{"id":2270622,"date":"2024-06-18T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:24:28","slug":"stop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Persuading Me That Joe Biden Isn&#8217;t Confused and Frail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2270622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided text discusses\u2062 criticisms aimed at U.S. President Joe Biden,\u200c depicting him as physically and mentally fragile, as\u200d evidenced\u200c by\u200c various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-republicans-call-on-biden-administration-to-act-swiftly-on-ethiopia-crisis\/\" title=\"Congressional Republicans Call on Biden Administration to Act Swiftly on Ethiopia Crisis\">videos showing<\/a> him needing \u200cassistance in public appearances. The article criticizes the media and the White \u2062House for allegedly covering up and misrepresenting these \u200cincidents, labeling the unflattering portrayals of Biden as manipulations or fabrications, despite available footage supporting the claims of his frailty. \u200bSeveral examples \u200care cited where the\u200b White House and media\u200d outlets have defended Biden\u2062 or dismissed concerns about his fitness as products of misleading edits\u200b or &#8220;cheap fakes.&#8221; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shameful-douglas-murray-blasts-biden-for-alleged-plans-to-reward-palestinians-with-a-state\/\" title=\"Douglas Murray slams Biden for allegedly planning to 'reward' Palestinians with a state, calling it 'shameful\">author expresses concern<\/a> about what is perceived as \u2062a broader issue of gaslighting\u200b and misinformation, suggesting a significant effort by some in the media and Biden&#8217;s administration to suppress or mischaracterize evidence \u2063of his supposed decline\u200b in mental and physical capacity. This is contextualized within a broader critique of contemporary political and \u200bmedia practices around handling sensitive or\u200b potentially damaging information about \u200bpolitical leaders.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Listen, I\u2019d 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\u2019t a mentally and physically fragile man.<\/p>\n<p>We can all <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/white-house-shamelessly-claims-video-of-biden-clearly-freezing-up-onstage-is-fake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watch<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1109202308\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-56a66e91176988b78436c54aad571601 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-56a66e91176988b78436c54aad571601\"><\/div>\n<p>Now, I can tell you from experience, it isn\u2019t normal for a grown man to grab another man\u2019s arm in this manner \u2014 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pictured-joe-biden-uses-team-144836082.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House handlers<\/a> and world leaders, Obama was compelled to act as caretaker to a confused Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>And, considering his age, that isn\u2019t abnormal. There is, however, something decidedly abnormal about the coverup. I\u2019m not sure we have ever seen anything quite like this kind of gaslighting.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cexperts\u201d that dispel the obvious or they would bury news in layers of \u201ccontext.\u201d 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 \u201ddisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effort to suppress the misadventures of President Magoo, however, means convincing Americans to reject the events they see happening every day; things that anyone who has ever dealt with an aging relative recognizes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9ff2563c050f61b57191597d63b3bd59 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9ff2563c050f61b57191597d63b3bd59\"><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m 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 \u201cvery fine people\u201d or claiming he wanted people to \u201cinject bleach\u201d aren\u2019t really in a position to complain. I\u2019m merely saying there are numerous videos of these events, and there are endless examples of Biden\u2019s decline.<\/p>\n<p>There is cropped video of the Obama incident. There is uncropped video. There is a full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-eyewitness-account-from-the-stop-the-steal-event-at-the-us-capitol-including-a-memorial-to-ashli-babbit-pictures-video\/\" title=\"Another Eyewitness Account from the Stop the Steal Event at the US Capitol \u2014 Including a Memorial to Ashli Babbit (Pictures, Video)\">video provided<\/a> by<em> <\/em>The Hollywood Reporter<em>. <\/em>We even <a href=\"https:\/\/app.frame.io\/presentations\/f80f9fa4-1519-4b3e-abf2-dd771232332b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have a video<\/a> provided by the White House that only confirms Biden froze up and was led off by Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly every time the left provides a clip to debunk or contextualize one of Biden\u2019s mishaps, they reinforce the original.<\/p>\n<p>Like a prepubescent kid caught in the act, the White House just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yXJdTWtzk1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> \u201cThis did not happen.