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Jake Tapper's Biden Book is Hilarious and Insane
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| 28 May 2025
| Matt Taibbi
Posted on 06/03/2025 6:03:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Tapper and Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book's subject, Joe Biden
I wasn’t going to do it, really. After stepping to the edge of nervous collapse of late, I promised, no more Conventional Wisdom Bestsellers. I saw Abundance in an airport and turned away before registering cover art. I had the same plan for Original Sin, the “controversial” book in which CNN’s Jake Tapper teams with Alex Thompson of Axios to get real about the media and Joe Biden’s health. One moment of late-night weakness later, I was reading from Chapter One, “He Totally F***ed Us”:
No one thought that the Harris campaign had been without error. But for the most knowledgeable Democratic officials and donors, and for top members of the Harris campaign, there was no question about the father of this election calamity: It was Joe Biden. Harris, loyal to Biden to a fault, might never say such a thing. But plenty of people around her would… “We got so screwed by Biden as a party,” David Plouffe, who helped run the Harris campaign, told us.. Harris, he said, was a “great soldier,” but the compressed 107-day race was “a f***ing nightmare.”
“And it’s all Biden,” Plouffe said... Plouffe added: “He totally f***ed us.”
Holy catfish! I thought from online buzz that Original Sin was a mea culpa. It would own press failures to cover Joe Biden’s infirmity in a super-belated version of Canadian comic Bruce McCullough’s “I’m sorry I caused all that cancer” routine. But Original Sin isn’t that. It’s much crazier! Instead of a dreary and predictable book-length excuse for thousands of media professionals simultaneously whiffing on the most obvious story in history, it’s an ambitious book-length effort to absolve all concerned, pin an industry’s coverage mistake on its President Droolcup subject...
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: alexthompson; autopen; dementia; fakefapper; hunterbiden; jaketapper; jillbiden; matttaibbi; oldchinballs; originalsin; pages; presidentdroolcup
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posted on
06/03/2025 6:03:43 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
The book says nothing that everyone with an ounce of common sense didn’t know for the last couple years. It answers its own question “why didn’t we know?” completely incorrectly. They knew, they were just in denial to the rest of the public. But hey, now we can trust them again, right???
To: Rummyfan
If the MSM was really so blind to this glaring issue, over such a long period, they have nothing of value to bring to the table, ever. A selectively blind “watchdog” media is less than worthless.
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posted on
06/03/2025 6:19:14 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(They're lying.)
To: Rummyfan
Tapper and his co-criminal are liars. This book is nothing but a continuation of the damage they have been doing for YEARS. They continue to believe that we are all stupid enough to accept how they tell us to think. They are, and have always BEEN, enemies of the people.
I’m waiting for the book that details how Obama CHOSE Biden, full knowing that he was a nasty old man and incompetent, because all he needed was a controllable face for his third term. He and the democrats stole the election and thought they could do it all again in 2024. Obama failed to understand that dementia, as it gets worse, makes the victim even MORE uncontrollable. He was just “too smart” for the final lap.
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posted on
06/03/2025 6:41:01 AM PDT
by
13Sisters76
("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
06/03/2025 6:42:54 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
To: Rummyfan
The only reason for this book is quite simple.
This is their setup for Trump.
“Ohhhh gosh, we should have paid more attention and asked more questions.”
They are already laying the groundwork for the narrative that Trump is in decline. “We missed it with Biden but now we know what to look for. Trump isn’t well!”
That drumbeat is just going to get louder and louder. Especially the closer we get to mid-terms.
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posted on
06/03/2025 6:47:46 AM PDT
by
mlitefan
(Long time lurker...)
To: Telepathic Intruder
No, there is a purpose to this book. The evil purpose of this book is to lay blameless all those cabinet members who want to run for president. Or run a defense company. They clearly knew the president had no ability to make decisions. Remember decisions were made. Wars were fought. Weapons were sold. Checks were released to the public. Debts were forgiven. Borders were opened. The FBI was raiding houses early in the morning and shooting a few innocents. All those people did that on their own without a president. They had the power to invoke the 25th amendment. They had the power to speak up. It only took one of them. They did not do it. You can blame the press. They were clearly in on it. But they were the lookouts. While the other thieves were in the government committing all sorts of atrocities. This book is not merely exposing a cover up. Its also a cover up itself.
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posted on
06/03/2025 7:16:21 AM PDT
by
poinq
(thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
To: Telepathic Intruder
The mass media position at this point:
1. We were stupid as rocks and were duped by a brilliant propaganda campaign run out of the White House.
2. Don’t worry about that though. We could never be fooled again. Trust us.
Lol.
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posted on
06/03/2025 7:18:39 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(It was not us. It was them--all along.)
