You have to laugh when Jim Acosta is warning that CBS and CNN are going to turn into a "propaganda giant" when they're in danger of being a little more balanced in their "news." The CBS show Sunday Morning has been a routine propaganda stop for Democrats, and that was no different for Jill Biden, who preposterously claimed her husband was still lucid.
Associate editor Nick Fondacaro and our Sunday-show specialist Jorge Bonilla (also a Spanish-language radio host) joined me to assess what happened on Sunday.
Mrs. Biden was so shameless on CBS that she said she'd never seen Biden mentally fail like that before the debate.... "or since." CBS interviewer Rita Braver just said: "Or since?" This flies in the face of everything that the American people saw throughout the Biden presidency -- the shaking hands with the air, asking "Where's Jackie?" for a congresswoman who was dead, the tripping all over.
This interview is where "Doctor" Biden uncorked her lie that during the debate debacle in 2024, she thought her husband had suffered a stroke. What wife who thought her husband was having a stroke would just sit and watch it?
Jill Biden came out after the debate and yelled that all Trump did was lie. But that's what the Bidens have done about Joe Biden's declining cognitive fitness from the 2020 campaign forward. It was obvious to everyone just from the way his team kept him separated from the press. We'll never forget the press aide in the Easter Bunny costume leading the president away from reporters during the egg hunt!
Mrs. Biden is doing a whole round of book interviews -- from NBC's Today on Monday to ABC's The View and MS NOW's Morning Joe on Tuesday. All of these networks carried water for the Bidens throughout his term. But Alyssa Farah and The View may be the most obtuse.
The other Sunday-show phenomenon was the sudden emergence of Graham Platner coverage. The networks haven't seen fit to cover the socialist Senate candidate from Maine and his Nazi tattoo. But a new story on Platner sexting women while he was married caused a breakthrough. Even so, the questions were very gentle.
On CNN, Dana Bash asked: "Do you have concerns?" Yep.
On CBS, Margaret Brennan tried: "Does he pass the character test?" No.
NBC's Kristen Welker threw softly: "Does Graham Platner pose a headache for Democrats?" Duh.
ABC's Jonathan Karl worried for his party: "Do you have concerns with the weight of all these controversies that it may jeopardize Democratic hopes to get that Senate seat in Maine?"
Finally, MS NOW host Eugene Daniels doesn't care about democracy in this hemisphere. He was fine with communism in Cuba: "It's their country, so them deciding what kind of government and political system they want to have, the leaders and the folks in that country, is their business, I think a lot of people would say."
Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here.
