Conservatives Fume Over CBS Correspondent Saying Biden’s Cognitive Decline Was Most Undercovered Story of 2024: ‘Why Was That?’
An observation from a CBS correspondent is being called out by conservatives for being, in effect, a too-little-too-late mea culpa.
As part of a roundtable on Face the Nation Sunday, CBS News National and Legal correspondent Jan Crawford was asked by fill-in moderator Major Garrett to weigh in on what she believed to be the most under-reported story of 2024. Here was her reply:
JAN CRAWFORD: Undercovered and underreported, that would be, to me, Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in the televised debate.
MAJOR GARRETT: At the presidential debate with Donald Trump?
JAN CRAWFORD: Unquestioned. And it’s starting to emerge now that his advisers kind of managed his limitations, which has been reported in “The Wall Street Journal,” for four years. And yet he insisted that he could still run for president. We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary for the Democrats. It could have changed the scope of the entire election. Yet still, incredibly, we read in “The Washington Post” that his advisers are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that he thinks he could have beaten Trump. And I think that is either delusional or they’re gaslighting the American people.
But observers on the Right felt as though it was Crawford who was doing the gaslighting — by not really delving into the why of the media’s downplaying of the story. Many critics on the Right believe there was ample evidence that Biden’s cognitive function was in decline — long before the debate Crawford cited as the turning point in the coverage. Here’s a sampling of the criticism from conservatives:
Watch above, via CBS.
