MRC Whines When Right-Wing Hunter Biden Derangement Is Called Out

It’s been a bit since we last checked in on the rampant Hunter Biden Derangement Syndrome at the Media Research Center, and it has unsurprisingly continued apace:

• Silent as the Grave: ABC Ignores Hunter Implicating Joe in China Deal
• NBC Only Gingerly Confronts Growing Doubts About Biden 2024, Hunter Plea Deal
• PBS’s Washington Week Panel Showers Hunter and Presidential Dad With Sympathy
• 2024 Interference: ABC Hides Whistleblower Speaking Out on Hunter Biden Probe
• SHOCK: ABC’s Karl Confronts Dem on Alleged Interference in Hunter Probe
• SUCKER! Jim Acosta Lets Hunter Biden Rep Claim Hunter’s Laptop Has No ‘Forensic Validity’
• Nets Skip BOMBSHELL Report FBI Obstructing Congress’s Hunter Probe
• NewsBusters Podcast: Chuck Todd and NBC Decry ‘Ugly, Tacky’ Pouncing on Hunter Biden
• NPR Couldn’t Do ONE SECOND on the House Oversight Hearing on Hunter Biden and DOJ
• CBS’s Brennan Urges GOP to Move on From Hunter Biden, Christie Educates Her
• Nets Ignore FOUR New Biden Scandals on Burisma, Hunter’s Life of Corruption

Meanwhile, the MRC got mad whenever the right-wing obsession with Hunter was called out for what it is. Kevin Tober complained in a July 11 post:

On MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid brought on leftist activist and turncoat former Republican Kurt Bardella to smear and mock Republicans in Congress for wanting to hold Joe Biden’s drug addict criminal son Hunter accountable for his many crimes. Proving that he has no self-awareness at all, Bardella claimed some Republicans secretly think House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and other members of the committee investigating Hunter look like “a bunch of morons.”

First, Reid made the case that the Trump family are the ones who should be investigated, not the Biden crime family. “If they wanted to investigate a family that’s got some like, I don’t know, corrupt vibes, you had a Chinese spy,” Reid proclaimed. “This is where the Chinese spy was! At Mar-a-Lago while he had all our documents and all our national security, she was walking all through there and ended up getting arrested.”

“You’ve got Donald Trump profiting off a hotel in DC where all the Saudis and all the people were paying him and the Republicans were paying him off,” Reid shrieked. 

Choosing to ignore the flagrant corruption of the Biden family, Reid huffed about Trump instead: “I mean the corruption is so clear but they don’t care.”

Tober made no attempt to defend the Trumps family’s actions or expain why it’s not worse than what right-wingers accused the Bidens of doing.

Peter Kotara huffed in a July 19 post:

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski and former RNC chairman turned MSNBC political analyst, Michael Steele, teamed up to laugh off any concerns about the crimes of Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden.

They discussed how to shape the narrative about Trump and Biden, emphasizing how former President Trump was supposedly a criminal, but that Hunter Biden was just a “distraction” and a “boogieman” for the right. Steele went on to argue that Republican characterizations of President Biden were ridiculous.

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Her claim that Republicans were “just going after people” also held no water. Hunter Biden committed crimes in the open – his laptop that the media denied existing proved that. He also was considered by many conservatives to have been behind the cocaine found in the White House. To not go after Hunter Biden would be an affront to the rule of law and would tell the world that people in positions of power can do whatever they want, and are above the law.

Yes, we’re quite aware that Kotara’s co-workers obsessed  over the idea that the cocaine belonged to Hunter despite a complete lack of evidence to back up that speculation. Kotara continued to rant:

In terms of Hunter Biden, many parts of the truth that he committed criminal acts have already been exposed, hence the plea deal with federal prosecutors, and will continue to be probed by the House Oversight Committee and Chairman James Comer (R-KY).

We don’t recall the MRC being this demanding of justice when Donald Trump was indicted for the crimes he committed — in fact, it did everything it could to distract attention away from Trump’s criminality.

Alex Christy similarly whined in a July 26 post:

Before Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell apart on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera and political chameleon Kurt Bardella offered up what their big takeaway from all of the drama surrounding him: Republicans are hypocrites.

Cabrera thought it was interesting that former assistant FBI director for counterintelligence “Frank Figliuzzi brought up that under the Trump Administration Republican lawmakers were not interested in investigating then-President Trump’s family business dealings or Jared Kushner’s dealings and possible conflicts of interest.”

If Figliuzzi said so, then according to Cabrera, it must be true, “given the recent development and what we’re seeing playing out there on The Hill, of all being Hunter Biden and this investigation, what do you make of this apparent hypocrisy?”

Why Republicans are hypocrites, but Democrats aren’t is something neither Cabrera nor Bardella would ever attempt to explain. Bardella would, however, claim “it’s pretty glaring and, again, it just underscores and illustrates how this is purely political and not actually evidentiary or fact-based in any way.”

When Bardella pointed out that “the Trump family has been the beneficiary of from questionable sources and questions about how they arranged those financial dealings, it completely dwarves anything compared to Hunter Biden,” Christy groused, “At least Kushner actually managed to accomplish something in the White House, which is more than one can say about Hunter’s business credentials,” linking to his touting of the so-called Abraham Accords, in which he got a few minor Muslim-led countries to normalize relations with Israel. Christy has previously insisted that Kushner earned and deserved his $2 billion Saudi payoff.