{"id":672,"date":"2023-07-03T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2023-07-03T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:03:27","slug":"becket-adams-we-need-a-serious-conversation-about-joe-bidens-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/becket-adams-we-need-a-serious-conversation-about-joe-bidens-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Becket Adams: “We Need a Serious Conversation about Joe Biden’s Brain”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What an outstanding opinion piece by Becket Adams on the looming question that the American Press Corps is trying to avoid – “Is Joe Biden ok?” Obviously, the answer is, “No.” Adams details a fraction of the evidence of that self-evident reality. He argues the Press has a responsibility to dig into this major issue facing the nation. Kudos to him for having the honesty to raise the question the Biden-loving biased Media won’t ask. Be sure and head to The Hill<\/a> to read the entire piece. . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking to reporters Wednesday, President Biden <\/a>falsely claimed that Russia is at war with Iraq. Russia is at war with Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin <\/a>is \u201cclearly losing the war in Iraq,\u201d Biden told the press pool<\/a>, \u201closing the war at home. And he has become a bit of a pariah around the world.\u201d

On Tuesday, during an unrelated fundraising event in Chevy Chase, Md., Biden made the exact same slip-up, mistaking Ukraine for Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf anybody told you \u2026 that we\u2019d be able to bring all of Europe together in the onslaught on Iraq and get NATO to be completely united,\u201d\u00a0the president said<\/a>, \u201cI think they would have told you it\u2019s not likely.\u201d

Although many journalists did a fine job this week highlighting the president\u2019s apparent confusion regarding Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, one can\u2019t help but feel as if the news industry as a whole is avoiding the obvious follow-up question. Namely, \u201cIs Biden OK?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not an unfair question, either, considering the Iraq\/Ukraine gaffes were not an isolated series of incidents. They are simply the latest in a string of bizarre, confused and mostly unintelligible statements from Biden in the much longer string of bizarre, confused and mostly unintelligible statements that have come to define the Biden presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,\u201d the president said this month<\/a> during an address before the League of Conservation Voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no such plan, of course, to build a railroad from the Pacific coast to the Indian Ocean. According to his White House handlers, the president was referring to a plan that would connect railroads across the African continent, linking ports on the Atlantic Ocean to ports on the Indian Ocean. Atlantic, Pacific. Tomato,\u00a0tomato<\/em>. . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also the fact that Biden\u00a0keeps claiming his late son, Beau, died in Iraq<\/a>. Beau did not die in Iraq. Beau died in Bethesda, Md., six years after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq. . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn\u2019t just about whether Biden has the stuff to finish this term, let alone serve a second one. This is also about why we in the media aren\u2019t having a more robust debate regarding Biden\u2019s mental acuity. The apparent lack of interest in the matter certainly feels like a change of pace for an industry that historically hasn\u2019t shied from the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Trump years, for example, there was no shortage of coverage and commentary questioning the president\u2019s physical and mental fitness. In those years, there were three parts to every sentence published by the press: A noun, a verb, and \u201cIs Donald Trump insane?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychiatrists became\u00a0cable news famous<\/a>\u00a0overnight simply for their willingness to leverage their credentials against Trump.\u00a0. . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point here isn\u2019t to highlight the press\u2019s treatment of past presidents and presidential hopefuls, to shout \u201chypocrisy!\u201d Rather, it\u2019s to state that the public deserves to know whether Biden is capable of performing the bare minimum required of his office. If anything falls under the heading of \u201cpublic interest,\u201d this is surely it. And yet the broader press, the industry tasked with asking and exploring this question, has staked out a position of casual indifference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if ever there was a time to snap back to attention, to engage on the issue of \u201cpresidential fitness,\u201d this is it. There\u2019s a presidential election just around the corner. The time to get serious about \u201cfitness,\u201d and to address it fairly and seriously, is now. Not for the sake of the media\u2019s credibility, but for the sake of the public, which has every right to know whether the leading candidates for president are actually capable of carrying out their duties. . . . .<\/p>\nTHE HILL – Opinion by Becket Adams<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What an outstanding opinion piece by Becket Adams on the looming question that the American Press Corps is trying to avoid – “Is Joe Biden ok?” Obviously, the answer is, “No.” Adams details a fraction of the evidence of that self-evident reality. He argues the Press has a responsibility to dig into this major issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,110,82,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-biden","category-biden-health","category-media-bias","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}