Journalists at White House Correspondents’ Dinner: We Were Deceived As To Biden Cognitive Decline
“Being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story”
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner happened last night and one topic that repeatedly came up at the event was the decline of Joe Biden and the media’s failure to cover it.
More than one speaker said the media bears ‘some’ of the responsibility for not getting the story out there, but that’s simply not accurate. They bear all of the responsibility. Right up until Biden’s disastrous debate performance last spring, the media covered up the story. They accused people of pushing ‘cheap fakes’ of Biden right up until the moment when they could no longer hide the truth from the public.
Alex Thompson of Axios, who covered the subject more than most, not that that’s saying much, was given an award for his work.
FOX News reports:
Axios reporter hits media for whiffing on coverage of Biden’s decline at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Journalist Alex Thompson called out the press for failing to properly report on former President Joe Biden’s declining health at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday.
Thompson, a reporter for Axios, accepted the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage. His reporting closely documented Biden’s disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump, the events leading up to it, and Biden’s eventual decision to exit the race. In his acceptance speech, Thompson acknowledged that the press fell short in covering the story of Biden’s decline.
“Being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story,” Thompson said, speaking before a room of journalists from major news outlets.
He added, “President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception.”…
Thompson said the media’s failure to investigate and report more aggressively on Biden’s condition contributed to growing public distrust of journalism.
You think so?
See the clip below:
.@AlexThomp: "President Biden's decline and its coverup by the people around him is a reminder that every White House regardless of party is capable of deception…We, myself included, missed a lot of this story and some people trust us less because of it." #whcd #nerdprom pic.twitter.com/L9CtbB3HIZ
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 27, 2025
People on Twitter/X were pretty disgusted.
It wasn’t just a cover-up by the Biden White House — the media actively participated in the cover-up. https://t.co/PAh9d0A3Ry
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) April 27, 2025
They somehow missed the biggest story of the past 4 years but when Trump holds up a photo of a guy's tattoos they all turn into the Hardy Boys.
It's just an unsolved mystery I tell you. https://t.co/aP7eJCCx02
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 27, 2025
they didn't "miss the story" and it wasn't a "coverup by the people around him"
the media lied about what everyone could see to protect the Democrats
they're lying about their lies https://t.co/pQY2hNTHsf
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) April 27, 2025
Bitch, please.
You were complicit in the deception and everyone knows it. https://t.co/vRmYplKwAh
— RBe (@RBPundit) April 27, 2025
Pretty amazing that Alex Thompson has to tell a room of reporters that Democratic politicians are capable of lying too because they all universally played along with pretending Biden wasn’t mentally gone https://t.co/WrMLHcuTVP
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) April 27, 2025
Then there was this moment.
.@WHCA President @EugeneDaniels2: "We journalists are a lot of things. We are competitive and pushy. We are impatient and sometimes we think we know everything…What we are not is the opposition. What we are not is the enemy of people. What we are not is the enemy of the state." pic.twitter.com/m8FRmE4eK4
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 27, 2025
"What we are not is the opposition."
Yes, you are. Almost every single one of you is a Democrat and progressive. Pretending otherwise is an insult to the country's intelligence. https://t.co/mOZ9ymbs1b
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2025
Nope you are the opposition, you are the enemy of the people, and you are the enemy of the state—at least whenever a Republican is in office. (When a Democrat is in office you are palace courtiers and eager regime propagandists.) https://t.co/IEaOrLmIbR
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) April 27, 2025
The legacy and corporate media did not "miss" the story of Biden's cognitive decline. All they had to do was watch the f-ing TV. They smothered the story. https://t.co/Ur5WjHACR3 pic.twitter.com/znvboLZsu7
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) April 27, 2025
They still don’t get it, and at this rate, they probably never will.
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“We were deceiving when at the Biden Whitehouse.” Self delusion, self denial, CYA…
Or advocacy
Or stupidity
We wuz framed!
They remain engaged in the resistance. The entire lot. Pretending to save us. Pretending to speak for us all. They have nothing to offer. They tell us what will happen and ignore what was done. How nice.
The Democratic Party, press and and influencers are the least likely among us to be listened to, let alone followed. That they continue their antics shows how removed from reality they are. But that will not stop them from hurting us all and blaming others for it.
They didn’t cover up anything because it was on every news spot for over four years, right out there in the open and as obvious as it could be. No, these MSM media people made fools of themselves every time they tried to pretend what we all saw didn’t exist. Kinda like Baghdad Bob: “Don’t believe your lying eyes, believe what we tell you!” Fools.
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Nothing but a commie lib liar.
As they all KNOW that abortion is the deliberate killing of a human, they KNEW that Biden had lost his marbles.
