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For the Benefit of Nate Silver (and Anyone Else Who Has Just Now Discovered How Selfish and Dishonest Joe Biden Really Is)

Posted on | December 3, 2024 | No Comments

Much of the outrage directed at Joe Biden since the announcement that he would pardon Hunter Biden — a blanket pardon, covering any crimes committed during an entire decade, back to 2014 — is obviously disingenuous. The earlier public pronouncements by Biden that he would not pardon his son, which were echoed by his White House spokeswoman and various media pundits, were never credible, and only a fool would have believed them. Surely Nate Silver is not so naïve, and I don’t know why he’s stamping his feet about the Hunter Biden pardon now, given that it was so predictable and, indeed, was predicted months ago by many commentators. But just in case Nate Silver or anyone else was previously under the mistaken impression that Joe Biden was honest, let me tell you a story about a truck driver from Pennsylvania.

One December afternoon in 1972, Curtis Dunn was driving a flatbed truck north on Delaware Route 7 near the village of Hockessin when a station wagon, heading west on Valley Road, suddenly pulled into the highway. There was no chance for the driver to stop, and the truck T-boned the station wagon, hurling it some 150 feet north along the highway. Nowadays, there is a traffic signal at the intersection of Route 7 and Valley Road, but in 1972, there was no signal — just stop signs for the traffic on Valley Road, and none for the traffic on the highway. Probably, the driver of the station wagon simply failed to look both ways at the stop sign, but that’s just speculation, because the driver was killed in the tragic accident. Her name was Neilia Biden.

The crash on Route 7 was investigated, and the truck driver was cleared of any wrongdoing; Neilia Biden was entirely at fault for the accident, which not only killed her, but also killed her 18-month-daughter, and injured her two sons. Despite this, however, Joe Biden repeatedly slandered Curtis Dunn, claiming that the truck driver was drunk (he “drank his lunch,” Biden said) at the time of the accident, which was clearly false. We know for a fact that Biden told this lie at least twice — in 2001 and 2007, because it was quoted in news reports at the time — but I suspect he threw this bogus story into his stump speech on many other occasions that didn’t get reported.

This accident haunted Curtis Dunn to the day he died in 1999. In 2009, after Biden was criticized for this slander, Curtis Dunn’s daughter Pamela Hamill said Biden called her to privately apologize, but another one of Dunn’s daughters, Deborah Criddle, later pointed out the obvious: Biden never publicly retracted that slander. You don’t defame someone in public and then clear your wrongdoing by apologizing in private.

What is so disturbing about this is that, as Jack Fowler wrote in 2019, the defamation of Curis Dunn was so unnecessary. What purpose could possibly be served by Biden’s lie about this innocent man? Was the idea to make Biden seem more sympathetic, by turning the truck driver into a villain? Or was Biden perhaps trying to exculpate his deceased wife, who died because of her own bad driving? We can merely speculate on the motives of Biden’s dishonesty, in the same way we can do no more than speculate why Nailia Biden didn’t look to her left before she drove past that stop sign into the path of a truck on the highway. But as to the fact of Biden’s lie, isn’t this one case — to ignore every other proven lie that Biden has ever told — enough to convince anyone that they should never trust Joe Biden to tell the truth about anything? If you would lie about how your own wife died, and in the process smear the reputation of an innocent man, how can you expect anyone to trust you?

So now we have the Hunter Biden pardon, and Nate Silver’s indignation because the White House “consistently lied” about it — and? AND? What’s your point here, Nate? As if the White House hasn’t been lying about everything, from the day Biden became president?

See, this is what’s really all about. The media, playing their part as “Democratic operatives with bylines,” voluntarily repeat whatever message they’re handed by their political overlords, and only complain about this arrangement when it results in embarrassment — when the lies are exposed so clearly that everybody can see that the media are unreliable narrators. The TV talking heads who repeatedly assured their audience that Joe Biden would not pardon Hunter have now been made to look like fools, and they’re angry about it. It was the same way after the June 27 debate exposed Biden as hopelessly senile. Suddenly, the same media personalities who had assured us that Biden was “sharp as a tack” began clamoring for him to step aside and let someone else be the Democratic presidential nominee. He had become a source of embarrassment, and in the process had exposed the media’s own dishonesty, and for that reason, Joe had to go.

Now, with the Hunter Biden pardon, the same media personalities are again exposed as untrustworthy, and thus are either trying to change the subject — “WHAT ABOUT TRUMP?” — or trying to convince us that they are shocked, shocked, to discover that Joe Biden is a liar.

Does anyone believe this play-acting? I hope not.



 

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