National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, said that after Biden’s disastrous debate performance last night, his handlers “have been exposed.”
“Anyone who has been engaged in this persistent dishonesty, this mendacity about Joe Biden’s senility, should not tomorrow be given the benefit of the doubt when the topic is tariffs or taxes or space programs. They are liars,” Cooke said.
“I have been writing this,” Cooke said, “for a year, perhaps more. And every time I do, I get shouted at. I get rude emails. I get sworn at. ‘You hack. What are you, a doctor now?’ No, I’m not a doctor. And I’m not diagnosing him with a disease. I am conveying to the public what 86 percent of Americans can see.”
Cooke pointed out that Biden’s decline the past few years is obvious, and that Democrats made it worse last night by posting a photo, “inexplicably claiming” on Twitter “that Joe Biden had won the debate, in which he actually looks sort of with it and dapper. It’s from 2021.
“Not yesterday. Not last week. Not three weeks ago. 2021. The decline has been obvious.
“We have to dwell on this for a moment,” Cooke insisted. “Huge portions of the American media complex and the American political complex have been lying to an American public — that to its credit has not bought the lie — about the health conditions and capacity of the president of the United States.
“And for that, they should pay a reputational price that is off the charts.”
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