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Chuck Todd, the former longtime anchor of NBC's "Meet The Press," is melting down over recent claims the national news media covered up the failing mental health of former President Joe Biden.
"I just refuse to accept this stupid premise because it's a ring-wing manufactured, right-wing premise in order to stain the media," Todd told ex-CNN pundit Chris Cillizza on his Substack channel Monday.
"This is not a media failure. This is a failure of the Democratic Party."
"This isn't WMDs [Weapons of Mass Destruction], where the White House worked with the mainstream media to manufacture a story that did not exist. That was a press failure, massive press failure," Todd explained, alluding to biased news coverage of President George W. Bush's "War on Terror."
"This is an attempt by some to virtue signal, and it's this horrible sort of pitting different news organizations against each other when ultimately the people at fault are Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, every elected member of Congress."
"The media's got plenty of things to attack them for, and there are MSNBC and CNN and pundits that absolutely carried water for Joe Biden, but they're not journalists. They're former strategists that carried water for Joe Biden."
Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, Alex Thompson, the national political correspondent for Axios, reprimanded so-called journalists for going along with the White House narrative that Biden was physically fit for a second term.
"President Biden's decline and its coverup by the people around him is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, is capable of deception," Thompson said.
"But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story."
Online journalist Collin Rugg noted: "The media is so mad they got caught."
"Anyone with eyes and ears could see Biden's mental decline but now the media is trying to rewrite history by pretending they weren't actively covering it up. Truly remarkable."
