Last weekend, “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker put Sen. Chuck Schumer on the spot. She played back his comments, made 11 months ago, when the Senate Majority Leader told reporters he talks to President Biden “regularly” and said his “mental acuity is great.”
Schumer went on to blame “right-wing propaganda” for the claims Biden’s mental state was slipping.
“What do you say to Americans,” Walker pressed, “who feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them about President Biden's mental acuity?”
Without missing a beat, the slippery politician claimed he never misled the public and cleverly flipped the issue.
Schumer went on to brag about laws that were passed and judicial appointments that were made during Biden’s term, but that defense sounded more like a confession after a Wall Street Journal story revealed White House staffers ran the country while tip-toeing around their ailing boss and his "bad days."
Welker’s challenging question to Schumer got noticed by Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center. He tells AFN the powerful Democrat was not about to admit guilt on national television. That denial goes for the rest of the Democratic Party, too, Houck says, even though they couldn’t hide the truth any longer after the infamous June presidential debate with Biden and Donald Trump.
“They only came along, and began to ask these questions, once [Biden] became a political liability for them,” Houck says of Democrats.
Over on liberal CNN, political commentator Van Jones made a similar observation after the network played a clip of Schumer lying. “Look, obviously Biden was in bad shape, and I was surprised," Jones said. "But there were people who are close who must have known better.”
Back in June, after the debate, Jones appeared visibly stunned on CNN and called Biden’s behavior “painful” to watch, AFN reported at the time.
That AFN story also reminded readers the liberal media was dismissing concerns about Biden’s physical and mental abilities. Even though video clips showed Biden struggling, a Democrat talking point about “cheap fakes” was repeated at MSNBC, CBS News, and The Washington Post.
Even though Welker challenged Schumer, Houck says the liberal media is not suddenly doing its job and holding its Democrat friends accountable. What happened over the past year, he says, is it became “politically expedient” for reporters, correspondents, and news anchors to worry Biden would lose to Donald Trump.
“You weren't necessarily concerned about him,” Houck, referring to the news media, says. “You were concerned about your own political ideology.”
