THE HUNTER HAUNTING

HOLDING THEIR BREATH

The Biden presidential campaign, according to the leftwing Daily Beast, had grown extremely worried about the late-breaking news about Hunter Biden’s business dealings and the contents of his laptop, which had made their way to the New York Post in mid-October.

“According to [the campaign’s] data,” the news outlet wrote, “there was more social chatter happening around the Hunter Biden story than there had been around stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails during the last month of the 2016 campaign.”

However, their friends in the national media came to the campaign’s rescue by ignoring the story.

“Fearing a redux of that disastrous end-of-the-campaign implosion [in 2016],” the Daily Beast wrote, “the team dove further into the research. … While the Hunter Biden story had taken off on Facebook, YouTube, and various right-wing sites, it had not crossed over into mainstream outlets.” Left-leaning Twitter also helped.

The social media platform blocked its users from sharing the information, locked the Post’s account for tweeting it and even locked White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s accounts for sharing the report.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later apologized, saying, “Our communication … on the [Post] article was not great,” but the damage had been done.

Despite Twitter’s help, the news site says Democrats have work to do.

“As the party takes stock of an election in which it suffered unexpected losses down-ballot and a major triumph at the top of the ticket,” it said, “at least one area of agreement has emerged: Democrats are still losing the war online.”

‘NO PERCEIVED ISSUE’

It’s several months late and about $3 million short, but U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, has cut ties with her husband’s political consulting firm.

“So we’ve decided to terminate our contract with Tim [Mynett, her husband] and Will [Hailer]’s firm,” an email to her supporters stated. “While many of our close supporters know these two well and have recommended we keep them on — I want to make sure that anybody who is supporting our campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support.”

During the 2020 election cycle, the E Street Group firm raked in nearly $3 million from Omar’s campaign committee, allegedly to cover advertisements, consulting, travel expenses and production costs. Indeed, it was the campaign’s largest vendor. If you ever wonder how members of Congress enrich themselves during their time in office, here is one possibility.

JOB IN ‘JEOPARDY!’

A Milwaukee television news anchor — a member of the impartial media — was suspended recently after asking on a Facebook post why “2020 takes [‘Jeopardy!’ host] Alex Trebek but leaves [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell.”

It was unclear whether Ted Perry, who heads WITI’s 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. broadcasts, would be paid during his suspension. But he did issue an apology, likely a directive for keeping his job.

“I made a statement on my personal page that was insensitive and does not reflect my journalist values,” he said, “and I was not speaking on behalf of my employer. I deeply apologize for my inappropriate and outrageous comments and have deleted them accordingly.”

Perry shut down his personal Facebook and Twitter accounts but kept open his professional Facebook page.

Wisconsin conservatives were quick to call out his bias, some even suggesting he should be fired.

Perry has been an anchor at the Fox affiliate station since 1993.

RACIST ROCK

A large rock on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be removed after students complained that it was once referred to in a local newspaper — 95 years ago — with a racial slur.

The 70-ton boulder, situated on Observatory Hill, had been called in the 1925 Wisconsin State Journal, after it had been dug out of the hill, a “n——-head,” then an expression apparently used to describe any large, dark rock.

The Wisconsin Black Student Union called for the rock’s removal over the summer, and the university’s campus planning committee voted unanimously to remove it. The school’s president said the rock was a symbol of the daily injustices students of color have to face on a predominantly white campus.

The newspaper said the one 1925 reference was its only known use of the term.

The rock is known as Chamberlain Rock in honor of Thomas Crowder Chamberlain, a geologist and former university president. Currently, the school has no new site picked out for the rock, which is situated near a Native American effigy mound, making its movement precarious.

Apparently, no one asked the rock how it felt to be the subject of intolerance.