Charlie Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, said that Robert Hur’s “sin” was not sticking to the mainstream-media script in his investigation of Joe Biden.
Charlie said it “reminded me a little bit of when Dasha Burns interviewed John Fetterman and didn’t get the memo that she was supposed to come out saying ‘that man was the greatest intellectual force I’ve ever encountered.’ . . . She came out and said, ‘He doesn’t really understand anything I’m saying, and he’s got machines helping him talk.’ And of course the whole internet came down and said, ‘How dare you, this is an insult to the disabled.’
“Well, Robert Hur said what he saw. He interviewed the guy. . . . His job was to look for discrepancies and he found a great number of them, and he concluded that they weren’t malicious. It’s very strange that that’s prompted criticism.”
Some critics, Charlie pointed out, tried to say, “‘He’s not a doctor.’ All right, well, he is an investigator. So should we conclude that the many problems with Joe Biden’s testimony were willful then? And should he be charged? Pick one.
“This is a classic example of what happens when the one guy in the room . . . says, ‘No, I’m not pretending.’ I cannot describe to you the contempt I feel for the people who are still insisting that Biden is fine. It betrays an extraordinary lack of regard, not only for the truth, but for everyone else in the country. . . . And you know why we’re seeing it? It’s because of fear of the consequences.”
It’s too late, Charlie said, for Democrats “to deal with the consequences of Joe Biden’s obvious infirmity.
“They’ve made this bed, and they’re going to have to lie in it.”
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