Posted on 04/07/2021 3:52:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
It doesn't take a particularly impressive imagination to predict how the liberal media would cover one of former President Donald Trump's sons if he were to have a major crack and alcohol addiction. Stories would begin with the notion that Trump was a terrible father who's too self-absorbed and absent to raise his children right.
CNN would certainly strike that pose. But on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," host Brian Stelter was deeply impressed with Hunter Biden's "extraordinary" and "breathtaking" memoir. Stelter gleefully promoted every tabloidish Trump-trashing book -- from Omarosa's to Anthony Scaramucci's -- but he's doing the exact opposite now.
"Take out the last name Biden," Stelter said. "This is about addiction and how to help people, and it's going to resonate for that reason." The wishful thinking is presented as analysis. Regular panelist and TV writer David Zurawik seconded that emotion, saying: "It's going to have real resonance with people. ... I think the power of this is going to be positive for the Bidens."
Isn't that the whole point of this book strategy? To flimflam past Hunter Biden's actual behavior by congratulating him for turning his life around? And congratulating the Bidens for their wonderful compassion and saving grace?
Stelter can't even accurately describe the media coverage.
"Someone like Hunter Biden is covered in the tabloids; he's covered on Fox. People never hear his side of the story," Stelter claimed. What? Biden granted an interview to ABC's Amy Robach in October 2019 that was completely his side of the story. A year ago, The New York Times published a syrupy profile on "painting as therapy" headlined "There's a New Artist in Town. The Name is Biden." Then, last fall, "objective" news outlets robotically mouthed the Biden mantra on Hunter: Any journalism about the laptop left in the Delaware repair shop, which is clearly his, had the "earmarks of Russian disinformation."
Despite being terribly unfactual, Stelter continued: "It's rare to actually hear the principal or the celebrity, in this case, that's the wrong word. But you know what I mean -- the famous person actually tells their account after being in many cases smeared for years."
Stelter has never heard of a celebrity writing a memoir about addiction? People make lists of their top 10 memoirs about addiction. As for being "smeared," Stelter isn't specific. He seems to think it's unfair to mention the cavalcade of Hunter Biden exploits. He wouldn't mention Biden's alleged "love child" with stripper Lunden Roberts, or his wanton relationship with the widow of his brother, Beau, following his 23-year marriage to Kathleen Biden. The pro-Biden press pretends these are tabloid smears, not actual reckless and immoral behavior.
In the "Reliable Sources" newsletter, Stelter doubled down. "(H)is first-hand account of drug addiction, tabloid culture and political craziness is incredibly informative," he says. "It's one of those 'you think you know, but you have no idea' types of stories." He quotes an Entertainment Weekly reviewer who touts Joe Biden as "the ultimate Patriarch."
Stelter also quotes CNN colleague John Avlon's gush over the book. It "not only humanizes Hunter" but "puts a point on Joe Biden's refusal during the campaign to distance himself from his only surviving son."
We think we know, but we have no idea? That only makes sense if you completely skip Fox News, the New York Post and every other media site that doesn't gather its "news" from Biden's publicity handouts.
The most overlooked fact on the Hunter Biden book-and-sympathy tour is that he was committing many of these financial scams and behavioral debaucheries while his father had the obscure job of ... vice president of the United States. Back then, CNN's motto could have been "Flacks First." That fits today.
Pops told me in the early 80s that slowJoe was yet another shyster politician.
Pops was right.
It sucks, being a sycophant.
Biden desperately needed Hunter resurrected. Biden had Big Plans for "his boy" but Hunter wasnt cooperating.
So Biden found a publisher who valued govt favors and tax handouts more than it valued truth.
Thus Hunter's book, published by Simon and Schuster, was born...and is now....
Drum roll please......on the (gasp) best-seller list....thanks to book-buying companies w/ U-Hauls.
Now the real work begins....grooming Hunter to take a seat in the US Congress from Delaware.
The same braindead voters who stupidly kept reelecting Joe cant wait to vote for crackhead Hunter.
THIS STANDS OUT AS THE DEFINITIVE JOE BIDEN
<><> Joe Biden said he “didn’t know” about Hunter moving in w/ his dead son’s widow (cue hysterical laugh machine here)
<><> Not until NY Post’s Page Six reached out to Biden for comment.
<><>Hunter begged Joe to issue a statement giving his blessing when he moved in w/ his dead brothers’s widow:
<><>HUNTER’S TORTURED LOGIC “‘Dad... if people find out, but they think you’re not approving of this, it makes it seem wrong,’ ”
DEVOUT CATHOLIC JOE PIOUSLY BLESSED THEM: “We are all lucky that “my boy” Hunter and Hallie
found each other as they were putting their lives together after the sadness of Beau’s death,” Biden said at the time ...
(Mind you, the devout Biden piously said this after crackhead Hunter callously abandoned his
wife of 20 years and their three young children, leaving them penniless, to move in w/ Hallie.)
Biden ended: “They have mine and [my wife] Jill’s full and complete support and we are happy for them.”
Turned out to be Another classic Biden pump’er and dump’er scheme-——
Hunter and Beau’s widow after two years of cohabitation, announced they’re splitting.
The fact that this family can totally abandon a child and grandchild tells you everything you need to know about them.
Hunter Biden is on the DO NOT TOUCH list he has a Daddy card.
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