{"id":38720,"date":"2023-05-13T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38720"},"modified":"2023-05-16T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:28:08","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/13\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the “evidence” that Joe Biden is corrupt that I mentioned in this previous Landgrebe nomination post<\/a>, as asserted<\/a> by Erick Erickson, well, Erickson appears to be another order-follower. Here’s WaPo’s<\/em><\/strong> Eugene Robinson on the matter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Republicans who have been trying for years to \u201cprove\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t take my word for it. Listen to Steve Doocy<\/a>, one of the hosts of the morning show \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d which is normally the safest possible space for Republican politicians to trumpet their talking points.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t actually have any facts to that point,\u201d 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. \u201cAnd the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn\u2019t profit is \u2014 there\u2019s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the reaction Comer had hoped to get in a GOP-friendly venue the morning after his much-hyped news conference<\/a>\u00a0releasing the findings of the Oversight Committee\u2019s\u00a0investigation into the president\u2019s family<\/a>. You might have missed Comer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cprove\u201d that President \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38736,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720\/revisions\/38736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}