New York Post Editorial Board Calls for Accountability for Journalists Who Covered up Biden’s Mental Decline
“The entire idea that Biden was anything but healthy — virile, even — was treated as a right-wing, tin-foil-hat talking point.”
The editorial board at the New York Post is demanding accountability for members of the media who were complicit in the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline. They actually said that these journalists ‘should never live it down.’
It’s a similar message to the one we’ve been hearing from the journalist Mark Halperin, who has repeatedly called this a historic scandal.
Trump recently shared a video showing various Democrats and media figures insisting that Biden was just fine.
This editorial is entirely justified.
From the New York Post:
Journos who joined gaslighting on Biden’s decline should never live it down
President-elect Donald Trump is forcing the Democratic politicians who spent years lying about President Biden’s senility to take their bitter medicine, but we’re more concerned about the toady media who played along.
Trump on Monday posted a video showing clip after cringe-worthy clip of Democratic leaders from Rep. Nancy Pelosi to Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas denying again and again that Biden was mentally and physically deteriorating, claiming he was “sharp,” “on his game,” “focused” and that “his age is an asset.”
Every last one deserves scorn, but so do the journalists who not only let these fantastical fibs go unchallenged, but even parroted the lies: Biden was showing no signs of mental decline, they insisted — and it was offensive, ignorant and borderline bigoted to even suggest otherwise.
The entire idea that Biden was anything but healthy — virile, even — was treated as a right-wing, tin-foil-hat talking point.
The public wasn’t buying it: Back in February, 86% of Americans thought Biden was too old to serve a second term because they had watched his decline happen in real time, and over the course of several years.
Mark Halperin is not letting this go, either. He recently appeared on Newsmax and said that this is going to be a problem for the media until they come clean.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
EMMA RECHENBERG, NEWS NATION: Mark Halperin, political analyst, who’s joined us so much, so often on National Report, and we’re glad to speak with you a final time of the year, Mark. What do you think about this? CBS is finally coming to the realization this was a missed opportunity.
MARK HALPERIN: Well, Emma, you’re too young, but shaun isn’t to remember the old V8 ads. I mean, I don’t get it. The press now is, they’re not really acknowledging their role in the cover-up.
They’re not acknowledging that the story wasn’t happening on C-SPAN right before everybody’s eyes. And all of a sudden, it’s safe for them to just a little bit say, oh, we kind of missed this story, should have been covered more. I continue to say this is one of the biggest scandals in media history, maybe the biggest in America.
And for places like Newsmax, your program, my reporting, I don’t think we deserve a Pulitzer for reporting what we could see publicly. But I do think until the organizations that contributed to the cover-up come clean, they can’t expect to establish any credibility with the broader public.
Watch the clip:
🚨Mark Halperin shreds leftist media for Biden cognitive state coverup: “This is one of the biggest scandals in media history, maybe the biggest in America."
“Until the organizations that contributed to the cover up come clean, they can't expect to establish any credibility with… pic.twitter.com/HLoOVgmgQ9
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 1, 2025
Halperin is right about this but I think he gives the media too much credit. I don’t see how they come back from this without major changes.
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It was obvious narrative for the people who like that narrative to live in, like soap opera coverage of Liz and Richard. News has been soap opera since the 70s, when it was made a profit center instead of a network prestige loss leader. Soap opera was its found audience. They come every day, news or no news, so long as there is soap opera.
Soap opera accountability is nonsense. The right is no better, except their audience is people looking to mock the left for their idiocy.
There’s no hard news anywhere because there’s no market for hard news. No eyeballs to sell to advertisers.
This was far beyond “creative drama”
Gosh, that would be all of them. Do we have enough boxcars?
The Times want accountability for the journalists who either covered up or played down Biden’s mental decline?
We want accountability for those who usurped the powers of the Office of the President.
A lot of people are looking for more than just accountability for the jourmos who covered it up. We want to know who on the inside was actually making decisions and issuing orders using Biden’s name and title.
Who made decisions about committing US forces and other decisions that were only to be made by the elected Commander in Chief? Who decided which bills became law and which were vetoed? Who decided what pardons or commutations to grant? Who decided what judicial appointments were made? Who decided how much money got laundered through Ukraine?
What unelected bureaucrat acted as shadow president for four years?
Your talking in past tense as if Brandon is not still POTUS in name only.
Not just the members of media but the folks who had close contact with Biden and refused to tell the truth. All these folks made a deliberate decision to place partisan politics, political power and ideology above all else.
Media come back from this? Not with the same faces employed.
Sorry, not sorry. The MSM believes it is its job to carry water for the Democrat party. They don’t even understand what they did was (and what they will continue to do is) wrong.
Halperin: “I continue to say this is one of the biggest scandals in media history, maybe the biggest in America.”
I don’t think so. There is too much competition.
Russia collusion. Fine people. Drinking bleach. Hunter laptop. Lots of things to “never live down”.
Good reason to ban them from the White House press room. Make the rubble bounce.
The common denominator in this is the MSM. This is the #1 scandal, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t scandals of a similar level going back decades. They have just become more bold with the cancle button on top of the lies. As the professor noted, it is nice to be vindicated, but for the most part, those of us who were right all along always knew that we were right. What the left fears now is that we will simply use their track record against them in the future. Lie to me 50 times and expect me to believe you the 51st time ain’t going to happen. The MSM will deal with this by hiring a new set of people who will be paid to lie, and the current crop of liars know that their days are numbered. You don’t pay someone $10M a year if their audience has fallen below 10,000 people. That is why their TDS is so high. They know they have lost and it is only a matter of time before they are shown the door. The smart ones will leave lest they get introduced to a street lamp on the way out.
Your use of “51” reminds me of “accountability”. All those who behaved improperly – as it nothing was too much to do because Trump won’t win – should be treated appropriately “for cause”. Perhaps start with removing all security clearances for the 51 involved with the Hunter laptop letter.
All former government officials should have their clearances revoked as there is no longer any need for them to have them.
Absolutely. This is a piece of low hanging fruit for the incoming Trump Administration.
Remember Her Heinous and the VRWC bull? She was playing sleight of hand for the Vast Press Conspiracy. And they were still at it until that disastrous debate, then they had no rock to scurry under, and now they’re whinging about people not trusting them. Gee, not like they have 260+ years of yellow journalistic history for that…
The best events in this whole criminal charade were the yearly “check ups” and physicals, where the lying sack of sh*t quack who tends to the White House vegetable would never answer any questions and lied out the wazoo (which we all knew, as we all knew about most of the endless stream of lies coming out of democrats and leftist scum about everything imaginable).
The topper was when Traitor Joe, all of a sudden, got COVID (for the 10th time) right after his face-plant in the debate … while he was waiting for his shooter to do the job in Butler. THat failure really crushed the treasonous vegetable.
The feds lie to use all the time, but they also lie to each other. Outside the specific legislative context (which is small and getting smaller), these actions are specifically a felony. See generally Brogan v. United States.
Any lie to any federal official in any context is a felony. There is no exception for federal officials lying to other federal officials.
18 U. S. C. § 1001 (1988 ed.) provided:
“Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
Can we please use this law a few million times for the false statements that come out of Washington, every state capitol and everywhere else? If not, why not? Exactly what is it that makes it OK for feds to lie all the time?
Who is going to hold the dinosaur media accountable? Not the MILLIONS who believe their schtick, purchase tabloid papers touting Elvis’ alive? No, they will continue their jobs, along with 7 figure salaries. See you all in four years.
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