Disinformation, corporate style

Powerline’s Steven Hayward has posted a partial list of media lies promulgated by the Democrats’ captive press over the past few years:

O corse, that’s just sampling. You can add the “Russian disinformation, so we won’t cover it” and the biggest whopper of them all, Joe Biden is perfectly fit to serve as president for not one, but two terms, which is only now, post-election, being confessed to have been entirely false.

Democrats Finally Admit the Obvious About Joe Biden, and It Gets More Shameless From There

Bonchie:

TO STATE THE OBVIOUS — From Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs’ NYT assessment of President JOE BIDEN’s final chapter: “Time is catching up with Mr. Biden. He looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day. Aides say he remains plenty sharp in the Situation Room, calling world leaders to broker a cease-fire in Lebanon or deal with the chaos of Syria’s rebellion. But it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.”

The level of shamelessness it takes to title that blurb with "To State the Obvious" is unquantifiable. I spent so many years chronicling Biden's undeniably deteriorating mental and physical state here at RedState that I filed stories under the tag "senile." You know who did deny his condition, though? Politico, The New York Times, Peter Baker, Karine Jean-Pierre, and essentially every other living, breathing Democrat. 

The peak of their disinformation campaign was no doubt the "cheap fakes" saga. Following an especially disturbing mid-2024 performance in France in which Joe Biden had to be led around and corrected by world leaders, including Italia's Giorgia Meloni, the press and White House claimed the videos were being altered, dubbing them "cheap fakes." NBC News proclaimed, "Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up."

It was Biden's big on-stage freeze-up at a Los Angeles fundraiser in late June that caused the White House to pick up the talking point, though. Karine Jean-Pierre would go on to quote a denial from Barack Obama, who was hosting the event, as evidence conservatives were using "cheap fakes." Notably, a month later, one of Obama's aides admitted that Biden was so disoriented that night that the former president himself was "shaken." 

"Cheap fakes," indeed.