Oh man, the best for last, the complaint that there "wasn't enough reporting on Trump"!! ahhhhaaahahahahahahahahaahhaaa!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Trump has always, I mean always, dominated the news. He lives in msm's head 24/7, since that fateful elevator day for sure, back in 2015.
**NOTE: I believe there’s an error when you say that in February, 2020, the Justice Department released the Hur report, I believe that was February, 2024; Trump was president in Feb. 2020.**
To me, it’s pretty clear Tapper is lying or at the very least fudging the truth when he is telling Kelly that he called Lara Trump right away and apologized (but doesn’t remember
what she said). He sounds just like a little kid who go caught and is denying it.
I do think that a better and even reasonable response from Tapper would have been to say (as he sort of starts to do) that he didn’t realize just how bad Biden’s condition was until after the debate (after all, the people around Biden kept it pretty well hidden), and that he is sorry that he allowed his own partisan biases to influence him into believing that the accusations of mental decline were a Republican op. To me, it’s pretty clear that is what happened with him, and most of the media. (Perhaps it was sooner than just after the debate for Tapper, and we can quibble as to who knew what exactly when, but that the media was kept in the dark for quite some time is indisputable.)
But nobody in the media will admit this, because they will not admit their bias. That’s the real problem here. The Democratic cover-up of Biden’s mental state is certainly troubling, but it could not have succeeded as well as it did without a thoroughly co-opted media.
'that the media was kept in the dark for quite some time is indisputable'
But that is journalism's ostensible job, to shine light into the dark. Not only were they determinately uninterested in doing so, they attacked those who did (like the WSJ).
Really? I'm seeing quite a lot of delusional liberals who dismiss the whole thing. If you aren't seeing that, you need to step outside your bubble once in a while, just to be reminded that there's a whole lot of voters who literally live in a reality that's different than yours.
Great article. I wonder if CNN strongly encourages this book to try and pivot. They are trying to regain some credibility. Tapper always looks to me to be overwhelmed
Either way whatever he and CNN are trying to do ain’t working
I don't think there's any question that CNN is trying to shift the Overton window in an effort to regain some credibility. I bet at least some of the impenetrable Democratic shield against reality will be weakened.
Democrats covering up: understandable because political parties are supposed to be partisan. Media covering up: unforgivable because journalists are not supposed to be partisan.
Thank you, Thacker! The alternate universe everyone is attempting to create, while scurrying to excusing it, is nothing short of insanity. It truly is mortifying to watch in real time. Great piece!
All this handwaving about whether the metal decline was real and was it covered up leaves me pretty cold. I vividly remember watching Biden making personal appeals for money in ads on YouTube in 2019 (yes, 2019), and thought to myself, “They must have filmed multiple takes; this must have been the best take they got,” and realized he was sliding into dementia even then. My expertise on this subject is watching my own parents’ descent into terminal senescence, over years. “There is no way,” I thought in 2019, “This guy can ever be President.”
And of course I was right. He wasn’t President. As eugyppius points out, the Biden Administration was a regency, governed by a cabal of depraved elder abusers, many of them members of his own family, certainly some of the most evil individuals to have ever worked in the White House.
And Tapper and the rest ran cover for these devils. In many ways they still do.
The more we dig, the more we find out that probably the Russians lie less than the rest of the world. Very sad but lies and censorship in the last 5 years in the western world have been much closer to communist and fascist style than anything else.
“If you have thoughts on why someone would spend $124,000 to send their kid to Columbia to be taught journalism by Margaret Sullivan, please comment below.” Brilliant! Made me laugh to tears 😂😂😂
Well let’s see if the injection injuries ever get revealed. What will all of them say then? Not one MSM has touched this tragic story. But mind you the networks are pulling in an awful lot of dough from those constant drug ads. The bottom line is you can’t believe much of anything anymore particularly MSM. Paul is so right, anything that matters to you don’t naively buy into it without looking up different sources.
“If you have thoughts on why someone would spend $124,000 to send their kid to Columbia to be taught journalism by Margaret Sullivan, please comment below.”
The only reason I can think of is that the brainwashing which casts a spell upon an entire generation of progressives is working just as planned. I read somewhere today that Harvard doesn’t teach someone how to think, but only what to think. Same must apply to Columbia and the rest of the Ivy League. A couple of years ago I was part of a protest in Princeton which was honoring Dr Fauci for saving America or some kind of shit like that at one of their graduation events. While we did get some encouragement and support from parents and onlookers, a vast number of attendees got angry at us. They even questioned how anyone could possibly attack the one man who truly understood how to battle a dangerous world altering pandemic. That’s how these folks apply their expensive elitist education and they pass it on to their kids.
This book might serve the useful purpose of shifting the Overton window enough to give liberals permission to question the Saint Biden narrative. (A conspiracist might even imagine this is intentional, and that it's a first step toward a complete reconstruction of the Democratic Party. If so, it would have to have been orchestrated by a relatively small cohort with a lot more brains than the rest of the party has exhibited lately.)
Oh man, the best for last, the complaint that there "wasn't enough reporting on Trump"!! ahhhhaaahahahahahahahahaahhaaa!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Trump has always, I mean always, dominated the news. He lives in msm's head 24/7, since that fateful elevator day for sure, back in 2015.
