Oh, the horror — a journalist told the truth about Joe Biden’s obvious incapacity to serve another term as president!
The journo in question is ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who was caught in a candid camera shot saying on a Manhattan street “I don’t think [Biden] can serve four more years.”
This reportedly outraged Debra O’Connell, head of ABC’s news division, who allegedly told him “he is a newsman who is expected to be objective.” (The network denies this account.)
Where to start?
Stephanopoulos was a top Bill Clinton apparatchik before making a seamless transition into journalism; that’s plainly one reason Team Biden picked him to do a damage-control interview after Joe’s debate disaster (although it seems to have only done more damage).
George, in other words, is no right-wing hatchet man.
As for the whole “objectivity” thing . . . lefty journos spent the last eight years screeching that journalism cannot, must not and should not ever be “objective.”
Otherwise, it might help Trump.
Now that’s blown up in journos’ faces, they’ve seemingly turned on a dime.
And by the way, Deb — saying that Biden can’t serve four more years is objective.
It’s a cool-eyed statement of where the balance of probability lies, and it’s based on an ugly, glaring reality: Biden’s ever-faster slide into dementia.
That will remain true even though Stephanopoulos has apologized for being honest (reportedly another O’Connell demand).
There’s a dark, hilarious irony here.
Thanks in large part to the insane insistence of people like O’Connell that all was well with Biden’s health, Joe managed to scrape along — until it became impossible.
And now establishment media and the Democratic Party (but we repeat ourselves) find themselves forced to repudiate their earlier claims that the prez is A-OK while demanding that audiences and voters keep on trusting them.
Lots of luck with that.
What to know about the calls for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race:
- President Biden’s poor performance in the first 2024 presidential debate left some Democrats unsure of his fitness for office and future as the party’s candidate.
- More than a dozen congressional Democrats have joined in calling for Biden’s exit from the race. Former Biden supporter George Clooney echoed these calls in an op-ed published in the New York Times just weeks after he helped lead a record-breaking fundraiser for the Democrat.
- Democratic voters have continued to raise concerns about Biden’s nomination since the debate, with speculations and suggestions for replacement nominees running rampant.
- Biden’s former running mate Barack Obama has reportedly been trying to pressure him to drop out, and had prior knowledge of Clooney’s op-ed. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allegedly told Biden he could not beat former President Donald Trump this time around.
- As the Democratic National Convention approaches, California delegates for the Democratic Party are reportedly in disarray as debate over the president’s chances of re-election threatens to tear the party apart.
- However, the Biden campaign has denied any plans for Biden to bow out and for Kamala Harris to step in as the Democratic nominee. Sources close to the president believe he might not be willing to drop out, while other sources claim he is “receptive” to giving up on a second term.
Media world needs more of Stephanopoulos’ blunt honesty, not less.
Not least because it might have averted the current disaster.
