The story of the non-reporting on Biden’s decline is really rather simple
There’s been so much verbiage on this subject lately, one would be forgiven for thinking it’s complex. It’s not. The heart of the matter is this: they needed him.
They needed Biden to run in 2020 because they calculated – probably correctly – that he would get the most votes versus Trump of all the Democrat contenders.
They needed him to stay in office because of the disaster that Kamala Harris turned out to be.
They needed him to run again in 2024 for the very same reason, once it became clear that their efforts to imprison Trump weren’t working and that he would be the GOP nominee. The debate foiled those plans and left them scrambling.
The “they” in all of this isn’t just the Democrat Party. It includes the MSM, which is the Democrats’ mouthpiece, and whose members will lie about and/or cover up anything that might hurt Democrats.
And now that the press and the Democrats feel the need to explain why they supposedly didn’t know Biden was so cognitively challenged, they have developed the myth that it wasn’t apparent until the debate because Biden, his family, and his aides covered it up. Of course, that makes the press look stupid, but they’d rather that than admit they were complicit.
Now the new message is that it’s Trump who is cognitively challenged, and the stalwart press will be on top of it this time.
You can’t make this stuff up. But they can.
NOTE: I’ve watched some videos of the Tapper & Thompson tour promoting their book on the subject. Why have I spent even a moment doing this? Well, it’s interesting to me to see how people can justify and spin. Plus, there are some details that I believe might even be true, such as the following segment which I’ve cued up. It’s only about a minute long, although the interview itself is a lengthy one:
This whole thing was a prelude to set up attacks against Trump.
I am almost, but not quite, amazed that nobody is pointing fingers at Rep. Jim Clyburn. He was the one that turned around Biden’s primary fortunes with a Biden win in South Carolina. Then Clyburn wanted a black woman on the ticket, probably as payback, and we got Kamala as VP.
And when Biden had his terrible debate against Trump resulting in his ouster, Clyburn was cheerleading for Kamala to take his place. In fairness, I think Biden &/or the Biden family were the first to thrust Kamala to the fore.
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Switching back to neo’s post directly: The thing that created some dissonance for me was the claim in the video that the Biden family and inner circle viewed Joe as another FDR or LBJ. Yes, that is obviously ridiculous even when considering Joe of 10 or 20 years ago. But it also bothers me that FDR & LBJ are lumped together as paragons of greatness.
The Democrat machine lionizes LBJ as that great champion of civil rights, but that’s largely spin. He signed the bill, passed with predominantly GOP votes, into law, but there was nothing that great about LBJ. He was something of a thuggish power broker (rather like Biden). And he did have a history of being at least moderately racist.
While there are lots of things to dislike about FDR’s presidency, there were also a considerable number of great things too. I would never elevate LBJ to FDR’s level.
When I first found out about the concept of an “autopen” it made total sense. I’d assumed it was just an accurate inked replica for everyday stuff — no one can expect a sitting President to personally sign every reply to every correspondence the White House receives, especially not in response to dumb 11-year-old me who wants to tell Ronald Reagan something. I’ll never understand how or who allowed such a thing to fulfill a constitutional duty.
Speaking of “non-reporting” and being—essentially—“cognitively challenged”, here’s a brace of posts that should probably be placed in the “Nice Continent You Got There; Shame If Something Happens To It” File…
“Brussels: The Muddy Mirror of a Europe in Crisis”—
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21662/brussels-crisis
“Civil War Can’t Happen in Europe—Or Can it? “—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/civil-war-cant-happen-in-europe-or-can-it/
“Elite Thinker: The People Are the Problem, Not Brussels”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/elite-thinker-the-people-are-the-problem-not-brussels/
+ Bonus (for canary lovers):
“The Media’s 21st-Century Blood Libel Against Israel”—
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-medias-21st-century-blood-libel-against-israel/
Agree, Tommy Jay.
Sharksauce,
Hundreds of executive orders or pardons is a rather new thing. The other 80 or 90% of US presidents didn’t find that neccessary. Autopen signatures of those items should be banned IMO.
It is “simple.”
Liars lie. Toward whatever the goal, liars lie in service of the goal.
The Goal: Keep Trump out. Put our D people in power.
Then stack up the lies like cordwood.
There should be jailings and hangings for this kind of subversion and treason.
@TommyJay: In fairness, I think Biden &/or the Biden family were the first to thrust Kamala to the fore.
Everything I’ve read supports this.
I would go farther and say that it was Joe Biden’s eff-you to Obama, Pelosi et al. for the coup.
These are not good people.
These same people willingly lied about Russia Collusion for 3 years despite knowing it was an absolute fabrication. The Trump Ukraine phone call impeachment Kabuki theatre fraud. It goes on and on, ad nauseum. My benefit of a doubt store is empty. This section you cued up sounds like a CYA effort. My expectation that anyone will pay a price for this deception is nil. Republicans, with the exception of a few, are just too soft compared to Democrats, who go right for the jugular without giving it a second thought.
The story you’re telling is that the media of the Newseum era (1955-95) was biased and untrustworthy for various reasons but not typically employing bald liars or acting as an extension of the Democratic Party’s PR operation; now they’re garbage people paid to lie for the Democratic Party (as well as collecting pools of borderline cases who cannot bear hearing anything which contradicts their world view).
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I just hope that the coverups and outright lies about Biden’s mental decline have been so evident, nearly universal, deep, and pervasive that, henceforward, a very large majority of the general public will just reflexively refuse to believe anything that is told them on any subject by the MSM and the Democrats.
Unfortunately, I believe that the public’s memory is generally very short lived, and that, in short order, most of them will be back believing whatever these professional liars are feeding them.
I refer Snow on Pine (10:53 am) and anyone else still perusing the comments in this thread to the following phenomenon:
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The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to trust reporting in other areas despite recognizing similar potential inaccuracies.
The concept was coined by novelist Michael Crichton in a 2002 speech, naming it after Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with whom he had discussed the phenomenon.
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Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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Michael Crichton describes the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect as follows:
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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s [Murray Gell-Mann’s] case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
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— Michael Crichton, “Why Speculate?” (2002)
Reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20070714204136/http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-whyspeculate.html
Uh, Snow, ya gotta remember that Trump is a National Socialist. So are his supporters.
This “fact” permits the Media to lie about them; in fact it permits the Media to lie about everything.
Alas, no across-the-board truth telling, accuracy or clarity will be visible on the horizon any time soon.
We’ll just hafta continue reading between the lines (and pixels).
For example, what are the odds that you’re gonna find anything like the info below in the Mainstream Corrupt Media? (And this is just the tip of the iceberg….)
“…House DOGE Subcommittee Exposes “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild” ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-house-doge-subcommittee-exposes-public-funds-private-agendas-ngos-gone-wild