Surprise! The PBS News Hour finally arrived on the Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson book after ignoring it longer than the other networks.
In its introduction to the transcript and video, the PBS website was verbally tip-toeing around the Biden coverup before the fateful debate changed everything: “It also revealed a version of Biden that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson argue those closest to him tried to conceal from the world.”
PBS anchor Geoff Bennett began by suggesting the word “coverup” might be a “loaded phrase.” Tapper argued: “I think it’s a fair use of the term. We’re not alleging a criminal cover-up, but we are saying that the definition of cover-up, when you’re hiding something bad from people, is unambiguously true.”
Bennett then referred to an “alleged coverup” even though polling showed voters really believed Biden wasn’t fit for a second…
