# 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:** 13
**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, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/243 "2020-10-28T13:14:26Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Why don’t you watch it and decide for yourself? Because that’s not how this works. It’s not on us to do _your_ homework. Why don’t you tell us what claims he made, and why you think them to be credible? ---
**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, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/244 "2020-10-28T13:16:23Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Shrug, I’m not saying I belev3 everything he, Bublinski says , I’m just saying it’s interesting. If you don’t find him fully credible, how do you choose which parts to believe? Or does “interesting” not need to be credible? ---
**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, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/245 "2020-10-28T13:19:22Z")
I saw a phrase used to describe parts of the new Borat movie: > gulling the rubes Ain’t it just divine ? ---
**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, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/246 "2020-10-28T16:12:11Z")
No I’m just saying , I want to know both sides and I’ll decide what I want to believe. “Know your enemy” if you don’t want to watch, no skin off my nose. I do my own homework. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/247 "2020-10-28T16:17:55Z")
Fox News argued that reasonable people shouldn’t take Carlson seriously. So, the side he’s on is the unreasonable side, by his own employer’s admission. Why would you want to know the unreasonable side? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/248 "2020-10-28T16:19:45Z")
Even Huckabee and Cruz have said this isn’t the issue anyone should be focusing on. Much more important things. ---
**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, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/249 "2020-10-28T16:24:38Z")
I concur with them. I was answering the laptop question with the interview. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/250 "2020-10-28T16:29:13Z")
and you have yet to provide any specifics - ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/251 "2020-10-28T16:38:14Z")
Hey, I got some moon landing was a hoax, 9/11 truther, and flat earth videos you may want to check out. You want to know both sides, don’t you? How about you tell us what you thought was interesting and credible about the interview, rather than sending us to a legally admitted purveyor of lies and asking us to dig through a bunch of bullshit? ---
**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 28, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/252 "2020-10-28T17:05:14Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > 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. This is false. I bit the bullet and watched the interview. It is not interesting. Zero new information. ---
**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, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/253 "2020-10-28T17:12:10Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > No I’m just saying , I want to know both sides and I’ll decide what I want to believe. “Know your enemy” if you don’t want to watch, no skin off my nose. I do my own homework. What you’re doing is the equivalent of, ‘_Watch this to learn what MSM doesn’t want you to know!_’. Fine. What did you learn that MSM doesn’t want us to know? ---
**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 28, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/254 "2020-10-28T17:26:37Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > What did you learn that MSM doesn’t want us to know? Nothing. He learned nothing new in that interview that wasn’t already public knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![agzem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@agzem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agzem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/255 "2020-10-28T19:44:39Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Fox News argued that reasonable people shouldn’t take Carlson seriously. Rachel Maddow used a similar defense.: [https://www.newsbreak.com/news/1481019817433/rachel-maddow-argues-her-words-are-not-facts-in-defense-to-oan-lawsuit](https://www.newsbreak.com/news/1481019817433/rachel-maddow-argues-her-words-are-not-facts-in-defense-to-oan-lawsuit) ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/256 "2020-10-28T19:50:19Z")
Good for her. What does that have to do with anything in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![agzem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@agzem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agzem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/258 "2020-10-28T19:53:58Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > What does that have to do with anything in this thread? You will have to ask Rittersport. That is a common legal defense used by the media and is nothing significant . ---
**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, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/259 "2020-10-28T19:54:51Z")
If you read the underlying stories … - Maddow’s _single comment_ (ie, that OAN was “really, literally paid Russian propaganda”) was alleged to have been her opinion - Carlson’s _entire show_ (not just a single episode, but _every show he does_) was basically downgraded to something approaching fiction - Maddow’s _statement_ was characterized that way by _her attorney._ - Carlson’s entire _gig_ was characterized that way by the presiding judge in the case. It would be hard to objectively view those two as equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/260 "2020-10-28T19:55:48Z")
> [@agzem](#): > > Rachel Maddow used a similar defense.: > > [https://www.newsbreak.com/news/1481019817433/rachel-maddow-argues-her-words-are-not-facts-in-defense-to-oan-lawsuit](https://www.newsbreak.com/news/1481019817433/rachel-maddow-argues-her-words-are-not-facts-in-defense-to-oan-lawsuit) Follow this link at your own peril . . . or if you enjoy rabbit holes of crazy. ---
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/261 "2020-10-28T19:57:02Z")
Apparently the court decided the OAN suite was without merit: > **[Rachel Maddow, MSNBC Beat Libel Suit Over “Russian Propaganda”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/rachel-maddow-msnbc-beat-libel-suit-russian-propaganda-1295702/)** > > A judge has rejected a complaint from the owner of Trump-friendly One America News because reasonable viewers can recognize opinion. And yes, the OAN reporter in question is a Russian propagandist: > The article reported that OAN’s Kristian Rouz was writing for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned news wire. ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/262 "2020-10-28T19:58:25Z")
Why would I ask another poster? You brought it up, as though it had some relevancy to the thread. Why do you want someone else to do your homework for you? What, specifically, does Maddow have to do with Biden’s laptop? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-laptop-question/923587/263 "2020-10-28T20:00:08Z")
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