With their "energy!" and "electric!" talking points proudly on full display at the DNC, the mainstream media has seemingly moved on from the troubling events of July, where Democrat leaders including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Maj. Leader Chuck Schumer shoved Joe Biden out of the presidential race in one of the most undemocratic moments in American history.
In his place, they installed Vice President Kamala Harris, a presumptive presidential nominee who unlike Biden has yet to have a single presidential primary vote cast directly for her, much less win one.
But the coup is the Democrat scandal that won't go away, with the attempted years-long cover-up of Joe Biden's obvious decline, which led up to July's dramatic announcement of his withdrawal, perhaps being the even bigger scandal than the forced ouster.
For the entirety of Joe Biden's presidency, and even before that during his presidential campaign, RedState extensively documented Biden's bumbles and stumbles, his penchant for incoherency, and his frequent bouts of forgetfulness.
In return, the media and Democrats worked in concert together to declare the clips shared by conservative media and some legacy media outlets as out-of-context "cheap fakes," until Biden did himself in with his disastrous debate performance, which the press and their leftist allies knew could not be credibly spun in his favor.
Now here we are, literally a month after Joe Biden announced the end of his 50+ year political career by way of a tweet, and some begrudging admissions are now forthcoming from some in the press about what they knew and what Biden's handlers knew but tried to hide.
Exhibit A comes from the Washington Post editorial board, which in a Tuesday piece gushed about how Biden's "willingness to surrender power deserves special recognition." Except it's what they said about his decline that's got a lot of people talking:
In retrospect, Mr. Biden should not have sought reelection. The June 27 debate was worse than just a bad night, as the president maintained afterward. The 81-year-old had shown signs of slipping for a long time, but his inner circle worked to conceal his decline. He and the country would have been better off if Mr. Biden had kept his implied promise from the 2020 campaign to be a “transitional” figure, perhaps by bowing out after the Democrats’ surprisingly good showing in the 2022 midterm elections.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a frequent critic of the media, pointed to how some things were left unstated in the piece but deserved mention, like the fact that Kamala Harris herself undoubtedly knew of Biden's decline as did the press - by the WaPo's own admission:
...First, Kamala Harris was part of that "inner circle," something that she is emphasizing on the campaign trial . That would mean that she also concealed his decline but denying it publicly...
...Second, since many were long writing about the decline, it begs the question of the near total lack of interest in that issue by the media, including the Washington Post. Many professed to the public that Biden was sharp as a tack...
...Finally, there is fact that the political and medical staff at the White House repeatedly denied any decline to the media. Yet, the Post now rather matter-of-factly admits that it was all a knowing lie. Just another shrug and spin in our post-truth political environment.
Throughout all of this, the corporate media has shown us who they really are over and over again, gaslighting us on Biden when it was obvious what was going on and only conveniently reversing course after the debate out of sheer panic over Biden essentially confirming what his critics have said about him all along, the same critics who purported news outlets like the WaPo relentlessly bashed.
Regardless of who wins in November, there needs to be a reckoning in the court of public opinion among those who all knew about this in Biden's "inner circle" and beyond but who kept quiet about it even though the American people deserved to know the truth.
Kamala Harris being his vice president should be on the hot seat more than anyone on this issue outside of maybe First Lady Jill Biden, but there are plenty of others who should be as well because right now we have a lot of questions but not a whole lot of answers in part because the press seems very content in not asking them. And the reason why is because they, too, were in on it.
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