According to a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, 86% of Americans now believe Joe Biden’s too old to serve as president. The mainstream media’s fluffing of Biden and deflection to the fitness of Donald Trump hasn’t fooled most voters, and that includes 73% of Democrats.
In fact, the mainstream media hasn’t even fooled itself. Now that Robert Hur has exposed the Rehoboth Beach Emperor as having no clothes, Puck’s Dylan Byers reports that White House correspondents knew it all along. In fact, they have little trouble discussing with each other, but balked at informing their readers and viewers to suit their own tastes:
This week, I surveyed members of the White House press corps—reporters, on-air correspondents, photographers, etcetera—and they all emphasized that the symptoms of Biden’s age had become more noticeable in recent months and a frequent discussion topic at the desks…