codes probably shouldn’t handle the TV remote, reporters and pundits rushed to dispute or explain away Hur’s conclu- sions.
“He’s far beyond
cogent. In fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically,” trumpet- ed MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “The Disgusting Furor Over
Biden’s Age” was the headline on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s piece. Biden’s reaction to the Hur
report’s critique of his acuity was cer- tainly suspicious. He invoked execu- tive privilege to block release of the audio recordings of Hur’s interview with him, insisting that to pro- tect his privacy a transcript
THE TRUTH While the mainstream media either ignored or dismissed President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, Newsmax focused on the issue in February and suggested as far back as last August that he might only be able to serve one term.
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had been given: “He pass- es a cognitive test every day,” she claimed. Given the mount-
must suffice. But months later
the White House was forced to concede in a court filing seeking to block release of the audio that the Hur transcript was doctored. Repeated and filler words such as
“um” were often omitted. Even with that, the transcript shows Biden say- ing, for example, “and, and” more than 20 times. Reporters ignored other signs of a
“ He passes a cognitive test every day.”
— Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, Feb. 28
cover-up. In February, the president completed his annual physical exam and Kevin O’Connor, his personal phy- sician, issued a one-page summary declaring him physi- cally fit for duty. But tellingly, he
“ The Disgusting Furor Over Biden’s Age.”
— Paul Krugman, column in The New York Times, Feb. 9
friend William Bullitt: “I think that if I give (Stalin) everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return . . . he will not try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.” We know how that turned out — Stalin reneged on all his commitments and 120 million Eastern Europeans were condemned to live under communism for over 40 years. World War II historian
Lynne Olson, writing in The New York Times, concluded
declined to answer any questions from reporters. White House press sec- retary Karine Jean- Pierre admitted that no cognitive exam
that “Roosevelt’s cover-up of his failing health in the 1944 campaign was an egregious deception of American voters and helped contribute to a climate of cynicism about politicians.”
The Joe Biden medical
cover-up of 2024 will only exacerbate cynicism concerning our elected leaders and accelerate the collapse of trust that the media has seen with the general public. After all, ever since
ing evidence that Biden wasn’t the man he used to be, the media ignoring that kind of brush-off was a dereliction of duty. Only after Biden’s
debate debacle did lead- ing journalists push back.
“It’s clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first duty of journalism: to hold power accountable,” said Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times. “It is simply astounding for the
entire country, including its most sea- soned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and pain- ful reality of Biden’s debate perfor- mance.” Olivia Nuzzi of New York maga-
zine wrote a piece a week after the debate, titled “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden.” But she confessed that as far back
as January, she had been “hearing similar stories from Democrat offi- cials, activists, and donors who came away from interactions with Joe Biden disturbed by what they had seen.” Why did she or her editors stall so
long before reporting on what they learned?
mainstream outlets effectively abandoned any pretense of objectivity covering Donald Trump, they have misinformed their customers over and over again. They got the accusations
that Trump had colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin wrong. They collaborated with
the White House in covering up the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop just weeks before the 2020 election. They bought the Biden
White House line on its handling of COVID-19 from the eficacy of masks and vaccines to dismissals of the costs of lockdowns. The Australian journalist Phillip Knightley once lamented that the “truth was the first casualty in war.” Sadly, given the history of media failures in covering presidential health crises, the truth is apparently also an early casualty of any coverage of Democrat administrations. —J.F.
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