I think that the press helped to cover up Joe Biden’s condition, and that it did so as a matter of habit, out of a corrupt desire to help the Democratic Party. Some in the press strongly deny this. They insist that they didn’t know how bad it was. They say that they were as shocked as anyone by what they saw last Thursday night. They contend that they are not the perpetrators but the victims.
Okay, then. If that’s true, we ought to talk through its implications. If it’s true, then the press was duped — and duped by the federal government of the United States of America. If it’s true, then the executive branch has been engaged in a massive — and effective — conspiracy to keep Biden’s infirmity from the people who are supposed to report the news. If it’s true, then the White House fooled the media; it outwitted the media; it embarrassed the media. If it’s true, then the president and his political party colluded to suppress the ability of the sacred Fourth Estate to relay matters of public interest to the voters, and, in the process, it made a mockery of the First Amendment.
So . . . is the press gonna investigate that? It certainly sounds like a big story to me.
By “investigate,” I don’t mean lash out at the president in the hope that he’ll be replaced by someone who does better in the polls. I mean: Find out how this happened in the first place. I mean: Discover who knew, and when. I mean: Name names. If Biden goes, he’ll be replaced by someone — probably his own vice president. How is the press going to make sure that she and her team don’t do exactly the same thing on a different topic? The media’s line, remember, is that it had absolutely no clue about the biggest political story in years. That being so, one must presume that the Democratic Party must be pretty effective at lying! How, then, is the press going to treat it going forward? Is it going to try to force Biden out because he’s doing badly against Donald Trump, and then immediately go back to fluffing up his replacement, protecting the people who orchestrated the lies about his condition, and lashing out at any critics? Or is it going to do its bloody job?
I thought so.