Nicole Russell asks the question at USA Today
Biden’s cancer diagnosis raises the question: Was he ever in good enough health? | Opinion
On May 18, Americans learned that former President Joe Biden has stage 4 cancer that has, unfortunately, metastasized to his bones.
It’s sad that Biden, who for decades served our nation as a senator, vice president and president, now faces a life-threatening illness only four months after leaving the White House.
But I can’t help but think about what Democratic Party leaders and much of the news media told Americans only a year ago. Biden was then portrayed as “active” and “robust.” He was more than ready, according to the Democratic Party, for four more years as commander in chief, even as he approached his 82nd birthday. (snip)
So, I have questions for the Democratic Party. When did Democratic leaders know that Biden was incapable of serving a second term? Why did they insist on a debate with Trump so early in the election year? Was the debate a fail-safe before the party’s convention in case Biden proved to be as shaky as we all eventually witnessed? Why should voters trust that the party will tell them the truth in the future?
They won’t. But, Democrats will still vote Democrat no matter what.
Hur decided not to prosecute Biden for improperly possessing classified documents because the special counsel thought a jury would view the president as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
That raised justified questions about whether Biden was competent enough to serve as president. But Democrats and much of the media brushed aside those concerns.
And the media will still pimp for Democrats. That’s what they do. It won’t change. They have fallen too deep down the well to get out and actually be reporters. Nor do most want to.
Conservatives were right to be suspicious a year ago about Biden’s health. But why weren’t more journalists asking tough questions at the time? Why weren’t Democratic leaders pressing for the good of their party and the country for Biden to step aside long before the debate debacle?
Conservatives were suspicious during the 2020 campaign, with Biden being hidden away for the most part.
Biden’s Late Cancer Diagnosis Exposes Democrats And The Media As Legitimate National Security Risks
Until Democrats start naming names and apologizing for their reckless, craven conduct as it relates to Joe Biden, I don’t want to hear another word about Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats.
It was fine timing to get news over the weekend that the former president, a well established dotard, has an advanced and aggressive form of prostate cancer that has reached his bones. There’s a strong likelihood that Biden was diagnosed with some stage of the disease before he was even elected president, and he almost certainly had it while in office. Yet the public knew nothing until Sunday.
Prayers up for Biden, but this is an appalling scandal. And it comes just as the dying news media are finally acknowledging that, yeah, Biden’s brain was rapidly browning over as he sat in the Oval Office, where he was losing track of space and time as the commander of the United States military, the point person for nuclear war.
Yeah, always good to have someone mentally incompetent driving the the world into WWIII.
Recall that now-Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, when he was serving as Donald Trump’s first-term White House physician in 2018, rendered a medical summary on the president that more or less described Trump as in good health, if a little overweight and in need of some exercise. The dying media questioned him for an hour at a press conference. They were sure that Jackson was deceiving the public by not divulging some mental affliction that would have affirmed their feverish desire to see Trump removed from office by way of the 25th Amendment.
But, not only did the media not ask questions, they covered it up. I don’t expect anything to change.
Realize that most members of the legitimate media are educated as opposed to the the dedicated right-wing media.
“It’s a well known fact that reality has a liberal bias”. — Colbert
Yes, President Biden is old!! As is Mr trump! The media has been cowered by trump! Have you listened to any of trum’s word salads? He’s nuts and getting worse by the day. He is capricious, volative, vain and stupid!!
And yet, President Biden left Mr trump a healthy economy!
In a few short months trump has screwed it all up. Tariffs, no tariffs, tariffs, postponed tariffs. Recession a’comin’. Deported citizens! Deported legal residents! He has destabilized America AND the world!
Our Missourian with Trump Derangement Syndrome wrote:
Perhaps you should look at the main page of The New York Times website, or that of The Washington Post. Those august newspapers don’t seem to be having a lot of trouble criticizing President Trump. The opinion section of The Philadelphia Inquirer — I’ve already got too many hyperlinks in this comment — is a mass of hatred for our President.
CNN and PMSNBC are almost 24/7/365 Trump hatred. All of the things that we evil, reich-wing conservatives said should be reported concerning out 46th President today’s credentialed media are doing concerning our 47th.
“Realize that most members of the legitimate media are educated as opposed to the the dedicated right-wing media,” you said. What we realize is that the “legitimate media” are dedicated to the advancement of the Democratic Party! “Democrats with bylines, Robert Stacy McCain calls them, and even our savant from St Louis ought to recognoze and admit it.
