It's funny because he's sad, or something

Sean Hannity tries dunking on Biden and ends up humanizing him.

Nothing but respect for *my* President.

Let’s get this out of the way first: Hunter Biden is fair game. There’s a long tradition of the media spotlighting Presidents’ embarrassing family members, even while they’re still children.¹ Hunter is a grown man who at the very least has cashed in on the association with his famous father, and whether Joe Biden may have pulled some strings to keep him out of trouble with the law is a legitimate subject for reporters to look into. (Whether those who’ve looked into it can be called “reporters” is for another post.)

That said, I’m darned if I know what the point of this was, except cruelty for its own sake. And I’m really scratching my head about what kind of person would think President Biden comes across as anything other than sincere, caring, and legitimately heartbroken:

Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss

Wow never expected Hannity to run such fawning segments about Joe Biden and how he’s a good and empathetic father

Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss

The actual audio of this—as someone who has struggled with drugs and mental health issues and received calls like this from my family—just sort of almost made me cry

Too many of us are so wrapped up in partisan politics and “owning” the other team that we forget our opponents are human beings. Or maybe we don’t forget so much as we refuse to believe it.

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More evidence that calling child protective services on your political opponents, an idea mooted by Tucker Carlson a while back, is the new SWATting:

Ramirez’s alleged crime, as far as I can tell, is teaching her daughter that Christopher Columbus wasn’t a villain. Not a popular opinion these days, to put it mildly, but not the kind of thing that should come within a million miles of requiring intervention by social workers. If the state is going to get involved with parents teaching ideas to their children, it had better be for something truly hateful and egregious, like raising children to be Nazis, or something that will condemn them to a life of hopelessness and misery, like raising children to be Chicago Bears fans.²