{"id":2307929,"date":"2024-07-25T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-labels-questions-about-bidens-exit-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:11:50","slug":"washington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Calls Biden Exit Questions &#8216;Conspiracy"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fwashington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy-4%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=2307929&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 article \u2063discusses the scrutiny surrounding President Joe Biden&#8217;s sudden absence from public view after he\u2063 announced his withdrawal from the 2024 \u2062presidential race. It highlights claims made by The Washington Post that\u2063 questioning Biden&#8217;s disappearance\u2063 makes one a conspiracy theorist, suggesting that \u200dsuch inquiries contribute to political polarization \u200band erode trust in shared\u200b facts. Critics argue that questioning the\u200d president&#8217;s decision, \u2064particularly in light \u200cof recent \u200bevents \u2062involving \u2062former President Donald Trump, is a legitimate exercise of \u200dfree speech,\u2063 not conspiracy. <\/p>\n<p>Specific mention is \u2064made of Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, \u2064who raised \u2063eyebrows with a social media post linking Biden&#8217;s\u2064 withdrawal to recent assassination attempts against Trump. The Washington Post\u2019s attempts to clarify Davis&#8217; comments were met with backlash as Davis accused the\u2063 publication of spreading conspiracy theories\u200d themselves. His \u2063responses to \u200cthe paper highlighted concerns\u200b over its reporting and\u200c alleged bias, as well as suggesting that the\u2063 media\u2019s behavior exacerbates political violence. The article emphasizes the tension between media narratives \u200band political \u200cdiscourse while\u200b illustrating how \u200dpublic figures navigate scrutiny in a \u2062highly charged \u2064political climate.  <\/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>Asking key questions about President Joe Biden&rsquo;s absence following the Democrat&rsquo;s exit from the 2024 presidential race via a letter posted to an X account over the weekend makes you a conspiracy theorist. At least, that&rsquo;s what The Washington Post&rsquo;s latest article alleges.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published on Wednesday night, the publication best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/the-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its incessant hoaxing and smearing<\/a> claimed social media posts questioning why Biden was in hiding days after he allegedly decided to drop out of the upcoming election amount to &ldquo;years of reality-bending messages from Trump and others on the right that have helped polarize the electorate and shaken Americans&rsquo; belief in a shared set of facts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is neither crime nor conspiracy to inquire why the man responsible for leading the nation suddenly disappeared from the public eye shortly after he appeared to give in to Democrat demands for him to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/12\/democrats-calling-for-biden-to-drop-out-refuse-to-say-he-should-step-down-as-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspend his campaign<\/a>. In fact, asking questions is the next logical step for Americans who were told by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1809310761933525304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden and his team<\/a> that he wouldn&rsquo;t resign.<\/p>\n<p>If the corporate media weren&rsquo;t so beholden to advancing the Democrat Party&rsquo;s agenda, they too would have a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/22\/15-questions-biden-must-answer-about-his-exit-from-the-2024-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long list of questions about the president&rsquo;s unavailability.<\/a> Instead, The Washington Post claimed wonderings from former President Donald Trump and &ldquo;top right-wing figures&rdquo; about why Biden took his leave shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy\/\" title=\"Washington Post Calls Biden Exit Questions &#039;Conspiracy\">corporate media suddenly stopped covering<\/a> up the president&rsquo;s obvious cognitive decline &ldquo;sow doubt&rdquo; and &ldquo;are poised to undermine faith in the coming election less than four years after such false conspiracy theories fomented a violent attack on the Capitol.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>One post included in the article came from The Federalist&rsquo;s CEO, Sean Davis, who asked his social media followers on Sunday if it was a &ldquo;coincidence&rdquo; that Biden &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t drop out of the race until after the attempts to imprison and assassinate Donald Trump failed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Biden didn&rsquo;t drop out of the race until after the attempts to imprison and assassinate Donald Trump failed. <\/p>\n<p>Do you think that is coincidence?