Tapper og Polit Bureauet

If Watergate was the worst thing happening in the United States, I would be pretty darn happy” sagde Scott Adams og tilføjede “Stocks would be up…” I stedet gennemlever USA nu de konsekvenser det har haft for landet, at de har gennemlevet et regulært statskup fra 2020 til 2025, med en kartoffel i Det Hvide Hus. En altødelæggende statsgæld, 15 mio illegale migranter, en truende krig med Rusland over CIA bastionen Ukraine og mange andre problemer, skal nu løses på rekordtid.

I Jake Tappers The Original Sin, som han har skrevet sammen med den, ifølge flere, hæderlige journalist Alex Thompson, beskriver de magtens indercirkel, Grima Ormetunge med andre ord, som havde kontrollen over Joe Bidens svindende sind. New York Post skriver

“In terms of who was running the White House, it’s a small group of people that have been around,” “Original Sin” author Alex Thompson told PBS’ “Washington Week” on Friday. “Some people within the administration called them the Politburo. That’s the term we used in the book.”

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain was at times part of the “politburo,” as was former senior adviser to the president Annie Tomasini. Also on the “politburo” was the first lady’s former top adviser and “work husband,” Anthony Bernal, whom The Post previously reported created a toxic workplace environment.

“And Joe Biden himself also is part of this. Joe Biden is not like — it’s not ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ right?” said co-author and CNN anchor Jake Tapper, referring to the movie about a dead guy who is wheeled around as part of an elaborate ruse.

“He has some purchase here. He has some agency. And he’s aware of some of what’s going on.”

Tapper added: “He’s aware of the fact that they are keeping the cabinet away from him, they are keeping some White House staffers away from him.”

Men ““in practice, Bruce Reed was the real domestic policy adviser, Mike Donilon was the actual political director, Steve Ricchetti controlled Legislative Affairs, and Klain controlled a bit of everything.”” skriver Tapper og Thompson. Foruroligende nok, er det altså, bortset fra Ron Klain og Hunter og Dr. Jill, for offentligheden ukendte navne, der havde kontrollen over verdens eneste reelle supermagt. Og de sørgede hurtigt for at familie og venner fik ledende stillinger i regeringen.

Biden var altså, som Victor Davis Hanson pointerer, blot et gummistempel for de sammensvorne. “People are finally catching on that Hunter Biden pardoned himself” skriver Jack Posobiec og konkluderer “This makes his pardon null and void”. “My theory is that multiple people controlled the autopen depending on what issue it was” skriver David Sacks og spekulerer “On crypto, Warren controlled the autopen”. “The thing that I think is most critical is that if he has all those autopen pardons, and noone has really asked him ‘why did you pardon Dr Fauchi’ or ‘why did you pardon Adam Schiff?’ – there has been no journalistic follow up!” 

Project Veritas fangede Demokraternes viceformand, våbenlov-aktivisten David Hogg, i en skjult optagelse, der fortæller at det var  Førstedame in spe Jill… Dr. Jill Bidens, undskyld, ‘chief of staff’, der var den egentlige magt i Det Hvide Hus, gennem den indflydelse han havde på og via Førstedamen, der igen var “præsidentens” omsorgsperson.

Mediernes gænge med det Demokratiske parti og derigennem Systemet CIA, også kendt som Den Dybe Stat, var til at se, selv efter at Biden ikke længere tjente magtens formål. X-Profilen MAZE påpegede præcist, hvorledes det så ud, da de ikke længere troede på, at de kunne bære Biden-byrden og i stedet vendte sig mod ham. 6. Juli, efter debatten med Trump, interviewer ABCs George Stephanopoulos således præsident Biden

It was one of the hardest hitting interviews that you will ever see anybody from the MSM do with a Democrat politician. Stephanopoulos, like most others in the Democrat establishment, realized by then that Biden was going to lose to Trump if he stayed in the race. They all wanted Biden to drop out. The time for protection was over. It was time to destroy.

By the end of the interview, Stephanopoulus was practically begging Biden to drop out of the race.

Se det, linket skåner dig for Bidens pinefulde svar. Herunder kan man se, at præsidentens helbred og kognitive fremtoning var et emne, bogens ene forfatter Jake Tapper nidkært forfulgte da Trump var præsident

I feel like I owe the American people an  “acknowledgement” that I wish I had covered the story betterbetroede han Piers Morgan men ingen egentlig undskyldning kunne det blive til.  Tapper betroede mageløst The Atlantic

I think that we need to be sceptical of everything that we are told by people in power. And that obviously should be the mantra of being a journalist to begin with. I your mother tells you she loves you, get a second source – we just need to remember that. Politicians lie! White Houses lie! Power is an aphrodisiac and we just need to all remember that and not take at face value anything that we are told…

Matt Taibbi havde gjort sig den tvivlsomme fornøjelse at læse Tappers bog og fandt den “more demented than the book’s subject, Joe Biden” og citerer fra kapitel 1 “He Totally Fucked Us

No one thought that the Harris campaign had been without error. But for the most knowledgeable Democratic officials and donors, and for top members of the Harris campaign, there was no question about the father of this election calamity: It was Joe Biden. Harris, loyal to Biden to a fault, might never say such a thing. But plenty of people around her would… “We got so screwed by Biden as a party,” David Plouffe, who helped run the Harris campaign, told us.. Harris, he said, was a “great soldier,” but the compressed 107-day race was “a fucking nightmare.”