To: mlitefan
“They are already laying the groundwork for the narrative that Trump is in decline. “We missed it with Biden but now we know what to look for. Trump isn’t well!””
As Professor Henry Higgins might say: “By George, I think you’ve got it!”
The legacy enemedia are so transparent.
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posted on
06/03/2025 7:20:10 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
To: poinq
“They had the power to speak up.”
Excellent point.
In the entire Democrat Party there were zero cabinet members, zero governors, zero senior or mid level staffers, zero U.S. Senators and zero Member of the House of Representatives who dared to stand up and scream the entire administration was a fraud.
They were cowards.
They were liars.
They are all unqualified to take garbage bins to the curb much less hold public office.
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posted on
06/03/2025 7:21:18 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(It was not us. It was them--all along.)
To: T-Bird45
Yup—that is the “age” language that keeps creeping into articles.
“Biden was old.”
“Biden was aging.”
etc etc etc....
There are one hundred year old people that are just fine.
Biden was senile.
They do not want to admit it.
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posted on
06/03/2025 7:23:11 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(It was not us. It was them--all along.)
To: poinq
Exactly—they are covering up the cover up. Gas lighting us on the gas lighting. They’re hoping this explains away everything and we don’t need to look any further.
To: Rummyfan
Hans Christian Andersen published the story in 1837
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posted on
06/03/2025 8:35:39 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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- 40 AI-Driven Censorship Techniques to Control Narratives and Suppress Dissent [03/09/2025]
- Bipartisan Coalition Finally Tells Europe, and the FBI, to Shove It [02/21/2025]
- Kunstler: Glug Glug. . . . [01/28/2025]
- Note on the FBI [12/03/2024]
- The Bell Finally Tolls for the FBI [12/03/2024]
- The Democrats' Dirty Tricks Playbook? [11/27/2024]
- How America's Accurate Election Polls Were Covered Up [11/18/2024]
- Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors [10/01/2024]
- State Department tried to discredit reporters, Republican pol over conservative 'blacklist' [09/13/2024]
- DNC Talking Points Become Instant Post-Debate Headlines [09/11/2024]
- YIKES: Matt Taibbi Tweeted About Forced 'Joy' and Whoa Nellie, Check Out the Media Hive Mind [08/24/2024]
- FOIA Files: Garry Kasparov Resigns from Aspen Institute Commission, Compares it to Soviet Committee [05/23/2024]
- 'Remember Us': How to Fight Media Bombholing [05/03/2024]
- Did Our Intelligence Agencies Suggest The Russia Hoax To Hillary Clinton's Campaign? [02/15/2024]
- Watch: Does President Trump have that missing CIA binder that the Deep State is sooooo desperate to find? New info emerges... [02/15/2024]
- New Report Says Obama CIA Worked With International Spy Agencies to Get Trump [02/14/2024]
- DISARM IS A DYSTOPIAN GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE TOOL TO IDENTIFY, CATALOG, AND COMBAT MISINFORMATION. [01/20/2024]
- Losing the Plot: The "Leftists" Who Turn Right [12/12/2023]
- The Magic Moment ( Vax Kills 17 million world wide) [12/05/2023]
- Matt Taibbi: This Was 'The Most Alarming Thing' Discovered In The Twitter Files (HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE, Dec 1, 2023) [12/04/2023]
- US, UK military contractors engaged in psy-ops against Americans, journalist tells Congress [12/02/2023]
- US And UK Military Contractors Created Sweeping Plan For Global Censorship In 2018, New Documents Show [11/28/2023]
- VIDEO: Nasty Liberal Suffers Hilarious Karmatic Kickback During Debate [11/02/2023]
- New Twitter Files Upend CNN's Ridiculous Gaslighting on Big Tech-Gov't Censorship [06/07/2023]
- IRS Opened Investigation Into Matt Taibbi The Same Day He Blew The Whistle On Twitter And The Feds' Censorship Scheme [05/26/2023]
- Democrat Stacey Plaskett Threatens 'Twitter Files' Journalist Matt Taibbi With Prison [04/20/2023]
- Is the IRS making house calls now? [03/28/2023]
- The Latest Twitter Files Release Reveals Efforts by the Government and Social Media Platforms to Block 'True' Information [03/19/2023]
- The Democrats' Disastrous Miscalculation on Civil Liberties [03/13/2023]
- The Censorship Complex Isn't A 'Tinfoil Hat' Conspiracy, And The 'Twitter Files' Just Dropped More Proof [03/13/2023]
- The Democrats Have Lost the Plot [03/11/2023]
- The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America [03/10/2023]
- Opinion: Twitter hearing uncovers Democrats' chilling message to journalists [03/09/2023]
- TWITTER FILES: Elon Musk Releases New Docs Blowing Lid Off Soros-Tied 'State-Sponsored Blacklists' [03/02/2023]
