After the Biden Revelations, of What Value Is the Mainstream Political Media?

[excalibur]

They're of no value whatsoever.

As I have long stated, they are whores for the Democratic Party, nothing more.

No one should ever trust them, we should all shun them, as more and more are doing.

Traitors to the Constitution is what they are.

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When did you first figure out that something was wrong with Joe Biden — seriously wrong, not just in the “bit older, bit slower” way, but in that genuine “oh man, this guy ain’t gonna make it” way?​

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I know many of our readers will be eager to claim the earliest date possible, because we’ve all heartily loathed the man as president for four years, and I doubt any of us liked his vice presidency either. (A tip of the cap to any keen-memoried old-timer who nominates 1987 as the year when Joe Biden actually first truly “lost it.”)​

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For my part, it came as an instantaneous, shuddering revelation when I saw him address the nation on August 16, 2021, as he inattentively slurred through his eagerly awaited Afghanistan withdrawal speech. I’ve already told this story once — in one of the most alarmingly Cassandra-like pieces I will ever write, one I specifically recall being laughed off by many of my more left-leaning acquaintances as “right-wing fever-swamp nonsense.” Permit me an excerpt:​

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Instead it was Biden’s demeanor that shocked me: slurred words, a sleepy and distracted tone suggesting periodic loss of mental focus, and his visibly withered face and slump-shouldered bearing. The whole time, I was cringing with an embarrassed empathy that comes not from politics but rather from that human reserve of mercy and shame we all share. He’d already looked slow and out of it during the (abbreviated) 2020 campaign, but his rapid slide since only a year before jarred me. It was ugly and unfortunate to see him looking lost and frail during the speech — the ricketiness of our president revealed to the world, sacrificing not only his own dignity but our national dignity as well. I wanted to turn away, to turn it off. It hurt to watch. It was at that moment that I concluded Joe Biden wasn’t going to be his party’s nominee for president in 2024.

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Keep in mind, I wrote the above piece on June 18, 2024 — a week before the presidential debate that ended Biden’s career and a full month before it technically became official. (I’m no psychic; the professional term of art for what I did there is called “great timing.”) But the point is that I knew he was falling apart long ago. You readers probably knew he was falling apart long ago. Jim Geraghty has been pounding the drum about this literally since that fateful day in August of 2021.​

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I know this because the pressure to not venture the topic was immense, and I saw it come from within the media, not just from the Biden administration. In February of this year Ezra Klein published a piece in the New York Times calling for Biden to drop his reelection bid. Klein pointed not just to his unpopularity but to his obvious decay as well. It was a daring thing for a mainstream liberal columnist to write, and Klein predictably paid the price for his daring, being pilloried up and down the halls of media commentary by the Left so relentlessly that he was forced to write a traumatized apology after Biden’s hectoring State of the Union address a month later, saying, “I’m sorry; he should stay in the race.” Now, of course, he says he never really changed his opinion. He should have stuck to his guns so we wouldn’t have to wonder.​

​

The media want to tell us that they didn’t know? If they didn’t know, then why were they so eager to raise the subject when it seemed possible to prevent Joe Biden from winning the nomination, or discourage him from running again, but curiously not afterward? Why then such servile eagerness to act as Karine Jean-Pierre’s water boys near the end of the entire debacle, when the Biden administration was desperately selling the “cheap fakes” PR push in between trying to hand-wave away Hollywood fundraiser gaffes? (The term “cheap fakes” was coined by the media, not by Jean-Pierre.) In fact, what better proof do we need of the media’s purely instrumental interest in Biden’s mental disintegration than the fact that once it became impossible to conceal after the debate, they flooded the zone with coverage to push Biden out of the race, but once he was gone promptly never discussed him again? (This led me to point out in frustration several times during the campaign that a mental invalid was still president of the United States.)​

​

Let us take the media professionals at their word, that they really had no idea things were this bad with Joe Biden until the sudden meltdown of the debate. Let us take them at their word that the revelations of the Wall Street Journal‘s piece about his concealed collapse took them by complete surprise. If that is the case, I end with a sincere question: Of what value are these people, then? If the media professionals really didn’t know — when I could tell, when you could tell, when it was a key concern among voters — if every media organ was so flat-footed, incurious, or flummoxed by White House smoke and mirrors that none of them ever thought to seriously investigate whether the president of the United States might secretly be in the midst of massive mental collapse, then why should we respect them? What would we say it is they do here? What are they bringing to the table when they are missing the biggest story of the last four years, one hiding in plain sight?​

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After the Biden Revelations, of What Value Is the Mainstream Political Media? | National Review

If the media chose not to explore Biden’s mental decline because of partisan allegiance, then they have permanently forfeited their credibility.

www.nationalreview.com

 

[Oddball]

The psyop is up.

