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Back to episode — Episode 2527 CWSA 07/05/24

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w that's not funny. Here's funny. "It's just a cold." "Well but it looked like he couldn't even talk." "It's just a cold. He's fine. He's just got a cold." Now you're probably realizing right now he can't do a Monty Python accent to save his ass. It sounded exactly like his Ukrainian accent and that wasn't good to begin with. Okay, that's true. So you have to do your own Monty Python in your head.…

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recently on TV that every reporter on the campaign trail in 2020 could see with their own eyes that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. He was very low energy. He had to have teleprompters for the smallest things. And his basic stump speeches, blah blah blah. Do you believe that? Do you believe that everybody could see it and the entire left-leaning news covered it up? That's funny.

Let's play lying, stupid, or crazy, or weak. I added weak because we're going to look at some people on the left and what they say about Biden and you get to decide: Are they lying? Are they stupid? Are they crazy? Or are they just weak?

Brian Stelter. Now that he knows that Biden has these problems and he was one of the ones saying there was no problem at all right up until the debate, he wrote, he said the record of how Biden's health was covered is complicated, just as aging is a complicated process. Is he lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? Lying, crazy, stupid, or weak? Is acting like maybe it wasn't so obvious. Yeah, maybe you couldn't really see it, you know, because of the complicated stuff. It's complicated. How could anybody see it when it's so complicated? I'm going to say lying and weak. Lying either because he's weak or he's weak and lying. It's a coincidence. I don't think he's crazy and I don't think he's stupid. I mean not that stupid.

All right, let's do another one. George Stephanopoulos. So he's going to do the conversation with Biden, I guess we'll see it today. And he is presumably going to give a lifeline to Biden if he can. As I think Ari Fleischer was pointing out, he says it's amazing to think Joe Biden's fate is in the hands of Bill Clinton's former communications director. George Stephanopoulos in 1992 helped save Clinton from a bimbo eruption. What will he do now for Biden? Save him or end him? It's possible that Stephanopoulos is being sent to end him because if the people who are really in power in the Democrat side need to end him they would send their best and he would do it.

Now is George Stephanopoulos lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? Lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? Because I think he was one of the people saying Biden's fine. What do you think? I'm going to say lying. Definitely not stupid. Definitely not crazy. Definitely not weak. Just lying. Yeah, that was easy.

How about Morning Joe? So apparently Joe came back to work after his scheduled vacation that apparently did not involve his wife. Okay, that's normal. And he took that scheduled vacation. Somebody pointed out soon after he disagreed with his wife on air and told her to calm down. I guess that's what gets you a vacation without your wife. If you'd like a vacation without your wife, just tell her to calm down. That'll get you a vacation without a wife. Maybe forever.

So anyway, Morning Joe comes back and you probably saw his rant about, "F you if you don't know that Biden is the best Biden there's ever been." And a few days later the best Biden decomposed in front of us. That was the best Biden. Now Morning Joe: lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? Lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? For Morning Joe, what do you say? I'm going to vote obviously lying but it looks like there's some mental health problems there. Yeah. So I would go with lying and crazy. He doesn't seem weak. I mean if you're weak you don't tell your wife to calm down on national TV. You might pay for it but it wasn't weak. His whole thing, he's not weak. All right. And he's not stupid. He's not stupid. Not even a little bit. So I'm going to go with lying and crazy.

All right, here's another one. Joy Reid did a video in which she said that it looks like Hitler is going to be elected. And it wasn't a joke. She was saying that in a real way. Trump is Hitler. Is she lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? I'm going to say crazy because she represented herself crazy. In other words she looked crazy. She had crazy eyes, crazy thoughts. There might be some lying mixed in but she's not stupid and she's not weak. She's definitely not weak. And there's no evidence she's stupid. There's plenty of evidence that she has a mental health problem and that she's lying.

