Re: Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix

On 2025-05-19 5:02 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

With just days to go before the release of "Original Sin" -- a book exploring
former President Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline from Jake Tapper (CNN)
and Alex Thompson (Axios) -- everyone on the Sunday political shows was
talking about Biden, who knew what, and when they knew it.
 For those who don't spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television --
and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week's worth of
network and cable news media spin -- The Daily Wire has compiled a short
summary of what you may have missed.
 If one were to simply watch those interviews cold, not having lived through
four years of a Biden presidency or seen dozens of speeches and interviews
even from midway through his single term, one might be inclined to believe
the pundits and elected Democrats when they insisted that Biden was
absolutely fine at least until his disaster of a televised debate with
President Donald Trump -- and, according to at least one, he might even still
be fine.
 But Democrats and pundits said those things to an audience made up of
Americans who did watch Biden as he repeatedly got lost on stage, tripped up
the stairs of Air Force One, alternately shouted and whispered at awkward
times, and lost his train of thought on a regular basis. Still, they
committed to the narrative -- Biden was definitely at his best until maybe
the debate, and there was no reason for anyone to suggest otherwise or
believe that anyone was covering up Biden's condition.
 On ABC's "This Week," Rep. Ro Khanna insisted that there was no cover-up, but
also said that the people who had been closest to President Biden during the
last year or so of his presidency owed the American people "an explanation --
but he did not clarify why they needed to explain if they were not covering
anything up.
 "It's painfully obvious President Biden should not have run," Khanna said.
  "It's painfully obvious President Biden should not have run."
  Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said there wasn't a cover-up of former
Pres. Biden mental fitness ahead of the 2024 election, but added
those close to Biden and his advisers "owe an explanation."
https://t.co/MTbOVJxR88 pic.twitter.com/9UJQqpL4gF
  -- This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 18, 2025
 During a panel discussion later on in the broadcast, former Democratic
National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile claimed that since she had lost a
step or two with age, it was totally fine for the same thing to have happened
to Biden.
 "I'm going to stick by Joe Biden. And look, we all -- I don't have the pep in
my step that I used to have," she said.
  On questions of former Pres. Biden's mental fitness ahead of the 2024
election, former DNC chair @DonnaBrazile says, "I'm going to stick
by Joe Biden. And look, we all -- I don't have the pep in my step
that I used to have."https://t.co/KJmZwLyqkW
pic.twitter.com/yPGHteC3gZ
  -- This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 18, 2025
 Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pushed back,
noting that conservatives had been repeatedly mocked and gaslighted -- not to
mention shut down by legacy media hosts -- when they stated the obvious about
the president's declining faculties.
 "People were put to shame -- me and others out there -- that talked about Joe
Biden's mental acuity ... The fact is they were managing his decline in a
nursing home in the White House," he said.
  Former RNC chair @Reince Priebus: "People were put to shame -- me and
others out there -- that talked about Joe Biden's mental acuity ...
The fact is they were managing his decline in a nursing home in the
White House." https://t.co/mEq24OQYpx pic.twitter.com/glQtYP9iwY
  -- This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 18, 2025
 On CBS News' "Face the Nation," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) took time out
from defending criminal illegal alien gang members to address the recently
released audio from Biden's interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur
-- which he said shed light on a problem that no one had been aware of at the
time.
 "Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again, we would do
things differently," Van Hollen said. "I think we can acknowledge that this
was a -- people overlooked a serious problem or were just not aware."
  "Hindsight is 20/20," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says of the audio
tapes that have been released of then-President Biden's interview
with special counsel Robert Hur, highlighting Biden's memory lapses
at the time.
  "Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again,...
pic.twitter.com/iITJ2PC9aH
  -- Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) May 18, 2025
 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took a similar approach on NBC's "Meet the Press,"
saying that Democrats might have encouraged Biden to exit the 2024
presidential race sooner if only they had known. Murphy also said that
Democrats had been wrong to brush off voters' concerns about Biden's acuity
during the 2024 election cycle.
  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy
(D-Conn.) says that former President Biden should have exited the
2024 race earlier as newly released audio tapes renew concerns over
Biden's health and fitness while in office. https://t.co/KU1cqLKcHR
pic.twitter.com/mTJHsYG5rI
  -- Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) May 18, 2025
 Rep. James Clyburn took things to a whole different level on CNN's "State of
the Union," telling anchor Jake Tapper that he wasn't even sure Biden would
be incapable of serving a second term in the White House.
 "Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still think that,
but I don't know that," he said.
  .@RepJamesClyburn on whether he still believes President Biden could
have served another term: "Yes, I thought that back then. I still
think that, but I don't know that." pic.twitter.com/hfRtH5REyl
  -- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025
 As to Biden's disastrous debate performance, Clyburn continued to play
defense. "Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a
condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which
one was true," he claimed.
  .@RepJamesClyburn reflects on Biden's disastrous 2024 debate
performance: "Whether or not that was just an incident or whether
that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way
of knowing which one was true." pic.twitter.com/Sso7mSltX0
  -- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025
 Van Jones and David Axelrod were less magnanimous to Biden, his White House,
and the party that enabled him.
 "There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this
Republic," Jones said.
 "I blame the people around him," Axelrod added. "Real loyalty demanded that
they say, 'Mr. President, it's just not there and it's not in your interest'
[to run again]."
  Longtime Democratic strategists react to new reporting that top
Biden aides hid signs of decline from the public.@VanJones68: "There
are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against
this Republic."@davidaxelrod: "I blame the people around him... real
loyalty... pic.twitter.com/Obz2wpk3Jm
  -- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025
 

Is it too late to charge Dr. Jill with elder abuse?
I don't suppose there's anything that can be done legally about the media lies about Biden being sharp as a tack but that probably doesn't matter. We know now that they are shameless liars and their credibility has suffered a well-earned decline. They are surely aware of that as their ratings/sales fall ever further.
I don't see much of an effort to clean up their acts either: they still seem determined to gaslight the public with yet more of the same hysteria that they greeted every word and action uttered by Trump and his people in his first term. They only calm down when a Democrat is in the White House and they can go into full-time fluffer mode.
It's fine though. They are destroying themselves so here's hoping they're completely irrelevant in the near future.
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Rhino