{"id":2291099,"date":"2024-07-09T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duped-on-bidens-decline-youre-too-dumb-to-be-a-journalist\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:46:23","slug":"duped-on-bidens-decline-youre-too-dumb-to-be-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duped-on-bidens-decline-youre-too-dumb-to-be-a-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Duped On Biden&#8217;s Decline? You&#8217;re Too Dumb To Be A Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fduped-on-bidens-decline-youre-too-dumb-to-be-a-journalist%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=2291099&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 discusses the media&#8217;s role in covering\u2063 up Joe\u200b Biden&#8217;s mental and\u2064 physical decline\u200d to\u200d aid \u200dthe Democratic party. \u200dDespite efforts to hide the president&#8217;s struggles, recent reports\u200c have exposed\u200d how advisers and\u200c donors attempted to \u200dmanage his \u200dinteractions to conceal his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-toughest-sheriff-says-youre-never-too-old-to-be-mayor\/\" title=\"Sheriff claims age is no barrier to becoming mayor.\">age-related limitations<\/a>. The media&#8217;s \u200bfailure\u200c to address\u200d Biden&#8217;s decline\u2063 is criticized, with\u2062 examples \u200bof incidents that demonstrate his difficulties in performing\u200c presidential duties. The lack\u200d of\u200d accountability in \u2064journalistic practices, including the failure to investigate concerns\u200c about Biden&#8217;s mental acuity, \u200cis highlighted. The summary also mentions calls from media outlets and politicians for Biden to withdraw from the\u200d presidential race \u2062due to his perceived \u200dchallenges.  <\/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>By the time we saw Joe Biden\u2019s debate <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\">debacle<\/a>, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-british-judge-rules-julian-assange-cannot-be-extradited-to-the-us-to-face-18-counts-of-espionage\/\" title=\"Breaking: British Judge Rules Julian Assange Cannot Be Extradited to the US to Face 18 Counts of Espionage\">fragile mental state<\/a> was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The goal remains the same.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/joe-biden-age-public-election-campaign-343a47bf?st=tz27y5475h0zvsi&#038;reflink=share_mobilewebshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> this week\u00a0that Biden\u2019s senior advisers \u201caggressively stage-managed\u201d the president\u2019s \u201cschedule, 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.\u201d Basically, everyone in the White House \u2014 as well as big-money donors \u2014 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\u2019s advisors didn\u2019t even believe he was up to taking weekly cross-country trips.<\/p>\n<p>And now we\u2019re supposed to accept the claim that not a single reporter embedded in the White House (outside perhaps some who work at Fox News) hadn\u2019t figured it out? As Ace Rothstein put it to the \u201cyokel\u201d floor manager in \u201cCasino,\u201d \u201cIf you didn\u2019t know you\u2019re being scammed, you\u2019re too f\u2014n\u2019 dumb to keep this job. If you did know, you were in on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/02\/how-bidens-mental-decline-went-from-misinformation-to-fact-in-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one strongly suspects<\/a>, 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 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/20\/joe-biden-is-not-ok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden Is Not OK<\/a>,\u201d laying out a string of incidents that were in the public record (I was hardly alone.)<\/p>\n<p>So when Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/06\/biden-abc-interview-democrats-support\">tells <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/06\/biden-abc-interview-democrats-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">m<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/06\/biden-abc-interview-democrats-support\">e<\/a> that \u201cHell has no fury like a press corps deceived,\u201d I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jaguars-owner-warns-urban-meyer-he-must-regain-our-trust-and-respect\/\" title=\"Jaguars Owner Warns Urban Meyer: \u2018He Must Regain Our Trust And Respect\u2019\">highly skeptical<\/a>. \u201cReporters,\u201d Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write, \u201cfeel duped \u2014 and some probably embarrassed \u2014and are scrambling to unearth new evidence of decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>So, for instance, this week CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper assailed Biden\u2019s incoherent MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d interview, noting incredulously that it was \u201csupposed to be reassuring to those Democratic supporters who have gone wobbly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, no more reassuring than the rambling gun-control speech Biden gave last year that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/stop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ended with the words<\/a> \u201cGod save the queen, man,\u201d or the time Biden informed the League of Conservation Voters he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-mocked-plans-build-railroad-across-indian-ocean-bold-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">building<\/a> a railroad \u201cfrom the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,\u201d or the time our president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/06\/08\/watch_joe_biden_appears_to_forget_winston_churchills_name_during_photo_op_with_british_pm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forgot<\/a> Winston Churchill\u2019s name while meeting with the British prime minister, or the time he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_ctthyYjglw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tripped<\/a> on stage after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-mocked-trump-last-september-i-run-up-ramps-he-stumbles-down-ramps\/\" title=\"WATCH: Biden Mocked Trump Last September: \u2018I Run Up Ramps\u2019 He \u2018Stumbles Down Ramps\u2019\">commencement speech<\/a> at the Air Force Academy, or the time he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/13\/us-news\/biden-appears-to-wander-off-at-g7-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wandered off<\/a> during a G-7 meeting, or was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v0UURkRIo8M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped off<\/a> the stage at a fundraiser by Barack Obama (which Tapper\u2019s network <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\">told us<\/a> was misinformation.)