This week’s edition of “Fox News Sunday” was worthy of a pay-per-view subscription, with Fox contributor Juan Williams ineptly defending Joe and Hunter Biden and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich patiently awaiting the opportunity to demolish Williams and his folly.
Williams was terrible from the outset:
We know Hunter Biden’s an addict — we know he’s an alcoholic. We know he’s had sex addiction problems. We know he’s not the son you would have.
But Joe Biden acted as a father trying to protect his son and try to help his son. I don’t think anyone’s gonna fault him for that.
Then, Williams went directly to whataboutism, which, along with hypocrisy, is the scourge of humanity. (Allow me to be a little hyperbolic, but I abhor it.)
But you compare that to the graft and the grifting from Trump golf courses, Trump hotels, Chinese shoe deals with the daughter, [and] the son-in-law getting billions from the Saudis. It’s unbelievable.
Even this week you have to compare it to the trouble we’ve heard about in New York with the sexual assault case against Trump.
But this is what Hunter Biden has come down to now. He is a distraction, a shield against all the trouble that Trump is experiencing.
Whataboutism aside, that last preposterous line was a bald-faced lie, and I suspect even Williams knew it when he said it, but Democrats do desperate Democrat things when the walls start to close in — and the walls are closing in on Joe Biden’s crackhead son and “The Big Guy,” as well.
Gingrich could hardly wait to attack Williams. “Here are the facts,” he began in response.
They may be legal. There are facts. The widow of the Moscow mayor sent millions of dollars to Hunter Biden. He got money from Kazakhstan.
He got money from Ukraine and served on a board about which he knew nothing. He got a lot of money from China and it’s a fact, Juan, that there were $3 million that has been disclosed that went to the Biden family from a Chinese billionaire. That is a fact.
Now you can decide that none of this stuff matters, but the fact is you have the Vice President of the United States taking his son on Air Force Two into China where his son is making business deals. And you just described his son. Your language, he’s a sex addict, he’s an alcoholic.
Williams, already beside himself, responded defensively:
Is that an attack on the president? He’s not the president! He’s the son! Nepotism is not a crime — you look at the nepotism in every president and every famous family but that’s not a crime.
Now, Shannon Bream was enraged by Williams’ hypocrisy:
But Juan! You brought up the Trump family! So is there a double standard here?
Williams hesitated before declaring:
I don’t know about—look, I think you have a son, Joe Biden’s son, Hunter who might make some business deals. Newt describes this as millions flowing to the family. Kind of a Morpheus. But I know specifically of two billion dollars that went to Jared Kushner and nobody’s gonna argue about that.
More on this story via Red State:
Again, whataboutism, Juan. The main reason I loathe the stuff is because it’s not a defense of a person or issue you’re trying to defend. Rather, it’s “Oh yeah,?! But what about what such-and-such did?!” People, grow the hell up and knock off the whataboutism nonsense. Please. CONTINUE READING…