What did reporters who cover the White House know, and when did they know it? As President Biden ____ toward a ____ from the 2024 election that seems likelier by the hour, the question of the media's ____ in hiding his mental decline is taking ____ ____. The greatest ____ from Joe Biden’s catastrophic ____ during his debate last week with Donald Trump is not Biden himself. Somewhere ____ inside, Biden may actually be ____ for the chance to be free of the obligation to perform (or ____ to perform) the world’s most important job. No, the greatest loser is the media, ____ elite news organizations like the New York Times that have teams of reporters covering the White House. These teams ether somehow ____ Biden’s ____ cognitive decline - or, worse, actively ____ it up. Either way, a ____ for the way media ____ have turned into spear-carriers for the Democratic Party may be coming. I hope it will be. It is long ____. On Thursday afternoon, New York magazine published an long article about Biden’s decline by Olivia Nuzzi, a Washington correspondent who is its top reporter. Nuzzi wrote in the ____, ____ “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden,” that top Democrats had talked about Biden’s ____ memory and cognitive problems at least since January. “Following ____ with the president, they had arrived at the same ____: Could he really do this for another four years? Could he even ____ it to Election Day?” But the worriers did not want to talk publicly, Nuzzi said. “They were scared and horrified.” Those folks want Joe Biden to be President. Their ____ is to him, not the truth. Thus the conspiracy. And Nuzzi wrote she could get these ____ Democrats on the record - though it is not clear how hard she tried. — Then, late in the piece, Nuzzi made an extraordinary ____ - one ____ importance she ____ not to have recognized. She too had seen Biden’s decline ____. ____ had much of the Washington press corps. As ____ as Biden’s courtiers try to protect Biden, they cannot ____ him from every public ____. The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is Washington’s premier annual social event, its ____ “nerd prom.” Nuzzi met Biden, whom she had covered ____ and ____ during the 2020 campaign, at a photo session and reception before the dinner. Here is how she describes the encounter: "My heart stopped as I ____ my hand to greet the president. I tried to ____ but it was like his eyes, though open, were not ____ I said “hello.” His sweet smile stayed frozen. He spoke very slowly and in a very soft voice. “And what’s your name?” he asked. Exiting the room after the photo, the group of reporters — not ____ by me, I should note — ____ about how dead he appeared to be, percentage wise. “Forty percent?” one of them asked." Try to ____ what happened that night - April 27, 2024, exactly two months before Joe Biden’s ____ exploded for the world to see. The reporters who cover the President, who are ____ of the world on a man who controls a nuclear ____ capable of ____ saw his cognitive decline face-to-face. They didn’t write about what they had seen. They didn’t investigate it. They joked about it. With each other. Privately. Nuzzi and the rest were part of the “conspiracy of silence” as much as any Democratic donor. And in June, when even the most tightly controlled public events could not hide Biden’s infirmities, they wrote of “cheap fakes” (meaning, accurate and real videos) and “misinformation.” Only now that the world knows have they turned on Biden Every last one of them should be ashamed. And wondering how they allowed their Democratic ____ and ____ for Donald Trump and ____ to ____ their most basic instincts to chase the truth and give it to the readers and viewers who pay their bills and trust them to be honest. I almost died working as a ____ for the New York Times in Iraq 20 years ago. That’s not an exaggeration. I cannot believe what the Times and the rest of the elite media have become. I am heartbroken today. This is the last and greatest in a series of media catastrophes over the last several years. They all have in common an ____ to admit, much less investigate, ____ that Democrats find unpleasant. If it does not provoke a ____, nothing will. And places like the Times will lose whatever ____ they have left.

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