{"id":2438644,"date":"2025-05-24T09:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-media-was-right-stephen-a-smith-cant-deny-it-after-seeing-biden\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:12:29","slug":"conservative-media-was-right-stephen-a-smith-cant-deny-it-after-seeing-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-media-was-right-stephen-a-smith-cant-deny-it-after-seeing-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Media Was RIGHT&#8217;: Stephen A. Smith Can\u2019t Deny It After Seeing Biden"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fconservative-media-was-right-stephen-a-smith-cant-deny-it-after-seeing-biden%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=2438644&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>In a recent episode of &#8220;The Stephen A. Smith Show,&#8221; ESPN basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith discussed the topic of President Joe Biden&#8217;s cognitive abilities, referencing a new book titled &#8220;Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again&#8221; by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. The book has drawn attention for alleging that Biden&#8217;s mental decline was known but not disclosed by White House insiders. Smith pointed out that he had previously observed and criticized Biden&#8217;s cognitive issues, noting that he faced backlash for doing so. He echoed the sentiments of conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly, who confronted the book&#8217;s authors about their prior dismissal of concerns regarding Biden&#8217;s health as &#8220;cheap fakes.&#8221; Smith emphasized that the conservative media had accurately highlighted Biden&#8217;s struggles,arguing that the Democratic Party created a culture that punished dissenting opinions. He <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >criticized mainstream media figures<\/a> who, in his view, ignored evidence of Biden&#8217;s problems while promoting a narrative that supported the party.  <\/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><\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-will-not-allow-mainstream-media-to-moderate-gop-debates\/\" title=\"RNC will not allow mainstream media to moderate GOP debates\">mainstream media figure<\/a> has chimed in about recent revelations concerning former President Joe Biden&rsquo;s mental decline during his term in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>But this one is siding with those who tried to point out Biden&rsquo;s struggles early on.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN basketball analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-espns-stephen-smith-corrects-joy-behar-reality-check-trumps-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen A. Smith<\/a> hosts a podcast three times per week in which he airs his views on not just sports, but also about society, entertainment, pop culture, business &mdash; and also politics.<\/p>\n<p>During the Thursday episode of &ldquo;The Stephen A. Smith Show,&rdquo; the NBA analyst addressed a new book on the topic of Biden&rsquo;s cognitive abilities &mdash; or lack thereof.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Original-Sin-President-Cover-Up-Disastrous-ebook\/dp\/B0DXCMSHVL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a>, &ldquo;Original Sin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/now-makes-sense-tapper-slip-coming-clean-biden-really-getting-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden&rsquo;s Decline<\/a>, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,&rdquo; by CNN journalist Jake Tapper and Axios writer Alex Thompson, was released this week, gaining a lot of attention from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-clash-with-cops-threaten-to-burn-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march\/\" title=\"Protesters Clash With Cops, Threaten To \u2018Burn\u2019 DC During \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 March\">legacy media outlets<\/a> that have expressed shock and surprise about what the authors said was going on &mdash; and being covered up by White House insiders.<\/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>Smith focused on conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly&rsquo;s interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-megyn-kelly-confronts-jake-tapper-words-denies-running-cover-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tapper<\/a>, and while he qualified his statements by declaring he&rsquo;s not a conservative, he voiced support for Kelly&rsquo;s criticism of the CNN newsman.<\/p>\n<p>Smith played a video of Kelly interviewing the two authors, confronting them with numerous instances in which she and other right-leaning news and opinion figures pointed out the evidence of Biden&rsquo;s problems, but their reports were brushed off as &ldquo;cheap fakes&rdquo; or conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The conservative media was right!&rdquo; Smith declared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&ldquo;The challenge is, was it intentional?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Smith added that he, too, had noticed the problems and had even commented on them, but he was shouted down.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I called out Joe Biden and the diminished mental acuity and a lack of verve and the incapacitation that so many &hellip; that people were alluding to &mdash; I called it out a year in advance. I got eviscerated. Eviscerated!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Megyn Kelly CALLED OUT Jake Tapper. My reaction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zjj2AVKtG-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Smith blamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/united-around-bernie-sanders-snipes-chuck-schumer-claim-senate-dems-unified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> for at least part of the culture of complicity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democratic Party was demanding that you flow with, and you vibe with, what they wanted you to, and if you didn&rsquo;t, they were ready to have your a** cancelled.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is why you have people like me saying, &lsquo;Yo, we&rsquo;re pretty ticked off because those are not things we knew.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And when you see the Democrats engaging in a level of duplicity that you don&rsquo;t like, you&rsquo;re offended by it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Smith quoted Fox News host Sean Hannity as saying, &ldquo;Hey, liberal media is dead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is what he was talking about,&rdquo; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Mark Levins, the Sean Hannitys &hellip; the Megyn Kellys of the world &hellip; What can we say to them at this particular moment in time if you are a Democrat who bought in to the Democratic Party willing to engage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cancel-culture-queen-cancelled-lib-writer-sacked-lib-network-took-joy-ceos-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancel culture<\/a> when it came to anybody who would dare verbalize a dissenting opinion to what they were putting out there. What can we say?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Smith said CNN &ldquo;was clearly guilty of it. We saw Joe Scarborough going on MSNBC with &lsquo;Morning Joe.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We saw him on the national airwaves &hellip; raving about President Biden&rsquo;s health and acuity. We saw it!<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But there was clearly evidence to the contrary, and when that evidence was revealed, people on the left engaged in condemnation towards those who dared, who had the guts, to tell what clearly has now become the truth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This individual, ESPN basketball analyst Stephen A. Smith, aligns with those who highlighted Biden&#8217;s difficulties early on. Smith hosts a podcast three times a week where he shares his insights not only on sports but also on societal issues, entertainment, pop culture, business, and politics. In a recent episode of &#8220;The Stephen A. Smith Show,&#8221; he discussed a new book addressing Biden&#8217;s cognitive abilities-or lack thereof-titled &#8220;Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,&#8221; authored by CNN journalist Jake Tapper and Axios writer Alex Thompson. The book was released this week and has garnered significant attention from mainstream media outlets expressing shock at the revelations about what they claim is being concealed by White House insiders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2438645,"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\/Picture-2025-05-24T021429.983.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,38157,32150],"class_list":["post-2438644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-conservative-media","tag-stephen-a-smith"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Picture-2025-05-24T021429.983.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438644","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=2438644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438648,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438644\/revisions\/2438648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}