CNN Celebrates Biden’s ‘Monumental,’ ‘Poignant’ Pardon of ‘Only Surviving Son’ Hunter

Curtis Houck
December 2nd, 2024 11:27 AM

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With less than 30 minutes of air time Sunday night before bailing out for taped programming (while Fox News and MSNBC continued on for hours), CNN was ebullient Sunday night over President Joe Biden’s pardoning of son Hunter and called it a “poignant” and “monumental moment” to serve as the “culmination” of his entire presidency to save his “only surviving son” amid a life of “cruel” “hardships.”

Senior national correspondent Jeff Zeleny was in pole position to sound off and, boy, did he ever. Watch the clip below and recall the fact that he infamously asked then-President Obama at a press conference marking his first 100 days in office what “enchanted” him the most about the job:

In the second part of the clip, Zeleny marveled at the President having done that after “spen[din]g really the weekend with his son, Hunter, and the rest of the family in Nantucket,” making for “a striking really ending to this Thanksgiving holiday” with the pardon also extending from both his convicted crimes to any crimes he may have committed in the last decade.

CNN Newsroom anchor Jessica Dean also laid it on thick with the tiresome liberal media trope about the Bidens being a wrought with tragedy like they’re the Kennedys:

This was followed by senior Justice correspondent Evan Perez’s shilling for his friends in the Deep State, lamenting this won’t help beat back the attempts from “the Trump team...to destroy some of those institutions”:

Senior political reporter and all-around hack Edward-Isaac Dovere joined the sympathy parade, calling the debate over whether to pardon “has been a great pain to Joe Biden for many years and was weighing on him as he decided whether to run for reelection” and that Hunter’s struggles were exacerbated by who his father is.

Zeleny returned for more chicanery, this time revealing the question over pardoning Hunter had only “been very much a family discussion” centering around fears of what a Trump Justice Department would investigate and not “as a policy matter inside the West Wing.”

Senior legal analyst Elie Honig was next and suggested pardoning family members isn’t without precedent given Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother Roger in 2001 and President Trump pardoning his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father in 2021. Nonetheless, he worried the pardon “will really be a” political “Rorschach test.”

Senior White House correspondent M.J. Lee demonstrated the reality that, when push comes to shove, the White House press corps will always take their medicine and paint the Bidens as sympathetic, everyday Americans facing “cruel” “hardships”:

 

Dean again nauseatingly had to bring up Hunter as some poor soul who lost his brother Beau and that the President chose to save “his only living son.” Given her partisan bent (and how her husband was a Clinton operative), Dean lobbed a softball for Lee to give “context” on “just how close knit” the Biden’s are.

Lee obliged and cited Hunter as one of his closest advisers:

Far-left presidential historian Douglas Brinkley brought up the rear and closed out this tail-kissing of the Bidens with nonsense about Hunter Biden’s conduct now relegated to “political...folklore”:

To see the relevant CNN transcript from December 1, click here.

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