Reporters turned on president only when the lie became impossible to sustain.
The former executive editor of The New York Times gave away the game: The media were in on it.
They helped cover up President Biden’s dramatic cognitive decline and gaslit Americans regarding his mental and physical condition.
In case you just returned from Earth 2, where Mr. Biden is crushing everyone at pickleball, the real Mr. Biden manifested as a confused and tired old man in the first debate of the presidential campaign against Donald Trump on June 27. The media reacted with shock, as if they hadn’t seen any hint of this previously.
In remarks to the news outlet Semafor, former New York Times boss Jill Abramson gently chided the media for not reporting that Mr. Biden was cognitively impaired before he demonstrated it for all the world to see.
“The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up of the degree of the president’s feebleness and his serious physical decline, which may be simply the result of old age,” Ms. Abramson said. “Shame on the White House press corps for not [having] pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the president.”
But then she let out the truth while apparently failing to realize how big her admission was.
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“I worry that too many journalists didn’t try to get the story because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump,” she said.
And there you have it.
That’s a political decision, not a journalistic one. And that makes them campaign operatives, not reporters.
But the worst part is that she gave them a pass on concealing stories to protect one side.
“I get that,” she said.
But then, after offering that absolution, she still pretended that everyone was unaware of what had happened when Mr. Biden unraveled.
“It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden’s debate performance,” Ms. Abramson said.
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