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https://www.yahoo.com/news/jake-tapper-says-cover-biden-011048868.htmlTapper said the reason the hiding of Biden’s health issues was a bigger deal than the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency was because Nixon “was in control of his faculties when he was not drinking.”
Biden, Tapper has said several times on his recent media tour, was showing routine signs of a man who was suffering from a cognitive decline, including forgetting the names of aides and celebrity supporters like George Clooney. A moment earlier, Morgan said he believed the secrecy around the ex-president’s health was a bigger offense than Watergate.
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Cha
(316,435 posts)Okay Die on that Bogus Bullshit hill. 
elleng
(141,926 posts)
comradebillyboy
(10,935 posts)"The Snake" Tapper could ever be.
2naSalit
(99,703 posts)Creates his very pwn bullshit mountain.
He can fuck all the way off until the next century.
RockRaven
(18,622 posts)If he overhypes the importance of his now-irrelevant tabloid trash, he thinks he can balance out the critiques. But he cannot. Because the ground underneath the conversation isn't what he was counting on; it is very much shifted.
It was a dumb project from the start, except to serve -- quite cynically and opportunistically -- as RWNJ fodder/justification/distraction of The Convicted Felon's cognitive derangement. But the market for that is slim when the Orange Anus spews forth weirdo verbal diarrhea daily.
If TCF could hold it together better, by comparison, maybe this Trapper trash would have more of a market. But it doesn't. He should stop trying. This shit should be embarrassing to you! Take the loss and slink away!
agingdem
(8,757 posts)the sheer awfulness of Trump (a economy-crashing sadistic degenerate) occupying the White House supersedes Jake's tale of Biden's perceived cognitive decline...
Pathetic Jake Tapper suffers from delusional self importance, really bad timing, and an audience of none....
Haggard Celine
(17,644 posts)At least Murdoch doesn't pretend to be something he isn't.
brush
(61,033 posts)during his presidency while ignoring the orange anus in the WH now who is in obvious and steep mental decline as he and his cabal try to install fascism and wreck our democracy.
What is it, Tapper, are you blind now?
Bookreadingliberal53
(129 posts)That trump is perfectly healthy and has no cognitive decline 
Wifes husband
(685 posts)Tapper was born in 1969. Watergate started in 1972, I believe. He has only read about Watergate. A bunch of us actually watched it happen. There is a difference.
"Nixon was in charge of his facilities when he wasn't drinking" demonstrates the level of stupidity of Tapper's analysis of the situation. Nixon's being in charge of his facilities was what caused Watergate, dumb ass.
Nixon looks like a Sunday school teacher now, but at the time we had honorable congressmen who in general thought that lying to the American people, general corruption were bad things. They thought it would be a good idea to fix that. Things change
Biden should not have run for re-election. That was hubris. He was deteriorating physically, and to a lesser extent, mentally.
But honestly, on his worst day he was better than his opponent. He could express himself in complete sentences, and may have fallen off a bicycle, but at least he could ride one. Can anyone honestly believe that the chaos we live with now would have happened under Biden?
I am disappointed in Tapper. I thought better of him. I understand trying to sell a book, but I did not believe he would stoop this low.
Shouldn't he have said "In charge of his faculties". not "facilities"?
Tom Rinaldo
(23,179 posts)Issues Biden may or may not have had were at worst manageable in the present tense. He was finishing his four year elected term, and he had a seasoned team around him. Clearly, often at least, he was still sharp.
But four years is a long time once someone starts entering the early stages of mental decline, and the presidency is as demanding a job as exists, period. Again, worst case, a caretaker government say in 2027 with Joe Biden functioning as a figurehead (if it had come to that) would have governed infinitely better than one under Donald Trump. Or the 25th amendment could have been invoked if things got really bad.
The question was never: Is Joe Biden still fit to serve? At any point during his first term as President, including the final months, I would have said, given his wisdom and experience, yes. The question was: How will Joe Biden hold up during four more years in office? Joe Biden is in private life now, but no doubt there will be some indications of how his health is doing that will come out. Bill Clinton is the same age as Donald Trump now; 78. Maybe Bill has lost a step or two over when he was in office but his knowledge is intact. Bernie Sanders is two years older than Joe Biden, and he still has it.
But if Joe Biden does go into a rapid serious cognitive decline, it will be seen as a scandal by many that the Democratic Party was on the verge of running him for another four year term as President.
PCIntern
(27,947 posts)Redeeming quality is that he’s a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Know-nothing sanctimonious POS pretender. Probably near the bottom of his class at Akiba Hebrew Academy where he was undoubtedly outclassed by many. Talk about deficits. 🥺
msongs
(73,017 posts)Kaleva
(40,129 posts)yardwork
(68,884 posts)All the Trump type books get bought up by organizations like the Heritage Foundation in order to manipulate the sales numbers. They sit in a warehouse for a few months and then get resold at big discounts.
Kaleva
(40,129 posts)yardwork
(68,884 posts)Tapper's lies are all over the media and the internet. I doubt many people are actually reading his book but in some ways it's even worse. Millions of people are just accepting the lies as truth.
