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Joe Biden's physical 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,719 deterioration was so severe in twenty twenty three and twenty 12 00:00:43,799 --> 00:00:47,359 twenty four that even though we could all see it, 13 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:51,759 and even though his advisors and all the Democrats in 14 00:00:51,799 --> 00:00:56,159 the media, but I repeat myself, we're denying it. Advisors 15 00:00:56,479 --> 00:01:01,079 privately discussed the possibility that he would need to use 16 00:01:01,119 --> 00:01:06,439 a wheelchair if he won reelection. This was a conversation 17 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:10,959 that his people had they were going to have to 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,159 have him in a wheelchair. But after the election. This 19 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:22,840 according to CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios's Alex Thompson in 20 00:01:22,879 --> 00:01:28,959 their new book coming out May twentieth, original sin, which 21 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,799 I'm like, what is the the original sin that he 22 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,200 thought he could win again? Is that the original sin? 23 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,560 Or is it that he I'm not going to buy 24 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:42,680 the book, but they're releasing excerpts of the book. And 25 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:47,319 Jake Tapper this guy, like I used to have a 26 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:49,640 modicum of respect for this guy. Yeah, I mean it's 27 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,200 been a long time. Don't get me wrong, it's been 28 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:54,640 like years ago that I thought he's he's not as 29 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,159 terrible as like a lot of the other people. But 30 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:02,519 he just went like Trump broke him. And we played 31 00:02:02,519 --> 00:02:07,200 the clip before of him haranguing Lara Trump when she 32 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:11,719 was what the rnc CO chair I think and she 33 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:14,719 was talking about Joe Biden's mental decline, and he was like, 34 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:18,560 he has a stutter. It's a stutter. What do you 35 00:02:18,599 --> 00:02:21,599 think people with stutters think about your criticism? Because that's 36 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:26,319 what's going on. Like he would savage anybody that even 37 00:02:26,759 --> 00:02:33,240 suggested that Joe Biden was in mental cognitive decline. And 38 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,840 now he's got a book where he and Alex Thompson 39 00:02:36,879 --> 00:02:42,080 from Axios have interviewed two hundred people and they're saying, eh, yeah, 40 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,840 he was in decline, which we could all see the 41 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:51,360 discussions reflected the extent of the president's declining health, particularly 42 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,639 the significant degeneration of his spine, and his aides alarm 43 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,360 over it as Biden sought a second term at age 44 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,639 eighty one. The conversations also revealed the White House's determination 45 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:09,879 to conceal the reality of Biden's condition. Well, no, crap, 46 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,240 we all knew that we were covering this for years, 47 00:03:17,319 --> 00:03:20,759 and we were accused of doing cheap fakes. That's a 48 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,000 cheap fake. We would point out, Hey, do you hear 49 00:03:24,039 --> 00:03:27,840 the audio of Joe Biden during these like one or 50 00:03:27,879 --> 00:03:30,560 two interviews that he would do in the entire tenure, 51 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,520 The audio sounds really weird. Why is that? What's good? 52 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,280 His voice is so low. They have to raise the 53 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,319 mike volume all the way up. And when you raise 54 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,759 the mic volume all the way up in order to 55 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:50,120 capture the frail vocal cords, then you get room noise 56 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:55,960 and it just sounds like underneath. And that's the way 57 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,159 all of it. I pointed this out when he was 58 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:01,120 on the View the other day last week. Same thing. 59 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,840 They have to they got to crank up his mic 60 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,439 levels because his voice is so weak. We identified that, 61 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,520 we identified his gait the way he walked right, and 62 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,839 they tried to tell us that's because he broke his foot. 63 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,480 Remember that the book is based on interviews with more 64 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:25,240 than two hundred people, mostly Democrat insiders, with knowledge of 65 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,439 the events that unfolded during the final two years of 66 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,000 Biden's presidency. Almost all of the interviews took place after 67 00:04:33,079 --> 00:04:38,160 the twenty twenty four election. So two hundred people now 68 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:45,560 doing interviews, which tells you what they knew, which kind 69 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,759 of lays bare the lie that you know two people 70 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,600 can keep a secret as long as one of them 71 00:04:51,639 --> 00:04:57,079 is dead. People can keep secrets if they are invested 72 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:01,920 in the secret getting kept. Internal discussions. By the way, 73 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,680 this is from Axios's Alex Thompson writing this story. It's 74 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,000 adapted from the forthcoming book Original Sin, President Biden's decline, 75 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,759 it's cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again. 