Tale of two ‘October Surprises’ shows most media only care about what helps the Democrats

Here’s a telling communicative of 2 “October Surprises” — 1 seized upon by awesome media, and 1 suppressed.

This year’s came from The Atlantic: Jeffrey Goldberg’s “scoop” that then-President Donald Trump reneged connected his vow to salary for nan ceremonial of murdered Army Private Vanessa Guillen, and past disparaged her.

It was credited to anonymous sources and rapidly debunked by named sources including her family — yet astir of nan property still blared it retired again; it moreover led nan CBS Evening News.

Goldberg says group claiming to beryllium successful nan room told him Trump said: “It doesn’t costs 60,000 bucks to hide a f–king Mexican!” connected learning of nan measure for nan funeral.

But group named successful nan communicative arsenic location astatine nan time, staffers Kash Patel and Mark Meadows, contradict he said that.

And some Guillen’s sister (who says she conscionable voted early for Trump!) and nan family’s lawyer thoroughly debunked nan claim, thanking him for his support.

The communicative besides cites other anonymous sources arsenic claiming Trump erstwhile said, “I request nan benignant of generals that Hitler had,” again contradicted (not anonymously) by others — and a unusual point to support quiet astir for nan four years since he supposedly said it.

Yet Goldberg will support his occupation astatine nan magazine: The Atlantic is owned by billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, a bully friend of Kamala Harris.

And, again, different outlets breathlessly repeated his relationship — moreover bringing Goldberg on-air to repetition and talk it. Kamala Harris moreover called an emergency property conference to flog it.

Which brings america to that different October Surprise: this newspaper’s October 2020 reporting off Hunter Biden’s laptop.

It was a series of scoops astir really Joe’s boy made millions trading power pinch nan then-vice president to a wide-ranging formed of overseas interests, on pinch grounds that Biden Sr. was successful connected nan grift.

Yet nan wide property refused to prime it up, calling it “unverified” — Facebook and Twitter suppressed it.

Instead, different media put their activity into stories astir really we’d fallen for a Russian “disinformation” scheme.

That past complaint has since been exposed arsenic a Biden-Harris campaign disinformation scheme. Multiple different media outfits successful nan years since person themselves verified each spot of our laptop reporting.

(And, it turns out, nan FBI had verified nan laptop a twelvemonth earlier we sewage our hands connected it: It was portion of nan feds’ grounds erstwhile Hunter yet went connected trial.)

The bottommost line: In astir of America’s elite newsrooms, nan modular for what October Surprise is fresh to people has thing to do pinch what’s “unverified,” and everything to do pinch whether a communicative hurts aliases helps nan Democrats.

No wonderment polls show Americans now put little spot successful nan media than successful Congress.