From Jake Tapper to Chuck Todd, the media in Washington has become a chorus of Claude Rains expressing how “shocked, shocked” they are about the mental diminishment of former President Joe Biden. These are some of the same journalists who attacked those who raised the issue for years. Now, polls are showing that the public is not buying the deflection. Sixty-three percent of those surveyed in the most recent poll say it is “likely” that “major media journalists were aware of Joe Biden’s declining mental condition, but covered it up.” The evidence is mounting of a coordinated campaign to conceal Biden’s demonstrable incapacity from White House staff to doctors to the media.
Reporters like Fox’s Peter Doocy were openly mocked by some of the same White House press corps members now expressing outrage over the cover-up. This morning Doocy recounted how he was virtually heckled in the press room when he raised questions of Biden’s diminishment.
Now, these reporters are insisting that they had no inkling it was this bad. No one is buying it, but it does not appear to matter.
Given the stories on Fox and a few outlets on the cover-up for years, it is insulting to tell the public that the degree of decline was kept from them. It is akin to describing rioting as “fiery but mostly peaceful.” The public could see the decline with their own eyes on the media outlets willing to cover the story.
In the meantime, the scope of the cover-up is coming to light. This week, it was disclosed that the White House devised an alternative to making Biden available to the press given his cognitive decline. They faked a town hall to take clips for the campaign to create the false image of Biden interacting with questions. The problem was that Biden could not stay focused and cogent for five minutes.
The footage was described as “unusable.”
So, in addition to hiding the President’s decline, White House and campaign officials tried to create a false image of Biden as being able to engage in the simplest interactions. One source said “the man could not speak” and showed an “inability to find words, to remember what he was saying, to stay on one train of thought. Aides would sometimes make the videos in slow motion to blur the reality of how slowly he actually walked … If he was off, editing footage in a way that cast him in the best light would require hours of work.”
So the same media that helped in this cover-up and attacked those pursuing the story will continue to report while claiming shock at the story.
“Let’s Go Brandon!” became a familiar political battle cry not just against former President Joe Biden but also against the mainstream media. It was first heard during an Oct. 2021 interview with race-car driver Brandon Brown after winning his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. When NBC reporter Kelli Stavast’s questions were drowned out by loud and clear chants of “F— Joe Biden,” the reporter quickly and inexplicably declared, “You can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s go, Brandon!’”
“Let’s Go Brandon!” instantly became a type of “Yankee Doodling” of the political and media establishment.
The public’s response has been deafening. Readers and viewers have left mainstream media in a mass exodus. Despite falling revenues and ratings, most media outlets seem entirely clueless or, at least, unyielding. Even as media outlets plummet in revenue, editors and reporters continue to saw at the branch upon which they are sitting.
When Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Robert Lewis, a British media executive, to try to restore profitability and readership to the paper, he was met with a virtual mutiny. Lewis nevertheless dropped this truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom: “We are going to turn this thing around, but let’s not sugarcoat it. It needs turning around. We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
The media continues to interview and write for itself. Tapper is being interviewed by the same media that joined him in actively suppressing the story.
Call it implausible deniability. It is enough to allow the media to continue to feign independence and objectivity. Everyone can return to the same inbred media circles and cocktail parties while blaming the White House for their lack of investigation. It is just a shrug and a spin from journalists who acted like a de facto state media.
It was an “Emperor has no clothes” period of American history. We could see it. We all could see it. I’m Gen X, and can remember when Joe Biden was witty and an eloquent speaker. We differed politically, but he had a talent for speeches. The man who ran in 2016 was already a shadow of his former self, and within a year, he was wrack and ruin.
My grandmother passed away from Alzheimers, and she’d been diagnosed before she exhibited Biden’s level of confusion.
Now we learn that Biden has prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones. Who knew, and when did they know it? Did the President’s physician neglect to administer a PSA test, prostate exam, and follow up testing? Did he administer the test but not release it to the public? Was Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer prior to 2016?
Since former President Biden couldn’t leave a room without being led by the hand, and didn’t sign his own executive orders, is it possible that his handlers received his cancer diagnosis, and chose to forego cancer treatment, to hide his condition from the American people as long as possible, dooming him to terminal cancer? Was he receiving cancer treatment in some form during the presidency?
For those who will call these conspiracy questions, we have been lied to for years about Joe Biden’s mental and physical health, so why should we believe anything his handlers tell us now?
This warrants a Watergate level investigation, what did everyone in Joe Biden’s administration, including the Cabinet know, and when did they know it.
Karen, I agree with everything you stated except that Biden was “witty and eloquent”. Biden was always known as a buffoon, even among his own party. The Democrats shunned him twice before, the media (liberals) mocked him with even Eleanor Clift on the McLaughlin Group making fun of him. Biden’s witty stories weren’t witty they were fabrications spouted by a fool with a very odd penchant for making up stories.