What about Rachel Maddow? Lying, stupid, crazy, or weak? She's not stupid. She's smarter than all of us put together. All right, she's super smart. She's not weak because she's pushed through a lot of things to be on TV. But she does admit to some mental health issues, depression. But you can see more of that in her face. Like I don't know what the problem is and I do actually have some empathy for it. She looks like she's tortured. I would say mental health. I don't want to say crazy because that's what you say to somebody who's not under therapy. I'm pretty sure she's getting professional help. So I'm going to be more kind and not say crazy. I will say there's a mental health issue that's genuine and is serious. And I think we're all being sort of influenced by a mental health issue more than the news. All right, that's my take.

Now you can't know, but keep in mind we're not mind readers so we can't know that our conclusions are right here. We're just saying what it looks like. All right. And I would say I think that MSNBC has a duty to disclose their mental health situation. I mean that literally. And I'm not saying this about CNN. CNN has a bunch of people who say things I don't like sometimes. They're a lot better. They're moving toward the middle. But I don't see them looking crazy. Do you? I don't see them having mental health problems. I see Jake Tapper doing Jake Tapper. I see Wolf Blitzer doing Wolf Blitzer. You know, John King doing John King. None of them look crazy. Not even a little bit. But as soon as I turn on MSNBC it's not that they're more strident about Trump. It's not really that. They actually honestly without any spin or anything to me they represent as really obviously mentally ill.

Now here's where I'm going to get a little mad at the media. You can see it too. Everybody can see it. You can see it years ago with Biden. And here it is. Are you going to tell me you don't see it? Are you going to tell me you watch Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Joe Scarborough and you don't see really, really obvious mental illness? You don't see it? Can you actually say that to me? It's screamingly obvious. And here's how I check myself. On CNN I don't see it in other places. It's very unique to their situation. And I think they need to disclose whether they're under the care of a professional. I would like to know if the person who's telling me what my reality is is capable of understanding reality. Isn't that fair? I think they should tell us if they're under the care of a professional. You know, do you go to therapy? And why wouldn't you like to know that? Because if they're telling you what is real, don't you want to know if they've got a grasp on what's real? And I think they don't. To me it looks like they have legitimate mental health problems. Which by the way if they were to cop to them I would immediately change my tone and I would just go to empathy and I would say, "God, I hope you take care of that because that sounds terrible." I mean a mental health problem is just like being in hell. So I have full empathy for whatever is going on. It's just we need a little transparency here. I think it would be good for the country.

All right. Olivia Nuzzi. I don't know how to say her name either. She talks about the conspiracy of silence to protect the president. She said in January I began hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists, and donors who came away from interactions with Biden disturbed by what they had seen. And she said she's been writing about it for a while. And it made me wonder. I don't remember her talking about it but you know maybe I don't see all the news so that's not a surprise. And I wonder, should you revise your entire understanding of who to listen to in the future? I would say yes. I would say anybody who looked at Biden so obviously declining and told you with a straight face he's fine, you should never listen to them again.

I would go further and say that anybody who is an anti-Biden person who didn't also say, "And he's obviously declining mentally," if they didn't tell you that directly you should maybe not take them too seriously in the future. But I'd like to call out a couple of people who for years have been saying Biden's brain is fried. Right now you know some of them. And this is not a complete list but Greg Gutfeld. How long has Greg Gutfeld been telling you loudly in public on his shows Biden's brain is not there, it's obvious? So the next time he tells you, "I'm looking at something and they're lying to you and I'll tell you what the truth is," maybe you should listen to him. Maybe you should because he got that right.

How about Jesse Watters? Now Jesse is one of my favorite TV personalities because he knows when to be tongue-in-cheek and when to present a character just for fun. But he also has lots of good serious takes on stuff. There are some of the best. You sometimes don't notice that his takes are among the best in the business because he does the comedy thing that overshadows it. But he too could see the decline right from the start. Dana Perino, I'm sure same thing.

So just ta

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ke a mental note. Who was calling this out years ago? And obviously I was as well. And who was telling you it was there's no problem? That's not fixable. You can't fix that. If somebody lied to you about something so obvious for four years you should never believe anything they say again. Never. That's not like being wrong. Being wrong is forgivable. We all do it. But that wasn't being wrong. That…

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