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   From: bksherman@bleeding-rectums.cnn.com   
      
   ‘Late Show” host Stephen Colbert actually managed to set a new   
   record for wet media kisses delivered to Joe Biden in his long   
   sit-down with the prez-elect: He didn’t just offer a free pass   
   on the federal investigation of Hunter Biden, he portrayed   
   questions on the issue as victimizing the Biden family.   
      
   Yes, Colbert is a late-night talk-show host, not a journalist.   
   But remember how much flak “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon   
   got for being too nice in his September 2016 interview of then-   
   GOP-nominee Donald Trump?   
      
   Granted a lot of face time with Biden, the CBS host had a chance   
   to break news and do the public a service by asking real   
   questions of the next commander-in-chief.   
      
   But this is how Colbert brought up the Hunter Biden scandal:   
   “You know that the people who want to make hay here in   
   Washington are going to try to use your adult son as a cudgel   
   against you. How do you feel about that and what do you have to   
   say to those people?”   
      
   “I’m not concerned about any accusations that have been made   
   against him. It’s used to get to me,” Biden responded. “And he’s   
   a grown man. He is the smartest man I know, I mean, in pure   
   intellectual capacity. And as long as he’s good, we’re good.”   
      
   Colbert kept on the topic — to try to make Biden look even more   
   the victim.   
      
   “As a father, I understand that and I admire that. But in terms   
   of your job as president, can you reach across the aisle to   
   people who will be using this as an attack on you when it is   
   such a personal attack because it’s about family?”   
      
   “If it benefits the country, yes. I really mean it,” Biden said,   
   to which the fawning Colbert responded, “You’re a better man   
   than I. I’m not sure if I could do that.”   
      
   In other words, Colbert spent his valuable time with Biden   
   tossing softballs the equivalent of “why do you think your   
   critics beat their wives?”   
      
   What might he have pushed on? Well, Biden has said he never   
   discussed Hunter’s business dealings with him; e-mails The Post   
   recovered from Hunter’s laptop suggest that’s not true. In one e-   
   mail, an executive from Burisma, the Ukrainian company on whose   
   board Hunter sat, offers thanks for an introduction to the then-   
   vice president. Another outlined an agreement with a Chinese   
   company, with 10 percent to be “held by H for the big guy?”   
      
   How about asking Joe if he’s “the big guy”?   
      
   In fact, not one reporter has posed that question to the next   
   president. Will the “real journalists” ever do any better than   
   the late-night jokester?   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/12/18/stephen-colberts-joe-biden-   
   interview-a-real-joke/   
       
      
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