Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 5/21/25
Headline: “The Right’s Biden Revisionism”
Subhead: “For years, right-wing media pushed a warped narrative of Joe Biden as a brain-dead puppet controlled by sinister, shadowy forces. Now they’re demanding vindication—but they do not deserve it.”
“. . .Tuesday, Tapper declared that “conservative media was right and conservative media was correct” about Joe Biden’s mental state.
“But that’s not quite true. Or rather, it simplifies a much more nuanced media and political reality. While it’s fair to argue that the press should have covered Biden’s age with greater urgency—and to acknowledge that Biden clearly lost a step during his presidency—that’s a far cry from validating the deeply irresponsible narrative right-wing media spun for years: that the president of the United States was a mentally incapacitated puppet with dementia, unaware of his own surroundings, and propped up by a “shadow government” running the country in his name.
“That was never journalism. It was propaganda. . .”
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