Corporate journalists doubt your intelligence. The best way to prove them wrong is, at the very least, to disregard their laughably feeble and profoundly shameless attempts to memory-hole their participation in the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline over the last several years.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, a hack of the highest order, is attempting to cash in on his new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
“The White House was lying not only to the press, not only to the public, but they were lying to their own Cabinet,” the cable news host said. “They were lying to White House staffers, they were lying to Democrats in Congress about how bad things had gotten.”
Aside from allowing countless guests on his prime-time show to lie about the former president’s condition over the years, Tapper himself fiercely defended his beloved Democrats.
“I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline,” Tapper told Lara Trump in October 2020 when she dared to point out the obvious.
It’s not only the cable news talking heads who beclowned themselves in service to the Biden regime. The “paper of record,” the New York Times, didn’t exactly cover itself in glory over the last five years, continuously downplaying the effects of Biden’s age. Even after the release of the infamous Hur report, which showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the former president was woefully unfit for office, the New York Times’s Michelle Goldberg insisted that Biden’s decline was simply a “campaign issue.”
Perhaps the most aggressive and embarrassing regime bootlicking came courtesy of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. A month after the release of the Hur report, the cable host and former Republican congressman took on both Biden’s detractors and reality itself.
“I’ve said it for years now, he’s cogent,” Scarborough said during a March 2024 broadcast. “But I undersold it when I said he was cogent, he’s far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been, intellectually, analytically, because he’s been around for 50 years. Start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. And eff you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.”
To anyone with a semi-functional prefrontal cortex, these defenses of the former president sounded insane for several years running, but even the journalists with a superhuman ability to avoid feeling shame couldn’t keep up the act following the June 2024 presidential debate that saw the 46th president end his political career in real time. However, there was no mea culpa, no journalists were fired, and the press pivoted seamlessly from protecting Biden to throwing him under the bus in a foolhardy attempt to hoodwink the electorate into a Kamala Harris presidency.
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Former White House chief propagandist Jen Psaki is now an anchor on MSNBC, Tapper is selling a book that would make the late O.J. Simpson blush, and judging by their fawning coverage of Democrats and unhinged frothing at the mouth over every aspect of President Donald Trump’s second term, it is crystal clear that the journalists have learned absolutely nothing.
I’ll leave you with the words of author and podcaster Michael Malice: “The battle is won when the average American regards a corporate journalist exactly as they regard a tobacco executive.”
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.