Out of Ideas? Media Digs Up the Old ‘Biden’s Not Senile, He Just Stutters’ Lie

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At this point, at least, it looks as if the Democrats are stuck with Old Joe Biden, and so they’re making the best of it. The alleged president’s obvious cognitive decline, however, is getting more noticable all the time.

Apparently, however, the Biden regime apparatchiks and their establishment media propagandists have run out of excuses and explanations, as they’ve just resurrected an old one that didn’t fool anyone in its first go-round and is unlikely to take anyone in this time, either: the Figurehead-In-Chief, you see, isn’t suffering from dementia. He just stutters. And that sound you’re hearing now is eyes rolling all across our fair land.

The New York Times ran a big story this Monday, with the focus on how evil Bad Orange Man is for mocking Saint Joe’s speech disability: “Trump’s Biden Mockery Upsets People Who Stutter: ‘We’ve Heard This Before.’” This nonsense seems to have been part of a coordinated effort, as on the same day, longtime Democrat strategist David Axelrod wrote on X: “Mocking someone’s stutter for laughs is pathetic and small, the stuff of schoolyard bullies not grownups. Acting like a total jacka** doesn’t make you strong.”

Yeah, gosh, David, Trump really is terrible, at least until you remember two things: Old Joe doesn’t stutter, and his bête noire Trump didn’t mock him for stuttering. What happened, according to the Times, was this: “The moment happened at Mr. Trump’s rally in Rome, Ga., when he was criticizing Mr. Biden’s State of the Union address. ‘Didn’t it bring us together?’ Mr. Trump said. Then he turned to mocking Mr. Biden, mumbling unintelligibly and saying, ‘Bring the country t-t-t-t-together.’”

The Times has seldom, if ever, been more ridiculous than it is in its response to this, portraying it as the evil Trump actively (and no doubt gleefully) causing people pain. The idea that someone’s fragility must be off the charts and mental health quite delicate, to find Trump’s behavior personally painful doesn’t seem to occur to the Gray Lady at all. And so we get a weeper in which a “palliative care nurse practitioner” says: “I think it gets to a very visceral feeling for all people who stutter. Most of us have been mocked in some way in our childhood. We’ve heard this before. And so watching a video, it hits that familiar humiliation feeling.”

Oh, brother. The Times doesn’t even stop there. I’m not naming these people, even though they’re named in the Times; they’ve embarrassed themselves enough. We next hear from “a marketing consultant who leads a National Stuttering Association group,” who “said the clip had brought back memories of bullies who made fun of him.” And then the Times brings onstage a “speech pathologist who works with people who stutter,” who actually “burst into tears thinking of her patients while she watched it.

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