Stewart Mocks Tapper’s Book About Biden’s Cognitive Health: It’s News We Should’ve Gotten for Free a Year Ago

STEWART: “The point is, the American news media were hungry for more.”

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RAJU: “A new Biden bombshell!”
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STEWART: “...dropping new bombshell allegations.”
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HEMMER: “A steady drip of new revelations.”
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GUTHRIE: “Damning claims.”
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HOLT: “Damaging new details.”
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FAULKNER: “Oh, my goodness, they are dripping with details. (...) A massive tsunami. The drip, drip on Joe Biden’s decline.”
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(Laughter)
STEWART: “My God, Fox News built an entire ‘Biden sucks’ border wall to hold back the raging drips of details and bombshells. Nothing could slow down this coming feeding news frenzy about Biden’s cognitive health, other than maybe a report on his actual physical health, which was not good. But now we got ourselves a little problem. You’ve prepared an entire smorgasbord — smorgasbord — charcuterie board. [Bleep]-ers .
(Laughter and Applause)
You know what I’m talking about. Meat and cheese. An entire smorgasbord based on what you thought would be a relatively uncomplicated story about mental decline. News has the countdown clock, they’ve got the book graphics, they’ve got the CNN happy meal tie-in toys.
(Laughter)
But now, doing the story seems almost disrespectful. Can CNN thread the needle? How do you pivot from excitedly promoting your anchor’s book to somberly and respectfully... promoting your anchor’s book?”

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Solomon: “Biden’s health was very much in the news even before the cancer diagnosis was announced on Sunday. That’s because of a new book by CNN’s Jake Tapper.”
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BASH: “This was already going to be a tough week, and this makes it much harder. And that is a reference to the fact that our colleague, Jake Tapper, and Alex Thompson have a book that’s set to publish on Tuesday.”
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Dean: “This very tough news, this very challenging news. And at the same time, the backdrop of our colleague Jake Tapper’s book with Alex Thompson coming out this week.”
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(Laughter)
STEWART: “It’s so hard, it’s such a difficult time, so unfathomable in terms of the pain his family must be feeling. And yet, if you act now, and you use the code ‘/ tap that book,’ you will — obviously, it’s 20% off. Offer is not available, for some reason, in Tennessee. But the point is, forgetting about the fact how [bleep] weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago for free, it’s just fun to watch them not only continue to push the book in light of this difficult news, but to actually frame this difficult news as perhaps even more of a reason to buy this book!”