If you think journalists sit around talking about the failures of other journalists, you are correct! Perhaps no more than in the past two years, when watching the chattering classes and their publications soft pedal President Biden’s mental and physical decline and/or tell people who grew increasingly alarmed that they were liars, in the bag for Trump, deep fakers, “what are you, a doctor?” etc. etc.
I would like to say there is succor for those of us who insisted, in print and on podcasts, that the president was failing and, as a duty to the American people and a kindness to Biden himself, this needed to acknowledged, but there is not. There is some contempt, which I think it deserved. It is interesting to try to figure out why, for instance, Biden senior advisor Mike Donilon agreed, in 2024, to help Biden run his reelection campaign. (Does his asking for, and receiving, $4 million make it any clearer?) With the release this week of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin (which I listened to on audio - Tapper narrates - and recommend), you may already be marinating in some of the details. It’s scummy, and it’s sad.
Thompson was reporting on Biden’s failings early and often. Did his fellow pressman herald his doing so? Wait hahahahaha…
Drew Holden is another journalist who cited the press’s failings when it came to bringing clear eyes to whatever was going on with Biden. Was it tribalism? Job security? An anybody-but-Trump attitude that had journalists prizing ideology over being frank with citizens? A $4 million payday?
In our short discussion, Drew and I cover the above, as well as the sliming of Robert Hur after he wrote Biden was “an elderly man with a poor memory,” the delusions the Biden family have been pushing for decades, and whether anyone is going to apologize to the American people - who knew what they were seeing - for shoving the wrong stories down our throats… and are still shoving. (The timing of announcing Biden’s cancer diagnosis, anyone?)
Follow Drew on Twitter https://x.com/DrewHolden360, subscribe to his Substack, Holden Court.
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