Freitag, The Washington PostPublished a review of Kathleen Buhle’s memoir on being married to Hunter Biden. But PostKaren Heller was not a fan of the book or its audience.
She cautioned, “And obsessive Hunter hunters out there be warned, this book contains nary an mention of Ukraine energy company Burisma, or the infamous computer left at Delaware’s repair shop.” Keller joked:
Ours is a collection of his-and her memoirs.
Subtitled “A memoir of marriage, addiction, and healing,” the book is short on healing, while the addiction and masochism never appear to end. After Hunter’s fifth — or was it sixth? — visit to rehab, Buhle still accepts his lies.
Kathleen is an idiot. It’s hard for her to believe Hunter had cheated on his sister’s wife, which is then recounted by the anti-Biden press. “The scandal is publicized in the New York Post the tabloid that will turn Hunter’s lobbying exploits and role as a Burisma board member into something of a full-time beat.”
You don’t have to feel shame, The Washington Post has made the Trump family’s finances a full-time beat.
Keller concluded that nobody should ever want to read the book. The Bidens find it so inconvenient.
This is the ex of a politician’s now-notorious son, a woman who claims no desire to be famous, guards her privacy, then Her memoir is published at the exact moment her ex-father-in-law was at his peak power. Buhle runs a D.C. collaboration space for women, and supports non-profits. It may also offer some comfort to those in abusive or emotional relationships with alcoholics. But is this really a book the public is asking to read?
It is an extremely partisan question. Heller believed that Lena Dunham, a Hollywood feminist, was worth reading even though her sexual-assault claims “defy verification.”
Not all Biden’s memoirs were treated equally. For Hunter’s memoir, the Post assigned a review to Marianne Szegedy-Maszak of Mother Jones who praised Joe Biden for his decency and rectitude and stuff: “Hunter was the Goofus to his older brother’s Gallant. Beau was an embodiment of the decency, rectitude and an impressive public service record comparable to his father’s. Hunter? “An apparent hive full of dysfunctional behavior.”
Szegedy–Maszak at least ruled Hunter’s memoir lacks convincing empathy for those he made suffer. She eventually came to feel his pain.
“My dad has often said that Beau was his soul and I am his heart,” Biden writes. There’s a lot of pain in that observation. One soul is our most precious and vulnerable part. It’s eternal, unchanging, and always soaring. How is your heart? Heart is fragile and can break.
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