COMING TO TERMS WITH THE BIDEN SENILITY COVER-UP. Understanding the press’s handling of then-President Joe Biden’s obvious physical and mental infirmity is probably more a matter for psychologists than for media analysts. Why were journalists and commentators so willing to deny what their own eyes and ears told them? Did sheer bias — there was unquestionably a lot of that — fully account for what happened?

Take one example. On June 10, 2024, just 17 days before the presidential debate that would lead to his withdrawal from the race, Biden appeared at a musical event on the White House lawn to celebrate Juneteenth. Singer Kirk Franklin and a band were playing, people all around were swaying and clapping and singing, and Biden … froze.