What exactly is it that you do here?
On Thursday, that was the question National Review staff writer Jeffrey Blehar wondered of the establishment liberal media given the range of excuses from ignorant to purposeful coverup of not having been more dogged in exposing the President’s failing cognitive state.
He argued that “Joe Biden’s mental decline was no secret to conservatives for the simple reason that each of us had eyes and the ability to use them” while the liberal media were, in his view, purposefully silent since “it was not in the best interests of the Democratic Party to do so, at least as perceived by the ‘herd mind’ of the media” of Washington D.C.:
So what the hell happened to the mainstream media during this entire period? Where were our sentinels of the republic, our tribunes of truth? How could the Fourth Estate, with its eyes forever upon the world of Washington politics, have missed Biden’s advancing mental and physical decrepitude? Why did so many journalists claim they weren’t even suspicious after it all came crashing down in late June?
I have an appealingly simple theory to explain the mystery: They didn’t miss it at all. Everyone knew, and the sorts of people who would have normally pursued these whispers about Biden’s remoteness — obvious enough from his calendar and the behavior of his public minders — simply decided not to because it was not in the best interests of the Democratic Party to do so, at least as perceived by the “herd mind” of the media, the left-tinged blob of assignment editors, investigative reporters, and liberal commentators across Washington.
Do you know how I know this? I know this because back in 2019, when Joe Biden seemed for all the world like a hopelessly boring retread with no chance of winning the 2020 nomination…the New York Times was more than happy to report about Biden’s age. Once he captured the nomination and went into a quasi-hibernative “basement campaign” (timed perfectly to conceal his weakening state), however, that was it for any investigations into that topic.
Blehar later observed the press “want to tell us that they didn’t know” about Biden’s mental incapacitation, yet they were “so eager” after the fateful June debate “to raise the subject when it seemed possible to prevent Joe Biden from winning the nomination, or discourage him from running again,” despite having weeks earlier “act[ed] as Karine Jean-Pierre’s water boys” in the weeks prior when the regime wanted to peddle the “cheap fakes” narrative.
He closed with the other side of the coin, which would be just as disturbing. If some in the press had no idea Biden wasn’t cogent, Blehar said, the question should be asked:
Of what value are these people? If the media professionals really didn’t know — when I could tell, when you could tell, when it was a key concern among voters…then why should we respect them? What would we say it is they do here?
The flip side is, once again, not pretty either: “If the media chose not to explore Biden’s mental decline because of partisan allegiance to the Democrats or dislike of Trump, then they have forfeited their credibility in a devastatingly permanent way.”
To read Blehar’s full story, click here.
