How the Media Finally Admitted What Everyone Already Knew About Biden

In a rare act of self-flagellation—perhaps the first recorded instance of the media beating itself with a rolled-up copy of The Washington Post—the mainstream press is finally acknowledging what many of us have been saying since Joe Biden confused Iowa with his garage: our Manchurian President was never mentally fit to be president. It’s been four months since he left office, and only now is the truth beginning to ooze out, like pus from an untreated wound.

I’ve been writing about this for four years. The signs weren’t subtle, they were glaring, unless one made a conscious effort not to see them.

White House reporters witnessed everything: the teleprompter crutches, the rambling detours, the awkward groping of girls and women, the vacant stares, and the repeated need for aides to guide him away from microphones. But aside from a handful of brave voices, the press corps treated the obvious like a stage illusion, more like something to applaud, but never interrogate.

Instead, they sat through daily briefings with Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre, nodding along like indoctrinated foot soldiers, then dutifully regurgitated the talking points to a fawning public. They dared not interrupt with anything resembling a follow-up question.

Psaki, for her part, was rewarded with a cushy MSNBC contract and a net worth north of $2 million, proof that in today’s media landscape, being confidently wrong pays better than being morally grounded. Jean-Pierre, so far, hasn’t landed a post-White House gig. Perhaps that’s because outside the protective bubble of identity politics, being Black and gay isn’t as valuable to hiring managers as it was in Biden’s administration.

Then came CNN’s Jake Tapper, huffing into the Beltway spotlight with a new book proclaiming that Biden was unfit and that top officials worked to conceal it. Imagine that it only took Jake four years to “discover” what half the country saw every time Biden tried to finish a sentence. And yet, Tapper remains coy about which officials were complicit.

In Chebanse, we have a phrase for that kind of revisionist heroism: that dog won’t hunt.

If Tapper had a spine instead of 20/20 hindsight, he might’ve said something when it counted, as it was his job. Instead, he stayed silent, blended into the herd, and now shows up four years late, hat in hand, angling for praise and royalties. Frankly, I hope his book sells about as well as one of mine, and I’ve published five.

Even The Washington Post has dusted off its long-dormant moral compass, now calling on Congress to “prevent another Biden cover-up.” A noble sentiment, but their involvement now is like the fire department arriving after the house has burned to the ground. Where have they been the past four years?

And what of Fox News? For all its thunderous indignation, its pursuit of Biden’s decline was surprisingly halfhearted. Peter Doocy asked the right questions when allowed to speak, but the network as a whole seemed content to let the issue simmer without ever bringing it to a boil. Much like today’s GOP, they reacted but rarely led.

Of course, this isn’t the first time America has been governed by a shadow figure. After his stroke, Woodrow Wilson was likely replaced by his wife. FDR hid his paralysis from the public for years. JFK, strung out on painkillers, was hardly a picture of stability. And Reagan, in his twilight term, raised legitimate questions about whether Nancy was the one with her finger closer to the nuclear button.

But in all those cases, the press waited until long after the fact, often decades. before admitting the truth. This time, they’re “coming clean” just in time to sell books, juice ratings, and escape being the last ones clinging to the lie.

So here’s the question we ought to be asking: the reason I’m writing this: Should there be legal consequences for those who knowingly concealed critical information about a sitting president’s mental fitness? Who was running the country – some senior staffer, a spouse, or an unelected puppet master? And why aren’t any of them facing criminal charges?

If it had been Trump showing signs of decline, the press and half of Congress would have scrambled to invoke the 25th Amendment. Oh, wait – they did try that.

If we don’t demand accountability now, we are laying out the welcome mat for it to happen again.