The nation’s most self-impressed journalists, the ones who strangely self-identify as “mainstream,” could not bring themselves to treat the Hunter Biden trial as comparable in any way to Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan. Treating Hunter as a significant “news” subject gives them the creeps, like they’ve been drafted into Rupert Murdoch’s army.
So it’s a little shocking the Hunter trial gained about half as much coverage as Trump’s — at least through the first eight days of coverage. On the ABC, CBS and NBC morning, evening and Sunday interview shows, Trump’s trial drew more than 174 minutes, while Hunter’s trial drew 85 minutes. (By the Trump trial’s end, they filled the air with 640 minutes.)
It’s less shocking to notice the difference in tone. Trump’s trial was a “criminal” trial about “hush money.” On April 25, fill-in CBS anchor Margaret Brennan announced, “The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents related to a so-called hush money payment to a porn star.” Other stories fussed that Trump was bullying and threatening witnesses and court staff.
Hunter Biden stories were loaded with empathy. On June 3, ABC’s Terry Moran relayed: “President Biden released a statement standing by his only surviving son, saying in part ‘I have boundless love for my son.'” CBS reporter Norah O’Donnell echoed him that night on “the president’s only surviving son.” On June 10, NBC fill-in anchor Tom Llamas began: “For the first time, the child of a sitting president facing a potential criminal conviction. Right now, a jury deliberating the fate of Hunter Biden, the sole surviving son of the president.”
Hunter Biden is 54 and network anchors refer to him as a “child.”
The contrast in tone tells you that the media elites loathe Trump but treat the Biden family like they’re close friends who they want to surround and protect. There was a sense of glee when Democrats began crowing about Trump the “convicted felon.” Then came the sorrow that they only had 11 days to celebrate before the president’s son drew the same label.
Then came the stubborn facts. Conservative outlets like the New York Post were more interested in how prosecutors based their case on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the court verified it as evidence. CBS never mentioned this. ABC gave 10 seconds, and NBC offered 30 seconds acknowledging the laptop’s use in court. None of them revisited their 2020 performance, when they all robotically regurgitated the Biden campaign spin that the laptop was “garbage” carrying the “earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Prosecutors not only mined the laptop but used Hunter’s addiction memoir “Beautiful Things” against him. That was quite a backfire, after the pro-Biden networks (and their affiliated comedians like Jimmy Kimmel) gushed over Hunter’s memoir as “catharsis” for the 50-something child. Back in 2021, CBS donated 25 minutes of airtime to syrupy interview segments with the addict. Maybe “donated” is the wrong word since CBS-affiliated Simon & Schuster published the book.
These guilty verdicts will not affect the pro-Biden media’s incessant efforts to tout the Biden family as a selling point for the Democrats. They couldn’t stop talking after the verdict about how the first lady was in the courtroom almost every day, and how the president scores points with voters when he talks about how much he loves his “only surviving son.”
They will keep spinning in desperation that Hunter Biden’s epic crack-and-hookers binges somehow make the Bidens more sympathetic to Americans with addicts in their family. Journalists were given cocaine-powdered lemons, and the lemonade they are making is a heady brew. But not everyone wants to drink it.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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The Hunter Biden verdict and trial just reveals the depth of the Biden Family financial and moral corruption, where mind clouded indoctrinated trusting sons are used by their father to promote and enrich the best interests of the father who never shows up in times of trial, but abandons the father corrupted son to endure the punishments that were and are more fit for the devious father. Hunter himself is the pure definition of the word “SCAPEGOAT” ,,, a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency. Few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated by those they turned to for leadership, comfort, and protection. Hunter himself was a willing co-conspirator, but make no mistake which tree this rotten apple fell from, and who filled him with the worms. The only way such men are able to weasel their way into power over a strong successful hard working people is through the same deceptions that diminish THE PEOPLE as what we now see in the form of a debased son, whose father now treats and debases the interests of the American people, and offers them the same lack of protection worldwide that will only serve to create a nation of more destroyed Hunter Biden’s, whose fit father created downfall will just mirror what awaits the fall of an entire nation if this creep is allowed 4 more years to destroy us.
AND you can bet the powers that be ,will do all they can to COMMUTE OR even pardon Hunter…
Another reason why the Constitutional law should changed to prevent ANY President from the power of the pardon or commutation between the time the election is lost to the time he actually leaves office. Lame ducks just make duck soup out of our intended and Consitutionally approved laws. Joe would pardon a Hunter’s hardon in a heartbeat, as soon as he knows that the election can no longer be won or lost. THE PEOPLE need to know what kind of man they are rejecting or electing BEFORE the die is cast, and we get stuck with another 4 years of American crime family leadership who promises anything to get elected then does whatever he wills to obey or ignore the American established laws of the land.
IF anything, get RID OF presidential power to pardon/commute sentences..
Proverbs -6:16-19-“King James Version-” These Six Things doth the Lord Hate: Yea, Seven are An Abomination Unto Him:
A Proud Look, A Lying Tongue, and Hands that Shed Innocent Blood, An Heart That Deviseth Wicked Imaginations, Feet that be Swift in Runningto Mischief, A False Witness that Speaketh Lies, And He that soweth Discord Among Brethren.”
Democrat President, Joe Biden, “… Be All Things To All Men…” 1-Corinthians -9:22-King James Version-22
” To the weak became i as weak that i might gain the Weak, I Am made All Things to All men that i might by all means save Some”
democrat President, Joe Biden, Carryed this too Far I believe…
“Hunter Biden is 54 and network anchors refer to him as a “child.” ”
Well…?
But Hunter was not just a child, at the time. He was a well meaning, gun toting, influence peddling child with a penchant for big lumps of crack cocaine.
Just like someone CAUGHT in the act of a crime, is seen by the news folk as “ALLEGED” criminal.. BUT i also know FAR too many parents, who STILL to this day, think of their son/daughter, as their “baby”.. EVEN WHEN THEY ARE In their 50s themselves…
Typical Democrat child, disguised as and housed within what appears to be an adult body,,,or in Hunter’s case an adulterer’s body. He is one weak Hunter who no Little Red Ridinghood could count on to take out the Big Bad Wolves. Hunter IS the Big Bad wolf, ever on the hunt for the next financial or sexual immediate gratification.