As expected, the mainstream media has sided with the Biden White House and campaign teams over the latest round of concerning videos showing Joe Biden looking lost, out of sorts, and generally unwell.
On Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the videos, including one of a frozen-looking President Biden being gently guided off a Hollywood stage by former President Barack Obama, “cheap fakes,” a product of partisan Republicans who were not acting in good faith:
“Yeah, we — and I think you all have called this the ‘cheap fakes’ video. And that’s exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith. And — and some of your news organization have — have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing — the right-wing critics of the President have a credibility problem because of — the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.And so, we see this, and this is something coming from — from your — your part of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.”
It was pretty astonishing considering the version that was originally posted and which caused all the uproar came from The Hollywood Reporter, hardly a bastion of right-wing thinking. Subsequent videos posted on social media by Democrat apologists failed to disprove the points Biden’s critics were making about how he looked.
Another video that has made the rounds shows Biden at the G7 Summit in Italy earlier this month appearing to wander off as other world leaders including Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were gathered to watch a parachuting demonstration and to listen to what a parachuter had to say afterward. Meloni had to go grab Biden, who had shuffled over to a lone parachuter who was away from the rest of the action, to bring him back.
The New York Post circulated this version in a tweet they posted to promote the story of the incident. In it, you see Biden walking over in the general direction of the lone skydiver, but it’s cropped:
The wider version, shared by RNC Research and which was also used in the Post‘s report, showed where Biden wandered off to – and actually made him look worse:
In their report on the “cheap fake” videos, CBS News made an embarrassing oopsie. Originally, the clip they used of Biden from the G7 was the clip shared by Biden Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates, who had posted a slightly shorter version of the one RNC Research used and which, again, made Biden look worse than the cropped Post version.
Here’s what happened next:
In a follow-up tweet, they said they had used the “wrong version”:
“An earlier post was removed as it included the wrong version of a video. This version has been updated to include the correct clip and label on the edited video.”
You just cannot make it up. You simply can’t.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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