Posted on 07/09/2024 5:40:23 AM PDT by Heartlander
Lying is certainly nothing new in politics. It is said that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, but politics is assuredly the dirtiest—filthier even than garbageman, mortician or, well, the world’s oldest profession itself.
Former President Bill Clinton (while we’re on the topic of sexual promiscuity) perjured himself, leading to his impeachment. Former President Barack Obama, in what PolitiFact called its 2013 “Lie of the Year,” promised that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” And on and on, it goes.
The corporate media, whose 21st-century raison d’être is propping up the Regime Party (Democrats) and punishing the Deplorable Party (Republicans), often joins the fray. The Russia-collusion delusion disinformation operation was laundered by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign to seedy “intelligence” firm Fusion GPS and law firm Perkins Coie LLP. For years, the corporate media dutifully pushed the false narrative. Indeed, it is unclear to this day whether MSNBC has ever read the Mueller report.
But after last Thursday’s CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, in which President Joe Biden delivered a catastrophic performance for the ages, there is only one conclusion: The yearslong effort by Biden administration flunkies, Democratic Party poohbahs and pro-Regime media stenographers to forcefully deny Biden’s obvious physical and mental decline will go down as the single greatest lie in American history.
And what an assiduous effort it was! For years, Democrats and the corporate media lied through their teeth about the blatant decline of the president’s physical and mental faculties.
When Biden fell off a stationary bicycle in 2022, handlers brushed it off as no big deal. When Biden started wearing funny-looking tennis sneakers instead of dress shoes, presumably in order to stabilize his gait and prevent debilitating falls, aides informed us that Biden was just embracing a certain sartorial savviness.
When former Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to pursue charges against Biden due to the fact he “would likely present himself to a jury … as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” media apparatchiks denounced Hur as a “Trump plant” in the Justice Department. (Where is Hur’s apology?)
After multiple videos emerged of Biden freezing, staring and wandering off, The New York Times called them “misleading”; the Biden White House dismissed them as “cheap fakes.” The Wall Street Journal’s recent story, in which reporters interviewed 45 officials who expressed concern about Biden’s senescence, was excoriated as a “hit job.”
All along the way, costly “gaffes”—such as Biden inadvertently calling for regime change in Moscow during a March 2022 visit to Warsaw—were simply chalked up to Uncle Joe being Uncle Joe. How dare you question hard-scrabble Joe from Scranton? Nothing to see here!
Anything—anything—to prevent the American people from learning the truth. Axios reported last Friday how “close aides have carefully shielded (Biden) from people inside and outside the White House since the beginning of his presidency.” For Democrats and their media enablers, there can be no stone left unturned to protect their precious. The ends always justify the means, after all, just as Saul Alinsky taught.
The media’s hubris in thinking it could get away with this is astounding. Biden is the president of the United States. His decline wasn’t exactly a state secret, at least for anyone with functioning eyes and ears. This column two years ago, in lamenting Biden’s “indications of a palpable senility,” concluded that “[t]here is something very, very clearly wrong with the president of the United States.”
Really, just how stupid do Democrats and the corporate media think we are? How long did they think they could get away with this gaslighting operation?
A Gallup poll last October revealed that 32% of Americans trust the corporate media either “a great deal” or “a fair amount.” That seems far too high. These hacks deserve nothing but disgust and contempt.
Nor has the persistent media gaslighting for the past two to three years been a victimless crime. The collective victim is us—all of us. America is wildly insecure under the “leadership” of Biden. Xi Jinping is sure to move on Taiwan before year’s end. Who knows what Xi’s friends, from Pyongyang to Moscow to Tehran, might do? Who will stop them, after all?
The ultimate irony of it all? The massive lie and disinformation operation to obfuscate the president’s decline has been perpetrated in the name of—you guessed it—“our democracy.” The chutzpah!
Democracy Dies in Darkness,” reads The Washington Post’s masthead slogan, conveniently adopted mere weeks after former President Donald Trump took office in 2017. Come again? We don’t actually know who is running the country right now. It certainly isn’t Uncle Joe. Now that is some serious “darkness.”
Never forgive, and never forget, what these lying miscreants have done to us—and to the republic.
Absolutely nothing has changed since the debate. Did they caught in an ongoing deception campaign for years?
You can shout it from the mountain tops, but it wont stick.
They control all the input that american zombies get.
The only thing that has changed is that ALL OF A SUDDEN (according to the new narrative) Biden is having problems and should consider stepping down. The big debate is Biden himself, and just because the MSM is actually split on something FOR ONCE doesn’t mean anyone is acknowledging the coverup campaign. AKA, the lying.
The lying shall continue until morale improves, and then, the lying shall always be S.O.P. (standard operating propaganda)
I’m just fine with the death of “their democracy”.
Restore our Republic!
Just saw Dana Bash try and do a struggle session with Rubio in an interview to that effect. Its not 'retribution' they fear, but justice for criminal acts (talk about a target rich environment).
Having seen Biden over that past several decades, including what he did to Clarence Thomas, I have trouble deciding which Biden is more dangerous, the lucid one, or the current Alzheimer one.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Their whole house is built upon lies and the father of lies is.....
Really? I think he’s forgetting the lies of “COVID”, of which there were many, and which had far greater direct impact on people’s lives.
Just one of the many “COVID” lies? “Safe and effective”.
There are several. They are all members of Ze Committee, as Kaiser Klaus lovingly calls it.
The corporate media is made up of nothing but "official" former Regime Party members.
The masses WANT to be lied to.
Amen!
Biden’s thinking function is severely impaired.
<><>He can only conjure up the basest thoughts
<><>thoughts centering on his needs exclusively
<><>what’s best for him alone.
Call your Congressman
(202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.
Message: The DNC, dimwit Biden, his buttinsky unelected wife
and convicted felon son do not get to decide whether he
stays or goes. We, the people, have rights, too.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the evil criminal.
Now do the "climate crisis".
Excellent article; every word is the truth.
I’m one of those people who NEVER forgives wrongdoing. Nor do I forget the things that have been done wrong.
“I’m one of those people who NEVER forgives wrongdoing. Nor do I forget the things that have been done wrong.”
Me, too. They say it’s because I’m a Scorpio. (Not that I believe in that stuff, ‘cause I don’t.)
In any case, I pray that Trump has the same mindset.
>>>I have trouble deciding which Biden is more dangerous, the lucid one, or the current Alzheimer one.<<<
The lucid Biden was bad enough, but not to worry: the current one is possessed by family and “friends” who have taken over the presidency in his behalf.
ALL OF THESE ITEMS ARE “ELECTION INTERFERENCE”.
Really, just how stupid do Democrats and the corporate media think we are? How long did they think they could get away with this gaslighting operation?
You can fool some of the people all of the time...Democrats.
You can fool all of the people some of the time...Media.
But you can’t fool all the people all the time...Biden.
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