Posted on 07/05/2024 8:02:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The greatest loser from Joe Biden’s catastrophic meltdown during his debate last week with Donald Trump is not Biden himself.
Somewhere deep inside, Biden may actually be relieved for the chance to be free of the obligation to perform (or pretend to perform) the world’s most important job.
No, the greatest loser is the media, specifically elite news organizations like the New York Times that have teams of reporters covering the White House. These teams ether somehow missed Biden’s sharp cognitive decline - or, worse, actively covered it up.
Either way, a reckoning for the way media outlets have turned into spear-carriers for the Democratic Party may be coming. I hope it will be. It is long overdue.
On Thursday afternoon, New York magazine published a long article about Biden’s decline by Olivia Nuzzi, a Washington correspondent who is its top reporter.
Nuzzi wrote in the piece, headlined “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden,” that top Democrats had talked about Biden’s worsening memory and cognitive problems at least since January.
“Following encounters with the president, they had arrived at the same concern: Could he really do this for another four years? Could he even make it to Election Day?” But the worriers did not want to talk publicly, Nuzzi said. “They were scared and horrified.”
Those folks want Joe Biden to be President. Their allegiance is to him, not the truth. Thus the conspiracy. And Nuzzi wrote she could not get these high-ranking Democrats on the record - though it is not clear how hard she tried.
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Then, late in the piece, Nuzzi made an extraordinary admission - one whose importance she seems not to have recognized.
She too had seen Biden’s decline up close. So had much of the Washington press corps.
As hard as Biden’s courtiers try to protect Biden, they cannot keep him from every public interaction. The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is Washington’s premier annual social event, its so-called “nerd prom.”
Nuzzi met Biden, whom she had covered closely and extensively during the 2020 campaign, at a photo session and reception before the dinner. Here is how she describes the encounter:
My heart stopped as I extended my hand to greet the president. I tried to make eye contact, but it was like his eyes, though open, were not on… I said “hello.” His sweet smile stayed frozen. He spoke very slowly and in a very soft voice. “And what’s your name?” he asked.
Exiting the room after the photo, the group of reporters — not instigated by me, I should note — made guesses about how dead he appeared to be, percentage wise. “Forty percent?” one of them asked.
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“And what’s your name?”
Try to wrap your head around what happened that night - April 27, 2024, exactly two months before Joe Biden’s infirmities exploded for the world to see.
The reporters who cover the President, who are the eyes and ears of the world on a man who controls a nuclear arsenal capable of erasing humanty, saw his cognitive decline face-to-face.
They didn’t write about what they had seen. They didn’t investigate it.
They joked about it. With each other. Privately.
Nuzzi and the rest were part of the “conspiracy of silence” as much as any Democratic donor.
And in June, when even the most tightly controlled public events could not hide Biden’s infirmities, they wrote of “cheap fakes” (meaning, accurate and real videos) and “misinformation.” Only now that the world knows have they turned on Biden - viciously, as I wrote Wednesday.
Every last one of them should be ashamed. And wondering how they allowed their Democratic partisanship and hatred for Donald Trump and in-group thinking to overcome their most basic instincts to chase the truth and give it to the readers and viewers who pay their bills and trust them to be honest.
I almost died working as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times in Iraq 20 years ago. That’s not an exaggeration. I cannot believe what the Times and the rest of the elite media have become.
I am heartbroken today.
This is the last and greatest in a series of media catastrophes over the last several years. They all have in common an unwillingness to admit, much less investigate, hard truths that Democrats find unpleasant.
If it does not provoke a reckoning, nothing will. And places like the Times will lose whatever shreds of credibility they have left.
They’re all traitors. Whoever is deleting my chat posts, delete this one. Go ahead. Do it.
The ‘Rat scribes would have to prove that they didn’t know.
If they can prove that, they need to be fired and jailed in the DC Gulag.
They knew it. Just didn’t talk about it. Kinda like the chicom bribes.
center Stage and the other two rings of this three ring circus on social media is currently about blaming the press for turning on Brain Dead.
Don’t call them traitors. Just turn up there heat. Expose them. Why? It’s because our leadership won’t. Turning up the heat will create it’s own momentum like a poured beer coming a head.
They have known for years. Covered it up for years.
We’ve all seen it for years. We know they were covering for years.
Presstitutes
This is so stupid.
The answer to the question is all along.
The press are operatives.
Journolism schools pump out propagandists all trying to get “made”.
His decline hidden? It was literally impossible to ignore unless your head was stuck in the ground the last 4 years
Really brave to disclose what you know ONLY AFTER the debate. But the REAL QUESTION one has to ask is the following: If the media will lie and cover up something as important as the president of the United States basically being a vegetable, then WHAT ELSE are they lying about and covering up? Perhaps the REAL cause of the Ukraine War...just maybe?
Special Counsel needed
We all saw evidence of this over the past 4 years, but the media refused to talk about it.
The covered for Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ and Clinton. There’s a pattern here, but I just can’t quite figure it out….
Did any of them attempt to report on this?
I am sure that corporate media didn’t want to report this story, but a reporter should have tried to make a report. Somehow, I doubt they tried.
I have known it for a while by watching Biden’s public appearances and seeing him fall on the steps and walk with a strange gait and lose his train of thought and speak incoherently and wander off the stage.
They knew at least that much, and so did everyone in Washington. Those expressing shock are the worst kind of liars.
It’s been known since Biden exuberantly exclaimed “My butt’s been wiped!” That was a couple years ago.
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Election interference in 2020
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Election interference in 2024.
They should be charged. The defrauded the people, the U.S., and the Federal Election System.
What did Senators and Congress Reps know, and, when did THEY know it?
What/when did the fake Prez Cabinet members know?
They ALL need to be frogmarched out of DC, on a rail.
Reporters?
How about our own representatives?
Every Republican congressman who has met with Joe Biden in the last few years knew that he’s barely able to function.
They’re supposed to be the opposition party. They need to start acting like it.
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