 

[excalibur]

The psyop is up.

And the MSM circles the drain.

 

[Rambunctious]

And the media and republicans just sit back and watch a senile man make pardons?... pardons for some really bad people... I would check for an Obama connection in each and every one of them...

 

[Independent thinker]

They're of no value whatsoever.

As I have long stated, they are whores for the Democratic Party, nothing more.

No one should ever trust them, we should all shun them, as more and more are doing.

Traitors to the Constitution is what they are.

​

When did you first figure out that something was wrong with Joe Biden — seriously wrong, not just in the “bit older, bit slower” way, but in that genuine “oh man, this guy ain’t gonna make it” way?​

​

I know many of our readers will be eager to claim the earliest date possible, because we’ve all heartily loathed the man as president for four years, and I doubt any of us liked his vice presidency either. (A tip of the cap to any keen-memoried old-timer who nominates 1987 as the year when Joe Biden actually first truly “lost it.”)​

​

For my part, it came as an instantaneous, shuddering revelation when I saw him address the nation on August 16, 2021, as he inattentively slurred through his eagerly awaited Afghanistan withdrawal speech. I’ve already told this story once — in one of the most alarmingly Cassandra-like pieces I will ever write, one I specifically recall being laughed off by many of my more left-leaning acquaintances as “right-wing fever-swamp nonsense.” Permit me an excerpt:​

​

​

​

Keep in mind, I wrote the above piece on June 18, 2024 — a week before the presidential debate that ended Biden’s career and a full month before it technically became official. (I’m no psychic; the professional term of art for what I did there is called “great timing.”) But the point is that I knew he was falling apart long ago. You readers probably knew he was falling apart long ago. Jim Geraghty has been pounding the drum about this literally since that fateful day in August of 2021.​

​

...​

​

I know this because the pressure to not venture the topic was immense, and I saw it come from within the media, not just from the Biden administration. In February of this year Ezra Klein published a piece in the New York Times calling for Biden to drop his reelection bid. Klein pointed not just to his unpopularity but to his obvious decay as well. It was a daring thing for a mainstream liberal columnist to write, and Klein predictably paid the price for his daring, being pilloried up and down the halls of media commentary by the Left so relentlessly that he was forced to write a traumatized apology after Biden’s hectoring State of the Union address a month later, saying, “I’m sorry; he should stay in the race.” Now, of course, he says he never really changed his opinion. He should have stuck to his guns so we wouldn’t have to wonder.​

​

The media want to tell us that they didn’t know? If they didn’t know, then why were they so eager to raise the subject when it seemed possible to prevent Joe Biden from winning the nomination, or discourage him from running again, but curiously not afterward? Why then such servile eagerness to act as Karine Jean-Pierre’s water boys near the end of the entire debacle, when the Biden administration was desperately selling the “cheap fakes” PR push in between trying to hand-wave away Hollywood fundraiser gaffes? (The term “cheap fakes” was coined by the media, not by Jean-Pierre.) In fact, what better proof do we need of the media’s purely instrumental interest in Biden’s mental disintegration than the fact that once it became impossible to conceal after the debate, they flooded the zone with coverage to push Biden out of the race, but once he was gone promptly never discussed him again? (This led me to point out in frustration several times during the campaign that a mental invalid was still president of the United States.)​

