Democrats and their allies in the lamestream media are falling all over themselves in an attempt to dodge any and all blame for covering up President Joe “Autopen” Biden’s significant — and very obvious — mental decline since the beginning of his term. One of them is a party elder and a man who just happened to be pivotal to Biden getting the Democratic Party nomination in 2020 in the first place.
In the wake of journalist Alex Thompson’s remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner criticizing President Biden’s decline and the mainstream media’s failure to scrutinize it, numerous media and Democratic figures (who are one in the same) have been asked to share their reactions. One was Chuck Todd, the former host of NBC’s Meet the Press, who lost his cool over Thompson’s comments and insisted the media wasn’t at fault for not covering legitimate questions about Biden’s cognitive health.
“This is not a media failure. This was a failure of the Democratic Party,” Todd proclaimed. “And the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed this story. They didn’t miss this story. I just refuse to accept this stupid premise!” Todd went on to whine. “Because it’s a right-wing manufactured right-wing premise in order to stain the media.”
Right, Chuck. Everything is a “right-wing” conspiracy when it comes to very accurate and early claims of Biden’s very obvious decline in mental health. But give Chuck a tad of credit because he’s right about one thing: The media didn’t ‘miss ‘ the story — they just refused to report on it, meaning they purposefully missed it, and frankly, that’s a ton worse because it further helps explain why these losers are part of the most detestable and least-trusted professions in the country.
But it gets worse. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) appeared on CNN Monday, where he was asked about Thompson’s comments. He was also questioned about whether Biden “bears any responsibility” for Donald Trump’s election, “because of that particular reality” that Biden wasn’t fit for another four years in office. His answer is nothing short of mind-blowing:
Well, we all have some responsibility for this. The fact of the matter is Joe Biden on substance once again, was an outstanding president. You can look at his record, you can look at the records of all presidents, Democratic presidents going — going back. And you aren’t going to find anything that matched his record until you get back to Lyndon Johnson back during his Great Society efforts. Now, the fact of the matter is, whatever may have or may not have been the decline, I’ve never worked in the White House, so I was not around Joe Biden enough to tell you anything about his decline.
I’ll talk to him on the phone a lot. I saw him at events a lot. I saw no more in his declination than I’ve seen in anybody else’s. I’m two years older than Joe Biden. I just have a different style than he has. And so, people all age differently. And so, for us to sit here and talk about Joe Biden as if we are physicians and can make these kinds of evaluations – a lot of us are interacting with him could not make an evaluation like that. And I still can’t.
Jim Clyburn: “I was not around Joe Biden enough to tell you anything about his decline.”
Also, he says none of us can evaluate Biden’s fitness to the presidency because we’re not physicians.
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Unreal. Even now, Democrats and most of the lamestream media are simply incapable of admitting what we all saw for four long, tedious years: The obvious mental decline of an elderly man in his 80s was not only happening, but it put our country at great risk. What’s more, Clyburn, who helped Biden secure the nomination by helping him win the all-important primary in Clyburn’s home state of South Carolina, is one of Biden’s closest friends and congressional allies. The claim that he ‘wasn’t around Biden much’ is beyond absurd.
The only worse thing is the media pretending like Democrats should have been the ones acting to ensure Biden didn’t run again when it was their job to report what was actually happening to the man.