I saw or heard numerous news stories today about how the mainstream media is attempting to “change the picture” of what is happening with President Joe Biden. Tonight, I found an article that gave a name to what is happening in the media: gaslighting.
According to Jarrett Stepman at The Daily Signal, the media is attempting to make us believe that “President Joe Biden is fit as a fiddle.”
All those videos you’ve seen of him staring
into space, moving awkwardly, falling, garbling words, shaking hands with the
air, forgetting names, describing recent conversations with people who’ve been
dead for years, and being led around by handlers like a child? Just fake news.
Here’s White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre telling reporters Monday that every video you’ve seen of the
president looking “frail” and “confused” is nothing but a “cheap fake.” (This
was an apparent spin on a “deepfake,” a digitally enhanced video that’s hard to
distinguish from reality.)
Jean-Pierre quotes The Washington Post,
supposedly to debunk these videos and never actually says that they’ve been
digitally altered. How convincing.
I think I’ll personally start using “cheap
fake” as a new-fashioned phrase to replace “Orwellian.” It now means that a
regime apparatchik is telling me I need to stop believing in something I can
clearly see with my own eyes but is demanding I turn off my brain to ignore it.
It couldn’t be more obvious that the White
House and its Democrat media allies think that Biden’s health issues – I know I’m
not supposed to say that, but bear with me here in the realm of reality – are a
big problem politically.
They also know that the crisis is
escalating. Sure, sometimes Biden seems sort of all right, but even at his
best, the president is noticeably slower than he was a few years ago, even six
months ago. The number of odd incidents seems to be growing.
Stepman
reviewed several events that highlighted the deterioration in Biden’s mental
and physical health: (1) The recent article by The Wall Street Journal saying
that he shows signs of slipping “behind closed doors. (2) Biden was frozen in place
with a weird grin on his face at an early Juneteenth celebration on June 10.
(3) Biden had a series of horrific events while he was in France to commemorate
the 80th anniversary of D-Day. (4) Biden wandering off and being
rescued by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. (4) Biden putting his
forehead on the forehead of the Pope.
Then came, in my mind, the most damning
and symbolic video.
At a big Democrat Party fundraiser over
the weekend, Biden seemed to freeze again onstage. Was he just basking in the
adulation and applause of the crowd? I guess that’s one interpretation.
But the weird pause is not the biggest
problem here. What makes this video really stick out is the way former
President Barack Obama, who many suspect really pulls the strings in the White House,
takes Biden by the wrist and essentially leads him offstage like a child.
Anyone who has been around people who are
elderly or in physical and mental decline understands what’s happening. Those
around Biden are trying subtly to aid the president without embarrassing him,
but the signs are hard to hide.
The issue is that Biden isn’t just any
average retiree in his twilight years. He’s expected to be the president of the
United States, who has awesome responsibilities and whose judgment may decide
the fate of millions.
Yet the White House and corporate media
are saying, “Don’t let your lying eyes deceive you. He’s fine, I tell you.”
Democrats
in the media claim that Republicans selectively “edited the videos too mislead
viewers,” but there is “no evidence of actual tampering in any of these videos.”
Then they try to compare Donald Trump to Biden by saying that Trump is only
three years younger than Biden. There may be only three years difference in
age, but anyone with eyes to see can see that Trump can campaign circles around
Biden. This is why no one is buying the age argument. Stepman then explained “why
the Left’s gaslighting about Biden’s condition isn’t catching on.”
This isn’t a matter of policy or ideas,
where one can turn to lies or sophistry to delude the public.
You don’t need to be a constitutional
lawyer or a policy wonk to see that Biden is in steep physical and mental
decline.
If Biden looks this bad in public, you can
bet that the problem is much worse in private….
It’s why Republicans in Congress are right
to demand the audio tapes of Biden’s interviews with special counsel Robert Hur
over his possession of classified documents from his years as a senator and
vice president. Hur decided not to bring charges against Biden because he is an
“elderly man with a poor memory” and “diminished faculties.” Just how
diminished is he?
Stepman
wrote what many people have been thinking and saying. We all know that the
United States President – whoever they are – have great demands on them. One
only needs to look at “before” and “after” pictures of Bill Clinton, George W.
Bush, and Barack Obama to understand how the job ages a president. Since a
POTUS holds such great responsibilities, all Americans have a right to know if
their president “really is out to lunch” and “who is really running the
executive branch.”
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