Good. Now if the Protection Racket Media starts realizing it too, we might actually get somewhere.
For some reason, Democrats apparently never considered what a cover-up on the Joe Biden scale would do to their reputations. The rise of the Now It Can Be Told media literary genre has forced them to reckon with the obvious, which is that (a) everyone knows they lied about Biden’s cognition for years, and (b) no one trusts them. This time the media is too busy distancing itself with The Owen Maneuver to cover for them, as Hakeem Jeffries discovered on CNN earlier this week:
The Protection Racket Media is in full survival mode now, especially CNN, where the network is trying valiantly to defend one of its anchors from utter credibility collapse. It’s now an all-hands-on-deck effort to shift blame for the Biden cover-up entirely to Democrats at CNN by pretending that Democrats were responsible for Jake Tapper’s embrace of their narrative. Mark Halperin called it “nothing short of journalistic corruption” in his podcast yesterday:
Halperin sums up the Now It Can Be Told media literary movement with succinct accuracy:
And now, everybody in the media is saying, well, we don’t need to acknowledge our own failure. We’ll just say that Joe Biden shouldn’t have run, and people like Chuck Schumer should have called him out. That’s a big failure, and it’s missing the moment.
Indeed. And now that the Protection Racket Media has gone into survival mode, they are having to toss Democrats out of the lifeboat. As Politico notes, that leaves them in a very uncomfortable position with voters, who at least agree that Democrats lied to them for years about Biden’s condition and are still lying to this day about it. They now have even more reason to believe that, thanks to the Now It Can Be Told revelations percolating from the upcoming book releases, and half measures won’t cut it:
Just this week, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said there was “no doubt” about Biden’s cognitive decline, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg conceded the party “maybe” would have done better without him and Rep. Ro Khanna of California said “Democrats must be honest … Joe Biden should not have run for reelection.”
But they were the exception. For the most part, leading Democrats — many of whom attested to Biden’s fitness when he was still on the ticket — are ducking what is fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign. The problem for Democrats is Biden’s blast radius keeps expanding. It isn’t just the embarrassing accounts dribbling out from a forthcoming book. It’s that so many Democrats with 2028 ambitions were defending him at the time — and are now being forced to answer for what they knew and when.
When Murphy, in an interview, fessed up to Biden’s diminishing capabilities, GOP operatives threw months-old comments in face. “This you??” said an aide to Speaker Mike Johnson on the social media platform X, pointing to when the Democratic senator had vouched for Biden in the wake of a damning Wall Street Journal report on the subject.
‘Blast radius’ is a pretty good analogy, but this is more like a drip-based water torture. Each drip of information changes the historical record and exposes the cover-up conspirators by negating their past excuses. Or perhaps a siege is a better analogy; Democrats stand behind a rhetorical wall, only to watch it collapse as the next shock comes, only to fall back to a position where the walls have already collapsed from taking bricks out of it to shore up the previous wall.
At some point, Democrats will start running over each other in the final stages of their credibility collapse. That process may already be starting, Politico suggests:
Some Democrats argue that their leaders aren’t owning up to the truth about Biden — and risk keeping the issue alive indefinitely as a result. They fear that Democrats’ record-low approval ratings are tied, in part, to their unwillingness to come clean.
They can’t come clean and keep their leadership positions, and they know it. That’s why Hakeem Jeffries turned himself into knots to avoid the questions on CNN earlier this week; there is no honest answer except to say We lied about Biden because we didn’t want to face the consequences. The problem with avoiding that answer, though, is that every voter who watched Biden deteriorate over the last four years in an undeniable and public manner knows Democrat leaders (and the media!) lied, and they know why they lied.
That’s the moment that both Democrats and the Protection Racket Media have missed. And until Democrats hold those leaders accountable, and until shareholders in establishment media companies hold those editors and talking heads accountable for their lies of commission and omission, this moment may last a very, very very long time.
Politico calls this a litmus test for Democrats in 2026 and 2028. It’s also a litmus test for the Protection Racket Media, and so far they are failing it … miserably. They are hoping to lie their way out of accountability for their active role in the Biden cover-up, and make a few bucks out of it along the way.
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