Kaleva
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GoodRaisin
(10,696 posts)withdrawal being “bad” in order to tank Biden’s approval ratings. Now he’s doing it with his “Biden cognitive decline cover up” bullshit. Guess he didn’t think he was getting enough attention so he had to say “it’s bigger than Watergate”. Tapper is an expert at taking lies and blowing them up out of proportion.
no_hypocrisy
(54,123 posts)Watergate? That was corruption.
Perhaps when Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke after his trip for the Paris peace talks/Versailles Treaty. He was incapacitated and his Cabinet ran the government, unbeknownst to the public. That was before the 25th Amendment.
In any case, Joe Biden was in charge until TSF took his Oath of Office.
If Joe Biden weren't concentrated on his health these days, I'd say he has a potentially good case for defamation.
IcyPeas
(24,765 posts)The panel on the 2nd half of Piers' show included Benny Johnson, Lindy Li who used to be a DNC fundraiser and Jillian Michaels and also Adam Mockler of the Meidas Touch network. He brought them on after the interview with Tapper to discuss.
Watergate is brought up at 27 minutes in.
Tapper says he apologized to Lara Trump after they had a disagreement on his show where Jake was talking about Bidens stutter but Lara was saying it was cognitive decline (see clip at 28:00 minutes into video). He seems to want to get on Trumps good side.... wonder why? Is tapper scared? They mention how Hunters laptop story was covered up too!!! JFC 
EndlessWire
(8,103 posts)why anyone continues to flame on the ex President. To sell a book?
A lot of times, when you are under pressure, such as the Presidency, you function. As soon as you are not, like retired, you let down and don't function as well. Or, differently. People are different after they retire.
I think that Joe is just fine. He could have mets to the brain, but I don't think so. I'd much rather have him, even now, as the President. He is still viable. People are right. It would have worked, even if Kamala had to take over. We wouldn't be looking at Civil War 2.0.
I don't know what people wanted from him. Now that he's sick, they're acting like he was always sick. I don't know when he started with the mets to the bone, but I suspect that's why we got told. I hate people tearing him down. If he dies soon, I hope that rump is excluded from the funeral.
Tree Lady
(12,974 posts)saying we are the liars look at what a cover up we did. That is what they are trying to do.
Poor Joe is just the fall guy for them lying about democrats again.
Hugin
(37,316 posts)I watched the entire fateful debate and what I saw was a tired old guy with a cold. No more, no less.
raging moderate
(4,600 posts)Trump's microphone was adjusted perfectly to his voice. Biden clearly needed to have his microphone amplified. I suspect somebody deliberately had it down too low. His voice was weak, obviously due to the fact that he was tired, with a cold. I have good hearing, and I was a speech therapist, so I could tell he was speaking clearly and coherently.
Hugin
(37,316 posts)Former President Biden’s replies were on topic and in context with the questions presented by the debate facilitators.
Unlike the continual off-topic rally style rant coming from the other side of the stage that had absolutely nothing to do with the questions shown in clear text at the bottom of the screen.
Mike Nelson
(10,891 posts)... wouldn't the better comparison be to Reagan? I think Jake Tapper must know more about Watergate than I... how old is Jake? Maybe he's experiencing some cognition problems?
dalton99a
(91,828 posts)Despicable piece of shit
Wingus Dingus
(9,173 posts)run again in 2024. Too old, clearly losing steam. But he and his team managed OK till the end of his term. This is just stupid.
yardwork
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spanone
(140,915 posts)Baitball Blogger
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Alice B.
(688 posts)I would absolutely throw Tapper into a volcano if it meant going back to the stability of the Biden administration and the competent, ethical, sane people surrounding that president.
kacekwl
(8,851 posts)and fascist administration is worse than Watergate by x100. And they don't even try to cover it up so Tapper get busy reporting that it should be easy.
karynnj
(60,765 posts)In fact, even the drinking too much was something learned only as Watergate was exposed. My guess is that the rampant Republican corruption since Watergate has made it harder for people to understand why Watergate was a big deal.
My first question is does he see the coverup of Reagan's genuine incompetence a similar problem? If not, why not? There is more likelihood that major decisions were made without Reagan. No one has yet claimed that any Biden position or decision were made by anyone but him ... as always after getting input from those around him. ( Tapper actually turns the fact that Biden created a very good, smooth running staff into something suspicious.)
Even in the wake of the terrible debate, Biden did a few public press conferences, that he had to know would be parsed for any error or misstatement. His foreign policy press conference was impressive in the nuanced, depth and insight of his comments on complex issues. That and the fact that he was personally involved with many world leaders is really more significant than the fact that he didn't recognize George Clooney! Famous as he is, isn't not recognizing a picture of a former wife AND identifying her as a woman accusing Trump of rape far worse! I would also be more concerned if he didn't recognize Harris, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, Obama, John Kerry or long term Senators .... Which has not been accused. Listen to what John Kerry, who I trust as very honest had to say - https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/john-kerry-defends-biden-and-calls?fbclid=IwY2xjawKioEdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrfNhaK-sTPq8Qk32TJIc6znlRJAKUF3_RX325Ughb859N8r5L_1mCRTewcc_aem_oseTN-d3ZZP_LqGfCofODA
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)insane statements ever.
