On Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, host Jeffrey Goldberg didn’t convene a panel, instead hosting his buddy Jake Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson for the half-hour on their book Original Sin. The most shameless denial came when Goldberg suggested the media didn’t cover up Biden’s decline, while he completely omitted his show’s infamous episode when he proclaimed President Biden was “mentally, quite acute.” Mark Leibovich spat out it was “lying” to question Biden’s fitness.
It happened on September 1, 2023:
LEIBOVICH: Can I just actually just point out, though, that, I mean, it’s not just making an issue of Biden’s age, it’s lying, it’s saying he’s senile, saying he’s demented, saying he’s out of it. I mean, I think it’s important to sort of state for a fact that a lot of these are just —
GOLDBERG: Right. Mentally,…
