All the news that’s fit to spike

Roger Franklin

Jul 09 2024

2 mins

Former NYT reporter Alex Berenson breaks quite a few stories at his Substack blog, on Friday revealing that a Parkinson’s specialist has been a frequent visitor to the White House. Today, without the courtesy of an acknowledgement, his former employer confirmed what Berenson discovered by dent of hard work fossicking in the visitor logs. Take that as worthwhile background information because the anger animating the passage below reflects a broad disgust at the partisan dishonesty of the “quality press”, not just payback for a spiteful omission:

…Try to wrap your head around what happened that night – April 27, 2024, exactly two months before Joe Biden’s infirmities exploded for the world to see.

The reporters who cover the President, who are the eyes and ears of the world on a man who controls a nuclear arsenal capable of erasing humanity, saw his cognitive decline face-to-face.

They didn’t write about what they had seen. They didn’t investigate it.

They joked about it….

Roger Franklin

Roger Franklin

Online Editor

Roger Franklin

Online Editor

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