Well, of course, anybody with eyes to see could see plainly in 2024, if not before, that President Joe Biden was, as the saying goes, “cognitively impaired.” The public was far ahead of those so-called investigators in the press.
But where was the detailed, hot-on-the-trail Watergate-style investigation and reporting from the media at the time? Where was the investigation into what was really going on inside the Biden White House? Who was making the decisions? Who was running the place?
Over there now in USA Today, journalist Nicole Russell headlines:
We were right: New books expose truth about Biden's failing health. I'm furious. | Opinion
Only now, a year too late, are Democratic insiders and journalists finally telling Americans the truth about Joe Biden's failing health while he was president.
Russell writes in part:
For months in early 2024, conservatives like myself tried to sound the alarm on President Joe Biden's declining physical and mental health. It was obvious that he was unwell.
Yet, Democrats and much of the legacy news media ignored that reality and even attacked those of us who were willing to speak the truth. They claimed we were fabricating tales and spreading baseless conspiracy theories.
Now, the narrative has changed dramatically. Journalists are publishing books and news articles detailing not only Biden's poor health but also an orchestrated cover-up inside the White House. According to one of the books, even one of Biden's closest former aides now admits that the commander in chief was "out of it" last year as he attempted to run for reelection.
Russell cites this Politico piece focusing on Biden’s world now bracing for a deluge of books telling the behind-the-scenes tales of Biden world in the day.
In one instance she writes:
One of those books, 'Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,' by NBC News' Jonathan Allen and The Hill's Amie Parnes, includes incredible details about Biden's poor health while he was still in office.”
This is all well and good. But late. Way, way too late.
These books, if reporting as Russell notes, beg the glaringly obvious question. To borrow from the question repeatedly asked in the day by the Senate Watergate Committee’s Senator Howard Baker (“What did the President know and when did he know it?”) the question in the Biden case should be: “What did the media know about Biden’s cognitive decline and when did they know it?”
Yes. Had the media done their job and Americans realized the real problems behind the scenes in the Biden White House, it is apparent that there might have been considerable public pressure for Biden to resign and have then-Vice President Harris succeed him as President.
Would that pressure have succeeded? Who knows? Yet that does not remove the hard fact of that day that the media that was covering the Biden White House in the day did next to nothing to report the scandalous cover up going inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They allowed the Bidens to keep their hands on power no matter how compromised Joe was.
It’s as if it were 1973-1974 and young, rapacious-for-stories Washington Post journos Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein got their tips on the Nixon White House and the unfolding Watergate scandal and simply shrugged their shoulders and went on covering the goings on of petty crime in local District of Columbia criminal courts. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Which is to say, the non-curiosity and lack of investigative reporting by the mainstream media covering the Biden White House speaks volumes about the left-leaning politicization of that media. In fact, former NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd is now out there in this story as headlined at Fox News:
Former NBC host Chuck Todd admits media feared that covering Biden's decline would help Trump
Then, not so mysteriously, Donald Trump becomes President and that same media is overtly suspicious of everything. Suddenly, they are demanding: What does Elon Musk do? What is the President’s relationship with Musk and Tesla? Why did Musk get the job to run DOGE? And so on and so on. As comedian Jerry Seinfeld might say: “Yada Yada Yada.”
So in other words?
Brace yourself America.
As USA Today’s Nicole Russell reports:
Democrats and much of the legacy news media ignored that reality and even attacked those of us who were willing to speak the truth. They claimed we were fabricating tales and spreading baseless conspiracy theories.
The question now is what will happen as a result of what could easily be called a media coverup -- the gaslighting -- of the Biden health scandal? To borrow from a favorite saying of the late Rush Limbaugh: “Zip, zero, nada.”
And that, without doubt, is a professional shame.
