Veteran CBS reporter Jan Crawford has called out the corporate media for failing to report on lame-duck President Joe Biden’s “obvious cognitive decline.”
Crawford described the scandal as the most “underreported” story of 2024.
“Under covered and underreported, that would be, to me, Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate,” Crawford told a roundtable of Face the Nation.
There was a time when the words “cognitive decline,” in connection to Biden, could only be found in independent conservative media sources.
Mainstream liberal outlets downplayed concerns about Biden’s health throughout most of his single term and well into his doomed presidential campaign.
The media continued to gaslight the American people even as members of the public repeatedly expressed concern about Biden’s mental sharpness.
Everything changed on June 27, when Biden debated Donald Trump on CNN in front of the nation.
Biden’s frail appearance alarmed viewers and sent Democrats, and Biden’s media sympathizers, into a tailspin.
That was the point when, as Crawford noted, Biden’s decline became an “undeniable” reality.
It was at this moment that Biden became a dangerous liability for Democrats.
Biden, after weeks of resistance to his own party, ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost decisively to Trump.
Crawford told Face the Nation that the election may had a totally different trajectory if Biden had faced public pressure earlier on to step aside.
“We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary for the Democrats,” she said.
In the final weeks of his presidency, more detailed reports of Biden’s diminished capacity have leaked to the press.
Crawford cited a recent report in the Wall Street Journal.
The report revealed the extensive steps the White House took to isolate Biden from the public and his own staff throughout his four years in office.
Crawford pushed back on co-panelist Robert Costa after he echoed Biden’s talking points about feeling “sick” at the debate.
“President Biden has said repeatedly he was sick during the debate June 27 in Atlanta and he’s always been fine and he leaves fine,” Costa said.
“FIFTY people the [Wall Street Journal] interviewed,” Crawford shot back.
WATCH:
Crawford is correct about Biden’s story being downplayed.
However, she is wrong to call the story “underreported” as it implies that journalists somehow missed it by mistake.
As she herself said, Biden’s decline was obvious and the propaganda machine refused to report it.
The only people who were not surprised by Biden’s debate performance were free-thinking Americans who get their news from Slay News and other trusted independent outlets.
The story wasn’t underreported but covered up by a partisan media that has lost all credibility.
