Brian Stelter ACTUALLY Claims That The Lamestream Media NEVER Labeled Hunter’s Laptop As Disinformation

In today’s everything-is-upside-down news, I give you Mr. Potato Head himself, who’s now claiming – OUT LOUD – that he and his so-called “journalist” friends never claimed that Hunter’s laptop-of-skeeviness was never “Russian propaganda” and “disinformation.”

Nah. That was just a figment of your imagination, y’all. It didn’t happen. Kind of like those THREE WHOLE YEARS of Rachel Maddow going on endlessly about RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA. You dreamed that, too.

Holy crap, these people are unreal.

If you recall, in 2020 – after not doing his job – he said it was a “dubious” story. His exact words?

“This is a classic example of the right-wing media machine,” Stelter said. “Fox and Trump have this in common: They want you to stay mad and stay tuned.”

The story is a “manufactured scandal,” Stelter said, meant to feed “whataboutism” – an opportunity for the right-wing media to shift the conversation from Trump’s record to Biden’s.

“The strategy is to deflect attention, to attack the opponent, and the same propaganda pipeline is there all the time,” said Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School told Stelter on “Reliable Sources”…

Huh. Sounds a lot like he’s saying that it’s “disinformation” to me.

According to this, though:

Appearing on Friday’s installment of the Fourth Watch podcast, Stelter filled in as guest host as he interviewed Fourth Watch media critic Steve Krakauer, the podcast’s actual host and author of the new book “Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy With Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People.”

The discussion largely focused on the current state of the media and the distrust it has fueled in recent years. As an example of when the media messed up, Krakauer pointed to the lack of coverage news organizations gave the New York Post’s bombshell reporting about Hunter Biden, which he noted was famously suppressed by Twitter at the time.

And after some discussion, Stelter said the following about he and his buddies handling of the laptop:

“A lot of the lies that happen now about what happened in 2020 go like this – they say, ‘All these a–h—s, they all called it a disinformation!’ That’s not true,” Stelter continued. “A lot of us just wondered, we said out loud, ‘could this be?’ We said things like ‘some former US officials think it might be,’ it was always cushioned – it was not always, it was often cushioned that way. And now in retrospect, two years later, three years later, people like partisans like to pretend that it was labeled disinformation, which it wasn’t. There was concern. There was reason to be concerned not because of the Hillary emails, but because of the Russian attempt in 2016.” 

No. That’s actually not what you said. You didn’t just wonder, dude. You didn’t say, out loud, “COULD THIS BEEEE?” You said, “this IS Russian propaganda.” And then it altered the outcome of a freaking election.

This is just more proof that these people aren’t journalists at all, but propagandists. Here’s some more food for thought:

And this (…”all the classic earmarks, amirite?”):

And instead of questioning an information “governance board,” Stelter and his friends just took the government’s word for it, because why on EARTH would journalists actually engage in Actual Journalism anymore, right? That would take effort and work, and it’s not like they do THAT:

The bottom line is that Mr. Potato Head and Friends are Lazy Socialist Propagandists who fall in line with their Government Masters. They don’t question. They don’t investigate. They DON’T RESEARCH. They spread whatever talking points that Daddy Government wants them to spread, and that’s precisely what they did with the Hunter Biden story.

It’s cute that Stelter wants us to believe that he was somehow NOT wrong in what he did. He wants us to believe that he actually engaged in journalism once upon a time.

Nice try, Thumb-Man. Run along and host another useless weather-panel at Davos.