The media needs to come clean about its coverage — or lack thereof — of former President Joe Biden’s declining health and mental acuity during the 2024 presidential election.
“When we got to leading up to the debate, which you anchored, that June 27 debate, 2024, there was a ton of news leading into that debate and that month, and we looked back at your coverage and found that you ignored it,” Megyn Kelly said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
There were a lot of incidents that were simply ignored, Kelly said, per Mediaite.
“Not only did you ignore the Jackie Walorski moment when you had him 13 days later, but you ignored the freeze-up that he had at the Juneteenth celebration. You ignored what happened at the G7 when he wandered off and Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy, had to go find him. You ignored the freeze-up at the George Clooney LA fundraiser. You didn’t cover it. You only covered it after the debate, after George Clooney wrote his op-ed,” Kelly continued.
“Jake, nobody made you do that. Your network at every turn was telling us those were, quote, ‘cheap fakes,’ and you were not combatting that narrative. CNN was actively misleading us on what our very eyes were showing us. That’s the truth, that’s the record,” Kelly said.
Tapper admitted the media’s lack of coverage.
“I will acknowledge that after I was named moderator, co-moderator of the debate, I tried to make sure that my coverage was fairly vanilla, both about Trump and about Biden, because I just wanted to get to the debate,” Tapper said.
He added he was “frankly, surprised that either one of them agreed to have me as a moderator because both sides disliked me so much.”
“But yeah, I remember that moment, and I remember that moment, the glitch at the immigration event, not getting much attention outside of conservative media at all. And Alex and I are here to say that conservative media was right and conservative media was correct, and that there should be a lot of soul-searching, not just among me, but among the legacy media to begin with, all of us, for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently. 100%. So, I mean, I’m not here to defend coverage that I’ve already acknowledged I wish I could do differently,” he added.
