In a Monday Substack interview with Chris Cillizza, a former CNN contributor, Chuck Todd, a former anchor of NBC’s Today show, vehemently asserted that the media “didn’t miss the story” regarding Joe Biden’s mental deterioration.
According to Todd, “a failure of the Democratic Party” was to blame for the purported cover-up of Biden’s mental degeneration, not the media.
According to the former “Meet the Press” host, there has been “virtue signaling” to make it seem like the media ignored the report about Biden’s declining mental capacity.
“I just refuse to accept this stupid premise because it’s a right-wing manufactured, right-wing premise, in order to stain the media,” he added.
Although Todd acknowledged that certain “MSNBC and CNN” commentators “absolutely carried water for Joe Biden,” he insisted that these individuals were not journalists but rather “former strategists that carried water for Joe Biden.”
Following Axios writer Alex Thompson’s reprimand of the media at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner for ignoring coverage of Biden’s cognitive difficulties, Todd made his remarks.
Continuing his list of those he regards as real journalists, Todd included himself among those who exposed Biden’s mental degeneration while he was in government.
“Is he really running again?'” was the question posed in a prominent piece written by writer David Ignatius in October 2023. I don’t think this is a good idea,” he said. “People like me were promoting Dean Phillips’ campaign because he was running a campaign that made a lot of sense.”
He insisted that this was different from the “press failure” that occurred when the Bush administration collaborated with major news outlets to fabricate evidence that Iraq possessed WMD, as Todd put it.
“This was not that failure,” Todd stated. For some, this is a way to show how good they are. All the elected members of Congress—Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris—are ultimately to blame, and it’s terrible how they’re trying to set various news organizations against each other.
For Todd, “the Democratic Party let that disaster happen,” and the purported omission of Biden’s mental deterioration was “not a media failure,” but rather a “Democratic Party failure.”
“There were water carriers, but they’re not real journalists!” “Wow!” Todd shouted. “I refuse to accept the premise that what Jen Psaki was saying, no offense to her, but she’s not a journalist, she’s a former spokesperson for Joe Biden.”
According to Todd, the Democratic Party was heavily involved in supposedly covering for Biden, but he also blamed the “right-wing manufactured outrage” that said the media and the Democratic Party “work as one.”
In a recent appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Todd explained that during the 2024 contest for president, the media refrained from reporting about Joe Biden’s mental acuity for fear that it might help Donald Trump, Biden’s opponent.
Morgan questioned Todd on the media’s apparent reluctance to place greater emphasis on Biden’s age, especially considering that “everyone was seeing [it] with their own eyes.”
In his first defense of the media, Todd said that the public had enough information to form its own opinions on Biden thanks to the coverage that the media had provided, which had subtly highlighted Biden’s decline.
“Hey, we were sneaky, you know.”He’s not taking the front staircase, but rather the one at the rear. When asked about the lack of interviews, the former host of “Meet the Press” made it clear.
As a result, many were reluctant to ask, “Is he not doing this?” “And I concur with that,” Todd went on to say. “That was held back, held back a lot [by the mainstream media].”
