This is how you know we have a Biden regime media: two of the three major networks avoided providing any evening newscast coverage to the House Oversight Committee’s hearing in furtherance of its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. And the one that did cover the hearing did its level best to make sure viewers heard nothing substantial- a smother job.
Here’s a representative sample of the report- lots of noise, nothing substantial:
LESTER HOLT: Fireworks today at a house hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Republicans pressing former Hunter Biden business associates, but one witness accusing them of peddling Russian propaganda. Ryan Nobles has late details for us from the Capitol.
RYAN NOBLES: Tonight, a fiery inflection point in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
(CROSSTALK)
GERRY CONNOLLY: Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. This is -- Mr. Bobulinsky, this is my time.
NOBLES: House Republicans holding a hearing designed to feature Hunter Biden, who had asked to give public testimony but declined to appear. Instead, the committee heard from a pair of former Hunter Biden business associates, who testified despite President Biden's denials he was involved in his son's businesses.
TONY BOBULINSKI: He was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business.
For crying out loud, this wasn’t even the fireiest of the fireworks at the hearing:
AOC - "RICO is not a crime." pic.twitter.com/YcTusJAaP4
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 20, 2024
In AOC’s defense, perhaps RICO is too Suave to be a crime. Sorry, Tim, I’ll show myself out now.
But seriously, even that would’ve been too much for NBC, which wanted to air NO instances whatsoever of Bobulinski talking about crimes committed by anyone named Biden. Speaking of which, where was Hunter?
Much was made of Hunter Biden’s previous demand for a public hearing on the date of his first scheduled private hearing before the House committees. Hunter’s “impromptu” remarks delivered on the Senate grounds, a grandstanding exhibition made possible by (alleged) public flatulator and Chinese spy fornicator Eric Swalwell. NBC only mentioned Hunter’s failure to appear in passing; CBS and ABC none at all.
Then there was the strange interview with Lev Parnas, which seemed to serve no other purpose than to raise the specter of Russian propaganda operations.
All in all, NBC’s report on the hearing was an outright smother job. But the smother job is tons more than what ABC and CBS mustered- which is a big, fat nothing.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on NBC Nightly News on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024:
LESTER HOLT: Fireworks today at a house hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Biden. Republicans pressing former Hunter Biden business associates, but one witness accusing them of peddling Russian propaganda. Ryan Nobles has late details for us from the Capitol.
RYAN NOBLES: Tonight, a fiery inflection point in the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
(CROSSTALK)
GERRY CONNOLLY: Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir. This is -- Mr. Bobulinsky, this is my time.
NOBLES: House Republicans holding a hearing designed to feature Hunter Biden, who had asked to give public testimony but declined to appear. Instead, the committee heard from a pair of former Hunter Biden business associates, who testified despite President Biden's denials he was involved in his son's businesses.
TONY BOBULINSKI: He was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business.
NOBLES: They say Joe Biden participated in person and on speakerphone in meetings and dinners with Hunter's foreign business partners. Hunter's former business associate Jason Golanis testifying from prison.
JASON GOLANIS: The vice president said hello, and some pleasantries and then “I hope you had safe travels”, and then said, quote, “OK, you be good to my boy”.
NOBLES: But Democrats firing back saying there was no evidence of a crime.
JAMIE RASKIN: With any luck, today marks the end of perhaps the most spectacular failure in the history of congressional investigations, the effort to find a high crime or misdemeanor committed by Joe Biden and then to impeach him for it.
NOBLES: Democrats invited Lev Parnas, a onetime associate of former President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, who testified that he was tasked with digging up dirt on Biden business ventures in Ukraine.
LEV PARNAS: I found precisely zero evidence of the Bidens' corruption in Ukraine.
NOBLES: In an exclusive interview, Parnas accused Republicans of being willing accomplices of the Kremlin.
PARNAS: They’re not getting down to the truth. All they're doing is pushing the same Russian narrative of propaganda.
NOBLES: And tonight, the Oversight Committee chairman James Comer saying he will invite President Biden to testify at an upcoming hearing. Lester.
HOLT: Ryan Nobles, thanks.