76 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:19,680 Internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair occurred, 77 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,120 but they determined they could not do so until after 78 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:28,480 the election. Biden's aides believed it was politically untenable. So 79 00:05:28,959 --> 00:05:32,480 think about this. You have a man who is eighty 80 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:37,120 one years old and is in need of or would 81 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,600 benefit from the use of a wheelchair, and the people 82 00:05:43,199 --> 00:05:49,199 around him, the people that supposedly love him, work for him, 83 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,759 admire him, believe in what he's doing. Right, these are 84 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:58,480 the people that ostensibly care the most about Joe Biden, 85 00:05:58,519 --> 00:06:03,759 the individual, the man, and they said, don't let him 86 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,240 use the wheelchair. We're not going to give that man 87 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:15,839 a wheelchair that we think he needs because it would 88 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:20,879 jeopardize our power. So sorry, Joe. We'll give you some sneakers, 89 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:24,920 all right. We'll give you some grippy sneakers. Will surround 90 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:28,000 you with staffers as you walk across the lawn, so 91 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,959 this way, if you start to fall, they'll catch you, 92 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,319 and they'll they'll block the camera view of you walking 93 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:36,800 oddly across the lawn. Right, We'll do all of this 94 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:38,519 other stuff, but we're not going to give you the 95 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,720 thing that you need, which is the wheelchair. Biden aids 96 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:47,519 thought it would be politically untenable. Now. His physician, a 97 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,360 fellow by the name of Kevin O'Connor, had long privately 98 00:06:51,399 --> 00:06:54,319 expressed concern about the toll that the presidency was taking 99 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,720 on Joe Biden's health. The doctor often argued with Biden's 100 00:06:57,759 --> 00:07:02,800 political officials to get more rest time into the president's schedule. 101 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,920 More naps. I'm as doctor, I'm prescribing more naps. O'Connor 102 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,920 sometimes equipped that Biden's staff members were trying to kill 103 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:15,040 him while he was trying to keep it, while he 104 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:19,480 the doctor, was trying to keep Joe alive. Biden's team 105 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,480 had increasing fears of a fall, particularly after he tripped 106 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,639 over that sandbag at the Air Force Academy in June 107 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,240 twenty twenty three. Remember that, and remember they blamed whoever 108 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:36,639 put the sandbag there. Aides then began taking many more 109 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,360 precautions to avoid a repeat. They tried to figure out 110 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,279 shorter walking paths. They began insisting on handrails for steps 111 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,319 up to the stage at his appearances. They had him 112 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:52,759 wear sneakers more often. They changed his visual briefings before 113 00:07:52,759 --> 00:07:56,639 events to ensure he knew every step he was expected 114 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:00,480 to take, and guided him more carefully through the movements. 115 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,240 We saw all of this, right they had. They had 116 00:08:04,279 --> 00:08:07,839 stuff marked out on the floor for him, right they 117 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,319 And that happens in the theater. They do like blocking. 118 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,720 They put tape, you know, markers that put your mark 119 00:08:12,759 --> 00:08:14,800 on the ground so you know where to go. They would, 120 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:16,439 but that's why you know, at the end, he was 121 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,439 always like looking for somebody to guide him away, because 122 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,360 that's what they were doing. They told him, we'll come 123 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:25,879 get you. We're gonna we'll walk you off the stage, 124 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:30,240 We'll walk you here, we'll do this, And that's why 125 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,919 he would turn to look for somebody, who's my guy 126 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,559 that I'm supposed to latch onto. And then when we 127 