OPINION:
The Yiddish word chutzpah is best explained by the old joke about the boy who murdered both his parents and then begged the judge for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Likewise, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and most other major news media withheld news of Hunter Biden’s laptop and what it contained. They also withheld reports of banks reporting the many suspicious large transfers that went to the Biden family members and Joe Biden threatening to withhold a $1 billion aid package to Ukraine unless the prosecutor looking into dealings at Burisma was fired.
The big chutzpah, however, came when the House Republicans began the Biden impeachment inquiry.
After not reporting the Biden family misdeeds, much of the media complained that no facts supported the need for the inquiry. So first they withhold the information, and then they complain there’s no evidence and no one knows what it’s about.
They can’t have it both ways.
CHARLES WINFIELD
Princeton, New Jersey
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