If You Were Duped On Biden’s Cognitive Decline, You’re Too Dumb To Be A Journalist

By the time we saw Joe Biden’s debate debacle, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Biden’s fragile mental state was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats.

The Wall Street Journal reports this week that Biden’s senior advisers “aggressively stage-managed” the president’s “schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history.” Basically, everyone in the White House — as well as big-money donors — conspired to hide that the president of the United States was unable to perform even the most rudimentary tasks associated with the most powerful job in the world. By 2022, the president’s advisors didn’t even believe he was up to taking weekly cross-country trips.

And now we’re supposed to accept the claim that not a single reporter embedded in the White House (outside perhaps some who work at Fox News) hadn’t figured it out? As Ace Rothstein put it to the “yokel” floor manager in “Casino,” “If you didn’t know you’re being scammed, you’re too f—n’ dumb to keep this job. If you did know, you were in on it.”

Most reporters, one strongly suspects, fall in the latter camp. No one is that bad at his job. The same outlets that deploy teams of investigative reporters to uncover which flags Supreme Court justices are flying at their vacation homes surely have the capacity to investigate the mystery of our doddering president. More than a year ago I wrote a piece headlined “Joe Biden Is Not OK,” laying out a string of incidents that were in the public record (I was hardly alone.)

So when Axios tells m e that “Hell has no fury like a press corps deceived,” I am highly skeptical. “Reporters,” Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write, “feel duped — and some probably embarrassed —and are scrambling to unearth new evidence of decline.”

As with Pulitzer Prize-winning bogus scoops of the Russia collusion hoax or the concerted censorship meant to mitigate the fallout from the Hunter laptop story, there has never been reckoning from the press over its malpractice. No one has yet explained how a barely functioning president escaped the notice of dozens of highly paid journalism school graduates. They simply move to the next project.

So, for instance, this week CNN’s Jake Tapper assailed Biden’s incoherent MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” interview, noting incredulously that it was “supposed to be reassuring to those Democratic supporters who have gone wobbly.”

Well, no more reassuring than the rambling gun-control speech Biden gave last year that ended with the words “God save the queen, man,” or the time Biden informed the League of Conservation Voters he was building a railroad “from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,” or the time our president forgot Winston Churchill’s name while meeting with the British prime minister, or the time he tripped on stage after a commencement speech at the Air Force Academy, or the time he wandered off during a G-7 meeting, or was helped off the stage at a fundraiser by Barack Obama (which Tapper’s network told us was misinformation.)

When Special Counsel Robert Hur let Biden — an “elderly man with a poor memory” — slide on his decades-long habit of hoarding classified documents, the political media didn’t pore over White House logs and schedules to figure out if the president was being insulated from the world. They attacked the messenger.

We’re not only talking about comically dishonest partisans like Joe Scarborough and politicians like Pat Murray — both of whom have shamelessly gone from praising the president’s supernatural mental sharpness to essentially asking him to abandon the race — we’re talking about virtually the entire press.

The New York Times has now written two editorials asking Biden to drop out of the race. And if the members of the board had only been reading their own coverage, they might not have known that Biden was struggling. Days before the debate the paper ran a piece titled “How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts,” which laid out the case that conservatives had been unfairly attacking the president. An earlier piece, “Release of Hur Report Underlines Perils of the Special Counsel’s Job,” did not investigate Hur’s contention, it merely amplified attacks on him, noting that report was “seized upon by Trump supporters.”

The Times editorial page helpfully ran essays like “I’m a Neuroscientist. We’re Thinking About Biden’s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way,” wherein credulous readers learn that the president’s failure to recall the year his son died is probably not a very big deal. The same thing went on at NBC News, where one story’s subhead helpfully notes: “Forgetting the names of acquaintances or having difficulty remembering dates from the past doesn’t affect decision-making or judgment, brain experts say.”

Even now, virtually every discussion on the left regarding the president’s fragile mental acuity revolves around his ability or inability to beat Donald Trump — rather than the dangerous position the administration and a pliant press have put the nation in. One suspects that if Biden withstands the pressure and stays in the race, they’ll all go back to covering for him again.

