Media excuses for Biden

 Red States:

As we previously reported, after President Joe Biden took a tumble off his bicycle during a Saturday bike ride in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, some in the mainstream media immediately jumped into excuse-making mode over the embarrassing moment.

CNN’s Chris Cillizza, of course, lead the way in writing it off as no big deal in the scheme of things, despite the fact that when President Trump took a slow walk down a ramp after giving a June 2020 speech at West Point, Cillizza himself went out of his way to explain how the story “mattered” in the context of Trump’s overall health and ability to lead.

Let’s also not forget how some in the press fretted about how Trump sometimes took sips from a water bottle while holding it with both hands, including during his West Point commencement address.

But Joe Biden is president now, and reporters by and large have been under Code Protect the Precious for much of his presidency. But as we draw closer to the 2022 midterms and as a growing number of polls show a majority of voters have concerns about Biden’s age and mental acuity, the murmurings about Biden’s health are growing louder and going more mainstream – bike fall or not – and that had CNN White House correspondent and leading Democrat apologist John Harwood seething during a segment of Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” program on Sunday where they discussed the elephant in the room.

During a back and forth exchange with Stelter, Harwood falsely claimed that this issue was solely pushed by “right-wing media,” ignoring the fact that during the 2019-2020 Democratic presidential campaign season, a number of Biden’s opponents and even some in the media raised questions about Biden’s fitness to serve as president and commander in chief considering how he looked and sometimes acted confused and out of sorts while on the campaign trail.

Harwood also claimed, without evidence, that though his critics believed Biden was not fit to do his job, reporters could see that “the gears of his mind are working” when Biden interacted with them, which maybe would be a persuasive argument if Biden spent more than five minutes a week engaging with them in between the calculated interruptions from his handlers and the frequent jaunts to his home state for “time away”:
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Watching the media make excuses for Biden makes you want to question their own mental acuity.  Some of us see evidence that liberals, in general, have become mental cripples along with Biden.