After Hours: The Media’s Big Miss on Biden’s Mental Decline
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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The news media is bringing up the rear on President Biden’s mental decline. We’ll also discuss developments in the story of lawsuits over government censorship including one filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. |
| 0:11.0 | Today the news media is bringing up the rear on President Biden's |
| 0:15.4 | mental decline. We'll also discuss developments in the story of lawsuits over |
| 0:20.0 | government censorship including one filed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm heading to a shoot location, pardon the background noise, I'm traveling right now, but I thought I'd give you some thoughts because a few of you asked how I feel about the notion that the media now is acting shocked, shocked I tell you that President Biden's |
| 0:48.0 | mental state or competency proved to be what it was in the first presidential debate with Donald Trump. |
| 0:57.0 | And so there's been a lot of questioning about how the media, particularly the White House |
| 1:01.6 | press corps and those who have greater exposure to those around the president, |
| 1:06.5 | how could they have missed the president's mental status and declining capacity? |
| 1:16.7 | A few thoughts about that. I think there's a combination of things at play. Number one, I don't think everybody missed it. I think some people knew full well what was happening with |
| 1:26.4 | President Biden. Even frankly before he was elected the first time there were a lot of |
| 1:31.5 | issues that were not being fully vetted or explored in the press. |
| 1:36.0 | They were pretty obvious to people who watched how President Biden then |
| 1:41.0 | candidate Biden operated and how he was being kept from doing many press |
| 1:46.6 | events which is really the story of his presidency as well and then I think |
| 1:51.8 | there were also some who genuinely allowed themselves to be convinced or snookered into thinking there was not an issue because of their own political bias. |
| 2:02.0 | That's what they hoped to be the case and so they genuinely |
| 2:04.7 | argued mistakenly that President Biden has never been sharper and that all of these |
| 2:11.0 | things that were dredged up to criticize his middle capacity were cheap fakes and that sort of thing. |
| 2:19.0 | But I think a big lesson in all of this has to do with what the news media's role has |
| 2:25.4 | become. I think there was a time when many of us thought our role in the media |
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