<\/p>\n<p>When Special Counsel Robert Hur let Biden \u2014 an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/16\/if-joe-biden-is-sharp-as-ever-why-is-he-trying-to-suppress-the-hur-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elderly man with a poor memory<\/a>\u201d \u2014 slide on his decades-long habit of hoarding classified documents, the political media didn\u2019t pore over White House logs and schedules to figure out if the president was being insulated from the world. They attacked the messenger.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not only talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/07\/morning-joes-dishonorable-attacks-on-the-biden-truth-tellers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comically dishonest<\/a> partisans like Joe Scarborough and politicians like <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1810492746957836412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pat Murray<\/a> \u2014 both of whom have shamelessly gone from praising the president\u2019s supernatural mental sharpness to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2024\/06\/28\/morning-joes-joe-scarborough-gently-suggests-biden-should-drop-out-amid-dem-freak-out-over-debate-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essentially<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/joe-biden-patty-murray-2024-election-1922598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asking<\/a> him to abandon the race \u2014 we\u2019re talking about virtually the entire press.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has now written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/28\/opinion\/biden-election-debate-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/08\/opinion\/editorials\/democrats-biden-truth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">editorials<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-age-videos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a> titled \u201cHow Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden as He Battles Age Doubts,\u201d which laid out the case that conservatives had been unfairly attacking the president. An earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/09\/us\/politics\/robert-hur-biden-memory-special-counsel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a>, \u201cRelease of Hur Report Underlines Perils of the Special Counsel\u2019s Job,\u201d did not investigate Hur\u2019s contention, it merely amplified attacks on him, noting that report was \u201cseized upon by Trump supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times editorial page helpfully ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/12\/opinion\/neuroscientist-on-biden-age-memory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essays<\/a> like \u201cI\u2019m a Neuroscientist. We\u2019re Thinking About Biden\u2019s Memory and Age in the Wrong Way,\u201d wherein credulous readers learn that the president\u2019s 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\u2019s subhead helpfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/bidens-memory-issues-draw-attention-neurologists-weigh-rcna138135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes:<\/a> \u201cForgetting the names of acquaintances or having difficulty remembering dates from the past doesn\u2019t affect decision-making or judgment, brain experts say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Are there bigger dupes in this country than media-approved \u201cexperts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even now, virtually every discussion on the left regarding the president\u2019s fragile mental acuity revolves around his ability or inability to beat Donald Trump \u2014 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\u2019ll all go back to covering for him again.<\/p>\n<p>Because, if there\u2019s anything this incident reaffirms, it\u2019s that far too often the first loyalty of the political media is to the Democratic Party. <\/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>The media has been covering up Joe Biden&#8217;s mental and physical decline for years to help Democrats, but after his debate performance, they began pushing him out of the presidential race. Biden&#8217;s advisors have been stage-managing his interactions to hide his age-related decline, but reporters should have been able to see through this deception. Despite claims of being deceived, the press has not been held accountable for their failure to report on Biden&#8217;s issues. The media&#8217;s loyalty seems to lie with the Democratic Party, as evidenced by their handling of Biden&#8217;s decline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2291100,"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\/Casino-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,5182,21816,6794,4188],"class_list":["post-2291099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-decline","tag-duped","tag-journalist","tag-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Casino-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291099","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=2291099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}