Honestly, I didn’t think Joe Biden would do well during the first presidential debate, but I would not have bet money that he would have pulled the equivalent of repeatedly smacking himself in the face with a frying pan. I can’t stand the man and I almost felt bad for him. Almost.
Rather than Atlanta, that debate should have taken place in a toilet. That’s where the material making up the kind of show Biden puts on ends up, except in Democrat-controlled cities, but you can’t hold a debate in the middle of the street.
But there is one group of people at least as responsible for Biden’s humiliation as he was: the media.
For 4 years, advocates for international surrender, the slaughter of Jews, the mutilation of children’s genitals, open borders and the carnage that comes with it, and complete bankruptcy, both financially and morally, have sworn on the lives of their families that Joe Biden is whip-smart. When the cameras aren’t around, and no one is looking, he's just this side of a Jeopardy champion when it comes to intellect.
As we all saw Thursday night, he couldn’t solve a Wheel of Fortune puzzle if it were his name only missing a “B” and the category was “Current Presidents.”
Those liars with press passes and inflated egos (honestly, I know many of them and they truly are awful) insisted Joe Biden was not only up to the job, he was almost too smart for it.
It’s hard to pick an example of the left-wing press giving Biden a tongue bath about how smart he is, but I’ll use MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “Morning Joe” is in mourning now, but just 3 months ago they were riding high on their own supply – proud they were the official morning narrative reinforcement for Biden, and he even called Joe and Mika sometimes for advice. (Imagine those 2 plastic surgery disasters being your go-to for anything other than cautionary tales of when to stop implants and injections or how not to make a marriage work.)
In March, Joe swore to MSNBC viewers, “Start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth,” he started, which sounds like he was admitting he doesn’t normally tell his audience the truth, but was going to make an exception this time. He continued, “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I’ve known him for years. … If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”
While 3 months is a lifetime in politics, it’s not when it comes to the initial onset of dementia. Joe was lying. He was lying to his audience as a whole, and to the audience of one they so often pander to.
Biden has always been dumb – that’s just history, look it up – but dementia has added a new level of confusion that has been obvious to everyone since 2019. Joe Scarborough saying, “If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it,” is rich because he told it expressly for the fact that it wasn’t true.
Now he’s saying Biden has to go.
They all chose to vouch for Biden, and they thought they could get away with it. They knew the truth, they made it their business to keep that truth from their audience. Literally every employee at NBC News and MSNBC willingly lied to their viewers, every MSNBC personality chose the progressive agenda over the trust of their audience.
Do I think it will matter in terms of ratings? Only a little. Rachel Maddow has been lying to her audience consistently for a decade and they don’t care. Like a fat person modeling clothes in a circus mirror, their audience wants to be lied to. If they stuck with them through the Russia hoax and the Mueller Report torpedoing years of lies didn’t impact their viewers, this won’t.
But everyone else, normal people, see what they did. They need to be reminded of it, too.
People move on; and forget. Don’t let them. These media outlets are unworthy of trust, reminding people of that. They swore “In private, Joe is energetic and on the ball,” like the debate would have gone differently if no one were allowed to watch or listen to it. Enlist people to send Biden into that private world, so he can live the rest of his life with the knowledge that the American people have roundly rejected him and his policies, and that he has cemented his legacy as the most worthy President in US history. Let him choke on that.