Timing of Cancer Announcement "Extraordinary" [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 25 May 2025 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

CNN analyst Brian Stelter questioned the timing the announcement that former President Biden has cancer, calling it "extraordinary. Cancer isn't a disease you get suddenly. It develops over an extended period of time over many years. Since presidents have physical exams every year his doctor had to have known for some time that he had the disease. Why was his terminal case of the disease only made public at this time?"

Stelter proceeded to answer his own question by observing that "the story that was pushed off the front page by the cancer announcement was the release of the video of the interview Robert Hur had with President Biden in 2023 regarding the President's mishandling of classified documents. Shortly after that interview Hur declined to prosecute the President because 'jurors would perceive the President as an old man with a bad memory and acquit him of all charges.'"

"Well, from what I've seen of this video, President Biden looked and sounded totally unfit for the presidency," Stelter said. "I have to think that the story currently being sold by the Democrats that Biden's mental incapacity was only apparent during his June 2024 debate with Trump is false. He wasn't 'sharp as a tack.' He wasn't 'running circles around' his staff. He wasn't, as MSNBC's Morning Joe Scarborough claimed in March 2024, 'the best Biden ever.' He was, as my colleague Jake Tapper says in his best-selling book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, unfit for the job of president."

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) characterized the issue as "irrelevant. Whether Joe Biden was or wasn't mentally capable of the job doesn't matter. He no longer has the job. Who knew when he was incapacitated is old news. Democrats need to focus on how to keep Trump from carrying out his plan to remake America in his image. Digging up dirt about Biden is an unnecessary distraction from this primary mission."

CNN commentator Van Jones disagreed with Schumer, saying "Tapper's book makes it very, very clear. There are people who knew and said nothing. That is a crime against this republic. I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up."

[John Semmens]

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[Sacajaweau]

I'd subpoena Jill. If he had this brewing for a long time and she knew and THAT was the reason Kamala jumped up as the candidate...we have been so deeply deceived, there should be no Dem party left.

And I don't believe he didn't have a PSA test during from 2014 to 2024.

Who else must have known?

[exnavy]

Democrats have been calling us a democracy while steering us into communism for decades. Obfuscate, lie, cheat and steal from the american people for a hundred years and what does it get you? It should get you kicked out of government “service” permanently.

[magua]

I 100% agree with you you get a PSA every year. He had prostate cancer when he was running for president in 2020. The cover-up keeps going on. He was not fit to be anything never mind president.

[Highest Authority]

The real story is .. who used the Autopen and are those items legal! EOs, laws, judge appointmnts.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Joey already said if he and BO had ca\ome to a fundamental disagreement, he would say he had an illness and resign. Joey needs to be looked at by another doctor so American can have the truth about this ilk we have funded his entire entitled life. Something stinks to high heaven with this. That criminal completely gets off the hook.

“Biden said Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and he share a similar worldview but recalled that he told Obama that should the two have a “fundamental disagreement” on a “moral principle,” he’d resign and claim illness. He then described Harris and him in lockstep on those principles.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1641910/biden-says-that-if-he-had-disagreement-with-obama-as-vp-he-would-have-developed-some-disease-and-resigned/

[Sacajaweau]

They put this “no test taken” defense....so they could destroy any records. Time to go after his records....and the doctors....and the techs who read the tests. They are not private...not when you’re President.

[Apparatchik]

A couple of observations here. First, it is interesting to see the divergence of narratives after this obvious fraud with potential criminal consequences. First the media’s “j’accuse!” denunciations of, well, themselves (but not me, of course) in an effort to save their necks from personnel cuts at their failing networks. Brian “Potato” Stelter is hoping America will forget his, um, sticky past reputation.

Next there is the emerging new left wing of the Democratic Party —the bomb throwers (often literally) who see this as a chance to divest themselves of the old guard. Unrepentant Marxist Van Jones and allies like Princess Jasmine Crockett, Horseface Bigbooty AOC, and slimeball David Hogg see the opportunities of divesting the Party of its moderate members and transforming it into the Socialist Party of their dreams —with all the trappings and perks that come with it.

Next up is the Old (literally) Guard of the Party itself. Sleazeball Schumer and his cohort Drunky Pelosi want America to just forget about the whole thing and focus on the real enemy- the dastardly Donald Trump. The hilarious and ironic bit is that that sort of TDS caused them to push that doddering old pervert Biden into three presidential campaigns in the worst example of elder abuse in history.

But by far the worst group of all was Biden’s inner circle - the greedy pigs of his family, opportunistic acquaintances, and the unelected staffers who ran the affairs of state as they saw fit, with no accountability, and potentially at some profit. What is especially galling is that they did so, all the while congratulating themselves on their cleverness for doing it (for the good of the country, dontchaknow) and not getting caught. They twisted the meaning of “loyalty” into a perversion. These are the ones who need to be found, investigated, charged, and jailed.

[libertylover]

Since presidents have physical exams every year his doctor had to have known for some time that he had the disease.

I saw a news program that said he hadn't had a PSA test since 2014, and so maybe it really wasn't know.

I'm 75 and my urologist "fired" me a couple of years ago saying that prostate cancer is so slow growing that there was little need to continue screening for it. On the other hand, I'm not the President of the United States of America.

[Dixie Yooper]

Shortly after seizing office, Biden made the bizarre claim that he was going to cure cancer. I think that was his weird way of saying that he was going to beat cancer without saying he had it. Among many other negative tendencies, Joe is weird.

[smokingfrog]

You may very well be right about that.
With pedoJoe, you can pretty much consider everything he says as a complete & total lie.

[Bonemaker]

Medicare covers PSA as long as you can get the test from the doc. I still get them and I’m in mid-80’s. Screw their “guidelines”.

[magua]

I’m still getting them also and I’m in my mid 80s. Just one more of the lies that they have managed to perpetrate on half the American people for the last four years.

[Seaplaner]

Another fine column, John. You always snag some posters who don't recognize the semi satire. (I have to check other sources sometimes.)

(Blumenthal) As a young male I risked my life in combat in Vietnam.

Good one.