Did the media covering President Biden miss a story that was right in front of them? That's a question being asked in the wake of the president's halting debate performance in the debate with Donald Trump last week.
When “moderates” say there no time to question if Biden is up to it.
Remember theyve literally been saying it for a fucking year now.
Nearly a year ago, in August 2023, the Associated Press-NORC poll found that three-quarters of U.S. adults said that the 81-year-old Biden was too old to effectively serve another four-year term as president. AP-NORC found this February that six in 10 adults were “not very” or “not at all” confident that Biden had the mental capability to serve as president, although the sentiment was roughly the same for his 78-year-old Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
When they say they just found out too, remember they’ve literally been hiding him from the public, literally a tenth of the the news conferences as the last D president.
The 36 news conferences he had given through June 30 were fewer than any president in the same time frame since Ronald Reagan, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project. Biden gave a total of 128 interviews, compared to Donald Trump’s 369 at the same stage of his presidency and 497 by Biden’s former boss, she said.
It’s almost like the billionaire-owned media was busy manufacturing consent and it was going somewhat well for some time.
I mean Biden has had a series of the senility moments caught on tape, but before the presidential debate the billionaire-owned media successfully manufactured consent by telling the voters to ignore their lying eyes. Not all the senior moments were equally bad, so plenty of plausible sounding excuses were generated.
After the presidential debate the reality of Biden’s condition was so blatantly exposed, the consent-making machine panicked and started furiously backtracking.
This situation isn’t a joke because a lot of the billionaires will be negatively affected once Trump becomes King in November. With his King powers Trump can make CNN and MSNBC cease to exist. CNN and MSNBC don’t give two hoots about journalism or about holding power to account (they’d have to hold their own billionaire owners to account then), but they do care massively about their own safety. They are scared now because they no longer believe Biden has a chance.
And all this insanity happened because none of the players in this story trust the democratic process. None of them trust the American people. None of the involved players respect the voters. They all believe they know what’s best for us.
If we had a real open and democratic primary none of this would be happening.
When “moderates” say there no time to question if Biden is up to it.
Remember theyve literally been saying it for a fucking year now.
When they say they just found out too, remember they’ve literally been hiding him from the public, literally a tenth of the the news conferences as the last D president.
It’s almost like the billionaire-owned media was busy manufacturing consent and it was going somewhat well for some time.
I mean Biden has had a series of the senility moments caught on tape, but before the presidential debate the billionaire-owned media successfully manufactured consent by telling the voters to ignore their lying eyes. Not all the senior moments were equally bad, so plenty of plausible sounding excuses were generated.
After the presidential debate the reality of Biden’s condition was so blatantly exposed, the consent-making machine panicked and started furiously backtracking.
This situation isn’t a joke because a lot of the billionaires will be negatively affected once Trump becomes King in November. With his King powers Trump can make CNN and MSNBC cease to exist. CNN and MSNBC don’t give two hoots about journalism or about holding power to account (they’d have to hold their own billionaire owners to account then), but they do care massively about their own safety. They are scared now because they no longer believe Biden has a chance.
And all this insanity happened because none of the players in this story trust the democratic process. None of them trust the American people. None of the involved players respect the voters. They all believe they know what’s best for us.
If we had a real open and democratic primary none of this would be happening.