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Stop Trying To Convince Me Joe Biden Isn’t A Confused, Doddering Old Man: The Media Gaslighting is Embarrassing
The Federalist ^ | 06/18/2024 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 06/18/2024 9:05:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Listen, I’d support a zombie for president if they promised to nominate originalists for the Supreme Court and deregulate the economy. Do whatever you have to do. But stop telling me that Joe Biden isn’t a mentally and physically fragile man.

We can all watch the video of our octogenarian president awkwardly freezing up and staring out at a crowd before former president Barack Obama takes his arm and leads him off the stage.

Now, I can tell you from experience, it isn’t normal for a grown man to grab another man’s arm in this manner — unless one of them needs help. If Biden was really in the robust physical and mental state that the White House maintains, Obama would have merely said something to Biden or given him a friendly tap on the shoulder. But like Dr. First Lady Jill Biden and White House handlers and world leaders, Obama was compelled to act as caretaker to a confused Joe Biden.

And, considering his age, that isn’t abnormal. There is, however, something decidedly abnormal about the coverup. I’m not sure we have ever seen anything quite like this kind of gaslighting.

In the past, the media would wrap inconvenient news in some quasi-journalistic effort to give it credence. Reporters might go out and find proxy “experts” that dispel the obvious or they would bury news in layers of “context.” When the Hunter Biden laptop story broke, virtually the entire establishment media proactively tainted the revelations by waving around a letter from partisan former Obama officials warning about Russian ”disinformation.”

Successfully suppressing the misadventures of President Magoo, however, means convincing millions of Americans to reject the events they see happening every day–things that anyone who has ever dealt with an aging relative recognizes.

I’m not contending that every video clip spread by the RNC of Biden is offered in full, pristine context. Democrats who are still accusing Donald Trump of calling Tiki-torch Nazis “very fine people” or claiming he wanted people to “inject bleach” aren’t really in a position to complain. I’m merely saying there are numerous videos of these events, and there are endless examples of Biden’s decline.

There is cropped video of the Obama incident. There is uncropped video. There is a full video provided by The Hollywood Reporter. We even have a video provided by the White House that only confirms Biden froze up and was led off by Obama.

Seemingly every time the left provides a clip to debunk or contextualize one of Biden’s mishaps, they reinforce the original.

Like a prepubescent kid caught in the act, the White House just says “This did not happen.” Karine Jean-Pierre told the press that the Hollywood video, and other recent clips of the baffled president, were “cheap fakes.” As far as I can tell, not a single reporter asked her to elaborate on which parts of these clips were manipulated. Instead, most rushed to the White House’s aid.

The truth is, they’re not even trying very hard anymore. CNN’s Oliver Darcy wrote that the video was a fabrication without offering any explanation or evidence to back up the claim. On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace didn’t merely contend the tape was part of a “growing and insidious trend in right-wing media” to spread “highly misleading and selectively edited videos,” she played an edited clip of the incident that cuts out the worst part.

“Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral,” says NBC News, in what can only be described as a piece of propaganda. “The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.”

Indeed, the “fact-checks” were particularly astonishing. The Associated Press’s “FACT FOCUS” not only relied on “Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer,” “White House spokesperson Andrew Bates,” “White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre,” but also “Lewis Kay, a spokesperson for Jimmy Kimmel,” to allegedly debunk the Obama video.

The Washington Post’s factcheckers argue that a video of a perplexed Biden at the G7 summit in Apulia, Italy, was achieved by “deceptive framing.” The headline of the piece read, “‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply misleads.”

Deeply? The Post offers an alternative video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gathering Biden before the president could wander away that is probably more misleading than the original. It was edited to exclude the fact that Biden is completely out of sync with every other world leader, all of whom are paying attention to the parachuter who landed right in front of them. Despite the Four Pinocchios, both clips show him “meandering.”

It is true that the video of Biden fruitlessly trying to find his chair during a D-Day commemoration was misleading. There was a chair. The video now shows us an old man struggling to accomplish the simple physical act of sitting down. Because he’s old. It is transparently ridiculous to keep denying this truth.

Biden’s mental acuity, never particularly sharp to begin with, has considerably deteriorated over the past couple of years. It’s not the lifelong fabulism or habitual lying or his lashing out at anyone who asks him a marginally tough question. Whether he’s saying, “God save the queen, man,” for no discernible reason or shaking hands with ghosts or struggling to walk up normal-sized stairs, the president acts like a man who is struggling to do his job.

