The New York Times published an unusually candid rebuke of President Biden for his continued refusal to acknowledge Hunter Biden's illegitimate lovechild.

The column from Maureen Dowd, titled, "It's Seven Grandkids, Mr. President," calls out the contradiction between Biden's public image of "empathy" and his treatment of four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts.

“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,” Dowd wrote.

The Biden family has never acknowledged the girl, who lives in Arkansas with her mom, a former stripper Hunter hooked up with during one of his rampages in Washington D.C.

Biden called out

The Bidens recently scored a victory when the girl's mother settled her child support dispute with Hunter. The mother also dropped her effort to have the daughter take the influential Biden name - a request the Bidens vigorously opposed.

Dowd's piece noted the trifling token of love the girl was vouchsafed: her father's mediocre paintings.

"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.

Dowd - who is apparently realizing for the first time that Biden is not the man he pretends to be - observed that a devotion to family has long been an important aspect of Biden's "empathy" shtick.

“Joe Biden’s mantra has always been that ‘the absolute most important thing is your family.’ It is the heart of his political narrative. Empathy, born of family tragedies, has been his stock in trade,” Dowd wrote. “Callously scarring Navy’s life, just as it gets started, undercuts that.”

So much for "empathy"

Like most liberal media, the New York Times has long danced around noticing Biden's obvious defects - physical and moral - and his family's sordid, Caligula-like corruption.

The Times also reported recently that the White House has "strategy meetings" where officials have been instructed to ignore Biden's unwanted grandchild.

Biden said as recently as April that he's "crazy" about his grandkids - of which he said there are only six.

A fresh report in Axios said that Biden, who is the oldest president in American history, regularly berates his staffers using expletives.

Could it really be possible that Biden's "empathy" is just a political device? What other dubious virtues have been attributed to America's "moderate," "vigorous," "unifying," and thoroughly "decent" president?