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https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/07/03/shame-on-the-white-house-press-corps-former-ny-times-editor-blasts-media-for-journalistic-failure-n2176303
'Shame on the White House Press Corps': Former NY Times Editor Blasts
Media for Journalistic Failure
By Bob Hoge | 6:30 AM on July 03, 2024The opinions expressed by
contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
AP Photo/Nell Redmond
It almost reads like an article from RedState, but it’s not—instead,
it’s an op-ed published Tuesday in Semafor by Jill Abramson, former
executive editor of the once-august New York Times, and in it, she
absolutely shreds the complicit corporate media complex for failing to
uncover the truth about Joe Biden’s mental condition. That cover-up was
blown wide open last Thursday by the president’s erratic, disturbing performance during what may go down as one of the most infamous debates
in history.
Abramson, who served as executive editor at The Gray Lady from 2011 to
2014, was brutal in her analysis of the stain that this abject
journalistic failure will leave on the Fourth Estate:
It’s clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the
first duty of journalism: to hold power accountable. It is our duty to
poke through White House smoke screens and find out the truth. The Biden
White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up of the degree of the President’s feebleness and his serious physical decline, which may be
simply the result of old age. Shame on the White House press corps for
not to have pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the President.
Wow. That is a 1,000 percent, dead on target, hittin’ the bullseye
admission. Shame. She rightly filets the White House for the massive
cover-up effort but also shreds the media for not having pierced “the
veil of secrecy."
My only criticism of her opening paragraph is that I wouldn’t
necessarily call it a "failure"—the journalistic lack of effort was
entirely on purpose, carried out by corrupt fanatics who care more about
their progressive ideology than they do the future and safety of this
country. They mostly succeeded in that mission—until now.
The failure was widespread; most of the “legendary” journalists and
outlets of the modern age were nowhere to be found over the last three
and a half years (unless they were bashing Donald Trump).
Missing in Action
Watergate Journo Bob Woodward Belatedly Sounds the Alarm on Biden—Debate
Was a 'Political Hydrogen Bomb'
Watergate Hero Carl Bernstein Confirms Biden’s Condition,
Unintentionally Confirms Complicity to Hide It
STUNNER: NY Times Editorial Board Calls on Biden to Leave Presidential
Race 'to Serve His Country'
Abramson continued, saying what everyone who’s watched the press and the White House lie to us over and over and over has been thinking:
It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most
seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and
painful reality of Biden’s debate performance.
And it is laughable and immoral for Democrats to blame the press now for over-reacting to that reality. The reports of how bad Biden was are
certainly not exaggerated. Nor are the reports of Democrats in panic.
While I applaud Abramson’s choice to finally tell the truth, I wonder
where she—and the New York Times Editorial Board, and Woodward, and Bernstein, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, etc., etc.—have been
all this time. Where the hell were you? Outlets like RedState were right
here all along, bringing you reality.
The answer: they were there all along, too, and they knew the truth—they
just didn’t want you to know it.
Excellent piece, Ms. Abramson, but it would have been even better three
and a half years ago when Biden’s mental issues were already patently obvious.
They lied to us for years, despite what we could see with our own eyes.
Don't rely on them—we told you all along what was happening, and we
didn't mince words.
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Bob Hoge—pronounced Hoge like rogue, not Hodge like lodge—is a RedState front page contributor and editor and proud father of four. He is shown sporting his COVID beard, which his wife has since forced him to shave.
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