work spreading the Russia collusion lie and for writing the story that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. https://t.co/BM4vPruFNk — Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 14‚ 2024   Hemmingway also provided a reminder about Bertrand's nefarious fake news background in promoting the the fake Trump-Russia collusion Steele Dossier‚ a project of Fusion GPS which was financed by the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.   Never forget that Natasha "Fusion GPS" Bertrand funneled the Russia Collusion lie into print and also was the author of the disinformation op claiming America's intel experts said Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian. CNN now rewarding her for her propaganda with a promotion. https://t.co/BM4vPruFNk — Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 13‚ 2024   Several commenters noted the irony of Bertrand being promoted by CNN at the same time that award winning journalist Catherine Herridge was fired by CBS.   Catherine Herridge gets canned and Natasha Bertrand gets promoted at CNN. They’re reshaping the MSM battlefield before the next election… — Durham Monk in Seclusion (@DurhamMonk) February 14‚ 2024   For more detail as to the depths that CNN has plunged by not only hiring Bertrand in the first place but now promoting her‚ read Glenn Greenwald's no-holds-barred exposé in his April 27‚ 2021 substack‚ "CNN's New "Reporter‚" Natasha Bertrand‚ is a Deranged Conspiracy Theorist and Scandal-Plagued CIA Propagandist." A few scorching excerpts. On Monday‚ CNN made clear that this dynamic still drives the corporate media world. The network proudly announced that it had hired Natasha Bertrand away from Politico. In doing so‚ they added to their stable of former CIA operatives‚ NSA spies‚ Pentagon Generals and FBI agents a reporter who has done as much as anyone‚ if not more so‚ to advance the scripts of those agencies. Bertrand's career began taking off when‚ while at Business Insider‚ she abandoned her obsession with Russia's role in Syria in 2016 in order to monomaniacally fixate on every last conspiracy theory and gossip item that drove the Russiagate fraud during the 2016 campaign and then into the Trump presidency. Each month‚ Bertrand produced dozens of Russiagate articles for the site that were so unhinged that they made Rachel Maddow look sober‚ cautious and reliable. In 2018‚ it was Jeffrey Goldberg himself — knowing a star CIA propagandist when he sees one — who gave Bertrand her first big break by hiring her away from Business Insider to cover Russiagate for The Atlantic. Shortly thereafter‚ she joined the Queen of Russiagate conspiracies herself by becoming a national security analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. From there‚ it was onto Politico and now CNN: the ideal‚ rapid career climb that is the dream of every liberal security state servant calling themselves a journalist... They wrote Bertrand was "no ordinary Russiagate fanatic." There was no conspiracy theory too unhinged or evidence-free for her to promote. As The Washington Post's media reporter Erik Wemple documented once the Steele Dossier was debunked‚ there was arguably nobody in media other than Rachel Maddow who promoted and ratified that hoax as aggressively‚ uncritically and persistently as Bertrand. She defended it even after the Mueller Report corroborated virtually none of its key claims... ...It was also Bertrand who most effectively laundered the extremely significant CIA lie in October‚ 2020 that the documents obtained by The New York Post about the Biden family's business dealings in China and Ukraine were "Russian disinformation.” Even though the John-Brennan-led former intelligence officials admitted from the start that they had no evidence for this claim‚ Bertrand not only amplified it but vouched for its credibility by writing that the Post's reporting “has drawn comparisons to 2016‚ when Russian hackers dumped troves of emails from Democrats onto the internet — producing few damaging revelations but fueling accusations of corruption by Trump” (that those 2016 DNC and Podesta documents produced “few damaging revelations” would come as a big surprise to the five DNC operatives‚ led by Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz‚ who were forced to resign when their pro-Hillary cheating was revealed). It was this Politico article by Bertrand that was then used by Facebook and Twitter to justify their joint censorship of the Post's reporting in the weeks before the 2020 election‚ and numerous media outlets — including The Intercept — gullibly told their readers to ignore the revelations on the ground that these authentic documents were "Russian disinformation.” Yet once it did its job of helping defeat Trump‚ that claim was debunked when even the intelligence community acknowledged it had no evidence of Russian involvement in the appearance of these materials‚ and Hunter Biden himself admitted he was the subject of a federal investigation for the transactions revealed by those documents. No wonder CNN's ratings are in the toilet. They have destroyed any pretense towards credibility by rewarding Natasha Bertrand for her long history of promoting fake news -- but's all for the "right cause‚" destroying Donald Trump and electing Democrats instead.