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,159 noticed it, they gaslit us and they told us there's 128 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,759 nothing to it. No, no, Barack Obama's not guiding him 129 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:47,399 off the stage. He's just he's just you know, warm 130 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:52,440 embrace of a friend and whatever. Throughout twenty twenty four, 131 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,720 Biden aids told reporters that the president's halting walk was 132 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:01,440 partly the result of him fracturing his foot four years prior, 133 00:09:03,279 --> 00:09:06,440 and that he refused to consistently wear his walking boot 134 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:10,639 during rehab. In short, they said Biden was being undone 135 00:09:10,759 --> 00:09:16,080 by his own vigor. Bah It says he's too spry. 136 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,159 He's just too spry. Say that's why he's now looking 137 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:25,240 all frail. It's because he's too spry. But of course 138 00:09:25,279 --> 00:09:28,600 that contradicted what the doctor had publicly reported at the time. 139 00:09:29,279 --> 00:09:31,039 He only had to wear the walking boot for ten 140 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,279 weeks and that the injury quote healed as expected. I 141 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,320 mean according to the doctor, But what does he know. 142 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:41,200 He's no political aid. O'Connor said that he had that 143 00:09:41,279 --> 00:09:46,279 Biden was suffering from significant spinal arthritis and that explained 144 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:52,720 the changes in Joe Biden's walk, his gait. If only 145 00:09:52,799 --> 00:09:56,559 there were signs. All right, if you're listening to this show, 146 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,159 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 147 00:09:58,159 --> 00:10:00,200 of current events, and I know you do too, And 148 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,720 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 149 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:07,480 Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 150 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,399 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Joe Biden was suffering from physical and cognitive decline. 172 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,279 According to the story which folks. This excerpt in Axios 173 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,559 focuses on his physical infirmities because that's what a lot 174 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,720 of media that was like the safe thing where they 175 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,559 could talk about his age, but it was about his 176 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,080 physical decline because they could see him walking and why 177 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:48,879 is he stumbling? Oh my gosh, he took another fall. Right. 178 00:11:49,919 --> 00:11:53,679 They're still not leaning into the cognitive side of this 179 00:11:53,759 --> 00:11:58,600 stuff yet. But according to the report, Biden, his family 180 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,279 and senior White House officials pushed forward with the president's 181 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,080 re election campaign, despite seeing signs of here it is 182 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:10,120 physical and mental decline over the course of his administration. 183 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,679 A Biden spokesperson Inrobates, who declined to be identified, said 184 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:21,960 in a statement to Axios, quote, Yes, there were physical 185 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,080 changes as he got older, but evidence of aging is 186 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,840 not evidence of mental incapacity. And so far we are 187 00:12:30,879 --> 00:12:35,000 still waiting for someone, anyone, to point out where Joe 188 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,279 Biden had to make a presidential decision or make a 189 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,279 presidential address where he was enabled to do his job 190 00:12:41,519 --> 00:12:45,080 because of mental decline. In fact, the evidence points to 191 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,720 the opposite. He was a very effective president. So no 192 00:12:49,759 --> 00:12:53,240 one has present. The gas lighting continues. The gas lighting 193 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,960 will continue until everybody believes it or they think they're insane, 194 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,000 which is kind of what gaslighting is all about. You 195 00:13:03,399 --> 00:13:08,399 don't have anybody, nobody has pointed out a presidential decision 196 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:14,720 or address where he was unable to do his job. Hey, 197 00:13:14,759 --> 00:13:19,080 do you remember that time Joe Biden was replaced by 198 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,159 doctor Jilson, his wife at one of the cabinet meetings. 199 00:13:23,399 --> 00:13:25,320 She ran the meeting or something. Remember that? Oh, how 200 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,639 about the time where he sat around the table and 201 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,200 they had to turn all of the placards with people's 202 00:13:31,279 --> 00:13:36,120 names on them. They had to turn them all to face. Joe. Yeah, 203 00:13:36,159 --> 00:13:41,440 because he was forgetting his own staffers and cabinet secretaries. 