CBS Skips Over Hunter’s Laptop in Ex-Wife Interview

Two days after ABC’s Good Morning America and co-host Amy Robach aired what our Tim Graham called an interview with Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle featuring “preposterously vague” questions and “carefully curated” answers, Thursday’s CBS Mornings sunk lower in ignoring topics such as Hunter’s infamous laptop and his alleged child out of wedlock.

Instead, Mason — who, like Robach, previously interviewed Hunter — focused on Hunter’s spiraling after his brother Beau’s death, his affair with said brother’s widow, and vague discussions about Hunter’s “finances.” Worse yet, co-host Tony Dokoupil falsely claimed that Hunter’s “become a frequent headline in the news.” 

As we’ve repeatedly documented, that claim holds zero weight when looking at the broadcast networks.

Co-host Nate Burleson hyped the interview at the beginning of the show: “The struggles of President Biden’s son Hunter are well documented, including by federal investigators. Now his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, is telling her story to Anthony Mason…She tells [him] writing the book has helped her let go.”

Dokoupil made his pants-on-fire claim in the lead-in to Mason’s interview:

We’re going to begin this hour with the ex-wife of President Biden’s son Hunter. She’s telling her story. Hunter Biden, as you know, has become a frequent headline in the news lately as investigators look into his business dealings abroad. Kathleen Buhle was married to him for 24 years before divorcing him in 2017 after what she says were years of difficulties. And now, she’s out with a new book.

Mason began with how the two met and what he was like for the first decade of their marriage before moving to when there were signs of trouble (click “expand”) …

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