If You Were Duped On Biden’s Cognitive
Decline, You’re Too Dumb To Be A Journalist
Federalist,
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/10/2024 12:43:44 AM
By the time we saw Joe Biden’s debate debacle, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Biden’s fragile mental state was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats.
The goal remains the same.
The Wall Street Journal reports this week that Biden’s senior advisers “aggressively stage-managed” the president’s “schedule, movements and personal interactions, as they sought to minimize signs of how age has taken a toll on the oldest president in U.S. history.” Basically, everyone in the White House — as well as big-money donors — conspired to hide that the president
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
LadyHen 7/10/2024 2:09:11 AM (No. 1753376)
No I'll fix this for you, "You are too stupid to VOTE!" There ya go.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Adam 7/10/2024 2:53:26 AM (No. 1753387)
Yup #1. Beat me to it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 7/10/2024 4:25:36 AM (No. 1753400)
Right on number 1! Some of them may have been duped but most of them were and still are complicent and will still be glad to carry Biden's water! Can't trust the MSM, ever!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/10/2024 5:04:30 AM (No. 1753412)
As Biden falls, the media falls with him. They lied for him as a monolithic block, ignoring the voices calling out Biden's obvious problems for years. Their bleating denials of being duped are completely unbelievable. As people now see that damage Biden has done, the responsibility for that is being shared with the media who should have told us that Biden is incompetent.
"far too often the first loyalty of the political media is to the Democratic Party"
And even worse, when confronted, even with damning evidence, they LIE about it. They HAVE TO.
The media knows that if propaganda is to be effective, the target audience needs to believe the source is credible. Therefore they have to lie without seeming to lie. When Trump labeled them, "fake news", he stabbed at their heart. Decades ago, the charge was the the media was "biased". They were, but were more careful to soft peddle their attacks and preserve their "independence". Something snapped in the media when they successfully went after Nixon and "Brought a President down", a Republican President down. They were gleeful about it. Sure, they went after dems, when the target was so blatantly compromised that everyone recognized they were a threat to the dem party. The media helped dems clean house.
Then "Trump", a presidential candidate that swims in media like a fish and when confronted, rolls up his sleeves and jumps into the "brawl" with as much glee as the media does with it's attacks. Fake attacks were exposed. Attacks founded on actual events but distorted were shrugged off. Trump's real mistakes were minor and he kept the media reeling so bad that they couldn't hold a meme together. The media snapped again. TDS set in. They became reckless in their despiration to "Get Trump!". As their mistakes multiplied, their credibility went into freefall. Before the Biden meltdown, it was in the teens. Now, is their credibility in the single digits? We are seeing CNN, the WaaPoo, and others in so much financial difficultly (because "no one is reading their stuff") that they are hacking off staff in large clumps. The media are terrified that, if reelected, Trump will give them the coup de grâce, not by any presidential official action, but by mocking them, laughing at them, and ignoring them.
That may be true but the media is where they are because they committed suicide through ego and arrogance and a fundamental misunderstanding of their role in America and specifically in politics.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/10/2024 5:25:09 AM (No. 1753421)
The MSM journalists are not journalists, they are advocates, advocates for what they preach, the end of democracy as we know it. It's not rocket science, it's advocacy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sully 7/10/2024 5:50:14 AM (No. 1753427)
Journalists were the dupers not the dupees. 3 years ago Tapper berated Lara Trump for pointing out Bidens cognitive decline, claiming it was a stutter. Said she had no standing to assess cognitive decline.
Now would be an awesome time to repost that clip and remind the electorate.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, many/most of us didn't trust the media on any subject. We certainly didn't trust them to gatekeep or be honest about Biden's obvious unfitness for any office - ESPECIALLY after the media's cynical, diabolical, destructive amplification of covid panic and government control freakery.
They deserve a good kicking now but they deserve many more.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 7/10/2024 7:04:37 AM (No. 1753462)
If you weren't duped, but were in on it, you're too dishonest to be a journalist. You should be a politician.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
downnout 7/10/2024 7:34:09 AM (No. 1753473)
Proof that to Democrats the goal is power and money - competence? No.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/10/2024 7:38:00 AM (No. 1753476)
Half of the voters in this country helped to keep this addled old crook in the White House because the don't like Trumps tweets.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/10/2024 8:12:57 AM (No. 1753512)
"..You’re Too Dumb To Be A Journalist" or a forked toungued crooked scoundrel".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 7/10/2024 8:33:11 AM (No. 1753529)
When I was in college, journalism was considered to be just one level above basket weaving.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/10/2024 9:03:12 AM (No. 1753547)
To paraphrase some of Jeff Foxworthy's best stuff - "...You just might be a Journalist."
#12, a few other popular courses of study have slipped under that low bar like Womyn's Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Education, Climate Science, African Culture, all under the heading of "How to Earn a Degree Without Really Learning Anything." or "You Too Can Become a Doctor."
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
felixcat 7/10/2024 9:57:26 AM (No. 1753599)
And this morning, Stuart Varney of his Fox Business show had the nerve to ask Rep Ronnie Jackson, former White House MD/active duty admiral, if Trump is showing any signs of cognitive decline. Rep Jackson answered emphatically no and that the issue with Biden isn't his age - it's his mental decline which can happened to adults as young as in their 60s.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dwa 7/10/2024 10:26:22 AM (No. 1753615)
While dumb is a possibility, being corrupt is just as likely. Journalists are no longer journalists but propagandists for the democrat party and are in lock step with the policies of that party while proclaiming to be unbiased.
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