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 "I think Joe Biden is quite robust relative to what we see normal aging at 81 . . . He's actually quite high-functioning as an octogenarian." -- Dr. Vin Gupta, NBC News medical contributor, on Wednesday's Morning Joe. If Biden is "relatively robust" and "quite high-functioning" compared to other octogenarians, we'd hate to see an average one! Mika Brzezinski brought Gupta on to add a pro-Biden counter to what her guest Dr. Zeke Emanuel has written and would be saying. Zeke is a former Obama medical adviser, brother to Rahm, and a devoted Democrat who said that despite everything, he would definitely vote for Biden. But Emanuel has written an article in The Atlantic entitled, "There Are Exceptionally Sharp Octogenarians. Biden Isn’t One." In it, he wrote: "The problem isn't President Biden's age; it's his ability to function. From Ben Franklin to Warren Buffett and Nancy Pelosi, people have performed extraordinarily into their 80s. Biden has shown he is not one of them . . . Many talented Democratic leaders from swing states could beat Trump. One of them should take the baton from Biden." Mika began her counter-attack by suggesting that if Emanuel were right, we would have seen more examples of his waning mental acuity in recent times. Was she joking? There are countless such examples, as chronicled by, among others, The Free Beacon in its "Joe Biden's Senior Moment of Week," now up to Volume 101! It's just that Biden lackeys like Mika and Joe Scarborough, and others in the liberal media, have tried to bury or explain them away. Mika then read from a visible laundry list [helpfully supplied by the Biden campaign?] of Biden's recent activities. She challenged Emanuel, skeptically asking: "so this is aging?" Mika then tried to switch the focus away from Biden, and get Emanuel to opine on Trump's "brain." Emanuel conceded that Trump also shows some signs of aging. Gupta then entered the conversation, and made the statements seen above, adding that exactly to Mika's point, "We don't talk enough about" Trump. Not surprising that at the end of the segment, Mika said she would "love" Gupta to come back to train his sights on Trump. Funny, no invitation from Mika to have Emanuel return! Questions: What are Mika's motivations in making the case for Biden to stay in the race? Does she sincerely believe he is mentally fit to serve as president not just today, but for four-and-a-half more years? Does she think he has the best chance of any Democrat of beating Trump? Or is it more a matter of staying in the good graces of the Biden people, preserving the access that she and Scarborough enjoy, witness Biden's recent phone-in to the show that our Curtis Houck has chronicled, and Scarborough's boasting about the many hours he's spent speaking with Biden? Here's the transcript. MSNBC Morning Joe 7/10/24 6:56 am EDT MIKA BRZEZINSKI: As questions continue to swirl around President Biden's neurological health stemming from that debate performance two weeks ago, one doctor is saying age is not the issue. Former Obama White House adviser for health policy, vice provost for health initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Zeke Emanuel has a new article for of The Atlantic, "There are exceptionally sharp octogenarians. Biden isn't one." He writes in part, quote, the White House and Biden campaign have suggested that the president's problems at the debate stemmed from an exhausting travel schedule and a cold. Such explanations do not inspire confidence. Yes, it's common for elderly people to bounce back more slowly from stressors. But even if jet lag and illness exacerbated normal cognitive limitations, said limitations remain, ready to surface again. And who knows when the next life-and-death decision will be need to be made? Crises don't wait patiently for presidents to be fully prepared. Someone whose cognitive competencies can be compromised as badly as Biden's were by travel and a mere cold may be able to live a normal life, but they'd be hard-pressed to endure the rigors of negotiating with Congress or a foreign leader, much less making multiple rapid decisions when some future domestic or global disaster emerges.  