The ‘Conspiracy of Silence’
What a profoundly dishonest moment this is for Democrats and their media allies. With the mask ripped off President Biden’s incapacity, the politicians are publicly pretending Biden can last through Election Day as they privately discuss how they’ll replace him — while the “journalists” are rushing to report the truth they’ve been keeping under wraps all these months and years.
Case in point: Oliva Nuzzo’s “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden” in New York magazine.
She opens by recounting his remarks to donors last Saturday, grimly concluding that he hadn’t remotely laid to rest all the postdebate doubts — before dropping back in time to reveal she’d been “hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists, and donors” since January.
“Following encounters with the president, they had arrived at the same concern: Could he really do this for another four years? Could he even make it to Election Day?”
More: “Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names.”
It’s July; she’s been sitting on this stuff for at least six months, all while the party seemingly locked itself into nominating Biden — and while the White House and most media actively “debunked” all reporting that raised the very concerns she’s finally sharing.
By Nuzzi’s account, it got fully real for her at an April event — when she first encountered First Lady Jill Biden who “looked back at me with a confused, panicked expression,” the reason for which became clear when Nuzzi followed Jill’s eyes to the president, who looks not just old, but “something stranger, something not of this earth.”
And when Nuzzi approached him, “I tried to make eye contact, but it was like his eyes, though open, were not on. His face had a waxy quality.” He gave her a “sweet smile,” which “stayed frozen. He spoke very slowly and in a very soft voice. ‘And what’s your name?’ he asked.” She’s been covering him for years.
After the event, “the group of reporters — not instigated by me, I should note — made guesses about how dead he appeared to be, percentage wise. ‘Forty percent?’ one of them asked.”
Again, that was in April: She’s confessed to full membership in that “conspiracy of silence,” along with virtually the entire White House press corps.
This follows Carl Bernstein’s similar account a few days back about all the Biden supporters who’d told him of the prez’s scary condition over the past year. The reporter who helped bring down President Richard Nixon could have gone public about that long before the June 27 debate made Biden’s sad decline obvious to the whole world.
No, we’re hearing all this now for two reasons: 1) All the media “conspirators” are rushing to try to repair their own reputations, and 2) The push is on either to convince Biden and his family that he needs to quit the race to give Democrats any hope of not losing everything (the White House and Congress) this fall, or to set the stage for the party to push him out if he refuses to jump.
CNN’s Van Jones leveled with America this week when he said that Democrats, behind closed doors, are discussing “how” to replace President Biden, “not whether.”
It looks like they’re going to go with Kamala Harris, at which point the Dems’ media chorus will get going trying to make America forget her role in the coverup conspiracy.