Stef Knight, Marc Thiessen, and Julia Manchester have joined a ‘Special Report’ All-Star Panel to discuss worries surrounding President Biden’s candidacy.
They’ve conceded that they were “turned off” from reporting on Biden’s cognitive decay ahead of last week’s debate. But, following Biden’s stunning debate debacle, critics have descended on legacy media for supposedly acting as a coverup artist in the president’s free fall.
CNN reported today that reporters are now feeling some remorse for how lightly they took the political bombshell. Only a few of them have said the quiet part out loud and confessed they did not want to address Biden’s inability to continue as our leader for the next four years.
For many right-wing commentators, Biden’s age has also been a long-standing talking point well before last year’s presidential race began–something the White House seems to have gone out of their way to highlight for reporters which could scare away any serious probing into the matter.
“The right-wing media was calling him senile from day one, and that wasn’t true,” one unnamed reporter told CNN. “Then whenever you report on the age you were in some ways solidifying, giving credence to some people that were actually of bad faith.”
Critics slammed that excerpt from the CNN report on social media.
Washington Free Beacon reporter Andrew Kerr responded, “By merely existing and calling a spade a spade, Conservative media ‘turned off’ legacy reporters from seriously investigating Biden’s mental acuity.”
“How pathetic and lame. I thought journalism was about ‘following the facts,’” Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich knocked the White House reporters.
“The entire media had no interest in investigating Biden’s obvious senility because their political opposition was accurately describing him as senile They’re just straight up admitting that they have no interest in stories that hurt their political party,” Outkick writer Ian Miller said.
Biden’s debate catastrophe has caused a political earthquake, many democrats calling for his withdrawal from the presidential race. However, Biden and the White House have said all week long that he’s planning on remaining in the race.