204 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:46,279 He didn't know the people's names around him. Remember that. 205 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:55,879 Andrew Powell at the Independent Journalism Review IJR dot com, 206 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,000 a top advisor, has said in an upcoming book that 207 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,080 former President Joe Biden ruined the campaign hopes of former 208 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,279 Vice President Kamala Harris by staying in the race too 209 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,679 long before bowing out. According to the Guardian, David Ploof, 210 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,120 who managed former President Barack Obama's winning two thousand and 211 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,679 eight presidential campaign and was a senior advisor in Obama's 212 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,759 White House, he was recruited to help with Harris's campaign 213 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,759 and her nightmare one hundred and seven days sprint against 214 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,320 Donald Trump. This is from the same book Original Sin. 215 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,279 They're blaming Biden. It's all Biden Proof, was reported as 216 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,639 saying while reflecting on Biden's decision to run for reelection 217 00:14:32,799 --> 00:14:35,000 and then continue on for more than three weeks after 218 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,840 his debate against Trump went disastrously, while raising questions about 219 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:42,720 his mental acuity and age. Plof said quote, he totally 220 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,080 bleeped us. I love this idea that Kamala Harris would 221 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,440 have won, but for Joe Biden staying in the race 222 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,200 as long as he did right, Like, that's the reason. No, 223 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:58,720 the longer she ran, the worst she did. 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You know, 255 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:43,080 you got to stay active and put some big training 256 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:44,879 wheels on the side of it so it doesn't tip over. 257 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:47,399 Maybe I don't know. I'm not trying to be mean. 258 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,000 I'm saying, like, if it's good if he enjoys bicycling 259 00:16:50,039 --> 00:16:52,120 and you got some bike paths you can ride on. 260 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,320 Maybe he rides the bike on the beach at one 261 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,480 of his mansions. I don't know, so let me go. 262 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:06,079 I mentioned Jake Tapper, one of the authors of this book, 263 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:13,000 Original Sin, and two anecdotes from this book were provided 264 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:17,720 to The Guardian. They've got excerpts and this is from 265 00:17:17,799 --> 00:17:19,400 Hang on a second, where am I pulling this from 266 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:25,839 Jim Garretty at National Review. He has these excerpts. First, 267 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,720 one senior aide who quit the White House because they 268 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:34,640 did not think Biden should run, admits to the authors 269 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:39,079 of the book, quote, we attempted to shield him from 270 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:44,079 his own staff. So many people didn't realize the extent 271 00:17:44,319 --> 00:17:49,759 of the decline beginning in twenty twenty three. That's not physical, folks, 272 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:56,400 that's mental. You're shielding him from his own staff. And 273 00:17:56,519 --> 00:17:58,920 what Garretty says is if you're afraid of the president's 274 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,799 staff interacting with him for fear that they will leak 275 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,680 that the president has declined so much that he can't 276 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:10,519 perform his duties, then he should not be president. Guys, 277 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:13,160 what are we doing here? Right? Like, oh, we got 278 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,240 to keep everybody away from him. Okay, well, then he 279 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,480 can't keep doing the job. If you're worried about somebody 280 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:21,559 leaking that he is, that he is in mental cognitive decline, 281 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,519 then that's the point where you exercise the twenty fifth 282 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:27,880 Amendment option. You know, the thing you guys were experts 283 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,599 on four years prior when Trump was the president and 284 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,880 you were saying that he needed to be removed for 285 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,839 twenty fifth Amendment purposes. I know you are aware this exists, 286 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:43,279 and yet here you are with your own guy displaying 287 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:48,279 the very kinds of behavior that you accuse Trump of displaying, 288 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,559 and your response is to not do the thing for 289 00:18:52,839 --> 00:18:56,440 the country. Your response that you demanded Republicans do that 290 00:18:56,559 --> 00:18:58,599 Trump's cabinet do you said they had to do that. 291 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,680 And when your guy is actually in that position of 292 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:06,880 cognitive decline, you just freeze out all of the people 293 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,519 around him, his secretaries. Why why would freeze Why would 294 00:19:10,519 --> 00:19:13,839 he be freezing out the secretaries because they're the ones 295 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:18,599 who would exercise the twenty fifth Amendment right, so you 296 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,000 got to keep them in the dark, no wonder. Lloyd 297 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,279 Austin disappeared for a couple of weeks, not telling anybody 298 00:19:25,319 --> 00:19:28,519 where he was. He probably thought, like, nobody really cares 299 00:19:28,839 --> 00:19:31,079 what I'm doing anyway. I don't ever meet with the president, 300 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,319 and so I'm just going to go in for the surgery. 