Biden’s Decline Went From ‘Misinformation’ To Fact In A Week

On CNN today, Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, reports that people close to Joe Biden —people “who loved him, have supported him, and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him” — say his disastrous debate performance wasn’t a “one-off.” There have been, according to these insiders, “15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.”

Yeah, we know. All of us saw the horror show in a bunch of videos you hacks kept telling us was “misinformation.”

Last month, Dem apparatchik Oliver Darcy attacked the “glaring problems” of a well-sourced Wall Street Journal piece detailing a litany of Biden’s slips. Not long before the first presidential debate, CNN ran another piece headlined, “Right-wing media outlets use deceptively cropped video to misleadingly claim Biden wandered off at G7 summit.”

Why didn’t Bernstein speak up?

Before the debate, NBC News senior politics reporter Alex Seitz-Wald ran an article headlined, “Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.” In it, Seitz-Wald regurgitates most of the White House’s transparently ridiculous talking points about videos that accurately illustrated Biden’s mental and physical decline.

On the same day, David Ingram of NBC News — a network that doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its hackery — published a piece headlined, “The deceptive Biden G7 video was quickly debunked, but it kept going viral anyway.” Full-court press.

The New York Times headline a few days before the debate was “Biden Battles Age Doubts and a Trail of Misleading Videos.” The Washington Post activated its factcheckers to show us “How Republicans used misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period.” (The best thing about Wapo’s alleged debunking of the videos was that the alternate views often make the president look even more lost.)

It was a concerted effort to hide the truth. Now, what was once democracy-corroding MAGA misinformation only a couple of weeks ago has miraculously transformed into the accepted narrative of the entire political media. It is an act of preternatural shamelessness. And not one journalist involved is going to explain how this could happen.

In fact, I’ve seen many left wingers contend that the press’ reporting on Biden’s struggles only goes to prove they aren’t really as biased as we think. Which is an insane thing to say. The gaslighting efforts failed. After the debate, there was no more pretending that Biden’s fragility and slips were just GOP dirty tricks. What else were they going to do? The president is incapable of putting on a press conference right now. He is unable to speak coherently and contemporaneously, anymore.

They all knew exactly what was going on. They’ve known from the time they insulated him during the 2020 campaign.

Indeed, the media is now just doing the bidding of a different group of Democrats. This group wants to replace Biden because they’ve been caught. Take Politico, one of the worst offenders in the Biden-decline coverup. It’s merely turned into a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party faction that wants to replace the president.

“We’ve all enabled the situation” sources within Biden’s “inner sanctum” tell Politico. “It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that. It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him … He doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.”

Is any of this new? Anyone who’s followed Biden’s 40+-year career knows he’s been an unpleasant, incompetent blowhard with a middling intellect. Just watch the videos of the Clarence Thomas hearing or Joe going off on a reporter who asked him a legitimate question about his educational background. No doubt, his crankiness has been exacerbated by age. Let’s not forget, however, that the establishment media helped create this rehabilitative mythology around Middle Class Joe, who is in reality the unpleasant patriarch of a shady family who is just as likely to rent a 12,000-square-foot home for $20,000 a month as he is to take Amtrak.

And just like the Hunter laptop incident, like the freakouts over every lost Supreme Court decision, like the concocted “ethics” problems of Supreme Court justices, like the entire Russia collusion hoax, the Biden coverup is rationalized in the name of decency. Most of the big-money political media have internalized the notion that their duty lies not to the truth but to upholding “democracy” — a malleable concept that can be roughly translated to mean anything Calvinball Democrats decide on any given day.