A Q&A on the Media's Coverup of Biden's Cognitive Decline
I joined Swedish magazine Bulletin to talk about the press's 'herd mentality'
Think you guys will enjoy this conversation I had with Bulletin, an upstart Swedish magazine, about the active role played by the media to hide from American voters the former president’s decline. I’ve written before on this topic, of course, but thinking having a chance to talk about what happened and why, taking the screenshots as evidence in prosecuting the case, felt valuable, particularly in the service of attempting to actually hold the media to account—and hopefully help foster some change.
An excerpt of the article is below, and you can read the full piece (don’t worry, translated to English!) here: https://bulletin.nu/english-media-critic-on-biden-cover-up-herd-mentality
Media Critic on Biden Cover-Up: ”Herd Mentality”
American media actively participated in concealing Joe Biden’s cognitive decline. Drew Holden calls it one of the biggest media scandals in US history.
”It wasn’t just that the media didn’t know and perhaps should have. It was that the media could see all the things we were seeing and it was very obviously a problem,” says journalist Drew Holden in an interview with Bulletin.
He runs the Substack Holden Court newsletter, which examines and reports on American media and has extensively written about how media actively participated in concealing former US President Joe Biden’s mental decline.
According to Drew Holden, established media not only acted passively but actively worked to conceal signs of Biden’s deteriorating condition. He particularly points to The Washington Post, which two weeks before the decisive presidential debate between Biden and Trump described videos of Biden’s confused behavior as ”cheap fakes.”
”The Washington Post article unfortunately summarizes what many in the media were saying at the time. The headline read ’Cheap fake Biden videos captivate right-wing media but deeply mislead.’ They went on to describe this as a political attack, a hatchet job,” says Drew Holden.
"Biden, as he did in his 2009 Associated Press interview, has often said he doesn’t dance..."
lolol hilarious
It's hard to say which the MSM is worst at: lying or telling the truth. Truth for them is a secondary value, as it's only acknowledged if it helps and supports the reigning Narrative du jour, but they aren't smart or slick enough to lie well, especially now that Drew Holden has all the receipts.
Great work!
Congrats on scoring this article/interview with a foreign outlet. I found this side comment made the exercise for you (and for all of us) entirely worthwhile:
"Swedish major daily Dagens Nyheter did the same thing. On June 19, 2024, they portrayed the accusations against Biden [...] as a conspiracy to cast suspicion on Biden. In their article, Dagens Nyheter, incredulously, used The Washington Post’s ”fact check” as a source."
Thanks for continuing to put the truth out there. Yes you've said it before but we all need to keep reinforcing the message and, most importantly, never let it happen again!