CHUCK TODD GOES FULL MINISTRY OF TRUTH IN RANT ON COVER-UP OF BIDEN’S DECLINE AND I HAVE THOUGHTS:

.@chucktodd went OFF on the "virtue signaling" of reporters who play into the Trump narrative of a cover-up of Biden's health by the media pic.twitter.com/VUCYsz4K1r

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) April 28, 2025

So, three weeks ago, Todd was admitting the media’s reluctance to cover Biden’s decline because they were worried it would help Trump, and yet now he’s saying it wasn’t the media’s fault that there wasn’t more coverage of it? How does that even make sense? This is Ministry of Truth-level stuff, here.

Similarly, James Clyburn tells CNN that he had no idea that Joe Biden was in severe mental decline:

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) responded to a question on President Joe Biden’s decline by stating that “I was not around Joe Biden enough to tell you anything about his decline.” And “for us to sit here and talk about Joe Biden as if we are physicians and can make these kinds of evaluations, a lot of us are interacting with him [who] could not make an evaluation like that, and I still can’t.”

Clyburn began by saying Biden was, substantively, a great president and no Democrat has had a record as good as Biden’s since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.

Well, that’s one way to shiv Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But as Scott Jennings points out, Clyburn’s doublespeak on public access national TV is astonishing to witness:

Joe Biden's biggest supporter in Congress, @RepJamesClyburn, says he had no idea Joe Biden was in severe mental decline.

LORD HAVE MERCY. The scandal deepens 👇 pic.twitter.com/IVDIKpmwAU

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) April 29, 2025

And thus, Clyburn comes full circle: The man who’s never failed to compare Republicans to Nazis is now in his dotage pretending to be Sgt. Schultz. He knew nothing — nothing! — about Joe Biden’s Trunalimunumaprzure issues!

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes.’ “Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways. Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy. Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting. You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar. The news media, which are supposed to act as a sort of nervous system for the body politic, instead give us misinformation.”

Plus: “Journalists didn’t ‘miss’ the story. They lied about it. They chose not to cover what Americans could see with their own eyes.”