Boston Herald

MEDIA HITS FAKE NEWS HIGH

Ignoring story of Hunter Biden scandals is partisan politics

- Adriana COHEN

There’s a reason the mainstream media is suffering a credibilit­y crisis.

In addition to a neverendin­g stream of #FakeNews stories targeting President Trump, look at how vastly differentl­y it covers politician­s and their families based on political affiliatio­n — and ignores dirty deeds that warrant scrutiny when they are in the right party.

Take Hunter Biden, the troubled son of Democratic front-runner Joe Biden. Thanks to unethical media barely covering his flagrant escapades and long history of drug and alcohol addiction, the average voter is unaware of the 2016 incident when workers at a rental car agency in Arizona called the cops after finding a cocaine pipe in Hunter’s vehicle along with a baggie of a white substance.

Nor do most voters know about the times “Uncle Joe’s” son bought crack from a homeless camp or got booted from the Navy for cocaine. But that’s not all the corrupt media is sweeping under the rug.

The Democratic frontrunne­r’s son also abused his now ex-wife not only with decades of his substance abuse throughout their 23year marriage and the trauma that brings to a family but also the extramarit­al affairs —including a sexual relationsh­ip with his brother’s wife — after his brother Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.

But that’s not all the left wing punditry is burying on its nightly newscasts.

Hunter’s ex-wife Kathleen, mother to his three daughters, filed a motion in Washington, D.C., Superior Court a few years back seeking to freeze his assets, claiming that he “created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagan­tly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitute­s, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills,” reports the New

Yorker.

Adding to the dumpster fire is reports Joe Biden’s son allegedly cheated on his dead brother’s widow with a stripper whom he impregnate­d — then denied the baby was his — until a paternity test proved otherwise.

Now imagine the headlines if Hunter’s last name was Trump. There would be a media frenzy with wall-towall coverage telling voters how immoral the Trump family is, with a blow-byblow account of how horribly Trump men mistreat women, reigniting a “War on Women” political narrative — on steroids.

Establishm­ent media would also be doing a deep dive into their financial dealings with foreign government­s and shady corporatio­ns, but since Hunter Biden is the son of a Democratic front-runner they’re uninterest­ed in the $50,000 a month he was curiously paid by a sketchy Ukraine natural gas company while his father was vice president and the Obama administra­tion’s point man on Ukraine.

To say we’re living in an age of media bias is a Goliath understate­ment. It’s media malpractic­e like we’ve never seen before.

Truly frightenin­g.

 ?? PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP ?? NEWS COVERAGE FAVORITISM: Hunter Biden, the son of presidenti­al candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, has reportedly been involved in several scandals, but most people are not well-informed about the problems of the Democratic frontrunne­r’s son, as the mainstream media has largely avoided the story.
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP NEWS COVERAGE FAVORITISM: Hunter Biden, the son of presidenti­al candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, has reportedly been involved in several scandals, but most people are not well-informed about the problems of the Democratic frontrunne­r’s son, as the mainstream media has largely avoided the story.
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