The Cynical, Despicable 'Stuttering' Con Unravels
By: Jack Cashill (The American Spectator USA News and Politics)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Last week, like the boy in the Hans Christian Andersen fable, Fox News Host Rachel Campos-Duffy had the gumption to say out loud that Emperor Joe was wearing no metaphorical clothes. In addressing the collapse of leadership in Washington, Campos-Duffy asked, "Who are the people responsible for putting someone this incompetent and frankly this, you know, mentally frail in this position?"
Having dared to ask the obvious question, Campos-Duffy gave the obvious answer. "No one knew better his state of mind than Dr. Jill Biden," Campos continued. "And if you ask me, the most patriotic thing Jill Biden could have done was tell her husband — to love her husband — and not let him run in this mental state that he's in."
In the Andersen fable, the boy's fearful father tries to shame the boy into silence. Campos-Duffy got a dose of that. The shaming started at the top. "This is disgusting," tweeted Dr. Jill's press secretary. Singling out Fox News and Campos-Duffy, he concluded, "They can do better and their viewers deserve better. I hope they'll apologize to the First Lady and leave this kind of talk in the [trash] where it belongs."
Big Media, however, responded much like the crowd in the Andersen fable. They reacted first in shock but then quickly began to doubt themselves. The media churned out scores of huffy articles along the lines of "White House Demands Apology," but if a journalist of note defended Biden's mental acuity, I was unable to find that article. Not even at MSNBC did anyone dare lay the blame for Afghanistan on Biden's stuttering.
Indeed, when the first honest account of this era is written, the historian will surely dedicate a chapter to the most daring and, unfortunately, most successful political confidence game ever run on the American people — the "stuttering" gambit. For more than two years, Democrats and their many friends in the media mesmerized millions of Americans into thinking that Biden's obvious dementia was a speech defect. To give credit where it's due, that was one hell of a con.
As 2019 neared its end, the con artists knew they had a serious problem on their hands. Their most marketable candidate for president had been showing increasing signs of cognitive decline. Headlines like, "Joe Biden nibbled on his wife's finger in a bizarre campaign stop moment," had them understandably concerned.
The problem had been building. Indeed, it was in 2017 that Biden told the world of his heroic showdown with gang leader "Corn Pop." On that same day, Biden told a bewildered group of young black kids that, years earlier, kids just like them loved to rub his blond leg hairs. "I learned about kids jumping on my lap," said Biden improbably at the conclusion of the hairy leg tale. "And I've loved kids jumping on my lap."
By 2020, try as they might to "hide the decline," his handlers were losing control. This is where the media came to the rescue. Writing in the January 2020 edition of The Atlantic, former Esquire editor John Hendrickson offered would-be Biden voters a way to deny the obvious. Yes, Biden's first Democratic debate in July 2019 was a "disaster." Yes, some of his answers had been "meandering and difficult to parse." Yes, he seemed "confused and out of touch." Yes, "His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness."
Being in on the con, wittingly or not, Henderickson threw Biden a lifeline — "Maybe they'd be more understanding," he said of tentative Biden supporters, "if they knew he's still fighting a stutter." Yes, that was it, a "stutter." Henderickson spoke with authority. He was a stutter survivor himself. Who dared contradict him? Sort of like FDR, thought the credulous reader, Biden had fought valiantly throughout his political career to overcome a physical handicap.
Big Media played along. "Joe Biden: first president with a stammer," shouted a BBC headline after the Atlantic article. "Biden opens up about stuttering and offers advice to young people who stutter," said CNN. In an extended interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Biden shared what CNN called his "vulnerable story."
Of course, the more serious people in the media knew better. Stuttering could not explain why Biden bit his wife's fingers on stage or told stories about his leg hairs. Democratic Party leaders were aware as well. Still, they calculated that Biden, although mentally unfit, was more sellable than the other losers left in the race, the prematurely socialist Bernie Sanders chief among them.
In February 2020, just before COVID changed everything, party leaders put their thumbs on the scale in favor of Biden. Certainly Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina did. As the Washington Post noted, "His emotional endorsement of Biden as Democrats' proper antidote for the era of President Trump had earned him the title 'kingmaker.'"
Throughout the 2020 campaign, there were no headlines like this one from the Los Angeles Times in 1987, "UCI Study Calls Reagan Intellectually Impaired." What triggered the study was Reagan's weak performance in his first 1984 debate against Walter Mondale, a performance that had the major media openly speculating about his mental fitness. The speculation was not unfair. By the end of his second term, Reagan was slipping, but even at the end, he was more mentally alert than Biden was at the beginning. What Reagan lacked was a media establishment willing to cover for him. Some sample headlines:
"Boy with stutter delivers emotional DNC speech after help from Joe Biden" — Guardian, August 2020.
"Biden's Stutter: How a Childhood Battle Shaped Him" — Frontline, PBS, September 2020.
