The Patriot Post® · Leftmedia Finally Notices That Joe Biden Is Old
These days, more questions are being raised about the mental and physical health of a powerful American political candidate.
But if you think they’re questioning Joe Biden’s inability to find his way off stage, his claim to have had conversations with people who’ve been dead for years, or his trouble in completing sentences, you’re wrong. It’s Donald Trump they’re worried about.
Who could forget the buzz when Trump spoke recently about January 6 and momentarily confused former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Nikki Haley.
Since he campaigned for the presidency in 2015, there’s been a laundry list of articles, opinion pieces, and news reports about Trump’s health. But during Biden’s term in office, the media have neglected to report what everyone can see and hear, and it’s infuriating that so-called journalists refuse to acknowledge that Biden is in no condition to be president.
To their credit, though, most Americans can see through the spin. A recent Quinnipiac University poll reveals that nearly 70% of Americans think Biden is too old to serve again. An ABC News/Ipsos poll is even worse. In that one, 86% don’t think Biden can handle another four years.
So much for polls, but now the national media’s denial phase has come to an end as well. In early February, the Department of Justice’s own special counsel, Robert Hur, released a report of an investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. The report concluded that he was guilty as charged, but Hur refused to bring criminal charges.
No surprises here, but Hur’s decision not to prosecute the president rested on his generous assessment that Biden is a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who wouldn’t present himself well to a jury. The Biden White House couldn’t let that characterization stand, so they reflexively responded by sending the president out in front of America for a primetime press conference. They were so confident in the commander-in-chief that they gave the media less than 25 minutes’ notice.
Whoever made that decision didn’t think it through.
It couldn’t have gone any worse for Biden, who stumbled his way through a televised conference that left everyone in the room (and those watching at home) realizing what they had already known. And that’s all it took for the floodgates to open, unleashing a torrent of reports from typically pro-Biden media outlets and reporters questioning whether Biden has the mental acuity to serve another term as president.
After three years of Americans shouting, “The emperor isn’t wearing any clothes,” we finally got one of the emperor’s own to acknowledge it.
Maybe Hur’s report and the media’s decision to jump on the bandwagon were part of an orchestrated attempt to set the stage for an ultimate replacement of Biden between now and the election. In fact, CNN is already greasing the skids for Kamala Harris to slide into the presidency.
“CNN has claimed that Kamala Harris, the first vice president ever to demonstrate unfitness for the world’s easiest job, is in calm, cool command, taking charge and reassuring Dems who are worried that they might not cheat effectively enough in November,” according to political analyst Robert Spencer.
Theories aside, it seems odd that suddenly the media is no longer willing to prop up a sitting president who needs a lot of propping up.
One of the outlets responding to the special counsel’s report was the Gray Lady herself. Usually, The New York Times is part of the Leftmedia’s Praetorian Guard, but some realities are too harsh to ignore.
As expected, the Biden administration is fuming. After all, if there’s one thing Democrats can’t stand, it’s a press that’s no longer willing to cover for them or look the other way.
Last week, White House spokesman Ian Sams wrote a letter to the White House Correspondents Association asking the media to, essentially, treat Biden with kid gloves. The WHCA appropriately rejected the request.
As the Leftmedia always loved to say about Donald Trump, it seems the walls are closing in around Joe Biden. There are renewed requests for him to take a cognitive test, but White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently assured the country that it’s not necessary.
For once, Jean-Pierre is right. The president doesn’t need to be tested for something we can all see with our own eyes. The media see it, too, and they’re finally reporting on it. Now, someone needs to tell Biden he’s not going to be the Democrat nominee in 2024.
In fact, that’s exactly the point. Media figures are only now “starting to get nervous,” says Senator Ted Cruz. “They’re starting to realize, ‘Crap, if it’s Biden against Trump, we think Trump’s gonna win.’ And so they’re hitting the panic button. And I think we’re going to see more of these stories as the media turns on him. I do think you’re seeing both Democrats and the media getting very, very worried about Joe Biden’s ability to win in November.”
A fella can hope, anyway.