The press covered up Biden’s decline as well, not just the Biden White House

Now that Joe Biden is no longer President, everyone is coming out of the woodwork with behind the scenes details of the former President’s physical and mental decline while in office.

Whether it is the soon to come out book co-authored by Jake Tapper, Original Sin, or the article by the New Yorker describing how a declining Biden handed the Presidency to Trump by deciding to run for re-election, the media is trying to act as if they are just now privy to the details of the cover up of Mr Biden’s decline.

One problem: most Americans have memory, eyes, and reasonable critical thinking skills. Former President Biden’s decline was not something that was discovered by the public after Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate with President Donald Trump.

In fact, even during the 2020 Democratic primaries, which started in 2019, there were signs of Biden’s cognitive decline. Whether it was Biden’s bizarre, incoherent story about his encounter with an African American man who he dubbed “Corn Pop,” or his statement that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” implying that one cannot be poor and white, it was clear that Biden was in a state of decline before he was even elected.

And it only got worse from there. During his Presidency, Biden rarely strayed from reading off of his teleprompter, and when he did, it usually resulted in incoherent stories, similar to his Corn Pop dissertation, or morphed into bizarre exchanges, like when he challenged an older voter to a pushup contest.

But while this was happening, from the beginning of Biden’s term up until the June 2024 debate, not only were Biden aids denying what was in plain sight. The media, whether cable news, or newspapers, were denying it.

And the media’s denial of what was obvious was much more egregious. Any administration will try to protect their leader, and try to distort that leader’s negatives. But the media is supposed to call things as they are.

We have known for a while that this is not the case. Any media outside what is clearly labelled “right wing” has for decades done whatever they can to favor the left wing cause. Whether that is editorialize events as they report them, suppress evidence that goes against their narrative or preferred candidate, or outright act as an attack dog for the Democratic Party and debate Republicans, the media is known to not be fair judges of what is true and what is false.

And people have been wising up to this. According to a poll taken during the Biden term, 8 in 10 Americans think that the media’s cover up of the Hunter Biden laptop story changed the result of the 2020 election in Biden’s favor.

Nevertheless, even with the expectation that the media will slant things in the Left’s favor, there used to be an assumption that they wouldn’t go so far in their bias so as to gaslight the public about what we were seeing with our own eyes. It should be noted that they did do that during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, with the most blatant example being CNN characterizing a riot with burning buildings in the background as a “fiery but mostly peaceful protest.”

But this was the President of the United States, the leader of the most powerful country in the world. He is everywhere. People’s eyes are always on him. There’s no way that we could see Biden slowly lose his physical and mental abilities and the media would knowingly gaslight us by claiming clips of this were “cheap fakes.”

Well, there obviously was a way. Anytime a conservative said what we could see was true, that Biden was mentally unfit to be President, the media either outright denied it, or claimed it was a mean spirited attack on an older man who “had a stutter” or who “isn’t as sharp as he once was, but is still perfectly capable of doing the job of President.”

We even had media shamelessly claiming that 2024 Biden was “the best version of Biden ever,” that sometimes they had trouble keeping up with Biden, and saying “f you” if you don’t agree.

Now that there can be no denying that Biden was not cognitively fit to be President, the press is trying to salvage their reputation and claim that they were duped too. Here come the tell all books, the interviews with Biden aides who, now out of the White House, can spill what was really going on, as if we didn’t know what was going on the whole time, and they were not the ones trying to gaslight us into not believing our lying eyes about it.

And now the blame is falling heavily on Biden too. The problem is that he stayed in too long. This is understandable, but not consistent from the left and media. When Biden was forced to drop out, the left rejoiced in his “decision” and lauded Biden for it.

This of course was when they thought that a simple switch of candidate would lead the Democrats to victory. There was a Democratic lawmaker with tears in his eyes after Biden was forced out.

Had Kamala Harris won the 2024 election, Biden would be celebrated as a hero, and his cognitive impairments would be dismissed as “small declines that were addressed by Biden’s ‘decision’ to step down,” by the very people who are now condemning the former President.

This is like in tv shows, when a mystery is solved, and one of the people who is supposedly trying to solve that mystery is implicated, and tries to slink off before the other characters realize that he was part of the crime. Don’t let the media slink off. They are just as much part of the cover up as the Biden administration itself.