"Joe Biden's Stutter Is His Superpower" — New York Times, September 2020.
The Times op-ed is particularly revealing. It shows how the alchemists in the Democratic-media complex managed to transform Biden's leaden brain into a golden opportunity. "Even if Biden freezes up and slow-chops his answers on Tuesday, or says something that gets labeled a gaffe, it won't hurt him," wrote Timothy Egan. "More likely, it'll help him. In the choice between an authentic man grasping for words or a preening fraud, the first will usually win."
Last Saturday, Kathy McCollum showed just what she thought of the Times' "authentic man" shtick. In one riveting phone call, the mother of slain 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum unraveled the whole cynical stuttering con. To those who voted for Biden, said McCollum, "You just killed my son with a dementia-ridden piece of crap who doesn't even know he's in the White House." This time, no one dared say otherwise.
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"Indeed, when the first honest account of this era is written, the historian will surely dedicate a chapter to the most daring and, unfortunately, most successful political confidence game ever run on the American people — the “stuttering” gambit. For more than two years, Democrats and their many friends in the media mesmerized millions of Americans into thinking that Biden’s obvious dementia was a speech defect. To give credit where it’s due, that was one hell of a con."
And we heard that very same stuttering excuse from members here, didn't we? He dosen't stutter. His mind is gone and it appears that the worst people in our society are running things. He is down to 36% approval among independents and 20% of those who voted for him say they regret it.
cognitive erosion due to aging can be sad. imagine what trump's kids have been going thru for the last 10 months.
Biden should have tossed rolls of paper towels to the folk in the hurricane areas then all would have been good, right?
He didn’t so it must not have been on his cheat sheet.
Liberals are far too nice to people who would seed something like this or the writer.
We know by now what the political right is like, they are not going to change, and we have to accept the challenge. Trying to be "civil" with this kind of trash is not really an option.
So what’s the other option?
They already have shown us!
Are you kidding me? Putting aside the ongoing fascination with Trump supposedly engaging in incest, we routinely have progressives on this site hoping kids die to to get back at their Republican parents.
You really should take your blinders off.
No Republican or conservative should ever talk about liberals or Democrats lying until you denounce Donald Trump. Period.
“No Americans will be left behind.”
“the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
From Thomas Paine (The American Crisis):
"I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and repulse it."
I'm not sure Thomas Paine would give you the time of day.
No need to get upset. Would you like to discuss the opinion in the seed?
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“I have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world.”
Ok John, have a good night.
“we have no indication that Americans haven't been able to get in kabul through the airport.”
Now we hear that the State Department is holding up flights from leaving Afghanistan.
Yep, i read the same article. Just when you think these idiots can’t screw up any worse than they have, they bring it to a new level.
It's only going to get worse. We learned that from history. Rome had Caligula. They said his mind was gone.
We know biden’s mind is gone. Anybody with a brain knew that during the primaries.
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The writer of the seeded article seemed like a familiar name to me, but I couldnt really recall him. So I looked him up and found he was a right wing writer who was obsessed with tearing down Barack Obama.
Then I saw one of his recent articles
In Praise of White Men by Jack Cashill. In Praise of White Men | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Whats wrong with praising white men?
Are they an oppressed group? Historically disadvantaged? Systematically treated unfarly? LOL.
Earlier in the piece Cashill talks about how white men do almost all the hard work in the country.
Good thing he's not a racist or anything.
So now you call him a racist?
Why not address his argument?
If he's that bad, you should be able to demolish his argument.
What argument?
Construction is a sector that has historically excluded black workers—including the unionized portion of the industry. Giving minority workers access to good jobs is an important part of closing our large and persistent racial wage inequities, so this is a …
Racial Underrepresentation In Construction: How Do The Union And Nonunion Sectors Compare? | Economic Policy Institute (epi.org)
What's with all the big print?
How about Rachel Campos-Duffy's question: "Who are the people responsible for putting someone this incompetent and frankly this, you know, mentally frail in this position?"
Or is she a racist too?
It’s a damn shame we don’t have a president who brings black unemployment to historically low levels.
Thread 7 was removed for being totally off topic [ph]
Perhaps we should judge the author by the quality of his readers. What say you Vic?
A small sample:
"We could have a chimpanzee for president right now and the dimwit party would spin it to make the poor monkey plausible."
"Just wait, the chimpanzee is next door waiting for Biden to fold."
"Just how far up the evolutionary tree is Kamala, anyway??"
I say people should stop trying to be creative about insulting people and trying to skirt the code.
How's that?
What code am I skirting?
I think I'll close this one for now.
Have a good night.
We are open again for our readers and it is to them I ask the only relevant question at this point:
Joe Biden has become the liability that many knew he would become. There is only so much heat democrats can withstand, as is clearly evident here on this seed.
So the question is how & when will democrats make a change?
The problem is Biden less worse than Harris
As a famous race caller used to say "Too close to call!"