CBS Guest: ‘We Should Cut Jill Biden Some Slack,’ Joe’s Debate Collapse a True ‘Mystery’ #Political
While the so-called media reporting class insist CBS News is MAGA TV, reality continues to prove otherwise with Friday’s CBS Mornings delivering another example as they brought on liberal author and historian Chris Whipple to assert “we should cut Jill Biden some slack” and “take her at her word” that, as she told CBS Sunday Morning, she has never seen Joe Biden in cognitive decline before or since the infamous June 2024 debate.
Whipple was asked by co-host Gayle King for her “reaction right away to what you’re hearing Jill Biden say about her husband’s health” and the former seemed to channel MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough with his “best Biden ever” shtick.
Whipple tried to have his cake and eat it too with the farcical assertion that “I really think that we should cut Jill Biden some slack on this” and “there is no compelling evidence that Joe Biden was unable to perform the duties of the presidency behind closed doors.”
INSANE: ‘CBS Mornings’ guest and liberal author Chris Whipple says “we should cut Jill Biden some slack” and “there is no compelling evidence that Joe Biden was unable to perform the duties of the presidency behind closed doors.”
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At the same time, though, he said “[i]t’s a fact that Joe Biden never should have run for reelection” as “[h]e was too old or would have been too old” by the end of a second term and thus Jill was “complicit in that decision, which was a tragedy for the Bidens and the Democratic Party, arguably the country.”
“I take Jill Biden at her word that she never saw a moment like that disastrous moment in the debate before or after…[N]obody around Biden ever saw an episode like that moment in the debate,” he added.
King seemed shell-shocked:
You take her word even after the debate, when she said you did so well, you answered all the questions, when clearly that did not appear to be the case with all of us who had been watching, and that she had never seen that – that after? You take her word at that?
Whipple doubled down on his muddied mess. He insisted he wasn’t “giving her a pass, Gayle, on everything,” and Jill “was completely wrong” to tell crowds he did well, but then excused her fibs as “a First Lady trying to be supportive in the moment.”
He also painted the decision to run Joe for a second term as “a historically tragic decision” for the country and blasted as “nonsense” the narrative “that Joe Biden was Woodrow Wilson incapacitated in a corner while a cabal of aides was [sic] running the country by autopen.”
So, is Whipple one of those people who argued in 2024 that Biden lacked the fitness to run for office, but was perfectly capable of being President?
Having criticized Jill and White House aides as having had Joe run, he also praised his sources while swiping at CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson for their book about Biden’s decline:
I like Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. I think they’re great reporters, but I think they were wrong on this. I talked to so many aides who were in the room with Biden to the very end. And literally on the morning that he abdicated when he negotiated a complex multi-nation prisoner swap from his beach house in Rebo – Rehoboth. So, I just think that the, you know, this is sort of a myth that Biden was incapacitated.
To be clear, Whipple also released a book on the 2024 election last year and thus was a direct competitor to Tapper and Thompson.
Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers made his own run at Whipple with the reality that “a lot of people will say” Jill’s comments to CBS’s Rit Braver “that she hasn’t seen a moment like that since that debate, may strain credibility.”
Whipple responded with one last contortion. Having touted Biden aides as having never seen the then-President sundowning, he said “a lot of them were trapped in this fog of delusion and denial” about Joe’s faculties to be president from 2025 to 2028.
He concluded by firing off another howling Notable Quotable-worthy bit that “historians have to deal with the fact that this moment in that debate is still a mystery” (click “expand”):
They thought he could run for reelection, and he thought he could win. He couldn’t. He was incapable of – of an effective campaign or being President for another four years. That’s a different issue from whether anything like this had happened before or after the debate. I watched that debate, and I thought he was having a stroke. It’s perfectly plausible to me that Jill Biden put so too, because she hadn’t seen a moment like that before or after. And everybody I’ve talked to, including as close as aides, say, long after this debate, they were in endless meetings on policy presided over by Biden – meetings in which Donald Trump would have certainly fallen asleep, but he was functioning. So, historians have to deal with the fact that this moment in that debate is still a mystery. We don’t know what happened.
To see the relevant CBS transcript from May 29, click here.
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