{"id":2288021,"date":"2024-07-02T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-decline-went-from-misinformation-to-fact-in-a-week\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:53:16","slug":"bidens-decline-went-from-misinformation-to-fact-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-decline-went-from-misinformation-to-fact-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Decline Went From &#8216;Misinformation&#8217; To Fact In A Week"},"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%2Fbidens-decline-went-from-misinformation-to-fact-in-a-week%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=2288021&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 summary is\u2063 about Carl Bernstein reporting on \u200cCNN that people close to Joe Biden have expressed concerns about his mental and\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-marathon-bomber-files-lawsuit-over-alleged-unlawful-treatment-in-colorado-prison\/\" title=\"Boston Marathon bomber files lawsuit over alleged \u2018unlawful\u2019 treatment in Colorado prison\">physical decline<\/a>, citing multiple occasions over the past \u200byear and a\u200c half where he appeared similarly to \u200dhis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-mcconnell-isnt-expecting-the-gop-to-retake-the-senate\/\" title=\"Why McConnell Isn\u2019t Expecting the GOP to Retake the Senate\">disastrous debate performance<\/a>. Various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-asian-leftists-manifest-the-very-racism-they-claim-to-oppose\/\" title=\"Anti-Asian Leftists fuel the racism they oppose.\">media \u2062outlets<\/a> have \u2063attempted to downplay or debunk videos highlighting Biden&#8217;s struggles, but the truth is becoming increasingly difficult to\u200d ignore. \u200cThere\u200b is growing speculation within Democratic circles about the need to replace \u2062Biden\u2064 as president due to his declining abilities and the complicity of the media\u2063 in covering up his issues. Members of \u200dBiden&#8217;s inner circle also acknowledge the challenges of working with \u200bhim and controlling the\u2064 situation. This controversy raises questions about the transparency and accountability of both the president\u2064 and the media in addressing his condition.  <\/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<div>\n<p>On CNN today, Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yhFmaAMC1_Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> that people close to Joe Biden \u2014people \u201cwho loved him, have supported him, and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him\u201d \u2014 say his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/28\/biden-just-put-on-the-most-disastrous-debate-performance-in-presidential-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disastrous debate performance<\/a> wasn\u2019t a \u201cone-off.\u201d There have been, according to these insiders, \u201c15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, <em>we know<\/em>. All of us saw the horror show in a bunch of videos you hacks kept telling us was \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Dem apparatchik Oliver Darcy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/06\/media\/wall-street-journal-biden-mental-acuity\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attacked<\/a> the \u201cglaring problems\u201d of a well-sourced Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246?mod=hp_lead_pos7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> detailing a litany of Biden\u2019s slips. Not long before the first presidential debate, CNN ran another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/14\/politics\/media-outlets-use-deceptively-edited-video-to-claim-biden-wandered-off-at-g7-summit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> headlined, \u201cRight<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warning-for-america-the-four-steps-of-marxist-takeover-were-activated-in-2020\/\" title=\"Warning for America: The Four Steps of Marxist Takeover Were Activated in 2020\">-wing media outlets<\/a> use deceptively cropped video to misleadingly claim Biden wandered off at G7 summit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t Bernstein speak up?<\/p>\n<p>Before the debate, NBC News senior politics reporter Alex Seitz-Wald ran an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/misleading-gop-videos-biden-viral-fact-checks-rcna133316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> headlined, \u201cMisleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.\u201d In it, Seitz-Wald regurgitates most of the White House\u2019s transparently ridiculous talking points about videos that accurately illustrated Biden\u2019s mental and physical decline.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, David Ingram of NBC News \u2014 a network that doesn\u2019t get nearly enough credit for its hackery \u2014 published a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/misinformation\/biden-g7-video-joe-cheapfake-kept-going-viral-rcna157591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a>, \u201cThe deceptive Biden G7 video was quickly debunked, but it kept going viral anyway.\u201d Full-court press.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-age-videos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> a few days before the debate was \u201cBiden Battles Age Doubts and a Trail of Misleading Videos.\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/06\/11\/biden-videos-republicans-cheap-fake-d-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">activated<\/a> its factcheckers to show us \u201cHow Republicans used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalism-is-on-trial-project-veritas-ordered-to-pay-democratic-consulting-firm-over-2016-sting-operation\/\" title=\"\u2018Journalism Is On Trial\u2019: Project Veritas Ordered To Pay Democratic Consulting Firm Over 2016 Sting Operation\">misleading videos<\/a> to attack Biden in a 24-hour period.