ESQUIRE DELETES FALSE GEORGE BUSH PARDON STORY AFTER LIBERAL COLUMNIST MAKES MAJOR ERROR:
Esquire writer told people to ‘shut the f— up’ about Hunter Biden pardon by comparing to non-existent Bush pardon of his son Neil.
Esquire has deleted a column that used a false claim about former President George H.W. Bush as the basis to justify President Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter.
In a Tuesday column, liberal pundit Charles P. Pierce claimed that Hunter Biden was not the first presidential son caught up in controversy, asking readers, “Anybody Remember Neil Bush?”
“Nobody defines Poppy Bush’s presidency by his son’s struggles or the pardons he issued on his way out of the White House. The moral: Shut the f— up about Hunter Biden, please,” he wrote in the sub-headline.
“[The] lucky American businessman[‘s]… father exercised his unlimited constitutional power of clemency to pardon the Lucky American Businessman for all that S&L business way back when. The president’s name was George H.W. Bush. The Lucky American Businessman was his son, Neil,” Pierce continued.
The only problem? Bush never pardoned his son.
The men’s magazine later added an editor’s note to the column: “An earlier version stated incorrectly that George H.W. Bush gave a presidential pardon to his son, Neil Bush. Esquire regrets the error.”
Sometime later, the piece was removed. The link now takes readers to a page that says, “This Column is No Longer Available.”
The page also includes a second editor’s note that notes the column was “removed due to an error” and “Esquire regrets the mistake.”
“The internet proved to be a cruel mistress,” RedState’s Bob Hoge adds:
A legacy media tragicomedy in 3 acts, by @CharlesPPierce and @esquire. HT @KFILE pic.twitter.com/sCl4yfY4Ue
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) December 4, 2024
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