MIK: And I should point out that President Biden is right now at the NATO summit, hosting it. And Zeke joins us now along with NBC News medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta. Zeke, wouldn't we have seen more, for what you were saying, more issues, wouldn't they have come out in the past? Some people are saying that maybe There was some hiding going on. ZEKE EMANUEL: Yeah. I think that's been suggested. Joe Biden's had fewer spontaneous interactions than other presidents, much fewer. There's -- you know, you talk to people who've been around the president, and for several months if not for a year, there has been a noticeable shift from the mental agility, the acuity, the good give-and-take and the perceptive questions, to after the summer of 2023, where that's declined. And we should say, this is normal aging, and there's -- it doesn't have to be any disease here. This is what happens as people age and their fluid intelligence, their ability to problem solve, their verbal fluency declines. MIKA: So, let's talk about normal aging for Joe Biden, Zeke, and Ben, I'm going to get to you. Stand by. Over the past six months, he attended the G-7 summit in Italy. He traveled to Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-day, had a rousing speech there. He delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College in Georgia. He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. He also traveled to Israel for a war cabinet meeting, October 7. He visited Baltimore to survey the damage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge. He visited the site of the East Palestine train derailment. He went to the southern border to push for a bipartisan border deal, which the Republicans turned down,a ctually Trump did. He had a deal that they never would have had an opportunity to get, but he put it out there, which was politically smart o fhim. Just yesterday he hosted NATO. Of course, we know he's taking the press conference tomorrow. He's made stops in 21 states for both presidential duties and campaign events.  So, I mean, this is aging [laughs]? EMANUEL: Those -- those -- those are the rigors of a normal presidency in the 21st century. . . .  MIKA: But Zeke, I want to put this in context. Those are the things Joe Biden is doing while he's aging, and so, too, Donald Trump is aging, is he not? Look at his age.  So, let me ask you. What do you think Donald Trump's sort of -- would you consider him to be mentally fit to be president? Can I have your opinion on his brain? EMANUEL: Well, I'm not judging the brains, but I do Trump has many of the problems of aging. He has an inability to concentrate. He meanders when he talks. He doesn't problem solve. He goes back to the same things over and over again. And his problem is, he lies over and over blatantly, and that's even worse. This is a critical election, the most critical election in American history since the Civil War. And I think, if you ask me now, I'm voting for Joe Biden! There's no question. The policies of Donald Trump are terrible. But this is also not the best options that the American public has. We're a country of 330 million people, and we have a lot of really talented people in the country. MIKA: Dr. Vin Gupta, what's your take on what has become really the story, the only story of the day it seems, and that is Joe Biden's mental acuity? What do you make of the debate, and what do you make of his recovery from it? VIN GUPTA: Well, Mika, I think you laid it out there very nicely. Which is to say, I care for many octogenarians. And I would say from a cardiovascular standpoint, and what we've seen from a mental acuity standpoint. Take last night, you mentioned the NATO summit, there's going to be days that are better. There're going to be days that are not as good. Cardiovascularly,  he's in excellent shape. I'm a pulmonologist. I see this all the time in octogenarians.  I think he's actually quite high-functioning as an octogenarian and keeping up that schedule. And so, just from, this is a subjective conversation. Zeke is offering his opinion. I can tell you what I see in my own clinic. And what I see clinically, I think Joe Biden is actually quite robust relative to what we see normal aging at 81.  More broadly, what I would say is, exactly to your point. We don't talk enough about his opponent. There are signs of forgotfulness. Judgment issues. We saw that last night in the speech he gave in Florida. The exact same things we're talking about and scrutinizing the president about, certainly we're seeing symptomatic in President Trump. . . .  MIKA: Dr. Zeke Emanuel, thank you very much, and Vin Gupta, I'd love to have you back to focus on the moments of concern medically that you have about Donald Trump, just to bring some balance to this. But breaking news, both candidates are old, and I appreciate both of your insights very much. Thank you, doctors.

