Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden. Don't Buy It.

[Eugene]

Source: Daily Beast

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Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden. Don’t Buy It.

Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them. Peter Schweizer wants to re-elect Donald Trump.

Michael Tomasky
05.13.19 5:09 AM ET

Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate? Are we seriously going to let a far-right propagandist who’s a close buddy of Steve Bannon frame the discussion of the (for now) leading Democratic contender for president? We went down this road in 2015-16, and I had thought that most everyone on the sane side of the fever swamps agreed that it was a shameful moment for the media. So why would we repeat it?

I refer here to Peter Schweizer, whose “investigative journalism” in 2015 just happened to target Hillary Clinton and today just happens to target Joe Biden. What a coincidence!

Virtually none of his allegations about Clinton back then were true. I don’t know all the facts on Biden. The Ukraine allegations have been credibly debunked. On the China stuff relating to Biden’s son Hunter, I don’t know. If there’s something to it, then so be it. But we know enough about Schweizer’s method to be extremely skeptical of any claim by him.

I reviewed Clinton Cash in 2015 and summarized Schweizer’s method. Basically, he does just enough work that resembles journalism that he can sucker some people into believing that what he produces is real journalism. He procures documents and gathers facts, or “facts,” and he writes in the traditional way, so it reads like journalism.

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[NYMinute]

1. K&R nt

[George II]

2. Please change the subject line, he is not back "for" Joe Biden, he's back going AFTER him. Tks.

[StevieM]

3. His ridiculous book was the basis for GOPers at the FBI going to James Comey and recommending

that they investigate the Clinton Foundation. That was the equivalent of asking to investigate Barack Obama's birth certificate based on a right-wing book. The agents should have been immediately fired.

But the tactic worked. Comey always sought to compromise with them. So we got the July press conference and the October intervention. And those two things devastated her campaign. She would have won quite easily had it not been for these illegitimate actions.