Jake Tapper's Publisher Puts Together a Compliation Purporting to Show that Tapper Reported on Biden's Dementia.
Mark Halperin Looks at the Clips In Context and Finds It's a Lie.

Jake Tapper's defense against bias is always the same: "I asked a question."

But not all questions are the same, of course.

On the one hand, there is a Tim Russert-style interrogation where he rejects your first rehearsed answer and presents evidence to you that prove that answer is false.

And then there is the "friendly inoculation" style of asking a question. When Jake Tapper "interviews" one of his Democrat allies, he's very friendly and very helpful towards them. And this includes in asking questions posed by Republicans.

He doesn't present the evidence that the Republicans have accumulated and demand that his Democrat Pal answer each and every point of evidence. No, he says something like, "Republicans are making an issue of this stupid nonsense, how do you respond?"

This is an inoculation, not an interrogation -- he's not challenging the Democrat, he is providing the Democrat a service by offering him the opportunity to present his rehearsed, canned spin answer to the public on a highly-rated television show.

Did I just say "highly rated"? Pardon me, I just did crack for the first time.

Then the Democrat can go around the country saying "These questions have all been asked and answered."

The Inoculatory Question is like a vaccine dose -- it's a tiny, harmless bit of a question designed not to infect you, but to make it harder to infect you with the allegation.

Jake Tapper is getting a lot of well-deserved criticism for serving as Field Marshal of the Democrat-Media Party's Dementia Cover-Up Parade, and he asked his publisher to defend him.

I don't know for a fact that he asked his publisher to play PR agent for him, but I do know it. Jake Tapper absolutely cannot abide any kind of criticism, especially when it's about this Handgun Control, Inc. spokesman's, and former Democrat congressional staffer's, obvious political activism.

I've mentioned this before, but in one of my many DM interactions with Jake Tapper, he attempted to rebut something I'd written about him having obvious Democrat sympathies.

He said, and I quote:

"You have no idea of what my politics are."

Sure, Jan. Sure.

Mark Halperin has been as annoyed with Jake Tapper playing reporter on the Biden Dementia Conspiracy. Of all liberal reporters, Jake Tapper is the second-least credible on the issue, after only Joe Scarborough.

His co-author, Alex Thompson, no one really questions because Thompson did show an "interest" in the story and did do some mealy-mouthed reporting on it, back before the election, even before the debate. His "reportage" was weak but at least it was something.

And who knows -- his editors probably toned down his stories because they're all co-conspirators in the greatest political fraud in American history, too.

But Jake Tapper? The guy who insists, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that all of Biden's slurring and Lost Time Events are due to his "childhood stutter"? A stutter that was only made known in 2019, when Biden's handlers needed to conjure excuses for why Biden so frequently forgot words and mistook dead foreign leaders for living ones and attempted to summon the ghost of a congresswoman he was delivering a eulogy for.

If you don't know how that worked: The lying media, including Jake Tapper, pushed the hoax on the country that when Biden lost his train of thought it was only because he was straining to keep his stutter under control. He wasn't having mental lapses, you see, he was just fighting heroically to keep a stutter under control, which sometimes caused him to invent words like "TRUMPALAZIZURE."

The "childhood stutter" that did not evidence itself for fifty years of this asshole's corrupt political career.

Jake Tapper pushed that lie -- without ever once asking where the evidence for this was, and without ever once notifying his (very small) audience that there was no evidence for it apart from the say-so of Biden's campaign staff.

Below, Mark Halperin looks at the full clips that Tapper's publisher presented in his defense, and finds that these are deceptive edits. Tapper never really asked about Biden's dementia or presented him with the evidence for it, like his attempting to summon the ghost of a dead congresswoman.

Instead, he merely asked about a poll showing that the public doubted Biden's fitness, and let Biden answer with the canned answer he always responds with, and offered no follow-up questions to this at all.

He let Biden inoculate himself from the charge, and then MovedOn.org like a good trained attack dog.

If you're interested in this story and the media's conspiracy to deceive the public, try to make time to watch Halperin's entire opening statement here. He flat-out says that Jake Tapper was part of the media conspiracy and is now creating "alternate realities" in which the press was trying desperately to get to the truth but was "stymied" by politicians lying.

He points out what we keep saying: You didn't need the White House staffers to admit Biden's cognitive decline to report it. You could just go to Twitter and see Biden saying "Where's Jackie?" while he was eulogizing Jackie's death.

Halperin unloaded again on Tapper this morning. He reveals that there is "no news" in the book -- an assessment shared by the NY Times in reviewing it. Apparently the book promises to expose the "cover-up," but never names anyone involved in the cover-up. It's observations about Biden being out-of-it, and complaints that unnamed, vague White House staffers bullied the Brave Firefighters of the media, but the bullies are never named. It's just anonymous sources making anonymous complaints about unnamed people.

Halperin also notes this factoid: How many paragraphs, he asks at about this point in the show, do you think the book mentions the infamous video of Biden appearing at a memorial for Congresswoman Jackie Walorski and asking "Where's Jackie?"

Zero. Zero paragraphs. In fact, Halperin says he ran a search on the document (he has a copy of the book) and found zero mentions of the "Where's Jackie?" incident.

So it's a book with no news in it written by a member of the conspiracy to deceive the American public that refuses to expose the conspiracy it promises to expose.

I think it's going to be another failed book by Tapper.

Tapper's entire premise is deceptive: You don't need "sources" to tell you that Biden has dementia when you can see it on TV every single week.

For example: Biden freezes on camera when asked a puff-piece question by a leftist reporter. Jake Tapper is claiming that he couldn't report this until "sources" confirmed that his eyes saw what his eyes saw.

You don't need to be a doctor to see that is a case of an elderly man forgetting important information that any non-impaired individual would know.

But Jake Tapper attacked Lara Trump for bringing up Biden's obvious cognitive decline, accusing her of making fun of children with stutters and insisting that only someone board-certified in neurology can see when an old person is mentally slipping.

The media is so determined to absolve themselves of complicity in the Biden Dementia Conspiracy that they're even willing to throw Democrat officials under the bus, if that's what it takes.

Chuck Todd, who never once suggested that Biden was mentally unfit and attacked Republicans for suggesting it, now says that Chuck Schumer was "part of the problem."

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

A balding Chuck Todd rips Senator Chuck Schumer for "covering up" President Biden's mental decline.

"Go home. You’re part of the problem. Now you tell us?"

Lmao what a fraud. This guy and his friends in the media covered up Biden's obvious mental decline for four years and then have the audacity to blame it on someone else.

The media spin is in full effect.

They want you to forget that **they** were the ones who defended Biden when he was deteriorating in front of you.

Chuck Todd is also saying that reporters aren't to blame, because their Democrat "sources" -- their friends and bed-mates and political allies -- lied to them.

He's claiming that reporters have no role in reporting except to dutifully re-transmit the lies that their friends tell them.

As I keep saying, weird how Republicans never get the benefit of this "you must believe politicians" rule. Only the media's beloved Democrats.

That said -- Charles Schumer definitely was part of the problem.

Biden would call up Schumer and then immediately forget why he was calling.

Schumer also noted that Biden spoke slowly and very softly -- sounding very much like the voice of a family member who had Alzheimer's.

And he just insisted and insisted that Biden was sharp as a tack.

And now?

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posted by Ace at 12:12 PM

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