{"id":17707,"date":"2025-05-10T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2025-05-10T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T13:47:41","slug":"joe-bidens-handlers-definitely-knew-did-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17707","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden&#8217;s Handlers Definitely Knew. Did the Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper has released a book on this subject:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0DXCMSHVL\/reasonmagazinea-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em>That&#8217;s in addition to the books by Parnes, Allen, and Whipple. One can&#8217;t help but wonder, however, why it took so long to get the real story. Maybe journalists weren&#8217;t properly clued in to Biden&#8217;s decline until after the debate? That&#8217;s a bit hard to believe, though: At the very least, Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s claims some months earlier that Biden appeared to be an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/02\/15\/robert-hur-confirmed-what-everybody-knows-biden-is-old\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;elderly man with a poor memory&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;should have set off alarm bells.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/03\/joe-bidens-handlers-definitely-knew-did-the-media\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/03\/joe-bidens-handlers-definitely-knew-did-the-media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper has released a book on this subject: Original Sin: President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. That&#8217;s in addition to the books by Parnes, Allen, and Whipple. One can&#8217;t help but wonder, however, why it took so long to get the real story. Maybe journalists weren&#8217;t properly clued in to Biden&#8217;s decline until after the debate? That&#8217;s a bit hard to believe, though: At the very least, Special Counsel Robert Hur&#8217;s claims some months earlier that Biden appeared to be an &#8220;elderly man with a poor memory&#8221; should have set off alarm bells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/04\/03\/joe-bidens-handlers-definitely-knew-did-the-media\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1095,375,780,136],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-age","tag-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17708,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions\/17708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}