301 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:35,680 I'm going to go to the hospital for a couple 302 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,519 of weeks and now I'll be back. It's fine. It's 303 00:19:39,559 --> 00:19:42,400 almost as if everybody around Joe Biden feared that his 304 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:46,119 mental declines effect on the election, but had no fear 305 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:50,359 for his mental decline's consequences for the country. Jim Garrity 306 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,640 is exactly right. So that's the first anecdote. Here's the 307 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,599 second from the Guardian newspaper quote. Since at least twenty 308 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,480 twenty two, Biden has been increasingly own to lose his 309 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,160 train of thought and struggle to remember the names of 310 00:20:05,319 --> 00:20:10,200 top aids. His speeches can be incoherent and difficult to hear. 311 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:14,160 When he proved incapable of delivering a two minute video 312 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:19,160 address without stumbling, aids filmed him with two cameras so 313 00:20:19,319 --> 00:20:24,400 the edit would be less obvious, like this is a 314 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,200 two shot. You set up two different cameras. I think 315 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,319 it was Actually I Love Lucy was the first television 316 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,039 program ever filmed with multiple cameras and so they could 317 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:38,000 do cut. They can do cut to camera one, cut 318 00:20:38,079 --> 00:20:40,240 to camera two, cut the camera back to one, back 319 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:43,920 to two. Back then you had mission back in, not 320 00:20:44,039 --> 00:20:47,319 mission control in the control room and a director saying, 321 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:50,519 you know, go to camera one, all right, back to two. 322 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,440 So both camera operators are always running, they're always filming, 323 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,960 and then the director makes the call on which shot 324 00:20:59,079 --> 00:21:03,160 to use. Well, that's what they did for Joe Biden's 325 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:06,920 two minute speech. And this was known by the way. 326 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:11,720 We talked about this because Steven Miller at The Spectator 327 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:16,599 talked about it, who made repeated observations about how often 328 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,319 Joe Biden videos featured what's called jump cuts. A jump 329 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,359 cut is where there's obviously an edit point and then 330 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,880 like obviously because like maybe the president is kind of 331 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,680 looking off to the right, and then the next you know, 332 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:34,079 the next cut is him looking off to the left. 333 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:39,440 It's a jump cut. It's not a smooth transition, and 334 00:21:39,559 --> 00:21:42,160 we could tell. And the reason why you do the 335 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:44,720 jump cuts is because he can't even get through a sentence. 336 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,119 They had to just keep having him restate, restate, restate, 337 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,400 until they got one they could use, and then they 338 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,960 would edit in each sentence, and then they try to 339 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,960 make it look intentional with the jump cuts, like it's edge, 340 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,119 but no, it's it's indicative of him not being able 341 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,160 to read through a two minute looking at the camera comment. 342 00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:15,759 Yeah that everybody else it was all cheap fakes. Yeah, 343 00:22:16,559 --> 00:22:20,440 here's Jake Tapper. This is a montage from our friend 344 00:22:20,519 --> 00:22:24,680 over at Grabyan named Tom Elliott Grabyan Media. This is 345 00:22:24,759 --> 00:22:31,839 the super cut Jake Tapper basically helping advance the conspiracy 346 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,240 by telling everybody who saw what was going on that 347 00:22:35,319 --> 00:22:36,640 they didn't really see what they were going on. 348 00:22:36,759 --> 00:22:38,559 Speaker 2: How do you think it makes little kids with stutters 349 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,119 feel when they see you make a comment like that. 350 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,200 It's very clearly a cognitive decline, That's what I'm referring to. 351 00:22:45,319 --> 00:22:46,519 It makes me uncomfortable. 352 00:22:46,559 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: You it's so amazing. 