Is it a battle of the briefers? New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum reported on Page One that John Kirby‚ "who is white‚" might "upstage a Black woman" as the face of the Biden white House. It's "turned their double act into a third-rail subject." Grynbaum reflected the conventional wisdom‚ gently: she's not good at this. "He evinces a clarity and comfort at the lectern that can sometimes elude Ms. Jean-Pierre‚ 49‚ a more rote public speaker with less experience tussling with an adversarial press." The pro-Biden press is "adversarial"? Even the text box had a tilt: "The administration relies on a longtime Washington hand to spread its message." Jean-Pierre has resented Kirby's presence from the beginning. Grynbaum writes‚ at a farewell party for Jen Psaki‚ Biden told KJP don't worry‚ “you’ll have an admiral looking over your shoulder.” Like she needs help. "The president’s tone suggested he wanted to be encouraging‚ the people said‚ but the comment landed with a thud." After that‚ we discuss Axios.com reporting about internal White House turmoil over the border crisis‚ telling of one meeting where Biden "exploded in fury" when aides didn't have the immigration data points he wanted. In addition‚ a former Biden administration senior official dissed Vice President Kamala Harris to Axios: "She's been at best ineffective‚ and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility. It's an opportunity for her‚ and she didn't fill the breach." We wind down with how the Left is playing around with Valentine's Day. MRCTV's Tierin-Rose Mandelburg reported Abortion Fund Ohio cut straight to the point when its group tweeted: “Girls don't want flowers for Valentine's Day. They want flowers AND abortion on demand‚” and later added “birth control &; chocolate &; plan b‚ oh my!” We Testify‚ a group dedicated to giving women the opportunity to talk about their amazing abortion‚ made Valentine’s Day cards to post on its social media accounts. One was a poem that read‚ “roses are red violets are blue abortions are cool I’ve lost count of mine‚ I’ve had quite a few.” NPR.org promoted "5 facts about queer animals for Valentine's Day." To celebrate that there is "currently a gay anteater couple" at the National Zoo in DC‚ "NPR spoke with wildlife ecologist Christine Wilkinson of the "Queer is Natural" TikTok series for Valentine's Day. Here are some of her favorite facts about queer animals." Did you know some deer are non-binary?? The Wall Street Journal front page carried the sour spin that people are turning inward on Valentine's Day‚ which can still please Big Business through "self-gifting."  The story began "This Valentine’s Day‚ more people are saying I love you – to themselves." Enjoy the podcast below‚ or wherever you listen to podcasts. 

A major media narrative to emerge from President Joe Biden’s fiery press conference decrying the special counsel’s report on the classified documents investigation was “gratuitous”‚ in reference to Robert Hur’s line citing the president’s inability to recall the date of his son Beau’s death. But‚ as NBC News reports‚ it turns out that the narrative is fake because Hur wasn’t the one to raise that issue. If true‚ this means that President Biden lied to the nation when he angrily denounced Hur’s alleged question during last week’s fiery press conference which‚ apparently‚ was convened at Biden’s direction. Watch NBC’s Peter Alexander throw gasoline on an already raging fire with regard to President Biden’s cognitive decline‚ as aired on NBC Nightly News on Wednesday‚ February 14th‚ 2024: LESTER HOLT: Peter‚ you also have new reporting this evening about President Biden's interview with the special counsel‚ Robert Hur.  PETER ALEXANDER: Lester‚ President Biden became heated‚ you'll remember‚ responding to the special counsel's assertion that he could not remember within several years when his son Beau died. Last week the president criticized Hur for asking him about it.  PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly‚ when I was asked the question‚ I thought to myself‚ it wasn't any of their damn business.  ALEXANDER: But tonight‚ NBC News has learned that Hur never asked that question according to two people familiar with the interview last fall. They say it was the president‚ not Hur or his team‚ who first introduced Beau Biden’s death. The sources say the president got the date‚ May 30th‚ correct- but not the year.  This brief came as an add-on to NBC’s report on the emerging national security threat posed by Russian space nukes. Ronald Reagan is surely laughing somewhere at the irony of a President Joe Biden wishing he had the Strategic Defense Initiative right about now‚ but I digress.  Reasonable people with access to Biden’s speeches and appearances can reasonably expect him to talk about Beau’s passing often‚ sometimes at odd times- and no reasonable person would begrudge a grieving parent for doing so.  And herein lies the pickle: those same reasonable people are now asking whether Biden knowingly lied to the American people when he flamed Hur for allegedly asking the Beau question‚ or whether this now-disproven recollection is yet another instance of Biden’s fading cognition. NBC alone reported on this development‚ as CBS and ABC were otherwise occupied. We expect that to change soon‚ given the ongoing debate over Biden’s age‚ health‚ and cognition.  

It appears that Huma Abedin and Alexander Soros are dating.Soros‚ a son of wealthy left-wing mega-donor George Soros‚ shared a photo of himself with Abedin. Abedin shared Soros' post on her own Instagram story. A location indicator on Soros' post shows that the couple was in Paris. — (@) Soros is the chair of the board of directors of the Open Society Foundations‚ which was founded by his father."The Open Society Foundations‚ founded by George Soros‚ are the world's largest private funder of independent groups working for justice‚ democratic governance‚ and human rights. We approach this mission through the illuminating principles of justice‚ equity‚ and expression—defining characteristics of any truly open society‚" according to the Open Society Foundations website."As much as I would love to get money out of politics‚ as long as the other side is doing it‚ we will have to do it‚ too‚" Alex Soros said‚ the Wall Street Journal reported last year."Our side has to be better about being more patriotic and inclusive‚" he noted‚ according to the outlet. "Just because someone votes Trump doesn't mean they're lost or racist."Abedin has an extensive history of working as an aide for Hillary Clinton.A Valentine's Day tweet on former President Bill Clinton's X account reads‚ "Where did the time go? There have sure been a lot of Happy Valentines days. Here’s to one more." "Happy Valentine's Day to my forever Valentine!" Hillary Clinton responded. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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