Rask must get his talking points from this Moran

Posted on: May 20, 2025 at 10:10:03 CT

Hiding the FACT that a sitting president was demonstrating sighns of severe mental and physcal diminishment is "old news" since he is no longer in office. There is no need to understand if, why and how his Cabinet Memebers were derlict in their duties under the 25th Amendment.

It's akin to saying there was no need to continue to understand/investigate Watergate after Nixon resigned.. because.. well... Nixon was no longer POTUS.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-delusional-political-media-is-once-again-missing-the-point-by-obsessing-over-biden-s-health/ar-AA1F5HcN?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=61ef2b50cca3452eb8d77803952d4560&ei=16

Let us be plain. What we are being asked to learn about former president Joe Biden’s last months in office is gossip. It is not political news. Unless you are made of feathers, the “issue” of the former president’s last months in office does not affect your life, or the life of the country, at all. Any attempt to attach it to the results of the 2024 presidential election is speculative, and any attempt to attach it to the 2028 presidential election is flat-out freaking delusional.

Biden has not been president since January. He was replaced by a Pinochet wannabe who has cratered the economy, trashed the separation of powers, and acted out in public crazier than Biden ever did. This is an example of the social media presence of the current president of the United States:

“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?” Trump wrote. “WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION? WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO??? I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter.”

I spent five years at a Murdoch tabloid, so I know gossip when I see it and have no illusions about its place in the media ecosystem. However, what we are seeing now is gossip with an overblown sense of itself. Axios and, inevitably, Tiger Beat on the Potomac, as well as Jake Tapper of CNN—for whom I hold an oft-disappointed sense of respect—are responsible for this phenomenon.

The rest of what the late Senator Gene McCarthy called the ‘birds on the wire’ have flocked to Biden’s decline. Life will go back to normal for the elite political media and their useful idiots in the Democratic Party. They won’t have to think much about assaults on habeas corpus, deportation of tiny cancer patients, destruction of the regulatory safeguards of the federal government, or clear-cutting of American democracy. Game on!

This is not an exaggeration. Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog did us the great favor of running down Tapper’s appearance schedule to hype the book on the end of Biden’s term that he wrote with Alex Thompson, who decided that the ‘scandal’ was his ticket on the glory train. The authors will be entertained by some of the elite of the elite: Maureen Dowd; David Remnick of the New Yorker; two of the Pod Save boys; and David Folkenflik of NPR. And so are they all, honorable men (and lady).

My guess is that we will hear variations on the theme sounded by Thompson at the White House Correspondents Dinner, at which he gave a self-congratulatory address that pumped the ‘scandal’ and himself so full of hot air that he was damned lucky not to float to the ceiling of the ballroom.

“Being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story,” said Thompson. “President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception ... Some people trust us less because of it. We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows. I say this because acknowledging errors builds trust and being defensive about them further erodes it.”

As my grandmother used to say, who the hell is this one when he’s at home? Thompson has broken the story that a White House will withhold adverse health information from the public. This is, of course, news to those people who remember Grover Cleveland’s secret cancer operation, the unspoken agreement not to photograph FDR in his wheelchair, the relative severity of Eisenhower’s heart problems, the staggering medical record of John F. Kennedy, Nixon’s manic boozing during the height of the Watergate crisis, and, in the closest parallel we have, Reagan’s staff’s successful concealment of the fact that he was a symptomatic Alzheimer’s patient for most of his second term.

All of these episodes were subsequently revealed without retrospective material damage to the country's faith in the media. What’s the difference now? We have Axios? We have a truthless renegade White House fairly slavering for distractions and an ambitious press corps willing to deliver them, much of it owned by cowardly men who have surrendered publicly to a president who can’t get from subject to a verb without spraining his ankle and stays up nights raving in ALL CAPS about pop singers? Good thing we all have Alex Thompson to straighten us out. Thanks, Dad.

After a brief spell of performative empathy, the elves are now at work fashioning Biden’s revelation that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer as a new chapter in this ongoing national betrayal. This will be a ‘story’ from now until the midyear elections. Every Democratic candidate will be forced to deal with the ‘cover up.’ Some of them will even play along—which is the real difference between the Reagan and Biden situations. Republicans get their story and stick to it. Democrats get their story and stick it to each other.