When it comes to the “evidence” that Joe Biden is corrupt that I mentioned in this previous Landgrebe nomination post, as asserted by Erick Erickson, well, Erickson appears to be another order-follower. Here’s WaPo’s Eugene Robinson on the matter:
Republicans who have been trying for years to “prove” that President Biden is somehow corrupt made a big show Wednesday of revealing their smear campaign to be a shameless, empty exercise in rumor and innuendo.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to Steve Doocy, one of the hosts of the morning show “Fox & Friends,” which is normally the safest possible space for Republican politicians to trumpet their talking points.
“You don’t actually have any facts to that point,” Doocy said Thursday to House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who was trying to sell the idea that the president, his brother James and his son Hunter were part of some shadowy influence-peddling scheme. “And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is — there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.”
That wasn’t the reaction Comer had hoped to get in a GOP-friendly venue the morning after his much-hyped news conference releasing the findings of the Oversight Committee’s investigation into the president’s family. You might have missed Comer’s event, because it happened while another Republican member of Congress, Rep. George Santos (N.Y.), was being taken into custody and arraigned on felony charges of wire fraud, money laundering and other federal crimes.
Apparently Doocy didn’t get the same memo as Erickson. Incidentally, I consider using sources from the adversary to refute an adversary’s killer assertion to be a superior approach to winning debates and arguments; it’s akin to aikido, which attempts to use the attacker’s energy to defend oneself.
Judging from Comer’s results, he just seems to be another fourth-rater, holding a press conference proclaiming victory in the face of overwhelming defeat.