Yes, Biden also has his moments. As we all know, elderly people in decline have good days and bad ones. Maybe putting a lid on the day at 11 a.m. most weeks is paying off. But the fact that Biden can still read a speech off a teleprompter or give an interview to an obsequious journalist doesn’t prove he’s not struggling in general. We can all see the truth. No fake factcheck is going to hide it.  


David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books—the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenfreezing; bidenincapacitated; dementia; fakenews; gaslighting; lyingeyes; rejectevidenceofeyes
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1 posted on 06/18/2024 9:05:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

A doddering old man who obviously craps in his pants...

It’s beyond ridiculous to tell us we don’t see what we for sure know we’re seeing. Give it up already you media morons.


2 posted on 06/18/2024 9:11:17 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Bullish

He doesn’t “ obviously “ crap in his pants………and yes I’ve seen the pics posted here .
He is confused and should not be president but the pants crapping thing is nonsense .

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3 posted on 06/18/2024 9:18:53 PM PDT by Mears
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To: SeekAndFind

Every one of these jackasses who are covering for Biden will rue the day they helped this incompetent boob and his marxist cabal get re-elected. They’re selling the whole country down the river if they do.

All because they’re scared to death of the populist Donald Trump that would help to restore the Constitution and our bill of rights.


4 posted on 06/18/2024 9:24:58 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Mears

I would bet you it’s not nonsense... And why are you hear sticking up for him?


5 posted on 06/18/2024 9:25:58 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Mears

He spews crap out of his lying mouth on a regular basis.


6 posted on 06/18/2024 9:26:15 PM PDT by JimmyTheFish
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To: Mears

I’m talking about the way he always walks like he’s wearing depends. Not the sitting down thing.


7 posted on 06/18/2024 9:27:14 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Bullish

And why are you hear sticking up for him?

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Why is expressing an opinion considered sticking up for someone?


8 posted on 06/18/2024 9:29:33 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Well, because we get alot of democrat supporters in disguise about this time before every presidential election... Or haven’t you ever noticed that?


9 posted on 06/18/2024 9:32:52 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Mears

If you don’t think he’s crapped his pants in those videos, it’s pretty obvious you didn’t ever deal with toddlers for any length of time. OR you have forgotten some pretty basic parental observations. OR you haven’t seen the actual VIDEOS, rather than random excerpted/edited photographs.

His posture, facial expressions, and overall demeanor is BLATANT. He’s having standing poops. No ifs, ands, buts, or maybes.

The people keeping him in that position are committing obvious and egregious elder abuse.


10 posted on 06/18/2024 9:40:42 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden should be asked about the methane tax on cow farts and he too ought be personally taxed for his load of Depends.

Then threaten Joe by pulling out a Bic Lighter and flick it once without lighting it... one more flick and we all go boom in the room. Now that would be gaslighting.


11 posted on 06/18/2024 9:44:06 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: SeekAndFind

Just the opposite!!!

The more they try to get people to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and ears, the better!

When you enemy is self-destructing, don’t stop him.


12 posted on 06/18/2024 9:49:19 PM PDT by bigbob
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Exactly! The Mockingbird Media is one of the most dangerous enemies this country has and the more they shoot themselves in the foot spewing obvious nonsense the better.


13 posted on 06/18/2024 10:05:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind
We can all watch the video of our octogenarian president awkwardly freezing up and staring out at a crowd before former president Barack Obama takes his arm and leads him off the stage.

No. No, we can't. Video won't play!

Regards,

14 posted on 06/18/2024 10:06:56 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Bullish

Of course I know that. But she is not one of them. She has been around almost as long as you have. She is a very good conservative and elderly. She speaks her mind and is entitled to her opinion. She is far from being any kind of troll.

By this time it seems to me you would recognize her and realize she is not who you accuse her of being.

We’re all under stress these days and we all say things without thinking and that includes me.

Have a good night.


15 posted on 06/18/2024 10:57:27 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Bullish

Why not be. HERE……..it’s a place for discussion .


16 posted on 06/18/2024 11:11:45 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Don W

I had 5 toddlers…..and a bunch of grandchildren.

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17 posted on 06/18/2024 11:14:21 PM PDT by Mears
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To: SeekAndFind

“You saw it live on TV but it’s a deep fake!” - literally what the left is saying.


18 posted on 06/19/2024 12:27:07 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SeekAndFind

i hope they double down on the gaslighting

i want the media to go down with the ship

cut the cable tv


19 posted on 06/19/2024 1:05:07 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: SeekAndFind

in response to these videos

shouldnt they be putting out the videos

where he is as sharp as a tack

can we see those?


20 posted on 06/19/2024 1:08:32 AM PDT by joshua c
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