It’s truly always a Joy! MSNBC’s race-obsessed host Joy Reid had choice words for “white,” “privileged” Democrats who dared to challenge President Joe Biden’s disintegrating campaign for reelection. On Monday night’s episode of The ReidOut, she launched into a series of deranged rants against her favorite target and least favorite race, defending Vice President Kamala Harris from what she alleged was “the right’s new favorite slur.” Reid opened the segment with a gloating emphasis on growing support for Biden among “the most loyal base of the Democratic Party,” black Americans, reporting on his recent Philadelphia rally in a “black church filled with actual black people.” She continued highlighting the president’s apparently incredible achievements over the weekend before spewing venom at her own party, but only those who don’t look like her: All of that happened this weekend but please, please, privileged, rich, white, elected Democrats, you just keep publicly defenestrating your party leader and president to feed the media thirst for ‘Democrats in Disarray’ stories. Because you're scared for your own seats…I mean, you're the most important thing here, right? You and your donors, of course, not the actual voters in your party base who can't afford to see prices double on everything they buy, due to Trump's China tariffs, and who would be the first ones fired from their federal civil service jobs under Project 2025, or shot in the streets by Trump’s stormtroopers if they protest. You do you. The media is super entertained and that's–that’s what’s important.     Reid further villainized conservatives, demonstrating how Republican control of southern states supposedly inflicted immense pain on black Americans, who “paid the highest price.” This suffering eventually affects all other races, just not the whites:  Republican control of the part of the country where a majority of black Americans still live has meant dramatic declines in education funding, stalled expansion of Obamacare, radical abortion bans, including threats to jail women and doctors in states like Louisiana, book bans and total bans on teaching accurate black history…Black Americans are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. When conservatives hurt us, which they’ve always done, regardless of whether they’ve called themselves Democrats or Republicans throughout this country’s history, the pain is soon shared by everyone of every race, who is not a rich, white, straight man or his loyal anti-woman-voting wife.  She also warned that Republicans would elect Trump “as their Project 2025 dictator marionette, and the Leonard Leo Supreme Court conservatives as their star chamber.” What drew most of Reid’s ire, however, was an article in The New York Post by Charles Gasparino, titled “America may soon be subjected to the country’s first DEI president: Kamala Harris,” which contained what she called “the right’s new favorite slur.” But wait -- black women like Joy demanded a black woman on the ticket -- for "diversity" and "equity" and "inclusion." So what's wrong with the DEI title? Reid ripped into Gasparino and his qualifications to comment on Kamala: Exactly who are you, Charles Gasparino? Like, literally who are you? And what qualifies you to write an editorial about the presidency, even in the dollar-store New York Times, other than you being a white guy? Like, what are your qualifications besides that, Charles? Are you, like, a presidential historian or something? No? Oh, right! You're just a discount rat, conservative, generic, racist, angry person. Not sliding in on unqualified at all, are you? On top of that, she hilariously slobbered over Vice President Word-Salad as way more qualified to run the country than Gasparino: We are not going to let a bunch of mediocre, whiny conservatives turn Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into a slur. That lady you’re sliming was the attorney general of this country’s largest state and a United States senator, which fully qualifies her for her current position as Vice President of the United States. And, if she were to become president, not only would she have earned it by getting tens of millions of votes, and thus becoming a duly elected official – DEI – she would also possess more qualifications than you. What was the–what was the name again? – Something Gasparino? – could ever hope to have on your best day.  All of this before a dramatic, perhaps slightly racist closer, where she smugly stated, “Now, go off and write about golf, or dancing off-beat, or whatever your actual skillset is, ‘cause you’re not qualified to discuss the vice president. She's doing her black job and has no time for you. I, however, did have time tonight. So, there you go.