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The Erick Erickson Show

S13 EP115: Hour 2 - The Media in Damage Control Mode

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The mainstream media is in damage-control mode after they missed the obvious mental and physical decline of Joe Biden.

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0:00.0

Greetings, conversationalists, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the second hour of this fine show,

0:06.1

six after the hour. We should get started with media accountability. I have seen the media now

0:14.3

since the George Stephanoplas interview go into unbridled, unmitigated damage control trying to claim that, well, they

0:25.0

had no idea.

0:26.7

Here's the problem for the media right now.

0:29.2

One, they either knew and participated in a cover-up or they did not know.

0:36.2

And somehow, Big Mama 3-2875 and Mad Trucker Billy Bob 511 on Twitter knew with their

0:45.8

anonymous accounts that Biden had dementia, as did 70% of the public.

0:50.9

And the American press corps did not.

0:53.3

Why is that? And the spin is somewhat outlandish on this.

1:00.2

On September 22, 2018, Peter Baker in the New York Times wrote this. President Trump has not even taken office before critics,

1:12.6

who considered him dangerous, began imagining how to get him out. One idea floated from the

1:17.2

very start was the clause in the Constitution permitting the removal of a president deemed unfit

1:21.9

to discharge his duties. 25th Amendment to the Constitution, Article 4, David Fr From, a conservative author and former speechwriter for President

1:30.2

George W. Bush, wrote presciently just eight days after Mr.

1:34.4

Trump's election in November 2016.

1:38.0

There has been a lot of talk about it.

1:40.9

Really?

1:41.5

There's been a lot of talk about it.

1:42.8

That's Peter Baker operating in the New York

1:46.5

Times in September of 2018. And why is that relevant? Because Peter Baker has not written a thing

1:55.6

about the 25th Amendment. In fact, this is Peter Baker's spin on July 5th.

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