- The 'Twitter Files' Reveal Big Tech's Unholy Alliance With The Feds Exists To Control You [02/21/2023]
- By Exposing Hamilton 68, The 'Twitter Files' Proved The Deep State Is A Weapon Aimed Directly At You [02/06/2023]
- Revealed: CIA Told Twitter to Censor Book by Burisma Prosecutor Joe Biden Threatened To Have Fired [01/07/2023]
- THREAD: The Twitter Files. Twitter and the FBI "Belly Button" (MATT TAIBBI) [01/03/2023]
- Josh Marshall declares Matt Taibbi 'officially pizzagate-curious' after FBI thread [12/18/2022]
- State Attorneys General tell Twitter to preserve censorship evidence [12/15/2022]
- Elon Musk Dissolves Twitter's 'Trust And Safety Council' Following Child Exploitation Concerns [12/12/2022]
- Former head of Twitter Trust and Safety Yoel Roth had 'a secret dirty account' and YIKES (thread) (from @libsoftiktok) [12/12/2022]
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- The FBI's Transformation, from National Police to Domestic Spy Agency. Part One: "Disruption" [11/11/2022]
- Why A Federal Judge Shouldn't Toss The Case Enabling Stefan Halper To Pretend Russia Collusion Was Real [07/16/2022]
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- Orwell Was Right...From free speech to "spheres of influence" to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted [03/14/2022]
- Another All-Time Media Faceplant (Russian faux invasion) [02/17/2022]
- Another leftist gets red-pilled by the truth [09/30/2021]
- _Can a Drug Be _Right-Wing_--by lefty Matt Taibbi (Ivermectin) [06/26/2021]
- Don't Steal This Book On "In Defense of Looting" [09/06/2020]
- The Spies Who Hijacked America [08/09/2020]
- The Spies Who Hijacked America [08/09/2020]
- Rolling Stone Editor on Why 'White Fragility' May Be the 'Dumbest Book Ever Written' [07/24/2020]
- On "White Fragility" [06/28/2020]
- The American Press Is Destroying Itself [06/16/2020]
- Rolling Stone Editor Unloads On Media, Says 'The American Left Has Lost Its Mind' [06/15/2020]
- Rolling Stone Liberal Editor's Key Observation About the George Floyd Unrest Will Probably Infuriate the Left [06/13/2020]
- Taibbi: Sullivan, Russiagate, And COVID-19 Reveal Dems And Progressives As "Defenders Of The Spy State" And The Real Authoritarians [05/16/2020]
- CNN's Debate Performance Was Villainous and Shameful [01/16/2020]
- Sanders Supporters Shocked to Find Bias at CNN [01/16/2020]
- FLASHBACK: Hunter Biden's One Qualification for Amtrak Board Was Taking Trains [10/17/2019]
- CNN Ponders Trump 2020: 'What Is the Magic That He Doles Out?' [08/21/2019]
- Dan Gainor: Mueller testimony a disaster for anti-Trump media -- 7 examples of media failures [07/28/2019]
- NewsBusters Year-in-Review: The Most Outrageous Quotes of 2017 Part II [12/26/2017]
- The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow (Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames) [12/16/2017]
- Rolling Stone's Taibbi Warns Democrats and MSM on Trump-Russia Fake News [03/08/2017]
- His turning point: Something About This Russia Story Stinks [12/30/2016]
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- Greed, debt and Matt Taibbi: What Rolling Stone got right, and wrong, about Bain Capital [09/09/2012]
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- Journolist 2.0: OccupyDC Emails Show MSM, Dylan Ratigan, Working With Protesters To Craft Message [10/16/2011]
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- Rolling Stone: Waah, Obama sold us out [12/12/2009]
- Obama's Big Wall Street Sellout [12/10/2009]
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- China denounces U.S. banks for 'evil intent' with derivatives [12/03/2009]
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posted on
06/03/2025 10:53:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The best thing about a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.)
To: poinq
Absolutely correct. Our country was hijacked by a cabal of RATs. Media and political, legislative and judicial.
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posted on
06/03/2025 11:06:21 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
06/03/2025 2:26:54 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: 13Sisters76
Biden was chosen for his ability to fog a mirror. The perfect sock puppet as was Harris. She had no policy ideas of her own and would do as instructed bu the party leaders (do not say Obama, he’s not that smart. Politburo? Maybe)
Tappers book is meant to gaslight the dem voters. It has no effect on us. We knew from the beginning. All the attacks on MAGA were to shield the scam from further investigation since MAGA were the object of their Hate you could never allow the, to be right about anything.
In getting to the bottom of this criminal behavior, forget politics. Pursue the ones who impersonated a Federal Official and incarcerate them for 20 years with no parole.
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posted on
06/03/2025 2:48:56 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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