“fabrications spouted by a fool with a very odd penchant for making up stories”? That describes Trump to a “T”. How many lies has he told? Where do you even begin? How about discussing Arnold Palmer’s genitals during campaign rallies? Is that something a quality person does–name some other world leader who does this sort of thing? How about his lie about “losing friends” on 911, when everyone knows he doesn’t have any real friends? On the topic of 911, Trump claimed he saw on television thousands of Muslims holding celebrations after the towers were hit. That was an absolute lie. One of the latest lies was the claim that whites are being subjected to genocide in South Africa, backed up by photos that weren’t even taken in Africa at all. I could go on and on, but you MAGAs won’t stop believing.
Trump was indeed wrong on the celebrations seen and/or reported on TV—it was only a few dozens in New Jersey, not thousands—and thousands and/or tens of thousands overseas.
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck. Must be a duck. We all thought Brandon was mentally and physically deficient. Guess what, he was.
Based on WHAT FACTS? Turley claims that “polls” prove Biden was incompetent–based on what? The harping of MAGA media that tries to deflect attention away from Trump’s utter failures and the destruction he is doing to our country. NO ONE cites any criteria from any reliable organization, like the American Psychological Association or the American Medical Association or any reliable physician who claims there is proof that Biden was incompetent. Please explain how Biden could deliver State of the Union speeches, speeches before the UN and before international organizations if he was mentally incompetent? How did he get passed the Infrastructure bill, The CHIPS and Science Act, the American Rescue Plan and conquer COVID if he was incompetent? MAGA media takes his shuffling, a sign of arthritis, not mental deficiency, his slurred speech–the product of years of a stuttering problem and occasionally forgetting someone’s name–which everyone has had at one time or another–INCLUDING TRUMP–e.g. “Tim Apple”, and claims that not only was Biden incompetent, but that mainstream media covered it up. So, Turley, as part of MAGA media, amplifies it–but it’s all BS. Biden’s accomplishments speak louder than words and no amount of deflection will get mainstream media to stop covering Trump’s crypto scandal, his lies about cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and massive tax breaks for the wealthiest at the expense of school lunches, Medicaid, Obamacare and the poorest Americans.
It used to be a cliche that is now self-fulfilling prophecy: liberalism is a mental disorder. This is what a dying regime looks like. I no longer expect sanity from the modern left. 🤷🏽♂️
The number of Media employees involved in this Fraud is staggering!!! The fact that they faint shock is a clear indication of their direct involvement in the charade!!!! Now does the DOJ have the courage to take them down with the Biden Regime?
To communists, the end justifies the means.
Having a Democrat in the presidency justified the lies about Biden in the minds of the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs).
The material question is, “Why the —- have actual Americans allowed their Constitution and country to be destroyed?”
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“[The end justifies the means.]”
– Joseph Stalin
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“Some communists, like Karl Marx, have argued that the establishment of a communist society, a classless and equal society, is a goal so important that any means, including violence or suppression of opposition, are justified.”
With people like Tapper and Todd still belching thick Brandon cover-up fog, who needs the tactics of Hitler’s Third Reich Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels? His most famous quote — “A lie told once remains a lie; but a lie told a thousand times will come to be accepted as the truth” — overshadows another, lesser known of his observations: “Think of the press as a great keyboard upon which the government can play.” Tapper and Todd give player-pianos a run for their money.
Ahem. I just want to know if President Biden was so debilitated at the end of his term, then how could the flurry of District Court judges he nominated between the election and the inauguration be valid? How could the pardons of Fauci, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and the others be valid? What about the pardons of Biden family members made by President Biden, if I recall correctly, on the morning of the inauguration? Did Hunter sign his own pardon with the auto pen? And many of his enablers probably thought this could not get any uglier.
Hunter’s pardon was the only one that the electric pen was NOT used. That should tell you something
This post makes clear why we turn to Turley and other blogs and substack posts for information presented honestly and clearly. Thank you!
This line presents yet another problem:
Turley– “The problem was that Biden could not stay focused and cogent for five minutes.”
So who was running the government? Who was using the Autopen? Can their acts be legally sound or are they facially illegal?
The question almost answers itself.
Ed Martin says he now knows the three insiders with greatest access to the Autopen. People are talking. One of the Autopen users, apparently, is Anita Dunn. Isn’t she an Obama tool? Obama has mansions all over the place and a wife somewhere but he reportedly maintains a presence in DC. People have half joked that with Biden nearly braindead his term was really Obama’s third term. Maybe that isn’t a joke after all.
Or maybe the joke is on us.
Speaking of Obama:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/barack-obama-attacks-president-trumps-one-big-beautiful
Personally, I wouldn’t believe Barry is he said the sky is blue.
Face it, Barry won the whole enchilada. Congrats, Barry, you’ve definitely transformed the US into one giant dump. It was Barry who kissed the Muslim ring and now cutter donates a plane in disgrace.
It’s Barry who wants the migrants out as they’re costing too much and that money belongs to black Americans, right?
Liars, murderers, robbers and thieves. You’ve won nothing.
“Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care.”
– Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama
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Barry is “fundamentally transforming” the money and status of actual Americans—oh, and the country—into the possession of illegal aliens, past and present.
Correction: Actual Americans are ALLOWING Barry and his accomplices to “fundamentally transform” everything into their possession.
The Founders are looking down on what remains of their once-free United States of America and wondering why.
What is fascinating to me, is that government workers have that much time and money to spend on implementing the ‘coverup’ details and know that people will actually believe it or be intimidated not to do their jobs. Similarly, how many hours were spent on the censorship, WOKE and DEI regimes? No wonder they didn’t have time for their actual responsibilities.
The C Suite people from Disney and ABC just had a seance with the cast of The View. Move on from politics. The viewers want other things. There’s your Adam Smith invisible hand. Jonathan has written extensively on the excommunication of “bothsidesism” from collage journalism. By that measure what we are complaining about now is exactly what they were taught to do. Tom Lehrer was a hilariously successful Harvard math professor who recorded some of the funniest songs ever put down on vinyl. One has a phrase “ Ivy covered professors in ivy covered halls.” Let’s see if the invisible hand now also reaches into those halls.
It’s Roman numerals – IV OR 4 schools … it’s not really ivy
Here is a fun one, I Warned My Party About Biden’s Health. Will They Listen Now?
“If a relatively little-known congressman like me knew that Biden was incapable of leading the country in a second term, what does that say about the complicity of the real party bosses?”
–By Dean Phillips
https://www.thefp.com/p/dean-phillips-warned-democrats-about-biden
If the majority of the American minds were not ‘conditioned’, the MSM would have gone the way of Hollywood’s Silver Screen era.
The reckoning has hardly begun. With the team that this Administration has put together, I would guess there will be a lot more to this than media types stroking one another.
It is but a circle jerk in a tepid hot tub!
Tapper and Todd are not trying to convince you and I. They are trying to reconcile with their own crowd and stand atop their own heap. With Biden destroyed, they have cleansed themselves and await the new chosen one, and planning to lead the Media where directed. No honor, no morals, and no soul.
The MSM is simply an arm of the Left Wing Radical Woke Democrat Party. They are connected to the Washington Elite and Globalist/Davos crowd, taking their orders from the Globalist and DEM/Obama/Clinton crowd. MSM is losing audience and viewers. They have no creditability. They are a part of I HATE TRUMP/MAGA. They are against freedom and for Control/Censorship.
The good thing about the “invisible hand” of the free market isn that it works perfectly to correct this sort of thing. Yes, readership has plummeted of the maiknstream media and the newspapers that are left but the people are wiser and more informed by the winning competitors that told the truth. By the way. I think it was William lewis not Robert Lewis of the Post that tried to save the ship but the point is and was valid, “People are not reading your stuff!” Nor are they buying it.
JJC,
Well said. No. We are not buying it.
Pineal Gland (Third Eye) is Completely Destroyed in Vaccinated Individuals:
https://rumble.com/v6tb69v-evil-findings-pineal-gland-third-eye-is-completely-destroyed-in-vaccinated-.html
There is a reason the Greek word “pharmakeia”, from which the English word “pharmacy” comes from, is translated “sorcery” in the book of Revelation!:
https://sumofthyword.com/2021/02/02/pure-from-the-blood-of-all-men/
Well, what is the alternative?
Could they just, please, come out and admit that for the past 6+ decades they have been the mouthpiece for the democratic machine and they are no more journalists than any ruskie that ever worked for Pravda.
They can’t do that and still receive paychecks, so they will lie until enough viewers shut them down by stop viewing/reading them. Of course that won’t happen because of the 40+ % of the population that has been so completely indoctrinated that they would kill people to advance an ideology that most of them don’t even fully comprehend – (please refer to the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare and the recent depraved murder of 2 innocents in front of the Jewish Museum).
I do think we need to stand up, as a united front, and put a definitive end to this hateful nonsense emminating from our universities, democratic party members, and media.
Whim: You answered your own question. The J-schools like the law schools are full of liberal profs who rate students on their maleability and willingness to support the prof’s leftwing craziness. The object of school is not to learn but to graduate. But it’s OK, the market will set this right; it always does. It just takes time.
I understand that many corporations are becoming unwilling to hire college grads because they perceive that they will cause more dissention in the workplace than they are worth. It’s a wonder how practical people interacting with reality can realize truth at a far greater rate than ivory tower bubble inhabitants.
Does the Media have a legal obligation to tell the truth? I feel morally they do but I do not know what the law states. Maybe one of our legal eagles here can weigh in on it.
SCOTUS just decided against religious charter schools in a 4-4 decision. Tow things stand out, 1) Barret recused herself, something I doubt a liberal would do when the vote would end up tied and therefore against her position and b) who the heck was the 4th vote? Which “conservative” voted with the three loons?
Perhaps the Chief is working on his legacy – far more important that a silly charter school.
gdon
I guess you have forgotten how bad our public schools are these days.