GET ME REWRITE: When Republicans incessantly invoke Hunter Biden’s name, they are telling us they don’t have a plan to govern (chapter 2)

 

Headline:  Washington Post, 8/17/2023

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The memos are written in a partisan manner — ignoring or playing down contrary information — but an interesting pattern has emerged. The memos themselves have careful language that is often hedged. Then Comer and other GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), go on Twitter or speak to conservative media using hyperbolic language that goes well beyond what the memos say. Over time, the reporting on the memos in conservative media becomes untethered from the documentation in the reports.

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Chapter 1.  (8/10/2023)