NBC News has parlayed being the first of the broadcast networks to report on President Joe Biden finally acknowledging his 4-year-old granddaughter into lionizing him Monday morning for taking that long and withstanding the criticism. Meanwhile, ABC and CBS didn’t want to stick their necks out that far as they spent barely over a minute (64 seconds) of combined time on the story over the weekend, taking 24 hours before they mentioned it.
After being the only broadcast network to cover how the Biden clan would finally acknowledge the little girl as one of their own, NBC only talked about it selectively on Saturday’s NBC Nightly News and Monday’s Today show. It was on the Today show that they really took up task of trying to spin Biden’s long-time callousness against his granddaughter, Navy Joan Roberts, into him being thoughtful.
NBC chief White House correspondent and current White House Correspondents Association president Kelly O’Donnell praised Biden finally recognizing the existence of little Navy as a “shift in Biden family dynamics.” And after it was noted that her father was Hunter Biden, she lamented that he was “often the target of political scrutiny and congressional inquiries for his business dealings.”
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