Biden’s press corps ignores Hunter Biden’s court case, says Tim Graham.

Unintentional Comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith, who heads the White House Correspondents’ Association, recently gave a speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that unintentionally brought some laughs.

A Reinforced Silo

Keith proclaimed that “people are choosing their news in part based on what they want to hear. And this makes us all vulnerable to conspiracy theories, to seeing the worst in our fellow citizens, to losing sight of our shared humanity.” But does she think NPR listeners aren’t guilty of this as well?

It’s a common habit among liberals to think that the other side lives in a silo, while their side is open-minded. Keith even claimed that she and her colleagues “pull no punches” and “hold the administration accountable.” But let’s offer Keith some easy proof that she and her NPR clan live in a reinforced silo: news about Hunter Biden.

The Hunter Biden Story

On Monday, Biden appeared in court for two hours in Batesville, Arkansas, in his attempt to lower his child support payments to the mother, Lunden Roberts, and their 4-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts. The Bidens have spent four years pretending this child does not exist, and everyone in the pro-Biden press seems to have their necks permanently turned the other way.

If this were one of Donald Trump’s sons trying to lower child support payments, NPR and the rest of the liberal alphabet soup would have been all over this, scouring father and son for their callous treatment. But the hearing came and went, and there was nothing on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and NPR.

It’s not just television. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today didn’t have anything about Hunter’s court appearance in their Tuesday papers. Liberal outlets rushed to make time for the latest courtroom testimony from Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll. But there was nothing for little Navy Joan or her mother.

Media Outlets Outside the Liberal Silo

Media outlets outside the liberal silo find Hunter Biden newsworthy. Looking at our Snapstream TV monitoring software on hearing day, Fox News and Newsmax were all over it. People who tune in to conservative channels for the news that liberal outlets suppress? Those are the people Tamara Keith would accuse of spreading conspiracy theories and seeing the worst in our fellow citizens. NPR hates Fox News (and their fans) with a red-hot passion.

This energetically neglected love-child story underlines the insincerity of liberals lamenting that conservative distrust of the press means we can’t have “shared facts.” You can’t have those when liberals try to bury facts they don’t like, and assault those who keep them above ground.

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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