‘Morning Joe’ Defends Biden’s Fitness: Everything You See with Your Own Eyes Is ‘Debunked’ Misinformation

BRZEZINSKI: “Well, and also, I think when those on the right try and make it look like Biden is out of his mind, The Wall Street Journal does a front-page piece saying Biden is completely slipping and they don’t notice, at the very same time that they’re covering Biden in this way that is misleading, Donald Trump is on stage talking about sharks and batteries and really looks like he’s slipping.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. Well, I think, Jonathan Lemire, the thing that is so — so — I don’t know if ‘surprising’ is the right word, but I’ll just say, so concerning in the middle of a presidential election is, it’s a tabloid, I understand it’s a tabloid, but the New York Post, the same guy who owns the New York Post owns The Wall Street Journal, owns, you know, Fox News, owns The Times of London, let’s just go down the list. But the front of their paper deliberately lying about — about — this is what Howie Kurtz was talking about over on Fox News, deliberately lying about Joe Biden while he was giving the thumbs up to parachuters. Of course, this media ecosystem, it seems more and more focused on just spreading misleading or out right false stories about Joe Biden. And The Wall Street Journal, who I praised in this space for their new editor, I really like the changes over at The Wall Street Journal, but even their paper week ago or so, in a story that just made absolutely no sense, we talked about it on the show already a couple of times, you know, they get Kevin McCarthy to lie on the record when there were reports months in the making that Kevin McCarthy always lies on the record about Joe Biden’s mental acuity and then he says the completely opposite thing, either on the record to other publications or to his own staff, about just how good Joe Biden is in negotiations.”
LEMIRE: “Yeah, one wonders if their order’s coming from on high about tilting the media coverage here — “
SCARBOROUGH: “Yes, exactly.”
LEMIRE: “ — from these outlets. The New York Post, let’s just take that as an example, they knew better. It had been hour — a full day earlier, in the aftermath of that moment in Normandy, it was completely debunked, there’s videos from other angles, not just put up by the Biden campaign but put out by independent observers saying, no, no, President Biden was not meandering off. He was going to salute to one of the other parachutists, and then he came back to take — the prime minister signaled him and he came back to take that a photograph. For hours, that was a done story and the New York Post put it on the front page anyway the following morning and tried to turn it into something it was not. Yesterday we had White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre call out these cheap fakes, in particular the one Twitter account associated with the RNC, the Republican National Committee, which puts out a lot of these misleading videos, and then it’s amplified by others on the right, and the RNC Research’s account simply said, ‘Nope, we’re going to keep doing it.’ Just flat out said, ‘We don’t care.’ And that’s the problem here that the Biden campaign, but also those of us in the media are gonna have to grapple with between now and November, because the speed of these fakes only is increasing.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Well, and, you know, it’s — Jonathan’s right, you have to start asking are these coming on high when you have the same news organization doing what Jonathan just said, deliberately lying about a shot, cropping it in the way they know they’re lying to the readers, right? And that comes about a week after a Wall Street Journal story that they know is misleading. No reasonable person could not know it’s misleading. And again, why we bring this up, we bring it up just to say this: We’ve now just expanded far out from just deep fakes on Twitter/X, other social media, TikTok, to now deep fakes, or cheap fakes even, in the New York Post and other publications.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah. So, we will have a lot more on this coming up.”