{"id":2309593,"date":"2024-07-26T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309593"},"modified":"2024-07-26T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:52:22","slug":"washington-post-labels-questions-about-bidens-exit-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-labels-questions-about-bidens-exit-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Labels Questions About Biden\u2019s Exit \u2018Conspiracy\u2019"},"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\">16<\/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-labels-questions-about-bidens-exit-conspiracy%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=2309593&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\u2063 discusses allegations made by The Washington Post regarding questions raised about President\u200d Joe Biden&#8217;s mysterious absence \u200dfollowing his announcement to withdraw\u200c from the 2024 presidential race. It claims that inquiries about Biden&#8217;s sudden disappearance amount to conspiracy theories, particularly in light \u2064of former President \u2062Donald Trump&#8217;s comments linking Biden&#8217;s exit to recent events surrounding Trump.\u2064 The \u2062author\u2063 defends the legitimacy of asking such questions, arguing that it is critical for Americans to seek\u200d clarity about a leader&#8217;s unavailability\u2014especially after prior assurances from Biden that he wouldn&#8217;t resign. The \u200dpiece highlights interactions \u200bbetween Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, and Washington Post reporters who sought clarification on his social media comments, portraying these inquiries as an attempt\u2062 by the Post to \u2064label dissenting opinions \u2063as conspiracy theories. Davis critiques the media&#8217;s handling of political narratives, \u200dsuggesting they contribute to political polarization and public mistrust. The author expresses\u2064 frustration with what they see as the media&#8217;s role in shaping political narratives, emphasizing the \u200bimportance of questioning and seeking truth in a democratic society.  <\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-calls-biden-exit-questions-conspiracy-4\/\" title=\"Washington Post Calls Biden Exit Questions &#039;Conspiracy\">absurd hit piece emailed<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-corporate-media-are-just-smear-merchants-trafficking-in-horse-manure\/\" title=\"Ron DeSantis: \u2018Corporate Media\u2019 Are Just \u2018Smear Merchants\u2019 Trafficking In \u2018Horse Manure\u2019\">trust corporate media<\/a> 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>Inquiring about President Joe Biden&#8217;s sudden absence after the Democrats&#8217; withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, as indicated by a letter shared on an X account over the weekend, is being labeled as conspiracy theorizing. This is the assertion made by a recent article from The Washington Post. The piece, released on Wednesday night, claims that social media posts questioning Biden&#8217;s silence days after he supposedly decided to exit the election reflect &#8220;years of reality-bending messages from Trump and others on the right,&#8221; which have contributed to a divided electorate and eroded Americans&#8217; trust in a common set of facts.<\/p>\n<p>It is neither illegal nor conspiratorial to ask why the leader of the nation has suddenly gone quiet, especially after he appeared to yield to Democratic pressure to suspend his campaign. In fact, it is a reasonable response for Americans who were assured by Biden and his team that he would not resign. If mainstream media were not so focused on promoting the Democratic Party&#8217;s agenda, they would likely have numerous questions regarding the president&#8217;s absence. Instead, The Washington Post criticized inquiries from former President Donald Trump and prominent right-wing figures about Biden&#8217;s withdrawal, suggesting that these questions &#8220;sow doubt&#8221; and could undermine confidence in the upcoming election, recalling how similar unfounded theories previously incited a violent attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>One notable post mentioned in the article came from Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, who questioned whether it was merely a &#8220;coincidence&#8221; that Biden only announced his exit after failed attempts to imprison and assassinate Trump. Davis&#8217;s statement and question are neither inaccurate nor inappropriate, particularly given his role in a news organization that emphasizes asking questions that mainstream media often overlook. Despite speculation about Biden&#8217;s anticipated departure circulating weeks prior, the announcement came only after the assassination attempt on the former president.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s Mariana Alfaro requested clarification from Davis regarding whether he believed Biden&#8217;s announcement was linked to the assassination attempt. Following this, another reporter, Sarah Ellison, reached out to Davis, seeking an explanation for his First Amendment-protected post and citing researchers who claimed that connecting these events constituted a conspiracy theory. Ellison gave Davis less than an hour to respond before her article was published.<\/p>\n<p>When Davis eventually replied, he pointed out that the Washington Post has previously propagated false and dangerous conspiracy theories about political violence targets, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Trump. He questioned whether Ellison felt any responsibility for the violence directed at Kavanaugh due to the paper&#8217;s role in spreading such theories and expressed concern that the Post&#8217;s reporting might have incited violence against Trump or his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Davis also noted that Alfaro had sent him a similar email earlier but did not acknowledge his response. He criticized the paper for repeatedly asking the same question without considering his previous answers, suggesting that this approach was aimed at obtaining a quote to discredit political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison later claimed she was unaware that her co-author had already contacted Davis. In response, Davis expressed disbelief at her lack of knowledge and called for a more credible explanation. Ultimately, Ellison published her article, which accused Davis and others of spreading falsehoods, without including his responses. This incident highlights the growing distrust among Americans towards corporate media, with a significant majority expressing skepticism about their ability to report facts accurately. <\/p>\n<p>Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also appeared in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. She graduated from Baylor University with a major in political science and a minor in journalism. 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