There are occasions when the liberal media seems to drop all pretense and manages to write something with a little honesty.

This is one of those times.The NY Times’ Maureen Dowd has written a piece calling on Joe Biden to recognize his grandchild, Navy Roberts, out of common decency and treat her like she is wanted—not for political reasons, but because it is the right thing to do. We’ve written before about the cruelty of the Bidens on this issue, but it’s something when the liberal media chimes in like this.

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have lost The New York Times.

Absolutely brutal. pic.twitter.com/ePgNZVHRZ8

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 8, 2023

It’s an interesting take. Dowd writes the story by citing a letter her sister, Peggy, who is a Republican, wrote to Joe Biden, whom she says the sister likes. But the sister is not at all happy with how the Biden family is treating little Navy.

Dowd’s description of how Hunter has treated the matter is a window into how lacking in decency Hunter is.

In his 2021 memoir, Hunter wrote dismissively about Navy’s mother, Lunden Roberts, whom he met when he was spiraling into addiction and going to Washington strip clubs. He wrote that the women he had sexual encounters with during his drug “rampages” were “hardly the dating type.”

“I had no recollection of our encounter,” he said of Roberts. Yet he put her on the payroll of his consulting firm as a personal assistant while she was pregnant. About three months after Navy was born, Hunter took away Roberts’s company health insurance.

So, those women are only worthy to use to have sex with but not to spend any time with, in Hunter’s mind. What does that say about him? Then Dowd shows how he wasn’t telling the truth that he had no recollection of the encounter since he put her on the payroll when she was pregnant. But even after that, he cut off her health insurance and then denied paternity, until a DNA test proved it. So much for decency.

Dowd wrote how her sister found it “unconscionable” that Biden refuse to admit or accept the fact, that they wouldn’t let her use the Biden name, and that they would slash child support. All the child seemed to be getting out of the settlement we reported were some of Hunter’s paintings, which Dowd’s sister noted.

“She has the Biden blood running through her veins, and all she is going to have as a reminder of this are some of Hunter’s original paintings; sounds like a lousy trade-off, if you ask me…”

Dowd wrote about how Joe Biden is always talking about his son Beau, and that the staff has great sensitivity to that, but that they’ve also been told to not even talk about his seventh grandchild.

Empathy, born of family tragedies, has been his stock in trade. Callously scarring Navy’s life, just as it gets started, undercuts that. As Katie Rogers, a Times White House correspondent, wrote in a haunting front-page piece last weekend about Hunter’s unwanted child, Biden is so sensitive “that only the president’s most senior advisers talk to him about his son.” Rogers said that “in strategy meetings in recent years, aides have been told that the Bidens have six, not seven, grandchildren.” Jill Biden dedicated her 2020 children’s book to the six grandchildren.

That’s a conscious choice to reject the child. Not only that, it’s like calling Jill Biden “Dr” — you must only accept the “reality” as we sell it to you, through our narrative.

Dowd wrote:

But the president can’t defend Hunter on all his other messes and draw the line at accepting one little girl. You can’t punish her for something she had no choice about. The Bidens should embrace the life Hunter brought into the world, even if he didn’t consider her mother “the dating type.”

The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead.

But the problem is that it isn’t out of sync — this is who Biden has always been. It’s the “caring Biden” that’s the illusion; that’s the product created for sale. He sells the caring man, but then when he met with the families of the 13 killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal he talked more about his son than their children and checked his watch at the transfer ceremony multiple times. The real Biden is the one who left Americans and our allies behind, while insisting how right he was about everything. The real Biden is the one telling the staff not to even mention the truth. That’s how they deal with inconvenient truths: from Navy to the the foreign dealings scandal where Joe never spoke to Hunter about anything — complete denial.