By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-22 01:57:08 | Updated at 2024-12-22 07:17:59
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What Happened to 'Sharp As a Tack'? WSJ Explains How White House Functions With 'Diminished' Biden
https://twitchy.com ^ | amy curtis
Posted on 12/21/2024 5:51:46 PM PST by bitt
We're a month away from the ignominious end of the Joe Biden administration. After four years of scandal, economic hardship, and international strife, we're not sad to see him go.
But as Inauguration Day approaches, it appears the media have decided certain things that were 'disinformation' and 'deep fakes' just a few months ago are actually news stories they can talk about now.
Like Biden's declining mental acuity.
https://x.com/WSJ/status/1869763274805477662?
More from The Wall Street Journal:
To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and National Economic Council head Lael Brainard and her predecessor frequently in the position of being go-betweens for the president.
Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race.
Read the whole thing; it's absolutely damning.
https://x.com/WSJ/status/1869763276206473429
They lied.
And the media helped them lie.
...more
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KEYWORDS: biden; whitehouse; wsj
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1 posted on 12/21/2024 5:51:46 PM PST by bitt
To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...
2 posted on 12/21/2024 5:52:07 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
To: bitt
They never said which end of the tack.
3 posted on 12/21/2024 5:54:17 PM PST by pfflier
To: bitt
That simile is “no longer operative,” as Ron Ziegler would once have said.
4 posted on 12/21/2024 5:55:03 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: bitt
How do they function? They use Jill and whoever to do their left wing bidding.
It’s obvious.
5 posted on 12/21/2024 5:55:16 PM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
To: bitt
The Wall Street Journal lied to Americans for over four years about Biden’s mental capacity. They deserve to go out of business. I’ll never trust their reporting again.
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