NY Post: Make the Media Pay for the Largest Cover-Up in US History

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Yesterday, the President of the United States delivered a four-minute update to the American people about two terror attacks that had taken place earlier in the day. To put it mildly, Joe Biden's performance from Camp David on another break from the White House -- breaks which amount to roughly 40% of his presidency -- did not instill confidence in current leadership. Biden apparently got lost for a moment, slurred his delivery of nothing but platitudes, and then stalked off without taking a single question from the media. 

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And then, presumably, Biden continued his vacation:

Count Scott Johnson among the unimpressed, accurately describing the remarks themselves "vacuous" and Biden's performance even worse:

Biden himself was on rest and recreation at Camp David. Biden has officially spent some 40 percent of his time on office on vacation. Yesterday somebody woke the president and asked him to shuffle out to read a statement. Biden dutifully slurred his way through the remarks. “No one should jump to conclusions,” Biden instructed as the authorities search for the meaning of the ISIS flag found in the terrorist’s vehicle. ...

The “situation is very fluid,” Biden reported, and then searched for text in the notebook in front of him as a mechanical malfunction briefly interrupted Biden’s reading. The implicit message seems to be that we have a waxworks dummy pretending to hold down the fort until January 20.

That's been the explicit message since June 27th, hasn't it? It has been since at least since July 21, when Biden finally acknowledged that he didn't have the capacity to run for office again and withdrew from the presidential election. The media dutifully went along with Biden's explanation of "higher patriotism" and never questioned whether Biden was fit for the office at that time, and few if any reporters raised that question until just the last few days.

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Over the past couple of weeks, as Americans paid less attention to news during the holidays, the Protection Racket Media has put on a show of regret over "underreporting" Biden's obvious signs of senility. Suddenly, "news" outlets are expressing shock, shock over Biden's decline and the lack of reporting over it. None of them are admitting that they actively refused to report on it, but instead use passive voice in the usual manner to argue that mistakes were made

None of them are 'fessing up to swallowing and regurgitating the White House propaganda about "sharp as a tack," "running rings around us," and especially "cheap fakes." Remember "cheap fakes"? That was the White House term for videos that accurately depicted Biden in his aphasiac moments but which the Bidenites insisted were somehow illegitimate. The media went to great lengths to warn about the dangers of "cheap fakes," right up until that presidential debate made clear that there was nothing fake about them at all. 

The New York Post suffered the most damage from this years-long attempt by the Protection Racket Media to circle wagons around the Bidens. Their editors yesterday warned the public to make sure that the mainstream media pays for their participation in the worst political cover-up since at least Woodrow Wilson's stroke, if not of all time:

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But the “Biden is fine” charade continued even after special counsel Robert Hur said a jury would see Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” and Biden himself began repeatedly calling world leaders by the names of their dead predecessors.

The White House smeared all video proof of Biden’s decline as “cheap fakes” and edited transcripts to erase signs of his constant memory issues.

And at every turn, spineless, in-the-tank journos obediently did Team Biden’s propagandistic dirty work — right up until the debate, when Biden’s senility became too unmistakable to continue denying.

Now they’re acting bashful, but it’s far too late to salvage their shredded credibility.

It's too late, even if they were inclined to try. They had four years of opportunity to demonstrate integrity, or perhaps even five, as the signs of Biden's decline were obvious even during the presidential campaign. The final debate with Donald Trump had Biden "sundowning" in the latter third of the debate, when Biden got lost in a debate on fracking and energy production. Their willingness to kowtow to the Democrat elite and go along with this cover-up enabled the fraud on the American public, and they're still far from coming clean on it -- even as Biden remains in charge for another 18 days.

That's why it is so important to support independent media and platforms. Had the Protection Racket Media maintained a monopoly on information and debate, no one would have ever known about Biden's infirmity or demanded answers for it. 

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