I recently saw a headline that caught my eye: “Jake Tapper declares Biden White House lied about ‘cheap fakes’ after CNN peddled narrative in 2024.”
Oh, ya think, Captain Obvious?
What most thinking Americans have known since about 2021 is that Tapper — who is CNN’s lead Washington, D.C., anchor — is only now beginning to acknowledge, at best, or realize, at worst.
And he’s supposed to be their top news anchor.
Apparently, he just realized there was a cover-up of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline during the 2024 campaign. His examples? Biden not recognizing George Clooney at a fundraiser. Biden freezing on stage, only to be led off by Barack Obama. And now Tapper says — wait for it — those videos were real. Well, no kidding.
Let’s not forget who helped bury all of this in the first place: Tapper and his fellow vagabonds in the media, who spent four years transforming White House spin into glowing praise about how lucky we were to have Biden in the Oval Office.
When that now-infamous stage video made the rounds, the White House labeled it a “cheap fake.” That phrase was treated like gospel by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, then parroted by CNN and others who cited AI fears and video manipulation to dismiss legitimate concerns.
And it gets better.
Tapper and his sidekick Dana Bash moderated the Trump-Biden debate. They sat right there, on stage, as Biden faltered again and again. And said … nothing.
Instead, Bash defended the narrative, stating: “A lot of memes and what the White House is calling cheap fakes … in some cases are just not right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading about President Biden.”
But now, Tapper says the footage was real. So were the clips of Biden’s confusion at the Juneteenth gala and his wandering off from world leaders at the G-7 summit.
So what’s behind this sudden burst of honesty? As I was reading, it hit me: Tapper must have a book coming out.
And wouldn’t you know it — he does: “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
How this book could be seen as a reliable source, given what we know about Tapper and CNN, is beyond me.
Jake, the game’s over. The damage is done. The media machine milked the narrative dry, and now that it’s politically safe — and personally profitable — here you come, bravely speaking the truth with all the urgency of a man who just remembered to set his 2021 alarm clock.
And I’m sure CNN will help you hawk that book across its platforms.
But wait — there’s more.
While digging around, I came across a quote from former CNN Editor at-Large Chris Cillizza. He claimed White House aides “shamed” reporters, making it uncomfortable to ask questions about Biden’s mental condition.
Really? Isn’t that literally the job of a reporter? Seek the truth. Consequences be damned.
The media has no trouble turning over every rock when it comes to Trump. And when they don’t find anything, they sometimes just make it up (see Russia hoax).
Anyway, Cillizza now writes with the clarity of 20/20 hindsight on Substack: “There is now ample evidence that there was a cover-up on Joe Biden’s actual physical and mental condition by his aides in the White House. There’s been a ton of reporting on it — too much, I think, to dismiss it.”
Ya think, Chris?
Then he claims the mainstream media wasn’t part of the cover-up.
Surely, he was smirking. Or hallucinating.
Folks, it’s not courage when you speak up after the lights go out and the audience leaves. That’s just stage cleanup. And the media is showing up with a broom, years too late.
The point of all this is simple: the media, especially figures like Tapper and Bash, have spent years manufacturing and distorting the news to fit liberal narratives. It would be karma if Tapper’s book didn’t sell outside his own family and friends.
Now that a growing stream of “journalists” is admitting how brain-addled Biden was during his presidency, perhaps just one of them could do the job they were supposed to do in the first place: figure out who was actually running the White House so we can place them in a nice prison cell.
Alan Webber, a Bourbonnais resident, has been a weekly contributor to the opinion pages of The Gilman Star and City News, as well as a few publications in Arizona, for the past four to five years. He is also a blogger, occasional podcaster and the author of two novels — ‘Whipping
Post’ and ‘Roll Me Away.’
Raised in Iroquois County, in Chebanse and Clifton, he owns A.N. Webber Inc., a trucking company in
Kankakee, and graduated from Clifton Central High in 1975. His blog appears at www.webberswhippingpost.com. He can be reached at awebber@anwebber.com.