\u201d (The best thing about Wapo\u2019s alleged debunking of the videos was that the alternate views often make the president look even more lost.)<\/p>\n<p>It was a concerted effort to hide the truth. Now, what was once democracy-corroding MAGA misinformation only a couple of weeks ago has miraculously transformed into the accepted narrative of the entire political media.  It is an act of preternatural shamelessness. And not one journalist involved is going to explain how this could happen.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I\u2019ve seen many left wingers contend that the press\u2019 reporting on Biden\u2019s struggles only goes to prove they aren\u2019t really as biased as we think. Which is an insane thing to say. The gaslighting efforts failed. After the debate, there was no more pretending that Biden\u2019s fragility and slips were just GOP dirty tricks. What else were they going to do? The president is incapable of putting on a press conference right now. He is unable to speak coherently and contemporaneously, anymore.<\/p>\n<p>They all knew exactly what was going on. They\u2019ve known from the time they insulated him during the 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the media is now just doing the bidding of a different group of Democrats. This group wants to replace Biden because they\u2019ve been caught. Take Politico, one of the worst offenders in the Biden-decline coverup. It\u2019s merely turned into a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party faction that wants to replace the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all enabled the situation\u201d sources within Biden\u2019s \u201cinner sanctum\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/biden-campaign-debate-inner-circle-00166160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tell<\/a> Politico. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018You can\u2019t include that, that will set him off,\u2019 or \u2018Put that in, he likes that. It\u2019s a Rorschach test, not a briefing Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he\u2019s being briefed. It\u2019s very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him \u2026 He doesn\u2019t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is any of this new? Anyone who\u2019s followed Biden\u2019s 40+-year career knows he\u2019s been an unpleasant, incompetent\u00a0blowhard with a middling intellect. Just watch the videos of the Clarence Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4887077\/user-clip-biden-natural-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hearing<\/a> or Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">going off<\/a> on a reporter who asked him a legitimate question about his educational background. No doubt, his crankiness has been exacerbated by age. Let\u2019s not forget, however, that the establishment media helped create this rehabilitative mythology around Middle Class Joe, who is in reality the unpleasant patriarch of a shady family who is just as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7179573\/Middle-class-Joe-Biden-rents-million-dollar-home-gives-200-000-pop-speeches.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">likely to rent<\/a> a 12,000-square-foot home for $20,000 a month as he is to take Amtrak.<\/p>\n<p>And just like the Hunter laptop incident, like the freakouts over every lost Supreme Court decision, like the concocted \u201cethics\u201d problems of Supreme Court justices, like the entire Russia collusion hoax, the Biden coverup is rationalized in the name of decency. Most of the big-money political media have internalized the notion that their duty lies not to the truth but to upholding \u201cdemocracy\u201d \u2014 a malleable concept that can be roughly translated to mean anything Calvinball Democrats decide on any given day.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      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\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On CNN, Carl Bernstein, known for his work on Watergate, reported that people close to Joe Biden, including those who support him and raise money for him, have expressed concerns about his poor debate performance. These insiders claim that Biden has had multiple instances over the past year and a half where he appeared similarly unprepared or confused. Despite previous attempts by the media to dismiss these concerns as misinformation, it is now widely accepted that Biden has been struggling. The media&#8217;s efforts to cover up Biden&#8217;s issues are seen as a way to protect the image of the Democratic Party. The media&#8217;s role in creating a false narrative around Biden&#8217;s competence is criticized, as his long history of gaffes and questionable behavior has been overlooked. The media&#8217;s prioritization of maintaining a certain image of Biden, rather than reporting the truth, is seen as a disservice to the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2288022,"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\/07\/bernstein.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,3620,5182,5699],"class_list":["post-2288021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-biden","tag-decline","tag-fact"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bernstein.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288021","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=2288021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}