There can be no serious argument that the media isn’t in the bag for President Joe Biden but a New York Times columnist took the spin to an entirely new level with a piece gaslighting readers that the “Hunter Biden saga” is less about the pervasive corruption of the crack-smoking, gun-toting, sexual degenerate but a tale of how a flawed man overcame his addictions with help of his loving dad that should serve as an inspiration to all.
Mouthpieces for the Biden regime are out in full force after the Justice Department’s sweetheart plea deal with the president’s scoundrel of a son in which he was able to cop to two measly misdemeanors and a gun-related charge that will be dropped if he enters a diversion program, a brazen confirmation that the U.S. is no longer a nation where justice is blind, but one of a two-tiered system where Democrats are a protected species.
In his piece titled “The Real Lesson From the Hunter Biden Saga,” Nicholas Kristof foists off his shameless propaganda about Hunter and his crooked career politician father who he writes, offers “the country a fine model of the love and support that people with addictions need.”
The real meaning of the Hunter Biden saga, as I see it, isn’t about presidential corruption, but is about how widespread addiction is–and about how a determined parent with unconditional love can sometimes reel a child back: https://t.co/NvxVLECZvF That can give others hope.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 24, 2023
My column argues that existing addiction policies are grossly inadequate: We lose 250k Americans a year to drugs and alcohol combined. Only 6 percent with substance use disorder get treatment. I wish Pres Biden would tackle America’s disorder as seriously as he tackled his son’s.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 24, 2023
Pres. Biden led a nationwide push to tackle cancer after he lost one son to that disease; i wish he would lead another effort to tackle addictions that nearly killed Hunter. One precedent: Former First Lady Betty Ford’s brave discussion of her fight with addiction saved lives.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 24, 2023
For now there’s no clear evidence that the president did anything wrong, despite 5 years of investigation by a Trump-appointed US Attorney. But there is evidence that Biden modeled the parental love and support that can save lives. That should be scaled. https://t.co/NvxVLECZvF
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 24, 2023
Kristof’s piece was received with all of the scorn and ridicule that it was deserving of, and then some, from Twitter.
“Imagine being this much of a propagandist media shill for people in power. Holy sh*t this is embarrassing @nytimes,” wrote nationally syndicated talk radio host and Outkick founder Clay Travis.
Imagine being this much of a propagandist media shill for people in power. Holy shit this is embarrassing @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/GFUJKGgEoQ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 24, 2023
“While @NickKristof is clearly a boot licking propagandist shill for the most corrupt political family in our lives, @nytimes isn’t covering the biggest presidential bribery scandal in our lives as a news story, but is penning editorials defending the Biden’s,” Travis added.
While @NickKristof is clearly a boot licking propagandist shill for the most corrupt political family in our lives, @nytimes isn’t covering the biggest presidential bribery scandal in our lives as a news story, but is penning editorials defending the Biden’s.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 24, 2023
Other reactions weren’t much kinder to Kristof.
Say what you will about Hunter’s addiction but at least he’s sharing his crack with you
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 24, 2023
Yes it was Hunter’s addiction to crack that enabled him to make millions for the Biden family from the CCP. He is the true victim here. Clown.
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) June 24, 2023
I appreciate a lot of your work but come ON
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) June 24, 2023
Oh, of course. Not sure how we all missed the meaningful story of parental triumph amid the DPs, foreign wires, and (ongoing) sketchy art sales. What an oversight
— Maria Tucker (@mariatucker3) June 24, 2023
Are you being paid by the Times or the DNC?
— JGinWV (@JGinWV) June 24, 2023
Dude. Stop.
This is pathetic. Even for the NY Times.
— Ultra Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) June 24, 2023
Low effort propaganda
— Rob (@RobAustinH) June 24, 2023
Cringe, holy cow. You can be concerned about addiction and not be totally stupid about political corruption
— Sour Patch Lyds, proud American (@sourpatchlyds) June 24, 2023
And how could Hunter ever redeem himself in the eyes of Joe, his loving father?
Grift “scales” well.— Bestoink Jack (@JSCookJr) June 24, 2023
“Congressional Republicans will continue to make allegations. Some Democrats have seemed reluctant to engage, perhaps finding the Hunter saga sordid and likely to taint those who touch it,” Kristof wrote. “I think that’s a mistake. What I see is an opportunity for the president to take on the nation’s drug and alcohol problem as forcefully as he took on his son’s. Hunter Biden appears to have come back from the brink, and that can reassure families now in despair; millions of desperate Americans could use that hope.”
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