\u201d Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/karine-jean-pierre-slammed-claiming-biden-videos-deepfakes-dont-believe-your-lying-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the press that the Hollywood video, and other recent clips of the baffled president, were \u201ccheap fakes.\u201d 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\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b9d157aa07494b5b463d868f9707aeeb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b9d157aa07494b5b463d868f9707aeeb\"><\/div>\n<p>The truth is, they\u2019re not even trying very hard anymore. CNN\u2019s Oliver Darcy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rkylesmith\/status\/1803008528954663292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> that the video was a fabrication without offering any explanation or evidence to back up the claim. On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace didn\u2019t merely <a href=\"https:\/\/news.grabien.com\/story\/msnbc-s-nicolle-wallace-rnc-s-clips-of-biden-are-highly-misleading-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contend<\/a> the tape was part of a \u201cgrowing and insidious trend in right-wing media\u201d to spread \u201chighly misleading and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-sympathetic-profile-of-mysterious-january-6-figure-ray-epps-only-raises-more-questions\/\" title=\"NY Times Sympathetic Profile Of Mysterious January 6 Figure Ray Epps Only Raises More Questions\">selectively edited videos<\/a>,\u201d she played <em>an edited clip<\/em> of the incident that cuts out the worst part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMisleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/misleading-gop-videos-biden-viral-fact-checks-rcna133316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> NBC News, in what can only be described as a piece of propaganda. \u201cThe fact-checks have trouble keeping up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the \u201cfact-checks\u201d were particularly astonishing. The Associated Press\u2019s \u201cFACT FOCUS\u201d not only <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-fundraiser-freeze-misinformation-election-efe67fe51ab189cbcbc850332969fd46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relied<\/a> on \u201cBiden campaign spokesperson James Singer,\u201d \u201cWhite House spokesperson Andrew Bates,\u201d \u201cWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre,\u201d but also \u201cLewis Kay, a spokesperson for Jimmy Kimmel,\u201d to allegedly debunk the Obama video.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s factcheckers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/14\/cheapfake-biden-videos-enrapture-right-wing-media-deeply-mislead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argue<\/a> that a video of a perplexed Biden at the G7 summit in Apulia, Italy, was achieved by \u201cdeceptive framing.\u201d The headline of the piece read, \u201c\u2018Cheapfake\u2019 Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply misleads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cmeandering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is true that the video of Biden fruitlessly trying to find his chair during a D-Day commemoration was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-check-biden-invisible-chair-normandy-634944982428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">misleading<\/a>. There was a chair. The video now shows us an old man struggling to accomplish the simple physical act of sitting down. Because he\u2019s old. It is transparently ridiculous to keep denying this truth.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s mental acuity, never particularly sharp to begin with, has considerably deteriorated over the past couple of years. It\u2019s not the lifelong fabulism or habitual lying or his lashing out at anyone who asks him a marginally tough question. Whether he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/16\/biden-bizarrely-ends-gun-control-speech-with-god-save-the-queen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cGod save the queen, man,\u201d for no discernible reason or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_59agcnLAj4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shaking hand<\/a>s with ghosts or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3gcQrFsUFzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">struggling<\/a> to walk up normal-sized stairs, the president acts like a man who is struggling to do his job.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t prove he\u2019s not struggling in general. We can all see the truth. No fake factcheck is going to hide it.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ee7ce6bf2bf90f51d0ebc3bac0c614a2 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ee7ce6bf2bf90f51d0ebc3bac0c614a2\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d back a zombie for president if they pledged to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court and deregulate the economy. Just don&#8217;t claim Joe Biden isn&#8217;t frail. We&#8217;ve all seen the videos of our octogenarian president hesitating awkwardly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2270623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Biden-81-Birthday.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Biden-81-Birthday.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}