‘Breathtaking’: CNN’s Brian Stelter Heaps Praise on ‘Extraordinary’ Hunter Biden Memoir
CNN’s Brian Stelter reads a lot of memoirs, he says, and on Sunday described his most recent read as “extraordinary” and “breathtaking,” while bashing the “right wing” for being “obsessed” with the author, Hunter Biden.
“I’ll tell you what, I’ve read a lot of memoirs, but never one like this before,” said Stelter to start the segment on Sunday’s Reliable Sources. “This is Hunter Biden’s book ‘Beautiful Things’ that comes out on Tuesday.”
After a heartbeat pause for impact, he added, “It is extraordinary.”
Stelter surmises that his viewers are very tuned in on Hunter Biden, that they’ve heard the “tabloid” coverage of him over the years, and said that the “right wing media” is “obsessed” with the breathtaking author of an extraordinary book who was the subject of a major CBS News interview and the subject of Stelter’s remarks and subsequent panel discussion.
“Fox News always targeting him,” said Stelter, the latest in his ongoing daily, weekly, book-subect-ly targeting of Fox News that he is definitely not “obsessed” with.
“There are real questions to ask,” Stelter sort of conceded about the scandals surrounding the famous son of the president who held an extravagantly well-paying international business role, including questions “about the laptop that CBS is probing.”
By probing, Stelter is presumably referring to CBS’ Sunday Morning asking him about what they described as “rumors” surrounding his laptop. Many in media still treat the story – which Twitter tried to censor – as if it is not worthy of news coverage. However, when reporting on the story can be used to bash Biden critics it is very newsworthy, for whatever mysterious reason.
But not TOO newsworthy. After the brief mention that there are “questions” to ask about the laptop, the only other mention of scandal was to imply that most negative stories about Hunter Biden are “smears,” as Stelter suggested that no one ever hears “his side of the story.’
Luckily, Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik was able to steer away from the skid by saying that he does not want to call it a “hero quest.” Whew!
“This book,” said Stelter in his intro, holding it up for emphasis, “this book about addiction, about how many times Hunter Biden could have died, the president’s son…”
A double heartbeat pause, then: “It’s breathtaking.”
It sure is.
