As predictable as the sun rising in the East: the media’s silence in the face of President Joe Biden’s evident cognitive decline is met with a deluge of books, by some of those same media types, chronicling that decline in detail.
This helps explain the rationale behind this weird exchange between CNN’s Jake Tapper (co-author with Axios’ Alex Thompson of “Original Sin”, to be released next month) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, wherein he presses Walz on whether Biden running for re-election was a mistake:
Having previously dismissed questions about Biden's mental decline as a conspiracy theory, Jake Tapper now has a book to sell, taking multiple passes at Tampon Tim Walz on acknowledging Biden's decline and decision to run for reelection as "a mistake". Walz caves on the third… pic.twitter.com/PYQbPoI5KE
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 6, 2025
CNN STATE OF THE UNION
4/6/25
9:30 AM
JAKE TAPPER: Well, what do you make of the criticism that one of the reasons why your party was so resoundingly rejected last November is because Democrats were gaslighting the country, saying saying that inflation was not a big deal, heralding Bidennomics. Not only Biden, but Kamala Harris was heralding Bidennomics pretending that there wasn't a problem at the border. And then fundamentally, this idea that President Biden was up for another four years of the job while Americans in poll after poll for year after year, were saying he's too old to do the job, your party stood against all of those things.
TIM WALZ: Look, Joe Biden coming in and doing Covid and being a governor through Covid did, did, did a hell of a job. But I think one of the things that we didn't do was, is we assumed that we said and it was true that we were going to have a soft landing and our economy was better than the rest of the world. Better for who? Better for the working class, who was saying groceries were- were too expensive as they are now and going up? They got to see us talk about things- again, I go back to this: don't talk about food insecurity or housing type of issues. Talk about people being hungry and wondering where they're going to live, or about their children's future, about real security. And so I think your question is spot on. I think we got intellectualized on this. I think the fact of the matter is, Joe Biden did soft-land the economy. He did usher us through CCovid. None of us are saying we should be soft on the border, but we allow a vacuum. And Donald Trump fills it- the 800 pound gorilla, and their narrative starts to stick. And we look weak. We look weak like we don't care. We look like we- look, Jake. I'm not going to say, you know, we need to do is- we need to just arrest people and ship them to El Salvador. No, we need to do invest the money on border. We need to make sure that we have the judges necessary to adjudicate things faster. We need to make sure if you're going to be in this country, you're legally. And when you are, you're going to be uplifted, celebrated, and part of this great American tapestry. We didn't do that. And then they- it fills them. They'll find the example that is horrific, where you have someone who's not here legally and they commit a crime that is horrific. But we don't do a good job of telling that.
TAPPER: Don't you think your party needs to acknowledge that President Biden was not up for the job of running for reelection, and that this was a major mistake by the Democrat- ?
WALZ: He made that decision.
TAPPER: I know, but you all went along with…
WALZ: He made that decision.
TAPPER: …the idea that he was up for it and he wasn't. And everybody saw it. And the country rejected it.
WALZ: Yeah, well, I…look. History’ll tell us to go back on that. That- that could very well be the case, Jake.
Jake Tapper was one of the chief pushers of “Biden has a stutter” as cover for the decline that was obvious to the rest of the world, 2022 line of questioning notwithstanding. Tapper’s most infamous instance of sycophancy is, of course, his exchange with Lara Trump on this very issue:
Seems like a good time to remind everyone that in 2020 Jake Tapper, first, accused me of making fun of people with a stutter (an atrocious accusation) and then attempted to shut me down and ended our interview when I tried to warn people of Joe Biden’s very obvious cognitive… pic.twitter.com/ZOxSGQP13J
— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) June 27, 2024
The rest of the media isn’t doing any better. Legacy Sunday shows have given the cold shoulder to Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’s “Fight”, which covers this same ground. In fact, Allen was booked on last week’s Meet the Press and had the book repeatedly plugged by host Kristen Welker, without ever getting to discuss the book itself.
In a sense, it is understandable that the media would refuse to cover these books and their underlying subject matter. Doing so would further implicate them as co-conspirators in the greatest fraud perpetrated upon the American people. Furthermore, it would force them to find the answer to the question that burns in everyone’s minds upon learning the extent of Biden’s impairment: who was actually running the country?
Tapper’s pro forma exercise with Walz was little more than adding to the long con.
