Republicans were angry that the Biden Justice Department "promoted" David Weiss to Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. A special counsel, in the legal definition, should be someone new, not someone who's been on the case for five years. But PBS (and NPR's legal reporter Carrie Johnson) didn't think House Republicans were worth quoting or mentioning.
The "no evidence" lines were in evidence. On the PBS NewsHour, Johnson never mentioned House Republicans in four minutes devoted to the Biden scandals. She said Weiss will be "able to prosecute other people, including Biden and others potentially, or other crimes he uncovers in the course of his investigation. Typically, that would mean any kind of obstruction or just destruction of evidence or the like. There's no evidence that it's happened here at all yet."
On NPR, Johnson couldn't mention the House Republicans, but proclaimed "a spokesman for the former president, Donald Trump, said without any evidence that the Justice Department has been protecting both Joe and Hunter Biden, even though the Justice Department is actually investigating both men right now."
Whether the Attorney General was Eric Holder or Merrick Garland, Carrie Johnson has been an eager publicist and promoter. In March, Johnson flew with Garland to Ukraine and came back with a gushy story where Garland choked up over losing family members in the Holocaust. She didn't ask troublesome scandal questions.
Johnson also appeared on the NPR Politics Podcast, and NPR congressional reporter Susan Davis added "significant numbers of House Republicans, including the speaker of the House, have already been leaning into an impeachment conversation against sitting President Joe Biden. Republicans don't have the goods on that yet."
Honk if you heard NPR say Democrats didn't "have the goods" to impeach President Trump for asking the president of Ukraine to look into the Bidens forcing out a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, the oil company paying Hunter Biden as a lobbyist.
Journalists scold the Republicans for allegedly having "no evidence," when journalists are the ones who are supposed to be combing through the allegations of presidential wrongdoing. But their journalism and their arguments suggest they don't think it's theire job at all to investigate Democrats. That might damage the "right side of history."
Also on the NewsHour, liberal pundit Jonathan Capehart decried that conservatives have been fed "an anti-Hunter Biden diet" from one "particular network." Apparently, PBS thinks you're supposed to be fed a pro-Biden diet. That's why they keep suggesting there's "no evidence" that needs to be investigated.
Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And make sure you never speak of PBS as objective, or independent, or trustworthy as a news provider.
