Liberal Media Scream: Press trying to block GOP investigations, impeachment of Biden

Liberal Media Scream: Press trying to block GOP investigations, impeachment of Biden

by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist | 

 This week’s Liberal Media Scream finds left-wing journalists giving up hopes that Democrats will hold Congress in tomorrow’s midterm elections and shifting to arguing against the very kind of politically driven investigations against Republicans that they have been cheering on for years.

A media Republican critic, ABC’s Jonathan Karl, is leading the charge to convince Republicans that they shouldn’t spend their time looking into the host of Biden-related scandals the GOP has promised voters they will investigate, including Hunter Biden and the immigration crisis.

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For example, on Sunday, as he hosted This Week, Karl tried to embarrass Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on the planned investigations, suggesting that they weren’t what Republicans ran on.

Five times he asked about “impeachment,” though as a governor, Youngkin would have no say in such a move against Biden or his Cabinet members.

House and Senate GOP leaders have promised to open investigations into White House policies and scandals if they take control, just as Democrats have continued to do on former President Donald Trump.

From Sunday’s This Week on ABC:

JON KARL: I’m hearing a lot, though, of talk about investigations, investigations into Hunter Biden, FBI, all things Anthony Fauci, Republicans talking about going, you know, all-in if they take control of, particularly the House. Is that really what you’re campaigning on, to have massive investigations into all —

VIRGINIA GOV. GLENN YOUNGKIN: I think that the House and the Senate and the White House are going to have to go to work and offer solutions. On top of that, our democracy is better when our Congress exercises its responsibility for oversight and they can also deliver answers. I think voters are going to make a statement on Tuesday, and they want their elected leaders to deliver results.

KARL: What about all this impeachment talk? I mean, I’ve gone through — I can count at least three members of the Biden Cabinet that Republicans have talked about impeaching, and obviously, there have already been impeachment resolutions introduced, many of them for Biden himself. Would that be a mistake for Republicans to go in with impeachment?

YOUNGKIN: Again, I believe strongly our democracy is better when our Congress exercises its oversight functions.

KARL: Impeachment?

YOUNGKIN: The reality of this is Virginians are gonna vote for congressional representatives, and I think that we’re going to see a number of seats flip, and they want them to go to work to deliver.

KARL: But let me press you on that, though, commonsense kitchen table issues, that’s what you’ve been talking about. Is that what voters have in mind impeaching, an impeachment of Joe Biden? I’m hearing that a lot.

WATCH: GLENN YOUNGKIN THROWS AN AX BULL'S-EYE

YOUNGKIN: You know, I don’t know — I don’t know if —

KARL: Would that be a mistake is all I’m asking.

YOUNGKIN: I can’t speculate on what they’re going to do. What I can tell you —

KARL: What they should do is what I’m asking?

Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “After liberals and the media lowered the impeachment bar by trying to impeach President Trump multiple times, the last time after he was already out of office, Karl has some gall to admonish Gov. Glenn Youngkin about the inadvisability of impeaching President Biden. Karl seems to be trying to stymie any impeachment efforts by getting Republicans to repudiate it. Youngkin wouldn’t play his game.”

Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.

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