SPOILER ALERT: THEY WON’T. The media must admit to covering up Biden’s decline.

The media’s role in deflecting from Biden’s decline started in January 2020. John Hendrickson wrote at the Atlantic, “His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.” However Biden was not battling a stutter and had said he overcame it as a child.

The “stutter” line would serve as the fallback excuse for almost the entirety of his presidency. Jake Tapper, Thompson’s co-author, attacked then-RNC chairwoman Lara Trump when she said Biden was clearly in a state of cognitive decline. Tapper used the stutter line. Tapper’s entire book appears predicated on the idea that neither he nor any of his colleagues had any idea about Biden’s state until Tapper saw it at the debate he moderated. It’s worth nothing that CNN hired Kate Bedingfeld, the Biden White House communications director, in 2023.

NBC’s Jonathan Allen is currently promoting his book about the 2024 race and the behind-the-scenes scheming to force Biden out of the race. But it was also Allen’s network who said Republicans were floating a “quiet conspiracy” that Biden would not be on the ticket. One of the authors of that piece, Dasha Burns, is now White House bureau chief at Politico. MSNBC’s flagship program Morning Joe boldly declared Biden to be in the best shape of his life, just three weeks prior to calling on him to withdraw. Neither Joe Scarborough nor Mika Brzezinski have offered an explanation or apology as they attempt to distance themselves from the Biden family and advisors.

In October of 2004, with the presidential election a month away, fellow network anchormen Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings immediately circled ranks around Dan Rather, even as his career was imploding. Beginning a decade or so ago, CNN’s Brian Stelter made him a regular guest on his Orwellian-named Reliable Sources Sunday show. But Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes were two people. Virtually the entire DNC-MSM apparatus protected Biden from attack. They hoped that a second Biden inauguration, followed quickly by Kamala replacing Biden would provide sufficient time and cover for the American public to forget their role in carrying Biden over the finish line. Today, they’re hoping that their nonstop attacks on Trump will do the job. Hillary famously invented “the vast right-wing conspiracy” in 1998. But we’ve seen the real thing in action on the left attempting to protect Sundown Joe. As Stephen Miller concludes, “Until journalists volunteer the truth about how, exactly, they worked with the Biden White House, their books should be written off as attempts to cover their asses.”