Courtesy of two people who are among the few reporters who still “report”. First up is Scott Jennings, who has just been appointed to the Board of Directors of the failing LA Times by its desperate owner, which I don’t think can be saved by Jennings any more than he can save CNN by being the sole Rightie there…

 Ed Morrissey writes:

In every step and in every way, the Protection Racket Media served as Biden’s wingman. They dutifully regurgitated his spin as established fact, and when that didn’t work, they made Republicans the story rather than Biden. That instinct carried through even to last night, as Politico and other news outlets focused on Republican reactions rather than report that Joe had just issued a 10-year free pass to the chief bagman for Biden Inc. Even [Politico’s Alexander Burns’] caustic response deflects from that and onto the coming administration’s attempts to root out politicization and weaponization in federal law enforcement.

Meanwhile, from the opposite end of the ideological spectrum…

Also a H/T from reader “Kevn” that includes the above but a lot more beside, but I’ll excerpt a couple of points…

The reality that Joe Biden gave his son a pardon that reaches all the way back to 2014 indicates a personal knowledge of Hunter’s criminal dealings over the course of a decade.  Likely, this knowledge comes from Joe Biden’s involvement in those same dealings.  At the very least he used his position within government to trade for benefits and used his son as a proxy.