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The coverage of Biden's age has a Trump-shaped hole
The media's coverage of President Biden's age has ignored the clear mental decline and senility of TFG
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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/biden-age-trump-republicans-media-2024-rcna118184
We’ve all heard Republicans spout the party line about President Joe Biden: Not only is he in the throes of mental decline, but he’s also the apparent mastermind behind an entire crime family but can’t remember his own name. Does it make sense? No. Does it have to? Apparently not.
But the problem is that the people who’ve been perpetuating this narrative seem pretty willing to overlook the fact that their political deity, Donald Trump, doesn’t seem to be working with a full deck of cards — a point that’s become progressively evident these past few weeks. Like, for example, when he suggested that he defeated Obama in the 2016 election. Or when he claimed that World War II hadn’t happened yet. Or when he said that Jeb Bush got us into the Iraq War. Not exactly the next Stephen Hawking here.....
And look, I’m not looking to get into the mud about which septuagenarian or octogenarian politician is too old; they’re all old, we get it. But what I will do is point out the obvious, glaring hypocrisy of both Republicans and many in the media who relentlessly hammer Biden on his age, his mental acuity and his fitness to serve when those same people are conveniently silent when Trump says things that are far worse. Running it as front-page news when Biden trips one time, only to then ignore when Trump suggests World War II has yet to take place, betrays right-wing media’s actual goal: It’s not because of any well-founded concern over Biden’s ability to execute the duties of office; it’s just naked partisanship......
And I have every ounce of faith in the world that Americans — who, yes, may certainly recognize that Biden is old — won’t make that a higher priority than the fact that his opponent is a dangerous, anti-democratic authoritarian currently contending with four indictments and 91 criminal charges and whose most recent act as president was to incite an insurrection against our own government. So the GOP and its willful accomplices in the media may parrot Republican talking points about Biden’s age until they’re blue in the face, but we won’t be distracted by the same antics they deployed ahead of the 2016 election. We know the stakes of this election, and no amount of right-wing propaganda is going to change that.
But the problem is that the people who’ve been perpetuating this narrative seem pretty willing to overlook the fact that their political deity, Donald Trump, doesn’t seem to be working with a full deck of cards — a point that’s become progressively evident these past few weeks. Like, for example, when he suggested that he defeated Obama in the 2016 election. Or when he claimed that World War II hadn’t happened yet. Or when he said that Jeb Bush got us into the Iraq War. Not exactly the next Stephen Hawking here.....
And look, I’m not looking to get into the mud about which septuagenarian or octogenarian politician is too old; they’re all old, we get it. But what I will do is point out the obvious, glaring hypocrisy of both Republicans and many in the media who relentlessly hammer Biden on his age, his mental acuity and his fitness to serve when those same people are conveniently silent when Trump says things that are far worse. Running it as front-page news when Biden trips one time, only to then ignore when Trump suggests World War II has yet to take place, betrays right-wing media’s actual goal: It’s not because of any well-founded concern over Biden’s ability to execute the duties of office; it’s just naked partisanship......
And I have every ounce of faith in the world that Americans — who, yes, may certainly recognize that Biden is old — won’t make that a higher priority than the fact that his opponent is a dangerous, anti-democratic authoritarian currently contending with four indictments and 91 criminal charges and whose most recent act as president was to incite an insurrection against our own government. So the GOP and its willful accomplices in the media may parrot Republican talking points about Biden’s age until they’re blue in the face, but we won’t be distracted by the same antics they deployed ahead of the 2016 election. We know the stakes of this election, and no amount of right-wing propaganda is going to change that.
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