We are witnessing an "all bets are off" example as I write.

As RedState reported on Monday, now ex-President Joe Biden stuck a final disgusting fork in his miserably failed presidency by preemptively pardoning his brother, James Biden, along with other family members, on his way out the door. No word on whether or not Joe let the door hit him.

In addition to brother James, Biden also pardoned Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden. Yet, remember how the lapdog media harshly criticized the notion of "the Biden Crime Family" whenever honest journalists wrote or talked about it? Me, too.

But when Biden, at the 11th hour, issued the pardons, the predictable media predictably went crickets.

READ MORE: Joe Biden Issues More Pardons on His Way Out the Door, for the Biden Crime Family

So here's the deal. 

Cast your mind back to the end of President Trump's first term in office. Remember when Trump floated the idea of preemptive pardons for members of his family before he left office? And remember how the same media lost their collective minds over that? Yep, me too. Welp, we need look no further than the once-vaunted Gray Lady herself — The New York Times — for an outstanding example.

In an article published on Dec. 1, 2020, and updated on Jan. 7, 2021, the Times wrote the following:

President Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant pre-emptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law, and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and talked with Mr. Giuliani about pardoning him as recently as last week, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Trump has told others that he is concerned that a Biden Justice Department might seek retribution against the president by targeting the oldest three of his five children — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump — as well as Ms. Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, a White House senior adviser.

Donald Trump Jr. had been under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, for contacts that the younger Mr. Trump had had with Russians offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, but he was never charged. Mr. Kushner provided false information to federal authorities about his contacts with foreigners for his security clearance, but was given one anyway by the president.

Ultimately, Trump never issued pardons for his children or Giuliani, but other lapdog media outlets followed the Times' lead. I know — try to control your shock and amazement.

The Times then kicked it up a notch (emphasis, mine).

The speculation about pardon activity at the White House is churning furiously, underscoring how much the Trump administration has been dominated by investigations and criminal prosecutions of people in the president’s orbit. Mr. Trump himself was singled out by federal prosecutors as “Individual 1” in a court filing in the case that sent Michael D. Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, to prison.

Stop the tape. 

Let's back up the bus to Biden sparking outrage on both sides of the political divide for issuing a full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter after repeatedly vowing he wouldn't do so, while continuing to insist the former drug addict and tax evader did nothing wrong. Most in the far-left media went crickets then, as well.

Yet, in another stunning example of hypocrisy, clowns like Joy Behar, one of the TDS-riddled co-hosts of ABC's ridiculous show, "The View," went berserk over Trump merely floating the idea of preemptively pardoning his family members. As reported by Fox News, Behar spewed, at the time, to no less than serial-lying then-California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, who was recently sworn in as a senator:

Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, who's just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that, just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they're an innocent person?

Schiff smugly responded:

No. It's the president's own family. It's people that have been covering up for the president, in addition to his own family.

Oops. That certainly didn't age well. Neither did the following exchange between CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Schiff in a separate interview. 

Blitzer: "Would you see that… as essentially an admission of guilty?" 

Schiff: "I certainly would view it that way. I think millions of Americans would view it that way. If there was no belief in criminality, why would he think a pardon was necessary?"

Finally, my favorite. 

"If you had to build a 2020 time capsule in advance, this is probably something that you would have invented to put into the 2020 time capsule," MSNBC's arrogant host Rachel Maddow told viewers at the time while holding up a copy of the Times report.

Maddow's equally arrogant MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes sniveled in response:

"The idea of a kind of prospective pardon, this sort of permanent federal 'Get Out of Jail Free' card. That seems to be what we're talking about in the case of this, right? With Giuliani and his three eldest children, who, as far we know, have not been convicted of a crime. 

"Maybe they've committed a lot and they don't want to face action. I don't know. It's weird. I wouldn't ask for a pardon. I don't think I deserve one because I don't think I've done anything criminal. But like, where does that come from? That concept you can just kind of wave your magic pardon wand?"

Shaking your head? So am I.

Ohh — I almost forgot. After winning the 2020 presidential election, when Biden was asked about Trump's preemptive pardon idea by CNN's Jake Tapper, he replied:

 Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice. You’re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons.

I know the phrase is overused, but "you can't make this stuff up."

The Bottom Line

The depth of the left's blatant hypocrisy is one thing. Perhaps even more infuriating is how they demonstrate it, time and time again, with straight faces and clear consciences. Moreover, the sock-puppet media, perched atop their white horses, self-righteously view themselves as the ultimate arbiters of truth.

Yep, that's the most disgusting part of all.