Otter Globe and Intelligencer: “A recent New York Post article with claims about Hunter Biden’s behavior while he was an adviser at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma represents a return to the tactics the GOP employed in 2016 with spurious claims over John Podesta’s e-mails. Instead of recognizing this recycling of campaign tactics, the American media is making many of the same mistakes that they made in 2016, and there is a very real danger that their failure could pave the way for Trump’s re-election. While we should never take Trump’s ‘the media is the enemy of the people’ remarks seriously, we should heed the warnings of former Daily Show host Jon Stewart who repeatedly admonished 24 hour cable news outlets for being lazy, gullible and repetitive.”

“American citizens have a right to expect our media outlets to do a better job of putting the pieces together. In the Hunter Biden case, a laptop which the GOP is claiming once belonged to Hunter Biden was ‘discovered’ at a computer repair shop in Delaware, and that laptop was then turned over to Rudy Giuliani who is insisting that he found e-mails, text messages, and other information on the laptop that is potentially damaging to the Biden campaign, as that information may be used to compromise Biden and render him susceptible to blackmail. This effort by Republicans is a repeat of propaganda tactics they’ve used before, and has the appearance of yet another attempt to distract attention from profiteering by the Trump family, and to interfere in the outcome of a Presidential election.”