There comes a point at which everyone needs to stop taking the second-hand thoughts of others and go to the source information for themselves. I highly recommend everyone trust, but verify anything a pundit or journalist tells you, as the standards for each have fallen through the floor in recent years. With that in mind, and in the midst of the media blitz surrounding the new book “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” I checked it out and discovered the most shocking revelations related to the 2024 election come from the media’s coverage of the then President and everyone who knew the truth, but chose not to tell it.
First, let me just say that “Fight” is an entertaining narrative more than it is informative. There are things you would not have known in it, but if you were paying attention both to the media and what the candidates were doing, there is nothing shocking either. There are no insider details that stick out beyond the superficial – Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was thought of as a clueless doofus who, we now learn, had trouble sleeping before his debate with Vice President JD Vance, for example.
The biggest revelation in “Fight” is really only addressed by not addressing it directly: the fact that everyone, insiders, top advisors, media talking heads and donors, knew that Joe Biden was experiencing severe mental and physical decline and they all hid it.
That’s the book you want – one that really takes you behind the curtain and into the scramble to hide and deny the obvious until they no longer could, then shifting to toss the President under the bus. That’s not what you get.
President Biden freezing at the Juneteenth concert at the White House and at his big Hollywood fundraiser were talked about how they are talked about now: as the clear evidence of a serious issue they are, rather than the “cheap fakes” they were insisted to be by the progressive Intelligentsia.
The self-righteous, and self-serving lectures by the cast of Morning Joe about how the President was “The best Biden ever,” is largely ignored. Glossed over for the post-debate pearl-clutching of his mental decline only when all other options for covering it up had been exhausted.
The White House staff, those with the closest access to the President, are not excoriated for the lies from the briefing room podium and behind the scenes, they are portrayed as sympathetically trying to help an old man, like their real employer was Visiting Angels.
There is no exploration of what had to have happened behind the scenes on MSNBC’s entire line-up or throughout the White House Press Corps, with reporters and pundits discussing amongst themselves how the President is in severe decline, but how they chose to insist publicly the opposite.
More than that, they collectively smeared anyone who dared point this out. Fox News was a biased, lying organization simply doing the bidding of Donald Trump, even though they were the only ones telling the truth, inconvenient as it was.
Only after the debate, when there was no more runway for the lie, did any of these people – including the authors – start to tell the truth. Just not all of it, because all of it would implicate too many people.
When the book came out, both authors appeared on Morning Joe to talk around their collective complicity in the cover-up without admitting their involvement. “In some ways,” co-host Willie Geist said, “the debate that night spilled out into the open the concerns that a lot of Democrats had had privately about Joe Biden and his ability to carry out another term and that he was slipping and all the other things that became apparent at the debate.”
It was all apparent before the debate, but people like Geist were too busy shouting down anyone who pointed it out to draw attention to it.
The biggest “fight” in the book is the vanity and bias of everyone involved trying to rewrite history by ignoring what they did at the time in an attempt to insulate a diminished President from having that reality uncovered. What did all of these people know and when did they decide they had no other option left but to tell it? That’s the real question a book should answer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t even ask it.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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