Biden was born with a deficit of marbles.
Actually, I think they’ve gotten to the point where they’ll admit that it’s the deliberate killing of a human. They just won’t admit that it’s the deliberate killing of a human PERSON.
Screw you all. You know why Rogan gets more views for every episode of his podcast than all of you combined? Biden is why. America finally paid attention and saw what you were doing and is appalled. There is no door for you to pick and get your credibility back.
Was it Ben Rhodes who essentially called these “journalists” 27 y.o, no nothings?
They chose not to investigate and report.
Ben Rhodes is a know nothing ahole.
They have zero credibility. They knew Biden’s brain was fried and they were terrified the rest of us would see it as well so they lied and tried gaslighting us. And to this day, they are amazingly incurious about who was actually running the Biden WH.
Willfully blind is ignorance personified. They have zero credibility. None! Zip! Nada! Glad handing each other at the “nerd ball” is just another way to say circle jerk.
They don’t want to learn.
Their motto: Trust, but don’t verify.
Why?
Because they already knew the answer.
Now that Trump and Republicans are in power, the press finds its courage and vows to get tough.
If we decided to be overly forgiving, to grant they they were “deceived” as they claim, think of the extent of their stupidity!!
After all, long before the debate, Biden’s decline was obvious to anyone paying even casual attention to him, his mannerisms, and his actions.
The media who failed to note this decline should resign, if not for outright malfeasance, then for utter incompetence.
Biden’s decline was obvious during the 2020 campaign. Anyone with observation skills already knew that’s why he was being hidden in his basement. It was widely commented about at the time. The pandemic was just an excuse for his basement sequestration.
It went something like this:
Biden’s staff would tell one or two reporters ahead of time he would call on them & would give them the questions to ask. Biden would look down at a card and say, “I’m supposed to call on so and so.” The reporter would then read the question. Then Biden would look down & read the answer off his note card.
And no one was the wiser! Everyone was deceived—except the audience at home who were going, “What the heck is going on?”
Somebody once said “lying, dog-faced pony soldier”. I feel like this belongs here.
With God as my witness, I saw Pony Soldier on the TeeVee what’s on grid on one of the “Old Westerns” channels the night before he uttered such nonsense.
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/106661/john-wayne-movie-featuring-dog-faced-pony-soldier-line
He came up with some real humdingers. My favorite is still his statement to Katie Couric that FDR went on TV to reassure the nation after the stock market crash in 1929.
Now realize he said this while he was VP in 2008. He was a tool but certainly not the sharpest.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/09/biden-garbles-depression-history-012167
He was a tool but certainly not the sharpest.
I usually reverse that. “He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed. But he most certainly is a tool.”
No jail or sentencing.
Let us throw rotten tomatoes while they are held motionless.
Why exactly would a “journalist” be so clueless as to think they have the same role of twitter/that they are supposed to just uncritically regurgitate instead of investigate?
It doesn’t matter if it is journalists uncritically parroting Hamas, uncritically parroting that a senile old man who at one point was openly calling out for someone who was deceased and in clear distress that nobody was responding is not senile, uncritically reporting that America is racist, uncritically reporting that there is some sort of secret conspiracy of cops killing hordes of black men, or that white doctors let black babies die…….
If all you do is regurgitate why should anyone read you?
It also isn’t just a Democrat journalist problem, Joe Rogan promoted Daryl Cooper uncritically which at best is the same as the Democrats and at worst deliberately mainstreaming neo-Nazism.
America very clearly has a culture problem when it comes to what “journalism” is.
They are all collectively not worth a bucket of warm spit. They should be shunned, ridiculed, and laughed at. They should be yelled at and chased out of places of business. No self-restricting person should have anything to do with them. You can’t hate them enough.
They were paid to lie. It is that simple.
Gobs, by Big Pharma and other Big co-conspirators.
Incurious sheep follow lemmings recommendations on how to cross the cliff….
…Anyway.
The 4th estate is actually a 5th Column communist ( I assume indoctrinated at J school) echo chamber. Only the Fox News correspondent was willing to ask tough questions and he was ignored by Biden’s Muppet Head press secretary and ridiculed by the rest of the true believer press corps.
The fact that during Trump’s first term when they tried to bar CNN’s J. Accosta for assaulting a White House intern the federal courts ruled that a White House Press Corps pass was a federal benefit that could only be rescinded with Constitutional due process is further proof that the courts have become tools of the left.. Freedom of the press NEVER required giving access to your enemy. If that was the case then the Biden/Harris refusal to sit for interviews was a Constitutional violation.
At least CNN read the writing on the walk with the second Trump administration and quickly pushed Acosta out before CNN got banned again.
