Our foolishly liberal media saw Biden's decline. Now they've been exposed

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The public immolation of President Joe Biden’s personal credibility shoves the media apparatus that propelled him to power into a tough jam.

In the past two weeks, everything that was obvious to close observers for the past three years is now in the open: he’s infirm, he’s unfit, he’s unwell.

It comes as a surprise only to those millions of Americans who trusted the liberal legacy media — the latter being a cohort that by and large hates those millions’ way of life and has no compunction over lying to them.

Item number one on the list of lies they told: that the president of the United States was just fine, was wholly competent, was not stricken with the ravages of advanced age.

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Now, in the aftermath of not one but two nationally televised expositions on his incapacity — both the presidential debate and the follow-up ABC News interview — there is a new subgenre of media commentary on its favorite topic, itself. "We were misled," is the summary of the whole, but of course they were not. They were partisans and they covered for their man.

Imagine, for a moment, Donald Trump — or Mitt Romney, or George W. Bush, or Ronald Reagan — having to be redirected at a public event by a man in an Easter bunny costume, or greeting a