I laughed at that too. For almost 10 years we've been awash in Trump reporting, much of it overwrought and negative.
I said that as someone who bought into it for years, and still don't like Trump much.
Good article.
**NOTE: I believe there’s an error when you say that in February, 2020, the Justice Department released the Hur report, I believe that was February, 2024; Trump was president in Feb. 2020.**
To me, it’s pretty clear Tapper is lying or at the very least fudging the truth when he is telling Kelly that he called Lara Trump right away and apologized (but doesn’t remember
what she said). He sounds just like a little kid who go caught and is denying it.
I do think that a better and even reasonable response from Tapper would have been to say (as he sort of starts to do) that he didn’t realize just how bad Biden’s condition was until after the debate (after all, the people around Biden kept it pretty well hidden), and that he is sorry that he allowed his own partisan biases to influence him into believing that the accusations of mental decline were a Republican op. To me, it’s pretty clear that is what happened with him, and most of the media. (Perhaps it was sooner than just after the debate for Tapper, and we can quibble as to who knew what exactly when, but that the media was kept in the dark for quite some time is indisputable.)
But nobody in the media will admit this, because they will not admit their bias. That’s the real problem here. The Democratic cover-up of Biden’s mental state is certainly troubling, but it could not have succeeded as well as it did without a thoroughly co-opted media.
Yes. Thank you!
'that the media was kept in the dark for quite some time is indisputable'
But that is journalism's ostensible job, to shine light into the dark. Not only were they determinately uninterested in doing so, they attacked those who did (like the WSJ).
"...But Nobody Forgets Tapper’s Cover-up Complicity"
Really? I'm seeing quite a lot of delusional liberals who dismiss the whole thing. If you aren't seeing that, you need to step outside your bubble once in a while, just to be reminded that there's a whole lot of voters who literally live in a reality that's different than yours.
Nothing they say will matter until they admit, publicly, what everyone knows: they did this because they wanted Trump to lose.
I’m pretty sure Margaret Sullivan’s “journalism” class is a master lesson in how to dress up propaganda as news.
Great article. I wonder if CNN strongly encourages this book to try and pivot. They are trying to regain some credibility. Tapper always looks to me to be overwhelmed
Either way whatever he and CNN are trying to do ain’t working
I don't think there's any question that CNN is trying to shift the Overton window in an effort to regain some credibility. I bet at least some of the impenetrable Democratic shield against reality will be weakened.
Democrats covering up: understandable because political parties are supposed to be partisan. Media covering up: unforgivable because journalists are not supposed to be partisan.
Thank you, Thacker! The alternate universe everyone is attempting to create, while scurrying to excusing it, is nothing short of insanity. It truly is mortifying to watch in real time. Great piece!
All this handwaving about whether the metal decline was real and was it covered up leaves me pretty cold. I vividly remember watching Biden making personal appeals for money in ads on YouTube in 2019 (yes, 2019), and thought to myself, “They must have filmed multiple takes; this must have been the best take they got,” and realized he was sliding into dementia even then. My expertise on this subject is watching my own parents’ descent into terminal senescence, over years. “There is no way,” I thought in 2019, “This guy can ever be President.”
And of course I was right. He wasn’t President. As eugyppius points out, the Biden Administration was a regency, governed by a cabal of depraved elder abusers, many of them members of his own family, certainly some of the most evil individuals to have ever worked in the White House.
And Tapper and the rest ran cover for these devils. In many ways they still do.
The more we dig, the more we find out that probably the Russians lie less than the rest of the world. Very sad but lies and censorship in the last 5 years in the western world have been much closer to communist and fascist style than anything else.
Am I going to have to read the whole damn book to discover whether Tapper lays *any* of the coverup blame at the media's feet?
“If you have thoughts on why someone would spend $124,000 to send their kid to Columbia to be taught journalism by Margaret Sullivan, please comment below.” Brilliant! Made me laugh to tears 😂😂😂
Well let’s see if the injection injuries ever get revealed. What will all of them say then? Not one MSM has touched this tragic story. But mind you the networks are pulling in an awful lot of dough from those constant drug ads. The bottom line is you can’t believe much of anything anymore particularly MSM. Paul is so right, anything that matters to you don’t naively buy into it without looking up different sources.
“If you have thoughts on why someone would spend $124,000 to send their kid to Columbia to be taught journalism by Margaret Sullivan, please comment below.”
The only reason I can think of is that the brainwashing which casts a spell upon an entire generation of progressives is working just as planned. I read somewhere today that Harvard doesn’t teach someone how to think, but only what to think. Same must apply to Columbia and the rest of the Ivy League. A couple of years ago I was part of a protest in Princeton which was honoring Dr Fauci for saving America or some kind of shit like that at one of their graduation events. While we did get some encouragement and support from parents and onlookers, a vast number of attendees got angry at us. They even questioned how anyone could possibly attack the one man who truly understood how to battle a dangerous world altering pandemic. That’s how these folks apply their expensive elitist education and they pass it on to their kids.
This book might serve the useful purpose of shifting the Overton window enough to give liberals permission to question the Saint Biden narrative. (A conspiracist might even imagine this is intentional, and that it's a first step toward a complete reconstruction of the Democratic Party. If so, it would have to have been orchestrated by a relatively small cohort with a lot more brains than the rest of the party has exhibited lately.)