Liberal comedian Stephen Colbert’s interview with Joe and Jill Biden Thursday was derided not only for its submissiveness, but for the fact that an entertainer asked the president-elect about the investigation of his son before many mainstream media reporters did.
‘I know you want to be bipartisan and reach down the aisle, but as much as you want it to happen, you know the people who want to make hay in Washington will try to use your grown son as a club against you, Colbert asked on CBS’s “The Late Show.” How do you feel about that and what do you have to say to those people?
“We have a lot of faith in our son,” said Biden. “I’m not worried about the allegations made against him. It’s used to hit me. I think it’s kind of foul play, but look, it is what it is, and he’s a grown man. is the smartest man I know. “
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Biden had not held a formal interview since the investigation into his son’s tax affairs came to light last week, only briefly responding to shouted questions on the subject from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy. Many media outlets rejected an October article in the New York Post about the younger Biden during the 2020 campaign as part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
“Really tough interview, right? By a comedian,” Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee said on Friday in “Fox & Friends.” “He doesn’t hang out with hard-hitting journalists, because none of them will ask him the tough questions.”
CBS This Morning tweeted Colbert’s clip on Friday, describing Biden as discussing “the Republican attacks on his son, Hunter Biden, who is facing a federal tax investigation.” CBS Evening News also played a short clip of the segment on Thursday night’s air, conservative commentator Stephen Miller noted with amusement.
“CBS is full of hugely talented reporters who kept watching this crawling interview like pedestrians,” tweeted Jonathan Turley, a Fox News employee. “It was as if pitchers Jacob DeGrom or Shane Bieber were watching from the dugout as Dr. Anthony Fauci took the mound as the starter in a season opener.” He also wrote an op-ed in which he called the interview a “total embarrassment”.
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“There was no question from Colbert on Thursday as to how emails and witnesses, if true, would reveal that Biden knowingly and repeatedly lied. To date, he has denied any knowledge of the son’s business dealings,” he wrote. Turley. “Hunter Biden himself contradicted his father on that point, but that was not enough to ask Joe Biden about his previous denials.”
“Between Barack Obama’s hard-hitting interview with Trevor Noah and Joe Biden’s hard-hitting interview with Stephen Colbert, I’m just happy that our era of entertainment-first politics is coming to an end,” tweeted conservative radio host Ben Shapiro.
Colbert’s childhood glove treatment of the Hunter Biden issue contrasted with how he responded to President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr .. In 2017, he enthusiastically delivered the report of Trump Jr.’s readiness. To accept dirt from Russia on Hillary Clinton, he shouted it was ironclad evidence of collusion and described Trump’s eldest son as an ‘idiot’ or ‘prisoner’.
Colbert also asked Jill Biden on Thursday to respond to the recent controversy over her doctorate in education after a conservative critic urged her to drop the honorific in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Colbert wondered if the criticism was a “compliment,” since it was all they could think of to go after. The host of the “Late Show” also sympathetically asked her husband if he would “take out a piece of pool chain and put full Corn Pop on these people?”
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Colbert’s stance was not surprising, given his well-known political affiliation. Several Democratic presidential candidates for 2020 used his show to announce their bids due to his left-wing audience.
Colbert became famous as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and for his satirical portrayal of a harsh, right-wing expert on “The Colbert Report.”
Since joining CBS in 2015, he has rebranded himself as a dependable Democratic sycophant. In 2017, he played a clip of former President Barack Obama speaking and then cooed at the camera, “I miss you.”
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In August, after Michelle Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention, Colbert gushed that he couldn’t make a humorous comment about her speech.
“My job is to make a joke every time someone says something in public,” he said. “After seeing Michelle Obama’s speech, I’ve never been more happy to be a failure in my job.”