Because, if there’s anything this incident reaffirms, it’s that far too often the first loyalty of the political media is to the Democratic Party.

Tracy Beanz
@tracybeanz

🧵This is a message to Democrat/Independent Americans. We understand how you feel. Let’s talk human to human. You have been through it the past few weeks. You and I both watched the debate. You saw the condition Joe Biden is in.

The real questions you need to be asking right now, are why didn’t we KNOW this already. Why is this a shock to us? Why hasn’t the media reported this? You are probably shocked and stunned right now at the people who you trusted suddenly turning on the President.

You let these pundits and “journalists” into your HOME every night. You counted on them to tell you what was happening. More importantly you TRUSTED that they WERE.

Now that they, seemingly overnight, have done a complete 180, you are RIGHTFULLY confused. Why are they attacking the only man standing between democracy continuing and the abject authoritarian end to the country we have been told will come if “the other guy” wins?!

After all, they have told you for years that the other guy represents an existential threat to all we hold dear. Everything is at stake here, and all of a sudden they seem to be throwing it into the fire. I’d be pissed too. I was pissed. I went through this. May I gently suggest that we take a breath and a step back to evaluate some things?

You should be pondering who the media works for right now. You should be pondering whether they work for you - to give you accurate information so you can make informed decisions - or if they work for someone else, whose interests don’t align with yours.

Our “sides” media isn’t much better. And, truthfully, there shouldn’t be a “side.” But because we opened our minds a bit and embraced independent journalism, many of us have been able to see the problems that Joe is facing for a long, long time.

I am sure you all likely would have wanted the opportunity MUCH earlier on to choose a different candidate. Let’s not get it twisted; I know many of you are not voting for the same guy I am going to vote for. That’s ok.

However, I do think we need to take this opportunity to REFORM the system, so that this can’t happen again - to ANY of us. I also think that YOU need to seriously take a step back and start to ask what else they may have lied to you about.

Just as early as a few weeks ago the WH press corps and the press secretary were saying that the videos of Biden acting EXACTLY like he did in the debate were something called “cheap fakes.”

So, if they were willing to lie to you about something so pivotal that it LITERALLY risks the security and safety of the country, what ELSE have they lied to you about? Hear me out for a minute.

Is it *possible* (not probable) they lied to you about Russia?
Is it *possible* (not probable) they lied to you about COVID?
Is it *possible* (not probable) they lied to you about the border? The economy? The COVID shot? Unemployment?

If they are willing to have lied about THIS, what ELSE have they lied about? They are jeopardizing the election of the one man in a position to STOP the destruction of the country, in your eyes.

Let’s be frank, the media (and whoever holds their puppet strings) have been lying to you for years now. They have kept you in fear. They have doubted your intelligence. They have parroted SOMEONE’S talking points, and you have believed them.

I am under no illusion you will change your minds politically, and frankly I am OK with that. Everyone is entitled to their own decisions. HOWEVER, I do think the media that has just turned on YOU has kept US separate and hating each other for a long, long time now. Is it *possible* they’ve lied to do that?

I am just saying that if you answered “yes” to any of these questions, if your world is seemingly upside down right now, if you don’t know who is telling the truth and who is lying, that maybe you could take a bit of time and re-evaluate the standards you place on YOUR media and your ADMINISTRATION.

Don’t let them continue to puppet you the way they’ve tried to for decades. Take your power back. Re-evaluate EVERYTHING you have been told under this new lense. I get it. Trust me I do.

But I am a firm believer that we can NOT make good decisions without good information, and as you are finding out right now, you don’t have it. So, maybe it is time to stop giving your power away to people who think you are stupid and hate you. Maybe you should break free and take that power back. Maybe it’s time for a reckoning..

We can agree to ideologically disagree, but THIS we should fundamentally agree on. I have faith in you. Good luck, and God speed <3

https://x.com/tracybeanz/status/1810727174753718570

(h/t Lakeside Granny)

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If You Were Duped On Biden’s Cognitive Decline, You’re Too Dumb To Be A Journalist

And if you knew, you were in on it.

OR a USEFUL IDIOT