​

Let us take the media professionals at their word, that they really had no idea things were this bad with Joe Biden until the sudden meltdown of the debate. Let us take them at their word that the revelations of the Wall Street Journal‘s piece about his concealed collapse took them by complete surprise. If that is the case, I end with a sincere question: Of what value are these people, then? If the media professionals really didn’t know — when I could tell, when you could tell, when it was a key concern among voters — if every media organ was so flat-footed, incurious, or flummoxed by White House smoke and mirrors that none of them ever thought to seriously investigate whether the president of the United States might secretly be in the midst of massive mental collapse, then why should we respect them? What would we say it is they do here? What are they bringing to the table when they are missing the biggest story of the last four years, one hiding in plain sight?​

​

...​

After the Biden Revelations, of What Value Is the Mainstream Political Media? | National Review

If the media chose not to explore Biden’s mental decline because of partisan allegiance, then they have permanently forfeited their credibility.

www.nationalreview.com

The truth is, even MSNBC has it's value -

to the blue kool aid drinkers.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And the MSM circles the drain.

That's What Happens When They Work for the Dranocrats

 

[hadit]

They're of no value whatsoever.

As I have long stated, they are whores for the Democratic Party, nothing more.

No one should ever trust them, we should all shun them, as more and more are doing.

Traitors to the Constitution is what they are.

​

When did you first figure out that something was wrong with Joe Biden — seriously wrong, not just in the “bit older, bit slower” way, but in that genuine “oh man, this guy ain’t gonna make it” way?​

​

I know many of our readers will be eager to claim the earliest date possible, because we’ve all heartily loathed the man as president for four years, and I doubt any of us liked his vice presidency either. (A tip of the cap to any keen-memoried old-timer who nominates 1987 as the year when Joe Biden actually first truly “lost it.”)​

​

For my part, it came as an instantaneous, shuddering revelation when I saw him address the nation on August 16, 2021, as he inattentively slurred through his eagerly awaited Afghanistan withdrawal speech. I’ve already told this story once — in one of the most alarmingly Cassandra-like pieces I will ever write, one I specifically recall being laughed off by many of my more left-leaning acquaintances as “right-wing fever-swamp nonsense.” Permit me an excerpt:​

​

​

​

Keep in mind, I wrote the above piece on June 18, 2024 — a week before the presidential debate that ended Biden’s career and a full month before it technically became official. (I’m no psychic; the professional term of art for what I did there is called “great timing.”) But the point is that I knew he was falling apart long ago. You readers probably knew he was falling apart long ago. Jim Geraghty has been pounding the drum about this literally since that fateful day in August of 2021.​

​

...​

​

I know this because the pressure to not venture the topic was immense, and I saw it come from within the media, not just from the Biden administration. In February of this year Ezra Klein published a piece in the New York Times calling for Biden to drop his reelection bid. Klein pointed not just to his unpopularity but to his obvious decay as well. It was a daring thing for a mainstream liberal columnist to write, and Klein predictably paid the price for his daring, being pilloried up and down the halls of media commentary by the Left so relentlessly that he was forced to write a traumatized apology after Biden’s hectoring State of the Union address a month later, saying, “I’m sorry; he should stay in the race.” Now, of course, he says he never really changed his opinion. He should have stuck to his guns so we wouldn’t have to wonder.​

​

The media want to tell us that they didn’t know? If they didn’t know, then why were they so eager to raise the subject when it seemed possible to prevent Joe Biden from winning the nomination, or discourage him from running again, but curiously not afterward? Why then such servile eagerness to act as Karine Jean-Pierre’s water boys near the end of the entire debacle, when the Biden administration was desperately selling the “cheap fakes” PR push in between trying to hand-wave away Hollywood fundraiser gaffes? (The term “cheap fakes” was coined by the media, not by Jean-Pierre.) In fact, what better proof do we need of the media’s purely instrumental interest in Biden’s mental disintegration than the fact that once it became impossible to conceal after the debate, they flooded the zone with coverage to push Biden out of the race, but once he was gone promptly never discussed him again? (This led me to point out in frustration several times during the campaign that a mental invalid was still president of the United States.)​

