Need more confirmation that our “news agencies” are actually propaganda arms for the Leftist establishment? Here you go: Old Joe Biden’s handlers have traded Hizballah-linked terrorist arms dealer Viktor Bout to Russia for America-hating WNBA player Brittney Griner, which is bad enough in itself, as Bout could end up killing Americans in large numbers. Even worse is the fact that the administration could have brought former Marine Paul Whelan out of Russian prison, but opted for Griner instead. The White House denies that it had this choice, but an initial NBC News report confirmed it. Soon afterward, however, the NBC report was quietly revised to reflect the official line.
There was no doubt that this race- and sex-obsessed administration very much wanted to get Griner out, while not having the same avid interest in Whelan. Karine Jean-Pierre made that abundantly clear Thursday when she said of Griner: “She is an important role model, an inspiration to millions of Americans, particularly the LGBTQI+ Americans, and women of color.” So it was all about Griner being lesbian and black, privileges that Whelan does not enjoy.
Nonetheless, Old Joe himself, who has been lying incessantly for at least sixty years, insisted that no choice was made for Griner over Whelan, as the crafty Russkis didn’t offer one. As Matt Margolis noted Thursday, Biden insisted, his nose growing all the while, that “this was not a choice about which American to bring home. Sadly and for totally illegitimate reasons, Russia is treating Paul’s case differently than Brittney’s. And while we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul’s release, we are not giving up. We will never give up.”
The White House added, according to The Blaze, that “the choice became to either bring Brittney home or no one.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed the same line, saying: “This was not a choice of which American to bring home. The choice was one or none.” Jean-Pierre, reflecting the agreed-upon talking points of the day, said: “The choice was bring Brittney home or no one. The president will never stop working to secure Paul Whelan’s release.”
Amid all this face-saving, however, NBC News, oddly enough, told the truth, initially reporting that the “Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none.” But then, “without issuing an editorial note, NBC News made a stealth change to the article, such that it now reads, ‘The Kremlin ultimately gave the White House the choice of either Griner or no one after different options were proposed.’”
The Blaze asked NBC why it made the stealth edit and, predictably enough, got no response, but NBC did then add a correction, claiming that “an earlier version of this article misstated the choice the Biden administration was given over hostages. It was to swap for Griner or no one, not a choice between Griner or Whelan.”
What was it really? Well, Whelan’s Russian lawyer, Vladimir Zherebenkov, explained that “choosing Griner appeared ‘more humane’ because she is a woman and an Olympic champion, while Whelan was in the military and it is ‘easier for him to be in custody.’” That certainly seemed to imply that the White House had made a choice of Griner over Whelan. Whelan himself also contradicted Jean-Pierre’s claim that “the president will never stop working to secure Paul Whelan’s release,” observing to the contrary that little had been done to get him out: “I am greatly disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as the four year anniversary of my arrest is coming up.” He added that he had been “led to believe that things were moving in the right direction, and that the governments were negotiating and that something would happen fairly soon.”
No, the Biden administration had to play identity politics and pander to its base yet again. If Griner had not been black and lesbian, would she be back in the United States that she so despises today? Not likely. Biden’s handlers will move heaven and earth to protect the lives and well-being of people who are members of their preferred groups. But Whelan has the misfortune of being a white man, and as far as I know, heterosexual. Heavens to betsy, he could even be one of those “white supremacists” this administration keeps warning us about, but whom we so seldom see. And so he is going to continue to rot in a Russian prison, while Brittney Griner goes on to kneel for the anthem again at one of her sparsely attended WNBA games. Justice is served.
Deliberately manipulated language:
“after different options were proposed.’”
In their original piece, was clearly covering all angles because they knew they were lying.
Note how their correction changed the White House to the Biden administration.
Covering up the fact that they knew they were lying all along.
The ”news” I first heard made it seem as if she was just passing though Russia (lay over), but a search shows that Mrs. Griner was traveling after playing for a Russian womens league at the time of her arrest. She was living in Russia.
Point is, she had to know the rules. This could not have been some accidental/mistake or whatever the media in this country tried to make her situation out to be. Poor innocent thing, NO.
She is just an idiot
Other note: Wearing a rainbow shirt in Qatar is unhealthy.
Prosperity culls the herd.
It was all about the optics and the tattoos. It’s what America has become.
PRESIDENT TRUMP was offered the Whelan/Bout deal and declined because of the HARM that Bout HAS DONE and WILL DO! Putin simply played biden like an old cheap squeezebox! I would bet that the tall tattooed lesbian had carried weed into Russia on her other trips to play RUSSIAN basketball but this time Putin saw a PERFECT example of THE LEFT! He’s no dummy!! EVIL?? Yes!! DUMMY?? NO – that’s biden’s job!!
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/10/marc-fogel-russia-brittney-griner-00073363
Fogel’s charges correspond almost perfectly to Griner’s, and yet he receives almost no attention.
Why no sympathy from the White House press secretary?
Joe Biden with his politically correct ideology along with his PC administration would choose such character as Graner instead of the right choice of having Paul Whelan to be freed.
For Biden and his administration are an abomination to everything that is wise, good .fair decent and just.
Joe Biden by this, is, again, showing his true colors, which Red and Green are meaning that of the Red/Green alliance.
That is the Communist- Islamic alliance.
That “joke” of a prisoner swap by exchanging the wrong person exposes that Joe Biden isn’t, at all , interested in doing the right thing ,but only in doing the politically correct thing .
What a complete and total PC scoundrel that pseudo “President” Biden really is,
Everything politically correct Joe Biden and his administration does an abomination to everything that is wise, good right and just.
As seen in that absurd “joke” of that prisoner swap by exchanging the wrong person exposes that Joe Biden isn’t, at all , interested in doing the right thing ,but only in doing the politically correct thing .
What a complete and total PC scoundrel that pseudo “President” Biden really is,
Just tonight 12/13/22 on Conservative talk radio it was said that t”the major reason thta Biden swapped that basketball instead of the US Marine for that ‘merchant of death’ was because Putin viewed the American Marine as much more valuable than the other prisoner and therefore wanted much more the exchange if would be the Marine.”
If that statement is true then this means that Putin ,rightly , recognized the far greater worth of that American Marine then any value in the pot headed BLM fan basketball player.
The obama administration tried to change the name of The United States of America, but didn’t get it done. It took using biden to get it done, the new name of this country is now, “Babylon.” Its future is dark and comes to a fiery end in a short space of time.