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MSNBC’s The ReidOut 7/8/2024 07:04:47 PM EST JOY REID: And it tracks with what virtually every black person I spoke with or otherwise interacted with in New Orleans, who, again, were from all over the U.S. What they said to me–the most loyal base of the Democratic Party knows Joe Biden is old and that he didn't do well at the debate. But what they actually care most about is beating Donald Trump. Biden also went to Philly, to a black church filled with actual black people on Sunday–do take notes Republicans–which went like this. [Cuts to video] PASTOR J. LOUIS FELTON: If we ever lock arms and come together, there’s no election that we cannot win, there's no enemy that we cannot defeat. We are together because we love our president. We pray for our president. [Transition] PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I've been doing this a long time. And I honest to God have never more optimistic about America's future, if we stick together. (Transition) We must unite America again. That's my goal. That's what we're going to do. God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Cheers and applause) Thank you. [Cuts back to live] REID: Okay, that's an entire black church, and not a black church filled with MAGA visitors, chanting, "Four more years for President Biden." He then spoke to a group of labor leaders and members in this very important and his real-life home state.  All of that happened this weekend but please, please, privileged, rich, white, elected Democrats, you just keep publicly defenestrating your party leader and president to feed the media thirst for “Democrats in Disarray” stories. Because you're scared for your own seats, and apparently don't know how to campaign on a surging economy, high-tech jobs, and $35 insulin.  I mean, you're the most important thing here, right? You and your donors, of course, not the actual voters in your party base who can't afford to see prices double on everything they buy, due to Trump's China tariffs, and who would be the first ones fired from their federal civil service jobs under Project 2025, or shot in the streets by Trump’s stormtroopers if they protest. You do you. The media is super entertained and that's–that’s what’s important. And, also, this is your brand, right? Remember after Democrats passed Obamacare? Obamacare is popular now, sure. Imagine being able to see a doctor or take your kid to the emergency room. But it wasn’t always a slam-dunk, people-pleaser. And it was actually quite toxic, with some Democrats running away from the president’s signature healthcare reform law. They didn't want Obama to campaign for them or endorse them. They treated him as a pariah in states where he was deeply unpopular. In 2014, Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democratic secretary of state, challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, refused to reveal whether she had even voted for President Barack Obama, dodging a question by reporters and even during a debate of Kentucky’s Senate race. [Cuts to video] BILL GOODMAN: Why are you reluctant to give an answer on whether or not you voted for President Obama? ALISON LUNDERGAN GRIMES: Bill, there's no reluctancy. This is a matter of principle. Our constitution grants, here in Kentucky, the constitutional right for privacy at the ballot box for a secret ballot. You have that right. Senator McConnell has that right. Every Kentuckian has that right. [Cuts back to live] REID: Ms. Grimes had no problem, however, noting that she was a delegate for Hillary Clinton, at the 2008 Democratic convention. The party does this! It's quite on brand. Running from Obama in 2014 helped to finally complete the Republican takeover of the South, including all but two Senate seats in every state legislature.  And you know who paid the highest price for Democrats’ scaredy-cat fumblings when a Democrat holds the White House? The same kind of voters who were at Essence Fest. Because Republican control of the part of the country where a majority of black Americans still live has meant dramatic declines in education funding, stalled expansion of Obamacare, radical abortion bans, including threats to jail women and doctors in states like Louisiana, book bans and total bans on teaching accurate black history.  Black Americans are the proverbial canary in the coal mine. When conservatives hurt us, which they’ve always done, regardless of whether they’ve called themselves Democrats or Republicans throughout this country’s history, the pain is soon shared by everyone of every race, who is not a rich, white, straight man or his loyal anti-woman-voting wife.  But, you know, freaking out…(laughs) is kind of the Democrat's brand. The editorial-board class at one point or another has called on every Democratic president, from Bill Clinton on, to withdraw their candidacy for reelection, and elected Democrats have promptly fled from that president. It is kind of a tradition. Republicans briefly did the same after the "Access Hollywood" tape came out and for a hot second after the January 6th insurrection, when the Chicago Tribune and other papers–even Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal–said Trump should resign. Something none of the major editorial boards did when Trump snatched migrant babies from their mothers, or banned Muslim grannies from coming to the U.S., or killed a million people by lying about Covid, and telling folks to inject bleach into their bodies, rather than just take the vaccine that his own government helped fund the creation of.  