I know the saying is "better late than never." Still, I'm not so sure that should apply to Democrats who are finally admitting the obvious about Joe Biden: He clearly could not have served another four years as President of the United States. 

You see, the thing is when you wait until not only after he dropped out of the presidential race, but after the election is over as well, the timing of that admission seems just a little bit suspect. 

Now the corporate media admits it:

“Time is catching up with Mr. Biden. He looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day… it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.” Via Politico Playbook pic.twitter.com/9ACSacVsBd

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 18, 2024

TO STATE THE OBVIOUS — From Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs’ NYT assessment of President JOE BIDEN’s final chapter: “Time is catching up with Mr. Biden. He looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day. Aides say he remains plenty sharp in the Situation Room, calling world leaders to broker a cease-fire in Lebanon or deal with the chaos of Syria’s rebellion. But it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.”

The level of shamelessness it takes to title that blurb with "To State the Obvious" is unquantifiable. I spent so many years chronicling Biden's undeniably deteriorating mental and physical state here at RedState that I filed stories under the tag "senile." You know who did deny his condition, though? Politico, The New York Times, Peter Baker, Karine Jean-Pierre, and essentially every other living, breathing Democrat. 

The peak of their disinformation campaign was no doubt the "cheap fakes" saga. Following an especially disturbing mid-2024 performance in France in which Joe Biden had to be led around and corrected by world leaders, including Italia's Giorgia Meloni, the press and White House claimed the videos were being altered, dubbing them "cheap fakes." NBC News proclaimed, "Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up."

SEE: The Press Start Spouting the 'Cheap Fakes' Talking Point, as Panic About Biden's Senility Grows

It was Biden's big on-stage freeze-up at a Los Angeles fundraiser in late June that caused the White House to pick up the talking point, though. Karine Jean-Pierre would go on to quote a denial from Barack Obama, who was hosting the event, as evidence conservatives were using "cheap fakes." Notably, a month later, one of Obama's aides admitted that Biden was so disoriented that night that the former president himself was "shaken." 

"Cheap fakes," indeed.

JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah, and I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video. They are "cheap fakes" video, they are done in bad faith, and some of your news organization have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact-checkers, have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation, and so we see this, and this is something coming from your part of the world calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.

To further the point, we have gone from that campaign of falsehoods about Biden's condition to the far-left "Pod Save America" bros saying Biden is no longer even in charge of the country. 

Started with a @cnn discussion of Democrats lacking authentic messengers, ended on an amusing revelation by the Pod Save bros that Joe Biden isn’t actually in command (actual LOL on that one). pic.twitter.com/N0EG8KtP0O

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 18, 2024

Are they correct in this instance? Sure. Do they have any right to make that observation now after lying to everyone for years on end in a desperate attempt to cling to power? No, they don't. That's true for every Democrat and left-wing press apparatchik who has suddenly found the courage to tell the truth about the situation. 

The campaign to mislead the American people about Biden's ailing condition was the biggest disinformation campaign in modern presidential history. The sheer length of it combined with the breadth of those parroting it, including at the highest levels of government and in the press, is unmatched. Those who participated have no credibility. They don't get to claim it was "obvious" all along when they were saying the opposite five months ago. No one should forget how far they were willing to go, up to and including putting an invalid back in the Oval Office, to remain in power.