“And it’s all Biden,” Plouffe said. Referring to Biden’s decision to run for reelection, then wait more than three weeks to bow out, Plouffe added: “He totally fucked us.”

Taibbi kalder den “an ambitious book-length effort to absolve all concerned, pin an industry’s coverage mistake on its President Droolcup subject (…) while additionally swirling a new storm system of bullshit storylines to delay more serious questions about things like who was just president for four years.

In the introduction, Tapper and Thompson explain theirs is a literary porridge not too hot, not too cold, but just right. Those who are “convinced that Joe Biden was little more than a husk from the very beginning of his presidency, barely capable of stringing two sentences together, will not find support for that view here,” they write, while those who insist he was “unaddled” to the end and “his rumored deterioration was all right-wing propaganda” are just as wrong.

En absurd omgang med virkeligheden For et par måneder siden havde Wall Street Journal en lang artikel, der bl.a byggede på interviews med 50 medarbejdere Bidens Hvide Hus, der fortalte at var chokerede over hans tilstand fra første dag han flyttede ind, og hvorledes Jill… Dr. Jill Biden, undskyld, førte mere valgkamp end Biden selv, som han gemte sig i sin kælder. Med andre ord, havde alle dem, der så Bidens kognitive opløsning tidligt, ret tidligt. Megyn Kelly tager også en lille korrektiv tur ned ad ‘memory lane’, hvor hun bl.a fortæller at “Voters coming out of Biden events were less likely to support him”. Også Glenn Greenwald hudflettede mediernes dækken over det åbenlyse og deres incestiøse boble.

Der var mange historier, indrømmede både Ezra Klein og Jake Tapper ,men “It was harder to get people to say anything” siger Klein og tilføjede “I mean, you need evidence for stories!”. Nemlig, istemte Tapper “If a presidents inner circle is willing to lie and if they don’t even think they are lying, that’s an incredible dangerous thing.

Beviserne var Bidens offentlige fremtoning, og den journalistiske tilgang skulle være, at finde ud af, hvor slemt det så måtte stå til i kulissen. At undskylde sig med manglende beviser er et kunstgreb, der er så almindeligt, at man knap ænser det. Det er journalisterne der skal foretage observationen eller i det mindste reagerer når de bliver påpeget for dem og derefter grave sig ned efter en potentiel historie. 

De samme medier krævede ikke beviser for at spekulere om Trump kuppede sig til magten med Putins hjælp, eller nogle af de andre absurde historier som de pumpede ud 24/7 i fem år.  Alle sammen baseret på “anonyme kilder” og “hvis sandt, så…”. Historier, som ikke blot på overfladen var til grin, men ofte direkte opfundet af medierne selv, som at han skulle have opfordret til at drikke blegemiddel eller kaldt nazister for ‘pæne mennesker’.

Jon Stewart gjorde sig lystig over Jake Tapper og hans CNN kollegaer for at promovere en bog og friste læserne med allehånde “bombshells” i stedet for, som de nyhedsfolk de giver sig ud for at være, blot at fortælle om dem 

“Don’t news people have to tell you what they know when they find it out?” Stewart said.

“Isn’t that the difference between news and a secret? ‘You won’t believe what we found out!’ No, that’s why I’m watching. Breaking news … in a week.”

Og da vi andre kunne se det for fem år siden, er det endda ikke nyheder, der sælges. Og glæden over at en kollega barslede med en bog skulle kombineres med bogens alvorlige indhold, bemærkede Stewart: “How do you pivot from excitedly promoting your anchor’s book to somberly and respectfully promoting your anchor’s book?

He then delivered one of the segment’s harshest lines: “It’s so hard. It’s such a difficult time. So unfathomable in terms of the pain his family must be feeling, and yet, if you act now and you use the code ‘TapThatBook,’ you will—” Stewart said in mock infomercial style, trailing off.

Continuing the critique, Stewart said, “It’s just fun to watch them not only continue to push the book in light of this difficult news, but to actually frame this difficult news as perhaps even more of a reason to buy this book.”

He closed by showing a clip of CNN’s chief media analyst Brian Stelter, who described Biden’s cancer diagnosis as “dramatic” given its timing ahead of Tapper’s book release.

“The timing of former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis is certainly dramatic, coming on the eve of a blockbuster new book about his health and his time in the White House,” Stelter said, adding, “I’m sure some observers will say that the 

reporting in the book is even more important now.”

“Yeah, nobody’s saying that,” Stewart shot back.