Deceived by their own eyes and ears…
TDS
No one is buying these self-serving and mendacious Dhimmi-crat pukes’ revisionist history and self-absolution.
The vile Dhimmi-crat shills/lapdogs/trained seals/stenographers don’t even possess the honesty necessary to admit that they weren’t deceived by Biden and his handlers/chaperones/caretakers — they eagerly peddled the narrative and carried water, to protect the dotard, specifically, and, the Dhimmi-crat Party and its apparatchiks, broadly.
Also known as the sh*tlib journos’ and professional liars’ dinner.
Goethe said it best: “Man wird nie betrogen. Man betruegt sich selbst.”
Translation: Qne is never deceived. One deceives one’s self.
“We Were Deceived As To Biden Cognitive Decline”
So why should Joe Sixpack ever again listen to ANYTHING you morons have to say, when you not only “missed” what was immediately obvious to him, but called him a hater for insisting on the truth, and that you were lying?
There’s none so blind as those who will not see
OK I hear them about Biden. Now why don’t they admit they also covered up Kamala Harris’ cognitive inability (as in, she never had anything to decline from)?
Reality is their Krypytonite
“We’re not the opposition”. What a bald-faced lie! Turn on any network except fnc and NewsMax and anything to do with Trump will be negative. If it is good news for the country, they will make it bad news for another country. If it saves taxpayers money, they will say good people lost their jobs. They are totally and constantly the opposition.
I live in England and thought it was laughably obvious. He wasn’t the same man in 2020 he was in 2016. By 2024 it was a joke.
I felt sorry for him ; and I was genuinely surprised he survived his presidential term.
He can thank Kamala for that. Best insurance policy anyone ever wrote.
In one sense yes. But in another sense, the opposite. He was supposed to quit early on and let Kamala be promoted. It was all to have President Kamala, and old man Biden was allowed to be nominated over Bernie because they wanted Kamala much more than Bernie, who could not overcome being the wrong sex/race/religion despite all he did for them for decades.
So when Biden refused to quit, Kamala was visibly angry a little bit, then the assassination attempts started. I remember about one at the White House, then the effort to drop a bridge on him in Pittsburgh, when he was scheduled to speak under a bridge in Frick Park. (Biden’s advance found the bridge rigged and dropped it the night before.)
So Biden was protected and, being among the wiliest of politicians (elected to the Senate in his 20’s, he was a prodigy in that cutthroat world) he protected himself, but not protected from the autopen in the last part of his term.
Had the wool pulled over their eyes they did.
Being on Left means never having to say You’re sorry
I suppose if these ‘journalists’ view their role as mere script readers or what the Brits name presenters and the script they are handed to read from is false and they didn’t investigate or question the script…. Then sure they can claim to have been deceived.
Of course that would mean they ain’t journalists seeking objective facts/truth but instead just script reading propagandists doing nothing more than telling the public the portion of the narrative, hand selected by their masters, to be emphasized in that day’s programming/publication. Glad they admit it if only obliquely and for many of them unknowingly b/c they ain’t bright enough to understand this point.
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I think they’re largely intentional conspirators. Let them prove me wrong. They can’t be convicted without the opportunity to testify, and I am a fair person but I do try not to be a pushover.
The term is “newsreader.” Wonderful term, always sorry we didn’t adopt it.
My local major-market newspaper can now be had for $1 a month on-line and television viewership is crashing, yet I still read and hear progressive language used in almost every news story and entertainment offering. .
They still don’t get it.
Their funding comes from other sources, apparently.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
But you keep insisting that was the truth. Eventually, some day, you will have convinced yourself of that.
Baghdad Bob Woodward – the media has that much credibility
With the autopen story out today, it sounds like those “journalists” are claiming ignorance to avoid being criminally charged with conspiracy.
Let them have their day in court.
Can you provide a URL? Search engines are delivering material from March 24, even when constrained to the past day (as if your search parameters cut any ice with them). Even an AI search confirms no new news in the past 24 hours, with the peak being in mid-March.
When conservatives (or maybe others ) say “everyone knows -false.
This lack of what we see as visible problems (in this case Biden’s decline) includes issues even lefties see the same thing – lefties don’t and lefties won’t see the same because they would then know they are a participant in the destruction of our REPUBLIC. 90% negative on Trump and TRUMP STILL comes out on top.
They perpetrated this fraud.
Now they’re playing the victim.
In my entire life, I’ve never seen a lefty take ANY responsibility for their own actions. They never apologize either. And, no, a “non-pology” is never an apology.
Leftists do not believe in responsibility for themselves or most others. Everyone from drug addicts to criminals to terrorists gets off the hook – someone “made them do it”.
The other people who have to take responsibility are their political enemies.