On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd took issue with Republicans criticizing Joe Biden for refusing to acknowledge his seventh grandchild who his son and well-known drug addict Hunter had with a stripper out of wedlock. To Todd, the issue was not that the Biden family have shunned the poor little girl Hunter and the stripper had together, it's Republicans who are the villains of the story in Todd's delusional mind.
"I think we all understand the personal challenge and concern and all of these things that the President has here, but his political foes see this and they're trying to exploit," Todd lashed out. "There’s no doubt, every day DeSantis or Trump tries to use Hunter to beat up Biden."
Todd or anyone else at NBC doesn't get to lecture or claim the moral high ground by talking about how the children of Presidents should be treated. Frequent NewsBusters readers will recall how NBC treated Ivanka Trump.
NBC's senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake jumped in to moan about how the Biden family and "Hunter specifically have become his primary political liability in a lot of ways. I mean look at the cocaine story from the last week and how many Republicans have tried to seize on that."
"It's really kinda ugly the way it's been done," Todd bemoaned.
Speaking of ugly, Todd also gave Biden a pass for his vulgar language, while lambasting Trump's perceived poor choice of words. It's hypocrisy all around for Chuck Todd & NBC.
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NBC’s Meet the Press
7/9/2023
10:57:30 a.m. EasternCHUCK TODD: Before I close, Maureen Dowd, Garrett, had a pretty tough piece on Joe Biden’s—it was about sort of the Biden family isn’t acknowledging all of Hunter Biden’s children. It’s seven grandkids, Mr. President, not six. I think we all understand the personal challenge and concern and all of these things that the President has here, but his political foes see this and they're trying to exploit. There’s no doubt, every day DeSantis or Trump tries to use Hunter to beat up Biden. How’s that world handling it?
GARRETT HAAKE: Look, I don’t think anybody envies the position that the President and his family are in on this issue. Because his family and Hunter specifically have become his primary political liability in a lot of ways. I mean look at the cocaine story from the last week and how many Republicans have tried to seize on that.
[unintelligible crosstalk]
TODD: It's really kinda ugly the way it's been done.
HAAKE: It's a certainly kind of a tacky play here, but I mean look, this is as complex as it gets to have to you know--I think all of us here are parents right? The idea of trying to balance your family's needs versus your political imperative is just ugly and unpleasant in politics as we’re gonna get and we’re gonna get way down in it.
