WASHINGTON—Penguin Press touts its new book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, as “an explosive account of one of the most hubristic mistakes in American history: Joe Biden’s decision to run for reelection despite mounting evidence of his decline, and his team’s increasingly desperate efforts to hide it.”
But the most egregious hubris I see is the title of the book itself, even ahead of its May 20 release. What the title describes as a cover-up was, after all, liberal bias. News that could hurt a Democrat and help Donald Trump, why, that just wasn’t a worthy story for many in my profession.
On NewsNation Wednesday, Mark Halperin, founder of the 2Way media platform, called it “the biggest media scandal in American history.” That’s the book that begs to…
