Now that everyone is finally acknowledging Joe Biden’s mental decline, and the media is desperately trying to escape deserved blame for participating in the cover-up, it’s a good time to look back and see what people actually said last year when the house of cards began to crumble.
Just before Joe Biden’s disastrous debate in June, Brian Stelter and others at CNN were still pushing the idea of cheap fakes. The idea that videos of Joe Biden looking old and out of it were being clipped and presented without context.
It sounded ridiculous back then but when you hear it today, it’s absurd bordering on criminal. These people bent over backwards to defend Joe Biden right up until the moment when they knew they couldn’t do it anymore, the truth had been exposed.
Transcript via CNN:
BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: That’s right, and it’s only June, and you’re already talking about whether the president’s defecating in public. Imagine what we’re going to be by October. You know, the White House press secretary used the phrase, cheap fakes the idea of cheap fakes. Let me explain what that is to people. We’ve been worried for years about A.I. deep fakes, that computer-generated images are going to trick people into believing something that’s totally false. Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler. They’re cheap. They’re just distorted out of context videos, chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways.
That’s what we’re seeing. That’s what the Biden administration, the Biden campaign is so worried about right now. But make no mistake, they are worried about this. This is a real problem. This is not some made up fiction. The videos are oftentimes made up, but the problem is real because some of us, Abby, watch a 40 minute speech by Biden. We see the full context. Other people only watch a five-second clip. And that’s going to be something that’s going to, I suspect, follow Biden for the rest of this campaign.
PHILLIP: I mean, look, Biden, as we pointed out, it’s not a secret, he is an older man. He has actually moments that are pretty awkward in public. Why chop them up and make them into something that they’re not if Republicans perhaps feel like they need to go the next step to kind of make this so much more extreme in the minds of voters?
NATASHA ALFORD, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: I mean, I thought it was a pretty disgusting exploitation of a moment where Biden is talking to, you know, the parachuters, but they cut that video out, right? I think it’s, it’s deeply unfair.
Watch the clip:
After the Biden/Clooney fundraiser video emerged, CNN’s Brian Stelter excitedly jumped in to run the “cheap fake” narrative for the White House.
“The White House used the phrase “cheap fakes”…let me explain what that is….”
We now know Biden didn’t even recognize Clooney that… pic.twitter.com/jjhRJL9YZ2
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 13, 2025
Fast forward to today, and watch CNN’s Jake Tapper claim that it was the White House that pushed the cheap fake narrative. Pay close attention during the first segment of this montage:
Today, CNN’s Jake Tapper lambasted the Biden White House for falsely labeling videos showing Biden’s cognitive issues “cheap fakes.”
Following Jake’s clip are a few examples of Jake’s own network actively perpetuating the “cheap fake” hoax, dismissing concerns about Biden’s… pic.twitter.com/NoiofXLiWK
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 14, 2025
These people have no shame. Zero. They really think they can get away with rewriting history.
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