Just like the American justice system, is Fox News using kiddie gloves when it comes to Hunter Biden now too? Or are they just sexists?
Hollywood legend James Woods thinks itâs squarely the latter as he blasted the beleaguered news network over a headline involving the incumbent presidentâs son.
The article, which appears to be this one, breaks down Hunter Bidenâs ongoing woes with Lunden Roberts, mother of a 4-year-old that a judge ruled with ânear scientific certaintyâ was the son of Hunterâs.
The 53-year-old son of President Joe Biden was deposed in the ongoing child support case (Biden is seeking to lower the $20,000 a month in childcare he is paying Roberts) in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday.
Itâs a horrible story all around, particularly when it pertains to how a 4-year-old is under a national spotlight, but itâs certainly a newsworthy story that Fox News was well within its rights to cover.
The issue, however, was that the story also happened to display a headline that read: âBidenâs son dragged into court as fiery child support battle against ex-stripper heats up.â
Woods wasnât a fan of that headline.
âHeâs called âBidenâs son,â but sheâs dismissed as âex-stripper,'â he pointed out. While the linked article above sports a different title, internet archives do show that Fox News featured that headline on Saturday morning.
âThis is journalistic sexism at its lowest,â Woods said, before proceeding to fix it for Fox.
âWhy couldnât the headline just as easily read, âEx-crack addict dragged into court by mother of his child?'â Woods said, making the headline better by significant margins on a couple of levels.
First, why does Hunter Biden get any real respect on his name, apart from being born into a corrupt political dynasty? If you were to replace his last name with anything else, heâd probably be rotting away in Guantanamo Bay twice over.
Donât let him use his last name as any sort of crutch here. And yes, Fox News probably used the âBidenâ surname specifically to denigrate the incumbent president, but that octogenarian does that plenty well enough on his own. Hunter deserves his own, unique scorn because he is his own uniquely awful person.
Second, what is it with Fox News and the leery term âex-stripperâ? A quick Google search of âFox News ex-stripperâ yields a number of results, but you donât even have to get that granular. Youâll see it if you just follow the network on Twitter:
It is a strange fixation in a sordid story that literally has nothing to do with the womanâs past occupation.
Hunter Biden is shamefully skirting his duties as a father and is being taken to task over it by Roberts. Period.
Robertsâ past, however unsavory it may have been, doesnât factor into this equation whatsoever.
Or, if it does, itâs got just as much to do with it as Hunter Bidenâs well-documented dereliction for drugs.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.