353 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 2: It's so amazing to me that trying to figure out 354 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,559 an answer a cognitive decline in a Biden embraces his 355 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,920 stutter talking about it, while Trump mock said, exaggerates it. 356 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:02,599 The littles it. He's sharp physically, I mean mentally, Yeah, 357 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:04,960 I think the question is physically right right or so 358 00:23:05,279 --> 00:23:07,720 right right? And the guy who's his chief opponent is 359 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:09,279 only three or four years younger than him. May be. 360 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,160 I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age, mental fitness, fitness, 361 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,079 ability to lead. Of those supporting Biden, you said, quote, 362 00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:17,200 shame on all of you pretending everything is okay. You're 363 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,680 leading us in him into a disaster. Do you worry 364 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,839 that you damaged him at all? I don't doubt that 365 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:22,799 you got hugs. 366 00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:25,079 Speaker 1: And by the way, this is in his interview with 367 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,480 Dean Phillips. Remember who was a Democrat trying to beat 368 00:23:28,599 --> 00:23:32,400 Joe Biden in a primary, but then the Democrats closed 369 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,440 their primary. 370 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:37,319 Speaker 2: And handshakes behind closed doors today and maybe even publicly 371 00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:40,839 some of them because they like you personally. But I've 372 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,359 heard a lot of really nasty stuff about you from 373 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,799 your Democratic colleagues. I mean, just like, what is he thinking? 374 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:50,400 Exercise in narcissism, I mean false claims to the Wall 375 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,880 Street Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity. He's 376 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,079 eighty one and his memory. You know, it doesn't seem great. 377 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,400 It's not horrible, but I don't understand the outage quote 378 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,359 behind closed doors Biden shows signs of slipmant quote. The 379 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,359 Wall Street Journal is owned by newscrep which is run 380 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,440 by the Murdocks. Beyond the headline, there is some critical 381 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,440 nuance here. The article is mostly based on observations of Republicans, 382 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:17,400 with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the only one going on 383 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:20,279 the record. They do note in the article that most 384 00:24:20,319 --> 00:24:24,000 of the criticism comes from Republicans. Have you heard any 385 00:24:24,079 --> 00:24:27,240 concerns from anyone who has met with President Biden about 386 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,960 seeming a little slower? 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Former President Joe Biden had to 414 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:23,279 be repeatedly reminded that the movie star he was speaking 415 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,640 with at a June twenty twenty four fundraiser was his 416 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:32,640 longtime friend George Clooney. That's in the new book from 417 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:37,640 Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Now it can be told 418 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,920 Clooney and Biden had known each other for about two 419 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:51,279 decades before this high profile California fundraiser, but Biden's diminished 420 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:56,039 physical appearance was a quote unquote holy poop moment, except 421 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,519 he didn't say poop for Clooney. Clooney had not seen 422 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:06,079 Joe since twenty twenty two. This excerpt from the book 423 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,240 was published in The New Yorker. The book quotes an 424 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:14,359 aid telling Joe Biden when he saw Clooney and didn't 425 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:19,720 recognize him. The aide says, you know, George, George Clooney, 426 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:28,720 and then, oh, George has alone the author's right quote, 427 00:27:29,039 --> 00:27:35,000 Clooney was shaken to his core. The President hadn't recognized him, 428 00:27:35,559 --> 00:27:40,160 a man he had known for years. According to the book, 429 00:27:41,079 --> 00:27:44,559 others at the fundraiser described Joe Biden as quote slow 430 00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:49,720 and almost catatonic. It was to some of them terrifying 431 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:53,039 and as you heard in the clip that I played 432 00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:57,359 from Grabian News, the super cut the montage of all 433 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:05,880 of the Jake Tapper denialisms, Jake Tapper was constantly pointing 434 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,839 out when The Wall Street Journal did its story which 435 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:16,599 was really the first big story that exposed the widespread 436 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:21,400 concerns of Joe Biden's declining mental and cognitive state. And 437 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:25,480 he kept pointing out that, oh, these are mostly Republican sources. 