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Posted on: May 20, 2025 at 10:47:50 CT
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Good morning,
At risk of alienating even more of my dear readers, I would like to respond to the many emails I've received over the last 24 hours condemning me for my commentary on Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. Some days I can respond to everybody, other days I cannot and therefore must do it here.
Biden's physical and mental decline in office and its cover up by those around him is a legitimate scandal worthy of inquisition. It is not gossip, it's not "beating a dead horse," it's not in poor taste, and it does not detract from the many warranted criticisms of the current administration. We're talking about the presidency of the United States, the most important job on the planet. I am going to repeat this until I am led out of Newsweek HQ in a straightjacket: politicians work for, and answer to, you and me. They are not above reproach, even when they are of ill health.
As I said, I am not an oncologist. But Zeke Emanuel is, and he went on Morning Joe to say it was highly unlikely that Biden went from being cancer free to bone metastasis in the span of a couple of months. He very likely had serious cancer throughout his presidency, per Zeke. That means either it went unscreened or it was covered up. It was also noted somewhere, I forget where, that Bush, Obama and Trump all had references to their PSA (prostate-specific antigen) tests in the medical records released by their administrations, while Biden did not. Make of that what you will.
So look, is it possible that Biden was just diagnosed with an advanced cancer this weekend and was, up until last week, a fit and healthy 82-year-old, as his team previously assured us? Sure, I suppose it is possible, in the same way it is possible I will get engaged to Dua Lipa. But unfortunately Biden has not earned our benefit of the doubt here, given what we know about those around him and their insistence he was fit to be the commander-in-chief until he was 86 even without stage 4 cancer.
The reason why this matters is because it is downstream of the ur-problem of contemporary American politics: nobody believes anybody anymore because we are constantly being lied to. Biden's totally with it, even though he doesn't seem to know what year it is. Tariffs aren't taxes. Due process doesn't apply if you're not a citizen. Inflation is good, actually. J6 was a peaceful protest.
When you see polls showing the media is less trusted than even loathed members of Congress, when voters demand open primaries and don't get them, when social media algorithms and idiots with big audiences promote opinions like, hey, maybe Hitler was just misunderstood, when sitting presidents refuse to concede an election they obviously lost, all of this—all of it—is destroying our body politic. And there is a direct line between this nihilism and collapse in institutional trust to someone like Donald Trump getting elected not once, but twice. This is something we need to reckon with as a country.
So that is why the Biden story continues to be newsworthy. There's plenty of other news I'd rather discuss, but it's important to me that I clarify my thoughts on this.
Good morning,
At risk of alienating even more of my dear readers, I would like to respond to the many emails I've received over the last 24 hours condemning me for my commentary on Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. Some days I can respond to everybody, other days I cannot and therefore must do it here.
Biden's physical and mental decline in office and its cover up by those around him is a legitimate scandal worthy of inquisition. It is not gossip, it's not "beating a dead horse," it's not in poor taste, and it does not detract from the many warranted criticisms of the current administration. We're talking about the presidency of the United States, the most important job on the planet. I am going to repeat this until I am led out of Newsweek HQ in a straightjacket: politicians work for, and answer to, you and me. They are not above reproach, even when they are of ill health.
As I said, I am not an oncologist. But Zeke Emanuel is, and he went on Morning Joe to say it was highly unlikely that Biden went from being cancer free to bone metastasis in the span of a couple of months. He very likely had serious cancer throughout his presidency, per Zeke. That means either it went unscreened or it was covered up. It was also noted somewhere, I forget where, that Bush, Obama and Trump all had references to their PSA (prostate-specific antigen) tests in the medical records released by their administrations, while Biden did not. Make of that what you will.
So look, is it possible that Biden was just diagnosed with an advanced cancer this weekend and was, up until last week, a fit and healthy 82-year-old, as his team previously assured us? Sure, I suppose it is possible, in the same way it is possible I will get engaged to Dua Lipa. But unfortunately Biden has not earned our benefit of the doubt here, given what we know about those around him and their insistence he was fit to be the commander-in-chief until he was 86 even without stage 4 cancer.
The reason why this matters is because it is downstream of the ur-problem of contemporary American politics: nobody believes anybody anymore because we are constantly being lied to. Biden's totally with it, even though he doesn't seem to know what year it is. Tariffs aren't taxes. Due process doesn't apply if you're not a citizen. Inflation is good, actually. J6 was a peaceful protest.
When you see polls showing the media is less trusted than even loathed members of Congress, when voters demand open primaries and don't get them, when social media algorithms and idiots with big audiences promote opinions like, hey, maybe Hitler was just misunderstood, when sitting presidents refuse to concede an election they obviously lost, all of this—all of it—is destroying our body politic. And there is a direct line between this nihilism and collapse in institutional trust to someone like Donald Trump getting elected not once, but twice. This is something we need to reckon with as a country.
So that is why the Biden story continues to be newsworthy. There's plenty of other news I'd rather discuss, but it's important to me that I clarify my thoughts on this.
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Counter-point to the OP from an intelligent person: - Spanky KU - 5/20 10:47:50