Did Journos Really “Miss” Biden's Health Issues? - WHCA Dinner

Ruthless Podcast

News, Politics

4.7 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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🔥 This year’s White House Correspondents' Dinner 🏛️ revealed everything wrong with establishment journalism. Instead of honoring reporters who told the truth early — like Siobhan Hughes and Annie Linskey — the event rewarded those who played it safe. Fearless reporting was ignored in favor of those who went along with the narrative. 📸 Behind the scenes, cringe-worthy mistakes and elite cluelessness 😬 stole the spotlight. Smug and Duncan took photos with liberal media darlings like David Hogg and Brian Stelter, who didn’t even realize they were being trolled. The highlight: organizers accidentally spotlighted Yamiche Alcindor while honoring April Ryan. You can’t make this stuff up. 🧠 The team exposes Biden's mental fitness and the media cover-up 🤯. Alex Thompson won an award for reporting Biden’s decline — long after others risked their careers to say the same thing. Real journalism was punished; political timing was rewarded. The press ignored what millions saw with their own eyes until it became undeniable. Don't miss our special interview with Tim Murtaugh as he details his fight to end the Biden pill penalty. #RuthlessPodcast #WHCD #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #Biden #MediaBias #NFLDraft2025 #ShedeurSanders #BillBelichick #SeanDuffy #FamilyTravel #YamicheAlcindor #AprilRyan #politicalpodcast #foxnews #JournalismReckoning #gop #2024elections Find out the true power of America's oil and natural gas. Go to LightsOnEnergy.org Call Congress and urge them to end the Biden pill penalty. Call 202-224-3121 Stop Dick Durbin's government takeover of credit cards before it's too late. Learn more at: GuardYourCard.com The US Steel and Nippon Steel partnership puts America first. Learn more at AmericaFirstSteel.org. Secure your financial future. Go to HelpUSRetire.org. Tell Congress to make the Trump tax cuts permanent. Learn more at ATR.News/BSalt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If the essence in the core of a White House correspondence dinner is to reward and celebrate
0:07.7	fearless journalism, fearless, meaning you're not concerned about what happens to you based on
0:16.4	telling the American people the truth, then Fox News, Chavon Hughes, Annie Linsky, and all of those people
0:25.3	should have been having a ticker tape parade outside of the Hinkley Hilton.
0:29.3	Right.
0:29.7	No, that's exactly right, because you have to ask yourself what constitutes fearlessness.
0:34.6	And I think in my book, Fearlessness for journalists in Washington is writing what
0:40.1	the pack will not say. The Biden pill penalty is crippling the development of life-saving drugs
0:48.0	for cancer, Alzheimer's, and other deadly diseases. It's already slashed funding for pill-based
0:53.8	medicines by 70%.
0:55.5	Thankfully, President Trump is leading the fight to end the Biden pill penalty. President
1:01.0	Trump's plan will unleash innovation, lower costs, and save American lives. Call Congress, tell
1:07.3	them to stand with President Trump and include a repeal of the Biden pill penalty in the budget reconciliation bill.
1:15.7	Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please.
1:20.5	Keep the faith. Hold the line and own the lips.
1:23.3	It's time for our main event.
1:29.2	Welcome back. Good Tuesday to you, the Routless Variety Program. I'm Josh Holmes, along with
1:34.5	comfortably smug Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, full cast and crew with you here today. Very, very big
1:41.2	things, fellas. Yeah, I mean, a lot of news, especially for us over the past weekend.
1:46.8	A lot to discuss.
1:48.1	I don't even know where to start at some level.
1:51.0	Look, we all had like spring break things and different things.
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