I know I've criticized Katy Tur on this site

[senseandsensibility]

more than once, and I am not retracting anything I've posted. In fact, nothing she's done recently has made me change my mind. She is a shallow journalist who is trying to ride her 2016 coverage of cheato for all its worth with no acknowledgement of how dangerous he is and how demented he sounds NOW in 2024. She defends him constantly.

BUT, apparently she is trending on twitter and has been for the past 24 hours or so because she made a point of saying that Jill Biden was not Hunter Biden's birth mother. It was in the middle of a discussion about how Jill has supported Hunter throughout the trial. Many posters are really offended by this. I am not sure if it is that offensive to me (I did hear it live), and I think I just took it as a statement of fact. Nevertheless, so many are offended by this that maybe I am missing something. I have never raised a child that was not mine biologically, so that could be it.

Then again, it's the kind of detail that she is always trying to inject into discussions about Biden, while she never does that with cheat's family. And we all know how much material there is there.

[TSExile]

1. For all intents and purposes, Dr. Jill IS his mother.

Hunter's biological mom died when he was very young, and Dr. Jill has been married to his dad since 1977. She helped raise him and thinks of Hunter and the late Beau as her own.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Yes I agree

To me, that makes it even more poignant somehow. I see it as admirable, not something dismissive or insulting.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Deplorable voters aren't smart enough to play tic tak toe - anything at all that sounds

negative or controversial is red meat for them. Katy TurD can go pound salt.

[Lochloosa]

3. My wife had 4 sons when I married her. From 9 to 30.

They are all my sons.

[senseandsensibility]

5. I appreciate that input

As I said I have never had this experience, but I think most people admire those who have.

[TSExile]

8. I know I do.

I am childless in my 40s and admire anyone willing to take on raising children that are not theirs biologically.

[LuckyCharms]

6. My opinion: It does not make a bit of difference if

Jill is his birth mother or not.

He most likely loves her as a mom, and she loves him as a son.

She is supporting Hunter because she loves him.

Whether or not Jill is his birth mother or not is not newsworthy. However, their relationship and actions toward each other are newsworthy.

Ms. Tur's comment is fluff. It's bullshit. And it offends the hell out of me, especially considering the unwarranted, drooling MSM coverage of Hunter.

[yardwork]

7. I didn't hear the comment in context but...

On the face of it, I can't think of many valid reasons to interject the comment into a discussion of Jill Biden's support of Hunter.

Now I'm curious to go find it and hear it in context.

[Torchlight]

9. Unless used to support or weaken a statement, it's by definition, irrelevant

to the particular argument. I've come to expect cable news stations to engage in as much, if not more, gossip as they do hard news.

'Does First Lady Biden's role as stepmother measurably strengthen or weaken, or demonstrably change any narrative or conclusion to the story referenced, or is it just more commercial gossip' is the question I'd ask myself if I'd seen the clip.

[Lonestarblue]

10. It was a nasty comment that Dr. Biden is not his mother. She has been his mother in all the ways that count.

There was no reason whatsoever to even mention this. She was there to support her son. End of story.

[Trueblue1968]

11. I cant stand her. I wish MsSNBC woulf fire her

[NanaCat]

12. I don't think anyone had a problem with her saying it

The first time. It's how she kept repeating it.

That was intentional, to denigrate Dr Biden's role in the family and her relationship with Hunter, as if to say she's 'only' his stepmother so nobody needs to pay attention to what she has to say about him.

[Bev54]

13. This is from an article in the WaPo some years ago about the family and there is this quote

Some years later, a magazine fact-checker called my Senate office with a deadline crisis. A story about our family was going to press, and the fact-checker was confused. She’d read about Neilia and Naomi and the accident, but when Beau and Hunt had been asked about their “stepmom,” Jill, they’d said, “Oh, no. We don’t have a stepmom.”
Beau and Hunter had long since made their choice: Jill was Mom.

The boys chose her as Mom, I doubt anyone felt it necessary to go through the legal step of adoption.

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. It was rude and dismissive

I've never been a stepmom, but my daughter is a stepmom to EIGHT kids, and has been deeply involved in the raising of six of them since they were teenagers. Not one of them has ever said to her, "You are NOT my mom!" when there was an issue involved, even though none of them actually call her "mom". Every one of them has lived with her since they were teens and two of them still do, including one who had never had a stable home until he found it with her and his dad, and one who does so by choice although she's now 21. Katy Tur needs to get over herself with that idea.

[democratsruletheday]

15. I'm with you...

on both counts. She's an annoying twerp but stating a fact (that Jill isn't HB's birth mother) isn't anything to get outraged over. People need to chill out.

[Tribetime]

16. You don't have to be a biological parent to be a true parent

Is love conquers all

[sheshe2]

17. Laura Loonitic Loomer said the same thing.

F**k them both!

[senseandsensibility]

21. Wow singing from the same hymnbook as LL!

I wonder if Tur follows her on twitter. Some of these journalists on CNN and MSNBC seem to be very familiar with far rightwing talking points if you ask me.

[TSExile]

18. Katy has stepchildren of her own.

One would think she'd know better.

[senseandsensibility]

20. That I didn't know

She should have first hand knowledge of how this would come across then.

[PCIntern]

19. Who the fuck is she to passively-aggressively point this out

A at a time of great family stress and consternation?

Hey Katy: did I ever mention that you “lived in sin” with Olbermann for three years and barely mentioned it in your book even though he probably gifted you with what you needed to at least climb up onto the first rung of the ladder? But I need to mention that you didn’t marry him and why? Right…it’s none of my business and personal issues should remain just that. So why did you feel you needed to clarify that Jill is not his biological mother? Did you feel better after you did that? And by the way, how many children do you have? Two? And how have you explained your transgendered father to them? None of my business, right? Am I making my point clear? No? Yes? Time for your patented self-righteous sneer.