NewsBusters Podcast: Tapper Fails and Fetterman Flails

There were two big TV interviews on October 11. CNN kicked off their primetime Jake Tapper show with a softball interview with Biden, and Tapper spent the first chunk asking about Russia and Putin and Ukraine. Then came a weird segment where the Facts First network played along with Biden and pretended the nation is not currently in a recession.

But the worst softball was asking the president an open-ended question about the possible indictment of his son Hunter: “Prosecutors think they have enough to charge your son, Hunter, for tax crimes and a false statement about a gun purchase. Personally and politically, how do you react to that?”

We would like someone to ask Biden about how the Democrats all insisted the Hunter laptop was a phony Russian plot, and now it’s not. We would like someone to ask Biden how he can possibly lie — given the laptop evidence — that he didn’t discuss Hunter’s clients with him.

Meanwhile, NBC reporter Dasha Burns sternly questioned John Fetterman about his lack of transparency about his medical struggles after a stroke. Burns upset liberals by explaining beforehand that Fetterman required a Tele-Prompter to understand the questions, since he’s having “auditory processing” issues. Democrats don’t want you discussing how Fetterman is currently unable to debate on the floor of the Senate.