martybegan
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The spin is that they were deceived, that Biden's cognitive decline was hidden from the masterfully. But the reality is that most of them didn't want to upset the apple cart because they didn't want Trump to win the election in 2020, and realized they had hooked their carts up to Biden's re-election campaign in 2024. Only when faced with the obvious disaster of the debate did they change the narrative.
At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes’
They would rather be considered rubes than liars.
At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes’
It boosted the Biden operation’s basement strategy that kept Joe campaigning by Zoom — allegedly for COVID reasons but actually because, as was already plain, he was mentally incapable of doing otherwise.
The press covered for Biden when, unlike normal presidents, he was kept tightly controlled and scripted. Reporters who asked questions at his rare press conferences were picked in advance, and Biden read off his answers from pre-printed cards featuring their photos. This was no secret to the legacy media members, but they didn’t tell Americans. In fact, when Republicans released videos of Biden acting senile and clueless, the White House press corps joined Democratic flacks to call them “cheap fakes” — when in fact, as we’ve all seen since, the clips accurately displayed Biden’s infirmities.
“President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception,” Thompson said. “Being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves,” he continued. “We, myself included, missed a lot of this story . . . We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows.” But journalists didn’t “miss” the story. They lied about it.
They chose not to cover what Americans could see with their own eyes. And they did so for political reasons: to help Democrats and hurt Republicans.
They would rather be considered rubes than liars.