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Is Biden’s Dementia Just Russian Disinformation?
If you believed that being punked about the provenance of the Hunter Biden laptop would render the corporate media cautious about promoting conspiracy theories concerning Russian disinformation, you were mistaken. As President Biden’s cognitive decline accelerates and countless videos document that sad reality, major news outlets are at it once again. As is usually the case, the New York Times led the effort by publishing a story last month under the following headline: “Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election.” It seems that the Kremlin is manipulating social media to mislead right-wing voters with “fake videos” about President Biden.
He has always been a venal mediocrity and time is not his friend.
Inevitably, this tale was picked up by cable “news” networks. On MSNBC, for example, Joe Scarborough offered this thoughtful analysis: “Here we have more reporting of what has never really stopped. That is, Vladimir Putin and Russia trying to help Trump get elected again.” Scarborough also made the following bizarre claim, “Russian disinformation is being spread on the House floor by Republican members.” Last week, the Washington Post joined the chorus of conspiracy theorists by accusing the Republican National Committee (RNC) of joining the disinformation plot by using out-of-context videos to “attack Biden” pursuant to the senior moments he experienced at the recent D-Day commemoration:
Such deceptively edited videos — known as “cheap fakes” because they misrepresent events simply by manipulating video or audio, or by leaving out context — have become staples of Republican attacks against Biden. They are easier to make and disseminate than content generated by artificial intelligence and can quickly go viral, allowing Biden’s opponents to take innocuous moments and turn them into attacks on his mental acuity … The videos taken from Biden’s D-Day event relied on taking the videos out of context as opposed to editing them in a misleading way.
This is a typical example of the “journalism” that caused the Washington Post to lose $77 million last year and half its digital traffic since 2020. The authors of the piece commit every offense they accuse the RNC of perpetrating. There was so much video taken of these D-Day events that it would be impossible for any news outlet to use without leaving almost all of it on the “cutting room floor.” The only difference between the clips labeled “edited video” and “source video” in the Post article is that the latter were edited in ways that unsuccessfully attempt to render Biden’s behavior seemingly normal. Such “reporting” is what prompted the Post’s CEO to tell aghast staffers, “People are not reading your stuff.” (WATCH: The Spectacle Ep. 117: David Catron: Why Tim Scott Should be Trump’s VP)
The Post story notwithstanding, there’s Biden’s odd behavior at the G7 Summit. He held few one-on-one meetings with other leaders, failed to appear at a gala that every other G7 leader attended, and greeted Pope Francis with a weird head bump that clearly “surprised” the Pontiff. And then there’s the skydiving demonstration. Despite furious denials by the White House, Biden wandered off as the other G7 leaders nervously looked on. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had to fetch him and point him in the right direction. And how are the Russians involved in all of all this? Most of these videos are viewed on X, and the corporate media imply that Elon Musk is pro-Russia, as in this Wall Street Journal podcast:
He’s not exactly known as someone who keeps his views to himself. But in recent months, Musk’s commentary has led some people to accuse him of having a pro-Russia stance and being an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Musk has called these accusations absurd, but his comments are raising questions about how X will be used in the upcoming US presidential election … And then you also, you look at X, the platform itself, and there’s concerns among some disinformation experts about how that platform is being used by Russia to stir the disinformation that reminds some of the 2016 presidential election cycle.
So, here we are: Biden’s problems are primarily attributable to Russian disinformation and that the main conduit through which it is conveyed is X, courtesy of Elon Musk. Never mind that, since 2016, Democrats like Hillary Clinton have insisted their self-inflicted wounds are all attributable to that perennial hobgoblin — Vladimir Putin. Forget that, if Musk hadn’t provided free internet service to Ukraine via Starlink, Russia’s invasion would probably have succeeded in less than a month. As Musk argues, he has probably done more than anyone to undermine Russia. Yet President Biden and the corporate media need someone or something to blame for his dismal job approval ratings and these people are congenital liars. (READ MORE: Tim Scott Is Trump’s Ideal Running Mate)
Consequently, there must be some dark conspiracy to portray Biden as a man whose limited gifts have been further vitiated by old age and the cognitive decline that often accompanies that condition. In reality, there is no need for some dark plot to undermine Biden’s stature. He has always been a venal mediocrity and time is not his friend. If he and the ghouls who constitute his inner circle continue to insist that he is qualified to serve a second term, he will probably be humiliated if he is capable of comprehending that he lost.
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