This guy is no journalist or reporter, and he should be ignored.
FalloutShelter
(14,133 posts)The CRIMINAL CARTEL currently running this nation into the ground.
So STFU about Joe Biden.
Rebl2
(17,329 posts)
SamKnause
(14,659 posts)
marble falls
(70,446 posts)
Johonny
(25,291 posts)Just flush him and move on.
Bev54
(13,152 posts)Could we all just quit talking about Tapper, he is not worth a minute of our time.
really be doing poorly regarding sales.
librechik
(30,955 posts)He needs to go to a nice nursing home that Congress is about to close.
karynnj
(60,765 posts)His goal seems to be to smear every well connected Democrat in the Biden years. Without any REAL proof, he starts with assumption that Biden was unable to function as President. He ignores that the SOTU and Biden's press conferences, in addition to public actions as President some with foreign leaders show an elderly President relying on his insight and knowledge of many many complicated issues.
What I see is the media not going out of its way to address that question. A friend posted a John Kerry interview with Christine Ananpour on Facebook that appeared to be only on her pod cast, Twitter and X. As a person close to Biden for over 50 years, certainly his comments should be more newsworthy than letting Jake Tapper spew. https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/john-kerry-defends-biden-and-calls?fbclid=IwY2xjawKioEdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrfNhaK-sTPq8Qk32TJIc6znlRJAKUF3_RX325Ughb859N8r5L_1mCRTewcc_aem_oseTN-d3ZZP_LqGfCofODA
mcar
(45,597 posts)What an idiot.
Blue Owl
(58,119 posts)I'll gladly toss a brick to any of them trying to stay afloat
Rebl2
(17,329 posts)tapper and cnn
travelingthrulife
(4,305 posts)
doc03
(38,785 posts)insane to start with.
Ritabert
(1,931 posts)Record-setting economy, low unemployment, reduced drug prices, student loan relief, sleeping soundly at night. It's history and we fared quite well. And no I wouldn't buy your book.
Solly Mack
(96,283 posts)Also -
Mike Johnson says corruption can't be corruption if it is done in the open.
Tapper is telling us the corruption isn't all that bad as long as the person involved is in control of their faculties. Also, apparently, it was only ever an issue of concern when Nixon was drunk - because he wasn't in control of faculties during those times. (since not being in control of your faculties is the real crime in Tapper's mind)
Alrighty then.
travelingthrulife
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Aristus
(71,536 posts)These assholes never change their tune. But they don't have to. This shit always works on the screaming, shit-flinging monkeys.
Clouds Passing
(6,835 posts)Paladin
(32,208 posts)On his very worst day, Joe Biden was 100 times better a President than trump.
And Tapper: Don't forget to bring a replacement pair of kneepads with you on your next visit to the White House. The ones you've been using are bound to be worn out by now.
Walleye
(43,691 posts)I’m really tired of these postmortems. Any 10-year-old can tell you what you should’ve done after everything is over.
travelingthrulife
(4,305 posts)and CNN pushing this nonsense instead of reporting about Trump's insanity.
Torchlight
(6,267 posts)Trump has been floundering this month, and there's little he can point to as a success. So, the loyalists and useful idiots are trying to shift attention to irrelevant stories in hopes of distracting from the far more serious and erratic behavior of the truly unfit man currently in office.
And a few extra "OMG! The Sky Is Falling" from him certainly helps his pockets and provides solid ground for the apparatchiks.
Ol Janx Spirit
(608 posts)...of their time in office: too young; too old; too smart or dumb; too whatever.... And as long as those stories make money there will always be a Tapper or Wolff to cash the checks.
Given the leaps forward in computing power even among rival countries--see Zuchongzhi 3.0--we are fairly rapidly approaching the day when the cognitive abilities of mere humans in office will be a quaint notion. For that matter, the concept of "human" reporters will be a quaint notion.
How can we possibly see the road ahead when we constantly look in the rearview mirror?
It is modern medicine that has allowed the two oldest political candidates in history to battle it out over the last decade, but it will be modern computing power that will define the last half of this century's political battles. I hope Democrats are preparing for that reality now.
Scubamatt
(249 posts)- just like his favorite god-king. Boy, you think he might want to do some journalism on the current occupant - but he wouldn't want to offend him . . . .
William769
(59,147 posts)I forget shit all the time. Am I going to be thrown in jail?. Stupid is as stupid does.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(132,349 posts)Speaking as one who was in high school during the Watergate scandal, Tapper just shot down any credibility he had left.
Sorry your book isn't doing well asshole.
themaguffin
(4,885 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
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LetMyPeopleVote
(174,270 posts)milestogo
(22,449 posts)It's not like he was the VP or something.