Protesters hurled projectiles at former President Joe Biden on foreign soil this week — and the same American press corps that spent years screaming about January 6 and "threats to democracy" could barely muster a headline. The double standard isn't accidental. It's the entire point.

Video from Trinity College Dublin shows pro-Palestinian demonstrators throwing objects and what appears to be milk at Biden as he left an event honoring his son, Hunter. Members of Biden's entourage shielded him with black umbrellas. Protesters chanted "blood on your hands" and waved Palestinian flags, according to footage reviewed by Arkansas Online. Irish national police arrested three men — one in his 50s, one in his 30s, and one in his late teens. The man in his 50s was charged; the other two were released.

This is a former U.S. president physically attacked by a mob on camera. If the political valence were different — if the projectiles came from a crowd the press could tie to the right — it would lead every broadcast for a week. Instead, the story barely registers.

HotAir noted the contrast directly: while the Biden projectile story is "getting a lot of attention" internationally, a simultaneous "Day of Rage" protest in Manhattan — where masked protesters marched in traffic, scuffled with police, chanted "Globalize the intifada" and "Zionism will fall," and demanded Mayor Mamdani "meet all of our demands" — received what HotAir called "very little coverage" from American outlets. The Manhattan protest, organized by anti-Zionist groups and drawn from Hunter College students, saw fewer than 100 participants blocking Fifth Avenue near Rockefeller Center. The Times of Israel was one of the few outlets to cover it.

So the picture is clear: protesters physically assault a former president in Dublin, and protesters shut down streets in Manhattan chanting for intifada — and the American press looks away. Compare that to the years-long moral panic over January 6, where every broken window was treated as the fall of the republic.

The Dublin protest erupted during a ceremony where Trinity's College Historical Society — known as the Hist — awarded Hunter Biden its Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse. The society praised Hunter for "advocacy on the state of American politics and media as well as for matters of addiction and recovery." That the son at the center of influence-peddling allegations is now receiving medals for "public discourse" tells you everything about the institutional class's capacity for self-satire.

Ireland's support for Palestinians is widespread, and Biden's role as Israel's primary weapons supplier made him a focal point of rage. That context is real. But so is the coverage gap: physical attacks on a former president and open intifada chants in American streets are not footnotes — unless the press decides they are.

A representative for the Bidens declined to comment.

The question isn't why protesters in Dublin threw objects at Biden. The question is why the American press — which built an entire identity around "democracy dies in darkness" — chose to leave this one in the dark.