{"id":2437318,"date":"2025-05-21T08:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-interview-blows-up-in-joe-scarboroughs-face-as-hes-forced-to-watch-his-biden-health-lies-in-front-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:58:22","slug":"video-interview-blows-up-in-joe-scarboroughs-face-as-hes-forced-to-watch-his-biden-health-lies-in-front-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-interview-blows-up-in-joe-scarboroughs-face-as-hes-forced-to-watch-his-biden-health-lies-in-front-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Interview Blows Up in Joe Scarborough&#8217;s Face as He&#8217;s Forced to Watch His Biden Health Lies in Front of the World"},"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\">44<\/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%2Fvideo-interview-blows-up-in-joe-scarboroughs-face-as-hes-forced-to-watch-his-biden-health-lies-in-front-of-the-world%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=2437318&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 discusses a recent interview with Joe scarborough, host of &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; where he revealed that he has never watched a controversial clip of himself criticizing President Biden. During the interview with Mark Halperin, Scarborough defended his previous statement from March 2024, in which he claimed that Biden was &#8220;the best Biden ever&#8221; intellectually and analytically. Scarborough&#8217;s comments were made in the context of Biden&#8217;s performance as president, despite the subsequent emergence of clips showing Biden&#8217;s struggles with cognitive tasks, raising questions about his fitness for office.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough emphasized that his view was shaped by extensive conversations with Biden,leading him to believe that the president was mentally sharp. though, Halperin challenged him by alluding to specific instances where Biden appeared confused. As the interview progresses, Scarborough acknowledges Biden&#8217;s shortcomings but maintains that they do not overshadow what he perceives as Biden&#8217;s analytical competencies.<\/p>\n<p>The piece critiques Scarborough for his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >seemingly unshakeable confidence<\/a> in biden&#8217;s mental acuity despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, implying that his prior assertions may have been misplaced. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idaho-stops-lethal-injection-executions-after-eight-failed-attempts-on-death-row-inmate\/\" title=\"Idaho halts lethal injection executions after eight unsuccessful attempts on death row inmate\">discussion raises broader questions<\/a> regarding media biases and the narrative surrounding Biden&#8217;s cognitive abilities.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, here&rsquo;s an interesting revelation from the host of &ldquo;Morning Joe,&rdquo; the eponymous former GOP Rep. Joe Scarborough of Florida: He&rsquo;s never watched the most infamous clip of himself.<\/p>\n<p>That was just one of the takeaways from a truly cringeworthy interview between the MSNBC host and political journalist Mark Halperin, which aired Tuesday, in which Scarborough was forced to explain why, in March 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-democratic-operatives-working-biden-earlier-previously-thought-used-debate-set-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the world<\/a> that after talking with the president for hours, &ldquo;This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have forgotten:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FLASHBACK: When Joe Scarborough strongly defended Biden, declaring, &ldquo;F-you if you can&rsquo;t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/guCxCHG3Ey\">pic.twitter.com\/guCxCHG3Ey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ResisttheMS\/status\/1908225196546277888?\">April 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said it for years now, he&rsquo;s cogent. But I undersold it when I said he was cogent, he&rsquo;s far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he&rsquo;s better than he&rsquo;s ever been, intellectually, analytically, because he&rsquo;s been around for 50 years,&rdquo; Scarborough said. &ldquo;Start your tape right now because I&rsquo;m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can&rsquo;t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, we saw &ldquo;this version of Biden&rdquo; and how &ldquo;cogent&rdquo; he was, and it looked like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Needless to say, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-will-receive-a-raise-after-leaving-the-white-house-and-earn-more-post-presidency-than-during\/\" title=\"... will receive a raise after leaving the White House and earn more post-presidency than during\">drugs didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3lYHnU476w\">pic.twitter.com\/3lYHnU476w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1806555571937591578?\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, on the same day that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/panicking-tapper-hires-crisis-pr-firm-everyone-sees-didnt-know-biden-debilitated-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson<\/a> book, which details how that version of Joe Biden very much wasn&rsquo;t the best Biden ever &mdash; and how the White House covered up that he was essentially unfit to be president &mdash; and two days after Biden revealed he had a type of cancer that was at a stage which meant he almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-admin-doctor-nukes-cancer-cover-orbit-reveals-far-back-cancer-likely-goes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certainly had it for most of his presidency<\/a> &mdash; Scarborough was talking about how he&rsquo;d never seen this infamous clip of himself, even though his friend Halperin had told him it had effectively become the symbol of the media&rsquo;s willful blindness about Biden&rsquo;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>How to explain this? Well, first off, Scarborough describes a nighttime phone call with the then-president in 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-administration-strikes-major-deal-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about Ukraine<\/a> after he had said Biden should stop telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-vladimir-putin-compares-israels-war-hamas-nazi-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> what the United States wouldn&rsquo;t do regarding Ukraine and instead focus on what we would do or just shut up. Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;analysis,&rdquo; he said, was so on-point that he was convinced.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In fact, when I finished talking to Biden &hellip; I hung up the phone and said to Mika [Brzezinski, his co-host and wife], &lsquo;Wow, he doesn&rsquo;t have dementia! Whoa!&rsquo; Because it was not just cogent, it was a better, really, analysis of the situation than I&rsquo;d heard from most people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He said that there were &ldquo;other calls&rdquo; and his talks with those around the president that convinced him that there was nothing going on with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wasting-no-time-cnn-helps-call-biden-cognition-questions-ignored-due-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president&rsquo;s cognition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Halperin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-msnbc-reporter-mark-halperins-new-book-beat-trump-tanks-first-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fraud in his own right<\/a>, went on to push back, however &mdash; noting that &ldquo;you saw him address a dead congresswoman,&rdquo; among other things.