Another Turkey Pardoned

The media is all aflutter over Joe Biden's pardoning his son Hunter, like everyone alive on the planet did not see that coming. What's that -- he said he wouldn't and now he did, so he lied? Oh please, lies are the bread and butter of politicians. 

How anyone can get the slightest bit upset about this is beyond me. Hunter is a sleaze bag, a grown-up big baby who cheated on his taxes and maybe did some other sketchy stuff, but he certainly is not a threat to the public and doesn't need to be behind bars. As for Joe, he's his father and he could do it and why wouldn't he? What father wants to see his kid go to jail? 

I see it as a non-story, especially since lying is so common with Joe, ho-hum. But to the members of the media, a hangnail is a story on a slow news day. They will inflate anything into a crisis if it will sell papers, increase ratings or get advertisers. Every reporter, with the possible exception of Bret Baier of FOX News, is no different from the paparazzi who killed Princess Diana in that tunnel in France. 

So relax, turn off the news and turn on a movie, preferably a documentary. There is an excellent one streaming now on the History channel entitled Reagan, about the former Hollywood actor who became our 40th president in 1980. (Not the new movie starring Dennis Qaid, this one was made in 2011.) It's quite interesting, very well-edited and offers a fun snapshot of the times he lived in. Watch it if you loved Ronald Reagan or hated him; either way you'll come away smarter than you will if you tune into all the yapping about Hunter's pardon.