Sunday, February 11, 2024

Journalists Really Are Idiots

“Endangering national security” is specifically NOT what the Special Prosecutor reported.
Just to be very clear, the report didn't say he [Biden] wasn't engaged in any wrongdoing," the Meet the Press host stated. "In fact, it was quite firm in the fact that he mishandled classified documents, he just wasn't indicted and criminally charged. But let me follow up with you --."
Except possession is not 9/10ths of the law here (that’s not even a legal doctrine). Knowledge is the crucial element, and the report states in plain language that not only is there no evidence of knowledge, there are innocent explanations for Biden’s possession.
"But Kristen, wait. No, no, no, no no. You can't — I'm not going to accept that premise," Landrieu interrupted. "In an investigation, a special counsel determines based on the facts and the law about whether somebody engaged in criminal wrongdoing and he found out that the president did. As a matter of fact, he's the only special counsel that's been engaged in this kind of activity that had to say that he could not indict somebody, and that is a fact and so that's the big takeaway from this report from a legal perspective." 
"From a legal perspective, that is absolutely right," Welker replied. "He said he was not going to indict.”
"Because he didn't have the law and the facts to do it," her guest added. 
"Well, right, but he did say that classified documents were mishandled and he said that national security could have been jeopardized, but let me ask you this --," she continued. 
"But, Kristen, he didn't say national security — no ma'am, I'm sorry — he didn't say national security was compromised and you just heard from the secretary of national security —," Landrieu protested. 
"He said it could have been," the NBC host interrupted. 
"But it was not, and the facts and the law suggested that the president was not engaged in criminal activity," he replied before adding, "To be distinguished between the former president who right now has 91 felony counts pending against him in four different cases. So let's just keep the facts right and let's not make false comparisons between the two which people, unfortunately, do a lot of these days."
It’s reasonable to ask whether Welker is a journalist, or making Trump’s selective prosecution argument. Someone needs to remind her close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. She clearly thinks she’s being “objective.” But ignorance is only objective in the same way a stopped clock is right twice a day.

You need another clock to know when that moment is.
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