CNN anchor Jake Tapper acknowledged during recent interviews that the national press has, for years, functioned in service of the Democratic Party and failed to properly report on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline while in office.
Tapper’s remarks came during a conversation on “The Remnant” podcast with Jonah Goldberg on Thursday, where the two discussed perceived double standards in the media’s treatment of political figures based on party affiliation.
Goldberg argued that the press would have aggressively covered Biden’s mental decline if he had been a Republican or if President Donald Trump had represented a more establishment brand of conservatism.
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“The one group of people who believe Biden’s ‘existential threat to democracy’ stuff about Trump was a big chunk of the D.C. press corps,” Goldberg said.
Tapper responded, “I don’t disagree with your general premise. And I think it’s unfortunate that a lot of the press criticism and journalism — and most known journalism professors out there — have been saying since the Bush years that it is the responsibility of journalists to basically take up the Democratic cause — capital D, not small-d — the Democratic Party cause. And I think that’s unfortunate. I