Democrats’ Media Allies Shouldn’t Be Forgiven for Overlooking Biden’s Decline for Years

Chris Cillizza, a former figure at The Washington Post and CNN, has recently issued a public apology claiming that, “as a reporter,” he “should have demanded more information earlier regarding Joe Biden’s mental and physical health and any indications of decline.” Please, spare us.

This is the same “journalist” who wrote an indignant CNN news analysis titled, “Republicans keep trying to make Biden’s mental capacity an issue” in August 2021, months after White House staff had started quietly rescheduling national-security briefings, citing that the president had “good days and bad days.”

This is just one of the insights revealed in a groundbreaking Wall Street Journal report this week, which disclosed that top aides were aware of Biden’s cognitive decline from Day 1 — and chose to conceal it.

Not only did they keep him away from public scrutiny, but they also reduced face-to-face engagements with Congress members and even his Cabinet.

Cillizza and his peers in the elite media went along with this plan, consistently criticizing Republicans and opposing media for highlighting this evident concern.

Cillizza’s mistake isn’t merely not “pushing harder”; it’s that he acted as a mouthpiece for the administration, motivated by a desire for Democratic victories.

The president’s declining condition was evident from what the public could observe on his “good days” — meanwhile, only his core team, family, and close associates witnessed how much worse he was on his bad days, while influential figures like the Obamas and top Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, had to have at least some inkling of the reality.

Yet, everyone behaved as though — even insisted repeatedly — that Biden was fit to govern, while the media dutifully acted as recorders of this narrative.

Cillizza condemned Republicans for even questioning the president’s state: “This is the sort of gross, lowest-common-denominator politics that drive people away from public life,” he asserted, adding that, “If Republicans possess any evidence that Biden is declining, they need to present it or “stop their actions.”

By that time, Biden had already referred to Kamala Harris as the “president-elect” and on another occasion as “President Harris,” while he continued to lose his train of thought during press conferences, stumbled going up the steps of Air Force One due to wind, and misnamed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, among numerous other public missteps.

No one needed to provide “proof”; the evidence was glaring and painful for all to see.

Cillizza now contends that he was misled by the White House assertion that raising such concerns was “offensive,” which simply indicates he chose to accept that narrative.

So did the myriad pundits who condemned special counsel Robert Hur for asserting earlier this year that Biden was indeed unfit for office, as well as those in June who echoed the administration’s ludicrous explanation of “cheap fakes” regarding damaging footage depicting the president’s ineptitude.

For four years, those surrounding the president concealed the reality that he could not competently run the country — and a significant portion of the media colluded.

This grave and unacceptable deception may very well become the most significant political and media scandal of the modern era.

It makes Watergate appear trivial by comparison.

And it provides ample justification for the public to never trust Democrats on anything again, particularly not their media supporters.