Get a Dog: The Political and Media Establishment Turns on Biden

by Jonathan Turley | Jul 7, 2024

Washington this week is proving once again that, as President Harry Truman  warned, if “you want a friend in Washington. Get a dog.” President Joe Biden appears isolated and alone this weekend. He cannot even count on his dogs who are equally unpopular after the White House was accused of covering up their own dangerous demeanor.

Fox host Shannon Bream reported this morning that her staff tried for an entire week to get a single Democrat to go on the show to defend President Joe Biden as the party’s nominee. Not a single democrat was willing to do so.

In the meantime, the New York Times is reporting that a senior White House official is calling for Biden to step down as the nominee due to his declining physical and mental condition. The media, which has long attacked those questioning Biden’s fitness, is now on board with the Democratic establishment in pushing the President to withdraw.

The one constant in this ever-changing city is that self-interest alone drives policies and alliances. If you endanger the meal ticket of members of Congress, you are immediately persona non grata. Biden is now threatening Democratic control of both the White House and the Congress.  The word is out that Biden has to go so the media is suddenly noticing what it long refused to see.

That goes for staffers. For years, the staff has engaged in a dishonest effort to shield Biden from questions and to carefully script and choreograph his appearance. Figures like Karine Jean-Pierre and close political allies knowingly misled the public as to the President’s deteriorating condition. Even after telling the public to watch the President in interviews, it was revealed this weekend that the White House was feeding pre-written questions to favorable hosts.

Indeed, the media is actually blaming conservatives for failing to reveal the President’s condition due to their effort to frame the news.

The truth is now unavoidable. The President has continued to struggle with clarity, as when he recently declared “by the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman… to serve with a black president.”

In the case of this high-level White House staffer, he or she also said nothing for months, even as the White House attacked Fox News and other outlets for showing the President’s confusion at public events. They were denounced as “cheap fakes.”

This staffer reportedly worked with the Biden during his presidency, vice presidency and 2020 campaign.

As with the media, however, the staffer now seems to have the green light to kick the President to the curb to strengthen Democratic chances in the upcoming election.

The staffer revealed that Biden has repeatedly become confused and weakened in the course of the day.

Somehow this is being portrayed as courageous despite the fact that the staffer remained silent as others were attacked for raising these issues and the White House actively hid the President’s declining condition.

As is often the case, everyone in Washington is jumping ship as the rats run for the poop deck. No one will be responsible for months and months of misleading the public about the condition of the man who holds the nuclear launch codes.

Just weeks ago, the media was heralding the brilliance and sharpness of the President.

On MSNBC, Joe Scarborough stated

“start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. And F— you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I have known him for years…If it weren’t the truth I wouldn’t say it.”