Remembering How The Media Gaslit Us About Biden's Senility
Shortly after Biden's disastrous debate, the media pivoted to concern trolling about his senility. Olivia Nuzzi's article was an illustrative example.
In January, I began hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists, and donors who came away from interactions with Joe Biden disturbed by what they had seen. For @NYMag, I wrote about the conspiracy of silence to protect the president: https://t.co/clKmksK9D8
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 4, 2024
Her X post about it prompted a reasonable question from many commenters: if you began hearing about this in January, why didn't you publish this in January (or February, etc.)? Her reply was something to the effect of "journalism takes time", but obviously, they had shelved this until the debate exposed that the emperor was wearing no clothes.
Given the media's pivot, it's worth remembering how hard they worked to obscure Biden's deteriorating mental condition for so long. Drew Holden details that in his X thread below.
Drew Holden Has The Receipts
I suspect most of you remember the allegations from the White House that videos showing Biden behaving erratically were “cheap fakes.”
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
The media rushed to repeat this claim. Look at the extent @nytimes went to say you didn’t see anything and that Biden was fine. pic.twitter.com/DFiFC6w7ZG
@AP took specific issue with one supposed “fake”: a video where Biden freezes and needs to be led off a stage.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
The video looks brutal.
But why would you believe what you can see, rather than Biden’s and Jimmy Kimmel’s comms teams? pic.twitter.com/neIRJjjqoy
@NBCNews lamented how hard all these deceptive “cheap fakes” were for our noble fact checkers. pic.twitter.com/PXWoA0su6Q
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
About Biden's "Stutter"
Let's pause for a moment to address Biden's alleged stutter. Biden has been in national politics since he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1973. There are endless hours of video of him speaking, and you'd be hard pressed to find any of him stuttering before 10 or 15 years ago.
No stutter. That was always a complete psyop to cover Biden’s cognitive decline. https://t.co/MQS8G3XcEk
— David Pinsen (@dpinsen) July 3, 2024
Back To Drew Holden's Thread
Really. I’m not exaggerating. There are even more at my full write up (link is in bio) but here’s another four boxer courtesy of @washingtonpost, @CBSNews, @Salon and @RollingStone pic.twitter.com/CWE7Sn2kqx
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
Back in February, special counsel Robert Hur determined that Biden lacked the mental fortitude to face a jury without seeming like a feeble, affable old man.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
The press were incensed. @nytimes threw up the roadblocks, saying we needed more evidence to make a real diagnosis. pic.twitter.com/fWqWUHCcVi
It was a popular refrain. Here’s @AP doing the same. Just like mixing up your kids’ names!
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
How silly! Even the leader of the free world does it! pic.twitter.com/j0BKWEWGg6
These built off longstanding claims that criticism of Biden’s mental capacity were “ageist.”
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
Here’s @TIME pushing that claim repeatedly. pic.twitter.com/5fYSUDIfFm
Perhaps the richest of them all came last year from @nytimes.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
Biden was so spry and vigorous that his young staff couldn’t keep up! Everyone was saying so!
It reads like North Korean propaganda. pic.twitter.com/C5GAcgzMOE
It’s time, the press laments, to move on. And maybe we should’ve seen this coming.
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
I don’t think it’s a mystery why this topic wasn’t covered well, @CNN pic.twitter.com/hmdQtWo35a
Or @AP…whatever this is. pic.twitter.com/Qadqp2Ujyu
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
And that the press, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say, pushed this fiction to give one side a leg up in the election?
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
I think the media’s word for that is “election interference”
Some of these side by sides are just brutal. pic.twitter.com/WSp9axQpNg
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
If anyone here is friends with George Clooney please let him know!
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 10, 2024
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