PBS Plays Judge, Jury for Biden: ‘We Have Established…No Evi­dence’ of Wrong­do­ing

On the lat­est edi­tion of PBS’s week­ly polit­i­cal jour­nal­ist round­table Wash­ing­ton Week with The Atlantic, guest host Lau­ra Bar­ron-Lopez (a famil­iar face here at News­Busters) set the tone right from the show’s intro­duc­tion, of des­per­ate Repub­li­cans hurl­ing unsub­stan­ti­at­ed accu­sa­tions against the wall.Her jour­nal­ist guests also claimed “no evi­dence,” despite the actu­al mount­ing evi­dence of Joe Biden’s knowl­edge of, and pos­si­ble involve­ment in, his son Hunter’s influ­ence-ped­dling dur­ing the senior Biden’s two terms as vice president.Heidi Przy­by­la of Politi­co piled on.Barron-Lopez summed up the case for the defense (i.e. the Democrats).The pan­el dis­cussed the memo the White House sent out — and which the sup­pos­ed­ly fear­less and objec­tive news media duti­ful­ly signed on to.Later Bar­ron-Lopez made an offen­sive com­par­i­son. Repub­li­cans tar­get­ing McCarthy’s speak­er­ship weren’t just far-right, they’re ter­ror­ists too!This false­ly premised assault on con­gress …