​

Let us take the media professionals at their word, that they really had no idea things were this bad with Joe Biden until the sudden meltdown of the debate. Let us take them at their word that the revelations of the Wall Street Journal‘s piece about his concealed collapse took them by complete surprise. If that is the case, I end with a sincere question: Of what value are these people, then? If the media professionals really didn’t know — when I could tell, when you could tell, when it was a key concern among voters — if every media organ was so flat-footed, incurious, or flummoxed by White House smoke and mirrors that none of them ever thought to seriously investigate whether the president of the United States might secretly be in the midst of massive mental collapse, then why should we respect them? What would we say it is they do here? What are they bringing to the table when they are missing the biggest story of the last four years, one hiding in plain sight?​

​

...​

After the Biden Revelations, of What Value Is the Mainstream Political Media? | National Review

If the media chose not to explore Biden’s mental decline because of partisan allegiance, then they have permanently forfeited their credibility.

www.nationalreview.com

You weren't supposed to ask that question.

 

[d0gbreath]

There's plenty of right-wing media to masturbate to.

 

[TimFitz]

And the MSM circles the drain.

Yeas, the failure of the ¥marketplace of ideas” is on full display.

Conservative media, podcasts and social media have abandoned any pretense of reporting news accurately or adhering to any sort of journalistic standards. And definately not ethics.

Conservative media is full of made up nonsense, lies, Russian propoganda, and political spin.

It paints the important business of running the nation as a reality show for the entertainment of the casually interested.

It is no secret that the right wing audience continually scores as the least well informed cohort of all.

Without the inconvenience of facts, right wing media is largely political marketing, not news.

Facts don’t matter. only eyeballs.

 

[WEATHER53]

Media no longer reports occurrent events which is defined as News
Instead they create fake agendas helpful to lying lib loons and then correct themselves three weeks later on page 33.

 

[E. Pluribus]

I don't even believe the media's reporting of the weather anymore. "150 million people are in the path of blah blah blah."

 

[hadit]

Yeas, the failure of the ¥marketplace of ideas” is on full display.

Conservative media, podcasts and social media have abandoned any pretense of reporting news accurately or adhering to any sort of journalistic standards. And definately not ethics.

Conservative media is full of made up nonsense, lies, Russian propoganda, and political spin.

It paints the important business of running the nation as a reality show for the entertainment of the casually interested.

It is no secret that the right wing audience continually scores as the least well informed cohort of all.

Without the inconvenience of facts, right wing media is largely political marketing, not news.

Facts don’t matter. only eyeballs.

Cool story, bruh. Needs more dragons.

 

[TimFitz]

Media no longer reports occurrent events which is defined as News
Instead they create fake agendas helpful to lying lib loons and then correct themselves three weeks later on page 33.

Conservative media, and the right wing social media zoo don’t.

Facts don’t matter to right wingers. Fox just paid nearly a billion dollars for deliberately lying to its audience.

And the audience came right back for more of the same.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

And the MSM circles the drain.

excalibur loses to the dark knight again

 

[WEATHER53]

Conservative media, and the right wing social media zoo don’t.

Facts don’t matter to right wingers. Fox just paid nearly a billion dollars for deliberately lying to its audience.

And the audience came right back for more of the same.

Media is 90% liberal and you all Once Again have crafted a non existent to cover for your inadequacies

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Conservatives keep losing the cred game

 

[hadit]

Conservative media, and the right wing social media zoo don’t.

Facts don’t matter to right wingers. Fox just paid nearly a billion dollars for deliberately lying to its audience.

And the audience came right back for more of the same.

Cool story, bro. Needs more dragons.

 

[Godboy]

Conservative media, and the right wing social media zoo don’t.

Facts don’t matter to right wingers. Fox just paid nearly a billion dollars for deliberately lying to its audience.

And the audience came right back for more of the same.

Right wing media has been right about almost EVERYTHING for the past 4 years. The opposite is true for left wing media and democrats in general. Your reputation is attrocious, which is why Trump had a landslide victory.

 

[TimFitz]

Media is 90% liberal and you all Once Again have crafted a non existent to cover for your inadequacies

That’s odd. Because the rest of the Trumpsters on this thread are yelling that media is dead.

 

[TimFitz]

Right wing media has been right about almost EVERYTHING for the past 4 years. The opposite is true for left wing media and democrats in general. Your reputation is attrocious, which is why Trump had a landslide victory.

That isn’t even remotely true.