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Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix

They committed to the narrative ...

By  Virginia Kruta
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Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix
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With just days to go before the release of “Original Sin” — a book exploring former President Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline from Jake Tapper (CNN) and Alex Thompson (Axios) — everyone on the Sunday political shows was talking about Biden, who knew what, and when they knew it.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

If one were to simply watch those interviews cold, not having lived through four years of a Biden presidency or seen dozens of speeches and interviews even from midway through his single term, one might be inclined to believe the pundits and elected Democrats when they insisted that Biden was absolutely fine at least until his disaster of a televised debate with President Donald Trump — and, according to at least one, he might even still be fine.

But Democrats and pundits said those things to an audience made up of Americans who did watch Biden as he repeatedly got lost on stage, tripped up the stairs of Air Force One, alternately shouted and whispered at awkward times, and lost his train of thought on a regular basis. Still, they committed to the narrative — Biden was definitely at his best until maybe the debate, and there was no reason for anyone to suggest otherwise or believe that anyone was covering up Biden’s condition.

On ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Ro Khanna insisted that there was no cover-up, but also said that the people who had been closest to President Biden during the last year or so of his presidency owed the American people “an explanation — but he did not clarify why they needed to explain if they were not covering anything up.

“It’s painfully obvious President Biden should not have run,” Khanna said.

During a panel discussion later on in the broadcast, former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile claimed that since she had lost a step or two with age, it was totally fine for the same thing to have happened to Biden.

“I’m going to stick by Joe Biden. And look, we all — I don’t have the pep in my step that I used to have,” she said.

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pushed back, noting that conservatives had been repeatedly mocked and gaslighted — not to mention shut down by legacy media hosts — when they stated the obvious about the president’s declining faculties.

“People were put to shame — me and others out there — that talked about Joe Biden’s mental acuity … The fact is they were managing his decline in a nursing home in the White House,” he said.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) took time out from defending criminal illegal alien gang members to address the recently released audio from Biden’s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur — which he said shed light on a problem that no one had been aware of at the time.

“Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again, we would do things differently,” Van Hollen said. “I think we can acknowledge that this was a — people overlooked a serious problem or were just not aware.”

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took a similar approach on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying that Democrats might have encouraged Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race sooner if only they had known. Murphy also said that Democrats had been wrong to brush off voters’ concerns about Biden’s acuity during the 2024 election cycle.

Rep. James Clyburn took things to a whole different level on CNN’s “State of the Union,” telling anchor Jake Tapper that he wasn’t even sure Biden would be incapable of serving a second term in the White House.

“Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still think that, but I don’t know that,” he said.

As to Biden’s disastrous debate performance, Clyburn continued to play defense. “Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which one was true,” he claimed.

Van Jones and David Axelrod were less magnanimous to Biden, his White House, and the party that enabled him.

“There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this Republic,” Jones said.

“I blame the people around him,” Axelrod added. “Real loyalty demanded that they say, ‘Mr. President, it’s just not there and it’s not in your interest’ [to run again].”

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