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&ldquo;Jackie, where&rsquo;s Jackie?,&rdquo; Joe Biden says about Rep. Jackie Walorski who died in a car accident a few months ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/khdiesmEsx\">pic.twitter.com\/khdiesmEsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1575136856748036098?\">September 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And then he showed Scarborough the clip, which &mdash; I mean, as someone who feeds off of schadenfreude like a caffeine junkie feeds off coffee, it&rsquo;s a truly fantastic way to start your morning if you want to fast forward to the 6:00 mark and watch it happen:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&ldquo;Put into proper context, I&rsquo;m just not going to freak out and melt down on one or two clips here and there.&rdquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC?\">@JoeNBC<\/a> stands by his &ldquo;best Biden ever&rdquo; comment &ndash; preview clip from his interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkHalperin?\">@MarkHalperin<\/a>, out today on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NextUpHalperin?\">@NextUpHalperin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe NOW:&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Fs7xW4DzX\">pic.twitter.com\/7Fs7xW4DzX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Next Up with Mark Halperin (@NextUpHalperin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NextUpHalperin\/status\/1924812350898766221?\">May 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But, after the self-incredulity, &ldquo;Morning Joe&rdquo; had his excuses.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He stumbled and bumbled around, Mark. I mean, yeah, he certainly did,&rdquo; Scarborough said, before moving on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-challenges-biden-says-cognitive-test-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whose mental state really matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump did; other politicians did, and it&rsquo;s actually the same case as a lot of times when I&rsquo;ve gone in and talked to Donald Trump,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We go on to Donald Trump, and I&rsquo;ve heard the media narrative around Donald Trump, and certainly I&rsquo;ve been very critical of Donald Trump, and when I leave, I have a better understanding, just like Jeffrey Goldberg did a couple of weeks ago, a better understanding of where Donald Trump is mentally, if Donald Trump is losing it, like people have said through the years or not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And so again, am I going to look at a clip that&rsquo;s gone viral and pay more attention to that than two and a half, three hours I had with a guy one-on-one going around the world? No, I&rsquo;m just not going to,&rdquo; Scarborough continued. &ldquo;Are some of the clips bad? Yeah, they certainly are bad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Put into proper context, I&rsquo;m just not going to freak out and melt down on one or two clips here and there,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;And again, he bumbled around, and he stumbled around, but he has for quite some time. That didn&rsquo;t seem, to me, to get in the way of Joe Biden being able to analyze the most important issues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Until, of course, the point where it&nbsp;<em>did<\/em> &mdash; where everybody who watched a certain debate and the fallout from it could see it.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/morning-joe-hosts-salaries-much-092718278.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a> annual salary of $8 million, and he&rsquo;s not getting it just because he&rsquo;s a friendly face to wake up to in the morning, like the preternaturally cheerful mannequins that populate most broadcast network morning shows. Even on CNN and Fox News, there&rsquo;s less abrasive fare in the early a.m. No, he&rsquo;s there because he&rsquo;s supposed to be the consummate Washington intelligencer. He was a representative from 1995 until 2001 and has sold himself, as a media personality, as a guy who can not only comport himself well on air but get the pulse of the Beltway from the People Who Know.<\/p>\n<p>If he wants to point out that everybody from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-medical-professor-on-desantis-covid-success-because-hes-very-well-informed-better-than-most-epidemiologists\/\" title=\"Stanford Medical Professor On DeSantis: COVID Success Because He\u2019s \u2018Very Well Informed,\u2019 Better Than \u2018Most Epidemiologists\u2019\">left-leaning media<\/a> was fooled, fine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jake-tapper-wants-praise-exposing-biden-cover-look-just-last-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everybody was fooled because everybody wanted to be fooled<\/a>; he doesn&rsquo;t have to say that about himself; we can reasonably intuit it. But to Biden-splain his decision to so vehemently avouch for his cognitive excellence from a few phone calls and his Capitol Hill insider bona fides, only to be proved wrong in the most embarrassing of ways just a few months later? 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This was one of several insights from an awkward interview with political journalist Mark Halperin that aired on Tuesday. During this conversation, Scarborough had to clarify his March 2024 statement in which he claimed that after hours of discussion with President Biden, &#8220;This version of Biden, intellectually and analytically, is the best Biden ever.&#8221; For those who may have forgotten: FLASHBACK: Scarborough passionately defended Biden by stating, &#8220;F-you if you can&#8217;t handle the truth. This version of Biden is the best he&#8217;s ever been.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Scarborough elaborated on his belief in Biden&#8217;s cognitive abilities during their conversations about Ukraine in 2022. He expressed surprise at how coherent and insightful Biden was during their discussions. However, Halperin challenged him by referencing instances where Biden appeared confused or forgetful.<\/p>\n<p>Despite acknowledging some troubling clips featuring the president&#8217;s gaffes, Scarborough maintained that these do not overshadow his overall assessment based on personal interactions with him. He argued that while some moments may seem concerning when taken out of context, they do not reflect a significant decline in cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, while Scarborough earns a substantial salary as a media personality known for his political insights-having served as a congressman-his insistence on defending Biden&#8217;s mental acuity based solely on personal conversations raises questions about either his judgment or perception among viewers regarding these issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2437319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Joe-Scarborough.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55631,55632,33540,33295,32171],"class_list":["post-2437318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden-health-lies","tag-interview-reaction","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-media-criticism","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Joe-Scarborough.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437318","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437322,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437318\/revisions\/2437322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}