# Hunter Biden Laptop Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 22, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587 "2020-10-22T11:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/222 "2020-10-25T12:56:06Z")
I was just asking. Maybe the answer is in this thread. Because of the new format, I couldn’t find any answer from the Biden campaign. My goodness. ---
**Author:** ![RyanAdam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@RyanAdam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyanAdam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/223 "2020-10-25T13:03:17Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > My only concern or, as I phrased it, “suspicion”, is that Joe Biden looked the other way when he perhaps should have told his son not to get involved I am guessing you have no grown adult children. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/224 "2020-10-25T13:05:41Z")
Two. They don’t listen either. But their decisions don’t have a potential political impact nor run the risk of compromise of national security, policy, etc. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/225 "2020-10-25T13:09:26Z")
> [@RyanAdam](#): > > I think a lot of people have essentially no idea what a Board position is, pretty obvious posters like Quicksilver think it’s a post like a executive… What do you think my understanding is? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/226 "2020-10-25T14:25:46Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > What do you think my understanding is Why don’t we skip a step by having you clarify it for us? ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/227 "2020-10-25T14:49:33Z")
> [@RyanAdam](#): > > Really typical and matches Hunter well enough. Weird seeing this attack from right, it’s typical from the anticorporate left. It’s not an attack “from the right.” It’s an attack from Republicans. It’s team colors. Anything that they think might help their side. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/228 "2020-10-25T14:53:50Z")
I’m’a’gonna’ be boorish and just pimp my own prior post here: > [@So Facebook and Twitter decide to be Publishers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006/10): > > Remember the “Birther” conspiracy ? There was nothing to it. Absolutely nothing. But Trump isn’t stupid. He’s evil. He knew there was nothing to it, but that wasn’t the point. His trafficking in endless conspiracy theories is just Trump and his people doubling down on the same tactic: the allegation alone is damaging enough. There doesn’t need to be any evidence behind it. If actual evidence was the goal, the Republicans control the Senate and Trump OWNS the DoJ. You wouldn’t need to ex… It says nothing good about the people who continue to come a-running every single time the boy cries wolf. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/229 "2020-10-25T14:56:31Z")
This is more like “Wolf cries wolf”. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/230 "2020-10-25T15:00:53Z")
Fair enough. I believe it’s largely bureaucratic, perfunctory and ceremonial. ---
**Author:** ![RyanAdam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@RyanAdam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyanAdam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/231 "2020-10-25T18:10:06Z")
> [@Jay\_Z](#): > > It’s not an attack “from the right.” It’s an attack from Republicans. It’s team colors. Anything that they think might help their side. Since I’m a Republican (although NeverTrump from day 1) - or was up to recently- I’ll stick with what I wrote > [@QuickSilver](#): > > I believe it’s largely bureaucratic, perfunctory and ceremonial So from those three key words, no you don’t understand a Board position but you changed your misunderstanding ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/232 "2020-10-25T23:36:11Z")
Here’s a good piece on trying to get the Hunter Biden (bullshit) story into the main stream media by Ben Smith in the NYT: [Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It.](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-biden-wall-street-journal-trump.html) > It turns out there is a big difference between WikiLeaks and establishment media coverage of WikiLeaks, a difference between a Trump tweet and an article about it, even between an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal suggesting Joe Biden had done bad things, and a news article that didn’t reach that conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/233 "2020-10-26T22:12:36Z")
Five Thirty Eight has a podcast where they noted the opinion section and news section of a newspaper are entirely different, with different editorial standards. WSJ opinion can essentially make stuff up or not bother to fact check. The podcast was on another topic, but it came up. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/234 "2020-10-27T01:10:25Z")
That is something that people tend to forget. Hunter Biden is a grown-ass man and responsible for his own decisions. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/236 "2020-10-28T12:50:50Z")
Anyone watch the Tucker Carlson Bubilinski ( spelling is probably wrong) interview? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/237 "2020-10-28T12:53:59Z")
You mean the interview with the person who was defended in a lawsuit with the argument that no reasonable person would believe what he has to say? > **[You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's...](https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye)** > > Fox News viewers don't expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/238 "2020-10-28T13:03:26Z")
No not that one. Am I being whooshed? You know Ex business partner of Biden Inc. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/239 "2020-10-28T13:09:29Z")
Oh, there’s another Tucker Carlson on Fox who does _not_ use as his defense that no that he is "not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ " One whose own lawyer argued, “that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.” When the only people who will publish a story are a tabloid that cannot get its own author to put his name on the piece, and the only one who will interview him is someone who has argued that he cannot be believed, I have some issues with the credibility of his story. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/240 "2020-10-28T13:10:32Z")
Why don’t you watch it and decide for yourself? Shrug, I’m not saying I belev3 everything he, Bublinski says , I’m just saying it’s interesting. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/241 "2020-10-28T13:11:50Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > No not that one. Am I being whooshed? You know Ex business partner of Biden Inc. > [@eenerms](#): > > Why don’t you watch it and decide for yourself? Tucker Carlson, like Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh, is a punchline. But go ahead, I like a good joke. How does this one go? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/242 "2020-10-28T13:13:57Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > I’m just saying it’s interesting. And everybody else is trying to help people understand why it’s good to put Carlson in his appropriate context: > **[Judge: 'Reasonable' Viewers Approach 'Tucker Carlson' With 'Appropriate...](https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/356242/judge-reasonable-viewers-approach-tucker-carls.html)** > > A federal judge has ruled in Fox News' favor in the defamation suit brought against it by Karen McDougal. The ruling is in line with protecting political free speech -- but how many people who watch > Fox's nightly hosts spread disinformation take it... Carlson – like most of the Fox evening lineup – is a sitcom. It’s just … not at all funny is all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587.md?page=13)