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Need more confirmation that our “news agencies” are actually propaganda arms for the Leftist establishment? Here you go: Old Joe Biden’s handlers have traded Hizballah-linked terrorist arms dealer Viktor Bout to Russia for America-hating WNBA player Brittney Griner, which is bad enough in itself, as Bout could end up killing Americans in large numbers. Even worse is the fact that the administration could have brought former Marine Paul Whelan out of Russian prison, but opted for Griner instead. The White House denies that it had this choice, but an initial NBC News report confirmed it. Soon afterward, however, the NBC report was quietly revised to reflect the official line.
There was no doubt that this race- and sex-obsessed administration very much wanted to get Griner out, while not having the same avid interest in Whelan. Karine Jean-Pierre made that abundantly clear Thursday when she said of Griner: “She is an important role model, an inspiration to millions of Americans, particularly the LGBTQI+ Americans, and women of color.” So it was all about Griner being lesbian and black, privileges that Whelan does not enjoy.
Nonetheless, Old Joe himself, who has been lying incessantly for at least sixty years, insisted that no choice was made for Griner over Whelan, as the crafty Russkis didn’t offer one. As Matt Margolis noted Thursday, Biden insisted, his nose growing all the while, that “this was not a choice about which American to bring home. Sadly and for totally illegitimate reasons, Russia is treating Paul’s case differently than Brittney’s. And while we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul’s release, we are not giving up. We will never give up.”
The White House added, according to The Blaze, that “the choice became to either bring Brittney home or no one.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed the same line, saying: “This was not a choice of which American to bring home. The choice was one or none.” Jean-Pierre, reflecting the agreed-upon talking points of the day, said: “The choice was bring Brittney home or no one. The president will never stop working to secure Paul Whelan’s release.”
Amid all this face-saving, however, NBC News, oddly enough, told the truth, initially reporting that the “Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none.” But then, “without issuing an editorial note, NBC News made a stealth change to the article, such that it now reads, ‘The Kremlin ultimately gave the White House the choice of either Griner or no one after different options were proposed.’”
The Blaze asked NBC why it made the stealth edit and, predictably enough, got no response, but NBC did then add a correction, claiming that “an earlier version of this article misstated the choice the Biden administration was given over hostages. It was to swap for Griner or no one, not a choice between Griner or Whelan.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
I watched an RT analysis of this trade, which was provided by a media monotoring channel, since Russian outlets aren’t allowed on YouTube. There, they show Margarita Simoneyan, the head of RT, mock the US administration for picking Griner over Whalen. She pointed out, very accurately, that the reason that Whalen, who’d normally be considered a hero in the US (notwithstanding domestic shortcomings that he may have) was passed over was that he was a heterosexual White male, which is the worst thing one can be in America these days
While on this side we may disagree w/ her on Viktor Bout or on whether Whalen was ‘spying’ while being caught taking pictures of churches in Sergiyev Posad, the points she made about the priorities of the Americans was vividly on target. Of course, the media watchdog here assumes that KJP was telling the truth when she said it was Griner or no one, but had there been a sane administration, Moscow would not have assumed that a Griner for Bout offer would have been taken seriously. However, regardless of what one might think of the credibility of RT, I’d pick them over KJP any day on the question of who to believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqUm9PSiANg
Walter Sieruk says
That “joke” of a prisoner swap by exchanging the wrong person exposes that Joe Biden isn’t ,at all , interested in doing the right thing ,but only in doing the politically correct thing .
What a complete and total PC scoundrel that pseudo “President” Biden really is,
Walter Sieruk says
Everything politically correct Joe Biden and his administration does an abomination to everything that is wise, good and right
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden by this, is ,again, showing his true colors, Which are Red and Green meaning that of the Red/Green alliance’
That is the Communist- Islamic alliance.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden with his politically correct ideology along with his PC administration would choose such character as Graner instead of the right choice of having Paul Whelan to be freed.
For Biden and his administration are an abomination to everything that is wise, good .fair decent and just.
James Lincoln says
Griner:
1. is Black
2. is a female
3. is a lesbian
4. Hates America
Certainly a “top choice” for the fraudulent Biden regime.
tim gallagher says
Yes, James, she ticks all the boxes that would matter to the Biden administration. She seems far less deserving of being swapped for that piece of shit of a Russian arms dealer than Whelan. But no doubt the Biden mob will get plenty of brownie points from their left wing supporters.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
James
Exactly what RT noted above, except for point 4. But they did note Whalen as a patriot, somewhat offsetting the lack of point 4
Scotsman48 says
1. Is Black.
2.Is MALE.
3. Thinks he is a Lesbian.
4 Hates America.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden and his administration are an abomination to everything that is wise, good .fair decent just and right.
Furthermore , it stands to reason that Biden by his appointments orders policies and politics of folly and madness it’s one case or another.
With all the awful things done by Biden, he is an extremely incompetent fool and outright idiot, or the second case is the he is a treacherous treasonous subversive scoundrel and outright villain.
davidafoot says
She was in the perfect place not to hear the USA national anthem and you went and brought her back? Now poor girl will have to turn her back and show her arse when she hears the loathsome anthem or kneel or show how much she despises USA! Should have left her with her friends who will never force to hear the USA anthem she hates!