But as we all know, that doesn't last either time, because in the end, the Republican Party stands for nothing except accumulating power for its own sake and for the sake of tax cuts for their donors. And most of the media just enjoy the drama. But real people actually get hurt by this stuff.  And over time, the restrictions that Republicans erect to voting and the disillusionment triggered by having every advancement canceled and replaced by increased incarceration, increased poverty and want, while a number of small number of rich people eat up all the money and destroy the literal air non-rich people breathe, creates the kind of vicious cycle that produced 23 percent voter turnout in the off-year election that put Louisiana’s Donald Trump, cruel and awful Jeff Landry, in the governor's mansion.  But for the grace of God and voters, America could soon be Louisiana, or Florida, or Texas, or Tennessee, because Republicans are determined to inflict the same poverty, and want, and cruelty, and mass incarceration, and woman slavery, and un-Christian nationalism that they’ve condemned the states that they run, too, on us all–with Trump as their Project 2025 dictator marionette, and the Leonard Leo Supreme Court conservatives as their star chamber. But ask elected Democrats what the real problem is and they, and most of the media, will tell you it's Democratic presidents, every time.  Meanwhile, we got a taste of what conservatives have in mind if elected Democrats and donors succeed in driving Biden off the ticket in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris. This person, writing at the Rupert Murdoch rag The New York Post, rolled out the right’s new favorite slur, sliming Vice President Harris as the DEI-hire vice president. To which I have both a question and a statement. First, the question–exactly who are you, Charles Gasparino? Like, literally who are you? And what qualifies you to write an editorial about the presidency, even in the dollar-store New York Times, other than you being a white guy? Like, what are your qualifications besides that, Charles? Are you, like, a presidential historian or something? No? Oh, right! You're just a discount rat, conservative, generic, racist, angry person. Not sliding in on unqualified at all, are you?  And now the statement, which I will edit to PG-13, as this is a family show. We are not going to let a bunch of mediocre, whiny conservatives turn Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into a slur. That lady you’re sliming was the attorney general of this country’s largest state and a United States senator, which fully qualifies her for her current position as Vice President of the United States.  And, if she were to become president, not only would she have earned it by getting tens of millions of votes–and thus becoming a duly elected official–DEI–she would also possess more qualifications than you–what was the–what was the name again?–Something Gasparino?–could ever hope to have on your best day. Now, go off and write about golf, or dancing off-beat, or whatever your actual skillset is, ‘cause you’re not qualified to discuss the vice president. She's doing her black job and has no time for you. I, however, did have time tonight. So, there you go.

Just weeks after headlining a lucrative Hollywood fundraiser for Joe Biden's re-election campaign, movie star George Clooney wrote in a "guest essay" in The New York Times that Biden has got to go and let someone else "save democracy" from Donald Trump. “The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time,” Mr. Clooney wrote. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” “We are not going to win in November with this president,” Clooney added. “On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.” This is a contrast with actor Michael Douglas, who in April told CNN, "the people that I’ve talked to and everybody that I have, say he’s sharp as a tack! He’s fine." In a news report, the Times argued Clooney is "by far the highest-profile figure in the party to call for the president to end his campaign." This would leave out the late-night comedians like Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, who were having a fit on Monday at how Biden cannot defeat that monster Trump.  Meanwhile, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik took a break from his regular "news" pieces attacking Fox News to evaluate President Biden calling in to Morning Joe. On the horribly named evening newscast All Things Considered, Folkenflik insisted MSNBC was more "rooted in journalism" than Fox because it was associated with NBC News.  Folkenflik also turned up Monday on the the nationally distributed public-radio chat show Here & Now, where the host asked him to explain at length the liberal view that there's a double standard in the press, that Biden's bungling has been the central story for the last 12 days, which is like a gift to Trump. Folkenflik obliged, insisting like liberals do that Donald Trump rarely makes sense in his speeches and has promised to be an authoritarian if he gets a second term.  Taxpayer-funded liberal bias. That's NPR and PBS. Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.   

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