A week after Hunter Biden was pardoned, the Media Research Center was still raging about it. RIch Noyes went on a whataboutism exercise in a Dec. 8 post:
The liberal media have exhibited great compassion for President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, convicted of multiple federal crimes. “The President came to believe that raw politics had infected the process…he saw how political opponents of his — the President’s — were trying to hurt his son….He thought that the treatment of his son had been cruel,” CNN White House correspondent MJ Lee empathized during breaking news coverage December 1.
“The White House concedes that Donald Trump was a factor here,” ABC’s Mary Bruce helpfully added during Monday’s World News Tonight. “The President was concerned that he wouldn’t let up, that a Trump administration would go after Hunter.”
But in 2007, the liberal networks were much harsher after then-President George W. Bush offered clemency — not a pardon — for ex-Cheney aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby, convicted earlier that year of lying during Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into who exposed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame four years earlier, in July 2003, to columnist Robert Novak.
Noyes ignored the fact that Libby was a government official and Hunter is … not.
The same day, Jorge Bonilla gushed sloppily over his favorite CNN right-wing talking head:
During the panel portion of the most recent broadcast of CNN State of the Union, conservative commentator Scott Jennings absolutely unloaded on the Biden administration over their duplicity with regard to the pardon of Hunter Biden, and called the media out over their seeming unwillingness to hold The White House accountable.
Watch as Jennings nukes Biden from orbit:
[…]What would the media’s reaction have been had a pardon under similar circumstances been issued from Donald Trump to Don, Jr.? We’d be talking DEFCON One across the dial, with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in front of every cable news camera, calling for impeachment. But Hunter? Things are (D)ifferentl, you see. In light of the pardon of Hunter Biden, media reaction has been…muted at best, sycophantic at worst.
Jennings rightly calls out this hypocrisy, as well as the hypocrisy and lack of transparency shown by the Biden White House, both with the Hunter pardon and with the prospective pardons of Anthony Fauce [sic] and members of the House January 6th Committee.
“Nukes Biden from orbit”? Seems like violent rhetoric that should probably be looked into further. It’s worth noting that the MRC apparently never put Bonilla’s post in a featured slot on the NewsBusters front page that would include an image of Jennings, presumably to keep from having to display the headline “NUKES Biden From Orbit” so prominently displayed. Of course, we can eaily screencap the headline with or without the image.
Christian Toto spent a Dec. 14 column whining that non-right-wing comedy shows didn’t mercilessly mock Hunter like his right-wing buddies do:
Hunter Biden is a gift late-night comedians refuse to open.
The bedraggled First Son’s life could fuel endless monologues. Consider the accusations lobbed against him in recent years:
- Addiction
- Sex trafficking
- Tax evasion
- Funneling millions to “The Big Guy”
Heck, he even allegedly peddled poop paintings to balance his wobbly budget. What more could late-night satirists want?
Had the 50-something Biden had an “R” next to his name Colbert and co. would spend countless hours mocking him.
Instead, they mostly ignore him … except when they’re excusing his pappy’s pardon that covered far more than the crimes he’s accused of committing.
[…]Enter New Media.
Comedian Remy uncorked a funny song parody tied to President Joe Biden’s ill-received pardon for his troubled son.
Sung to the tune of Sheryl Crow’s “Soak Up the Son,” “Pardon My Son” blends quirky laughs with real elements of the Hunter Biden saga.
This isn’t the only case of new media platforms doing the job “Saturday Night Live” and friends won’t.
[…]New media platforms happily tell the jokes and break the stories, that their mainstream peers won’t.
Toto won’t tell you that those “new media platforms” would never criticize or mock Trump — he’s their meal ticket, after all.
The MRC also published a Dec. 9 anti-Hunter column by Larry Elder that whined: “This raises a question. When will Biden pardon the rest of his family members and himself? Stay tuned.”