438 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,400 Those Republicans, they're just attacking him. He just just dismissed 439 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,319 all of this criticism, all of these observations because they 440 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:39,799 were Republican. And there's a word for that, partisanship. Right. 441 00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,480 As a journalist, which Jake Tapper was a Democrat comms 442 00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:47,200 guy before he landed at CNN, But in journalism, right, 443 00:28:47,279 --> 00:28:51,640 you're supposed to you're supposed to try to understand and recognize, 444 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,160 identify the motivations for why people are talking with you 445 00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:58,279 and giving you information. And yes, while one point would 446 00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:01,519 be that Republicans are talking to the Wall Street Journal 447 00:29:01,599 --> 00:29:08,359 for this article because they want Joe Biden to lose, however, 448 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,640 the inverse is also true, and you also have to 449 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,359 take that into account that Democrats are not wanting to 450 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,079 talk about it, They are not admitting what is obvious 451 00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:24,799 because they too have a political stake in denying it. 452 00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:30,119 And while Jake Tapper could easily identify any kind of 453 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:35,680 political motivation from the Republicans, he just couldn't He just 454 00:29:35,799 --> 00:29:38,839 couldn't see any on the left. There's just nothing from 455 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,480 the Democrats. It's one of the things I've talked about 456 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,440 this in the past. When you go to journalism in school, 457 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,720 you have to pick one or the other. It's a 458 00:29:49,759 --> 00:29:53,279 superpower that you get with your diploma, and you only 459 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:56,359 get to pick one, so you can identify the political 460 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,759 machinations of the Republicans or of the Democrats. You can't 461 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,079 see both. So it's unfortunate. I don't know why they 462 00:30:05,119 --> 00:30:07,640 haven't figured out why did Grant have had a grant 463 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,759 like maybe just a little bit of each from each 464 00:30:09,839 --> 00:30:13,799 party kind of thing. But no, that's the only explanation 465 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,359 I can come up with. And then of course they 466 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,759 had the debate, and then of course, three weeks later, 467 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,960 George Clooney writes his op ed and he said, it's 468 00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:26,279 devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was 469 00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:28,720 with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the 470 00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:33,279 Joe big effing deal Biden of twenty ten. And people 471 00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:36,319 saw Clooney's op ed at the time. We talked about 472 00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:38,680 it at the time that he was the voice of 473 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,200 Barack Obama. George Clooney was writing what Barack could not, 474 00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:47,960 because I don't think Joe and Jill, sorry doctor Jill, 475 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,039 I don't think they've ever gone swimming off of the 476 00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:56,240 yacht owned by George Clooney in some you know, foreign paradise. 477 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,960 That was the Obamas. So the Obama's in the cloonies 478 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:03,920 are tight. And so when Clooney wrote the op ed, 479 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:10,880 there's no way that was not signed off on by 480 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,079 Barack Obama, and that's the way it was interpreted. And then, 481 00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:19,440 of course, shortly thereafter, Joe Biden is cood. He says 482 00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:22,240 he will be dropping out, and then of course he 483 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:24,240 is to blame for staying in the race, even though 484 00:31:24,279 --> 00:31:30,319 everybody around him, right that concealed this decline. Nobody else 485 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,920 knew what was going on. Nobody else could see it. 486 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,839 Only we could see it from way down here in Charlotte. 487 00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:41,000 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 488 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,119 so much for listening. I could not do the show 489 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,640 without your support and the support of the businesses that 490 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,839 advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support 491 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,519 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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