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1815085238919348648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>There is nothing inaccurate or inappropriate about Davis&rsquo; statement and query, especially considering he is the CEO of a news organization that prides itself on asking questions corporate media refuse to ask. Despite rumors of the Democrat&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy-2\/\" title=\"Washington Post Calls Biden Exit Questions &#039;Conspiracy\">expected departure swirling weeks<\/a> before, news of Biden&rsquo;s retreat from the upcoming election only debuted after the attempted assassination of the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, The Washington Post&rsquo;s Mariana Alfaro demanded in a comment request earlier this week that Davis &ldquo;clarify&rdquo; if he believes &ldquo;Biden&rsquo;s announcement is connected to the assassination attempt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Washington Post reporter had a temper tantrum about this tweet and demanded I &ldquo;clarify&rdquo; a tweet with a single factual sentence and a question. Here&rsquo;s how I responded. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DRsL66jTEc\">https:\/\/t.co\/DRsL66jTEc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/30OMDmjjxB\">pic.twitter.com\/30OMDmjjxB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1815586594872860969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The &ldquo;temper tantrum&rdquo; did not stop there. Another Washington Post employee by the name of Sarah Ellison reached out to Davis on Wednesday shortly before 6 p.m. Eastern demanding he explain his First Amendment-protected post. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m wondering if you could explain what exactly it is you mean?&rdquo; she asked. &ldquo;I spoke to some researchers who study conspiracies and they said that tying these events together amounted to a conspiracy theory, but I want to make sure you have the opportunity to describe what you meant and also to respond to their statements.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ellison gave Davis less than an hour to respond to her demands for comment before her article, written in conjunction with Alfaro, went live.<\/p>\n<p>When Davis did respond a few hours after Ellison&rsquo;s initial comment request, he noted that she and the paper she represents &ldquo;spread false and dangerous conspiracy theories&rdquo; on social media and in the publication&rsquo;s pages about targets of political violence, including Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you feel personally responsible at all for the violence directed at Kavanaugh given your participation in spreading those conspiracy theories?&rdquo; Davis queried. &ldquo;Are you concerned that your paper&rsquo;s false reporting and dissemination of conspiracy theories has encouraged individuals to inflict violence on Trump or his supporters?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Davis also pointed out that Alfaro &ldquo;sent me a nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy-3\/\" title=\"Washington Post Calls Biden Exit Questions &#039;Conspiracy\">identical e-mail earlier<\/a> this week&rdquo; but &ldquo;did not acknowledge my response to her.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t imagine it&rsquo;s the policy of your paper to ignore responses you receive only to send new reporters to ask the same question over and over again until you get a quote you can slice and dice to smear your political enemies,&rdquo; Davis concluded. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Washington Post didn&rsquo;t like the response I sent to it earlier this week when it demanded I &ldquo;clarify&rdquo; a tweet that consisted of a single sentence and a question. So it sent a new reporter to pester me with the same question. But the latest email threatened to call me a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YkkGGvE5pn\">pic.twitter.com\/YkkGGvE5pn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1816274637044736448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In her reply, Ellison claimed she was unaware that her article co-author had sent Davis the same questions earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You didn&rsquo;t realize the person <em>you shared a byline with<\/em> on your absurd hit piece emailed me and received a response two days ago?&rdquo; Davis asked. &ldquo;You cannot possibly be serious with that nonsense. Revise that excuse and resubmit when you can demonstrate at least a modicum of effort to come up with something believable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Washington Post reporter is now claiming she had no idea I had sent a lengthy response to the paper&rsquo;s idiotic questions two days ago. I know standards and ethics there are non-existent, but this is just absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Who is running your tabloid, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JeffBezos<\/a>? It&rsquo;s amateur hour over&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0KMOskAKtR\">pic.twitter.com\/0KMOskAKtR<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1816307415416992233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ellison&rsquo;s revision never came. Instead, she had already published her article, which accused Davis and others of using their platforms to fuel falsehoods, without any of his responses. After The Washington Post&rsquo;s performance this week, it&rsquo;s no wonder <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/02\/poll-more-than-8-in-10-americans-dont-trust-corporate-media-to-report-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">8 in 10 Americans<\/a> don&rsquo;t trust corporate media to do their jobs and report facts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article \u2063discusses the scrutiny surrounding President Joe Biden&#8217;s sudden absence from public view after he\u2063 announced his withdrawal from the 2024 \u2062presidential race. 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