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.
“Your honor, I’d like to offer evidence against President Trump and his associates”. What would that be, son?
“Well, they’re stupid and counterproductive, stupid again along with illegal and cruel, stupid one more time and episodic, stupid again and incompetent, don’t let me forget one is an asshole, and last but not least, one of them is creepy and a POS, dishonest and belligerent!” Judge-“Besides sounding like a 15 year old girl talking to her highschool friends, is that all you’ve got?” Yep…
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
PSA testing is unreliable and is not recommended for men over 70. Why? Because most prostate cancers are slow growing and biopsies in older gents have side effects. Many, many men die WITH, but not OF, prostate cancer. Same with many pituitary tumors.
It’s unlikely that President Biden’s cancer contributed to his frailties. He’s very old. Too old to be president. He should have declared early that he would not run. Mr trump would be 82 if he made good on his threat. He is deteriorating rapidly as well.
Cry harder, dumbass.
Your stupid lies have already been exposed.
There’s no going back, Rimjob.
Ellie
No. I’m 87 and the PSA test looks for spikes. IOW, you’re at 5 last test and now are at 9. That triggers the infamous finger wave looking for bumps/knots. Then comes the biopsy. Or not depending. Biden’s condition was known by his doctor and the staff. Now we know why he stepped down.
BTW – there are basically 2 types of prostate cancer. One is relatively slow growing which can morph into the fast version, or not, or the fast version may occur first.
Sorry, Jimbo… You know NOT of what you speak.
Mr Elwood P Dowd told the truth, but ignores one important fact:
It’s true that the Prostate Specific Antigen test is not normally called for above age 70, but there’s a significant difference between “men over 70” and the President of the United States. The PSA is run on a blood sample, and there would already have been a blood draw on the President during his physical; there is no detriment at all to running the extra test, and wouldn’t the health of the President be a rather major concern? There would have been no downside to running the test.
It is pretty obvious that the President of the USA is afforded the best medical care that everyone else’s money can buy. If Joe wasn’t getting it, it is because those around him already thought it was futile. Lots of cancer patients do not get treatment for their cancers because they believe the treatment is worse than death, when death is already inevitable and going to happen soon. Most senile people and late state Alzheimer’s get palliative care only. But Joe isn’t “most cancer patients”. It is sad that the President of the USA was so senile that he wasn’t even getting proper health care.
It is also sad that the Media and every Democrat on the planet knew Biden was unfit for even a first term and continued to lie about his health and fitness. Of course the Democrats and the Media (redundancy intended) lied about Joes Health. They lied about EVERYTHING. Most people already knew the healthy Joe narrative was a lie back when he was V.P. I still haven’t seen anything that looks like an apology from the Left for lying to us.
To me I saw on TV during the 2020 election that Biden was brain impaired. I saw that when Biden was in debates or media events he was drugged up and the MSM including Fox shielded him. I watched the night of the 2020 election and saw at the same time all counting stopped across the country with Trump way ahead. A few hours later at the same time all counting started across the country and Biden was ahead but there was no time for the counting to show that so I knew the election had been stolen.
This report of Biden having stage 4 prostate cancer that has entered his bones to me is something he has likely has had for 6+ years. White House doctors when he was VP should have reported his health and then when he was President. Cancer like this is not fast acting.
The Dems and Jill Biden likely knew Biden’s health issues and ran him as President so the Presidency could be controlled via AUTOPEN. The question is who was using the AUTOPEN to make laws, EOs, pardons, put in Judges and assign Executive Branch people. In other words who was running the country because it was not Joe Biden.
I gave up trusting MSM and Fox the night of the 2020 election. I do not trust any Dems
anywhere and have little trust of Republicans in DC.
Yes! The 30% hard core communist/democrats will support them no matter what.
The entire O’Biden administration needs prosecuted for treason. The democratic party is a domestic enemy and a terrorist organization hell-bent on the destruction of the Republic of the United States of America and mean tremendous harm to its people. The leaders of the Democratic Party are all traitors. Their actions, past and present, undeniably prove this fact. They speak lies to the truth! They cheat and murder. They are godless and violent. They need prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
Dave, even if I totally believe everything you said, that is not what Treason is. It is literally impossible for any elected president to be guilty of Treason since he is empowered to choose the direction of the state. Similarly, the appointed staff of elected officials, carrying out public policy of the president are also not committing treason.