Last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper suggested that the media’s previous refusal to entertain questions about former President Biden’s cognitive or physical health was a result of routine journalistic “politeness.” That’s been the story among the corporate media for some time: that journalists just “missed” the signs that Biden was fading, because supposedly it’s just not something journalists are supposed to pry into.
But if that’s the case, then Tapper and his ilk owe all of us an explanation for why, from 2017 through 2020, these same journalists were so intensely concerned about President Trump’s health that they managed to incorrectly diagnose him with dementia, early-onset Alzheimer’s, profound mental illness, and heart disease.
When disgraced journalist Michael Wolff’s White House gossip book, Fire and Fury came out in early 2018,…