Our Kentuckian with Trump Devotion Syndrome wrote:
It’s called reporting – and they pull their punches.
Of course, the legit media criticize trump more than they did President Biden. tRump-47 is the worst president in U.S. history. Duh. His only competition is his very own self, LOL!
His tariff program is stupid and counterproductive and is leading to stagflation.
His immigration program is stupid, illegal and cruel.
His Russia policy is stupid and episodic.
His corruption is off the charts.
His DOGE boyz are creepy.
His Cabinet members are stupid and incompetent. Examples: Kennedy, Noem, Hegseth, Lutnick, Blondi, McMahon, Bessent, Gabbard, FBI head Kashyap, OMB Head Vought (Mr Project 2025)… His VP is an asshole, like Big Donnie. His best Cabinent member is Little Marco who is average at best. fElon Musk is the biggest POS in America.
Trump is a belligerent, dishonest, and not too bright asswipe.
Sorry Rimjob but most constituents prefer their President be dementia and cancer free instead of lying about it.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47
Our distinguished host quoted:
The Democrats have been concealing their Presidents’ health ever since they nominated a cripple. Then there was John Kennedy’s Addison’s Disease. But, to be fair, Republicans aren’t going to tell a harsh truth about their candidates.
Yes, the Democrats lied, lied through their scummy teeth, about Joe Biden’s condition, but think about it: did Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein just blindly accept President Nixon’s minions’ stories and assurances? Did Katherine Graham or Ben Bradlee tamp down their reporters’ findings, or reassign them to cover night court?
We evil, reich-wingers have been yelling about Mr Biden’s incompetence and descent into dementia for years now, and one would have thought that somewhere, somehow, some junior reporter would think, you know, maybe I can win a Pulitzer Prize if I investigate this. But either every last reporter in New York and Washington, every one of them, thought that no, there’s no there there, or their editors and publishers told them to just drop it. Why? Because they were all 100% in the bag for the Democrats, and have been for decades! Whatever news there was there was not any of the news that’s fit to print!
The question is not will the voters ever trust the Democrats again; the question should be whether anyone will ever trust the credentialed media again?
Doctor Professor Teach ignores that President Biden had the Covid “jab”!!! That’s where the cancer came from. That’s what caused the dementia!! mRNA mind control!!
Anyway, we are closer to WWIII now under the dotard trump with his destabilization of the world, and his isolation of the U.S. The world on one side, the U.S. alone on the other.
We have all known for over a decade that trump has severe personality defects, that are only getting worse. He’s an insecure narcissist, cruel and vindictive, vain to a fault, and a chronic liar.
Doctor Professor Teach cites Ronny Johnson’s assurances that trump is healthy, LOL. Yes, ‘that’ Ronny Johnson.
Change one can believe in. Leadership matters.
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
No rational person ever did trust Democrats.
Gawd you’re stupid.
Is Charlie Brown going for the football kick again?
They lied about Russia for 3 years yet everyone miraculously trusted them when they lied about “Covid” in order to rig the election. Then they lied about Hunter’s laptop. Then they lied about Trump’s “crimes.” Then they lied about Joe’s dementia. We know they also lied about Epstein by spiking the story for several years. They lied about an “insurrection.” They even lied about Kamala Harris’s race. They will lie to your face and tell you a boy is a girl.
Democrats only lie. Will people ever trust them again? No. But Democrats will. They aren’t people, they are animals.
OK we’ll always have morons inside and outside of the party like Michael Dowd who will trust everything they say no matter what.
He’s been listening to and telling us lies for the last eight years. Ladies and gentlemen we present to you the inevitable brain dead Elwood Dowd. Fool, liar, bafoon.
“Will voters ever trust them again?”
Of course they will…..in droves! When Progressives infiltrated and then took over the public school system in the early 20th century, their long-game of dumbing down students began. Fast forward to the current day, and you can clearly see the results of generations of increasingly stupid, mind-numbed, uneducated lemmings; precisely what Progressives planned.
Dems will get trust and “votes”, one way or another.
COVERUP: CBS News medical contributor and former Biden transition official claims White House doctors didn’t do PSA tests on the president to save money due to his advanced age. As a result, they missed the cancer. ????
Dude was President of the United States, and the White House physicians didn’t run a test which requires a simple blood draw when they were already drawing blood from him for other tests, just to save a few bucks? Even Elwood P Dowd wouldn’t believe that!
“Will voters ever trust them again “
Again? Only rubes ever did to begin with. They deserve to go the way of the Whigs