CNN’s Tapper Admits He Ignored Biden’s Cognitive Decline
CNN anchor Jake Tapper admitted this week that his coverage of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline was lacking helping to cement conservative criticism that the liberal media engaged in a cover-up to protect Biden until he dropped out of the presidential race..
Tapper appeared on CNN to flog his upcoming book with Axios reporter Alex Thompson “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” set to be released next week.
When asked what he thought of the conservative criticism of him and the rest of the media over their lack of coverage of Biden’s mental acuity Tapper responded that “I think some of the criticism is fair, to be honest, of me,” adding “Certainly I’m not going to speak for anybody else, but knowing then what I know now, I look back at my coverage during the Biden years and I did cover some of these issues, but not enough. I look back on it with humility.”
One of the most egregious examples of the cover-up came after Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to bring charges against Biden in the classified documents case because he determined a jury would not convict someone perceived as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” based on his interview with investigators. Democrats argued that Hur was a partisan Republican and therefore his report would be biased against Biden which seemed to be enough for the media to ignore his comments.
In the end what Hur reported and what conservatives knew turned out to be largely true and now Tapper and Thompson are set to capitalize on the Biden decline that they helped cover up.
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Don Irvine
Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
Irvine graduated from the University of Maryland and rose up the ranks to become chairman of Accuracy in Media until his transition to AIA.
He resides in the suburbs around the nation’s capital and is a proud father and grandfather.
