Chet Collins

How Biden’s Inner Circle Worked to Keep Signs of Aging Under Wraps - WSJ

In April, Murray, the high-ranking senator from Washington state, told the Journal that she hadn’t seen a change in Biden’s acuity during years of meeting with him. “He engages in a very personal way, asking questions, making comments,” she said.

On Monday, Murray said in a statement that Biden should consider his legacy in deciding whether to remain in the race: “We need to see a much more forceful and energetic candidate on the campaign trail in the very near future in order for him to convince voters he is up to the job.”

WSJ published a widely-critized feature on June 4th with the headline, Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping. The very next day, Politico published an article on the fall-out, Biden Team Seeths Over Another Age Piece - and Sours on The Journal.

In the Politico piece, Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Murray were, “quick to say that their on-the-record rebuttals did not make it into The Journal’s final piece. Murray said in an interview she spoke to the paper twice.”

In the span of four weeks, Sen. Murray has gone from ridiculing those who dared question Biden’s mental acquity to publicly, and politely, suggesting that he get lost.

Biden to Congressional Democrats: I’m ‘Running This Race to the End’ - WSJ

President Biden dug in Monday, telling a broad array of Democrats that he was committed to “running this race to the end” and that it was time for conversations about changing nominees to stop, as concerns about his candidacy grew louder.

Didn’t they get the memo? If you’re against Joe, you’re an enemy of democracy!

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pressed repeatedly Monday on why an expert on Parkinson’s disease visited the White House eight times from July 2023 to March of this year, according to visitor logs. She said Biden has seen a neurologist three times as part of three annual physicals—most recently in February—and that there has been no finding of Parkinson’s. But she would not address or explain the Parkinson’s expert’s visits and cited privacy reasons.

He had a Groupon for White House tours.

ABC News’ exclusive interview with Biden: Full transcript

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the good as job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about. (emphasis added)

I’m not sure that’s better than, “goodest job.”

My greatest fear about the future of drone delivery is what happens when the pregnant women find out.

Andrea Lawful-Sanders, WURD Radio part ways after she used questions provided by Biden’s campaign - CBS Philadelphia

A Biden administration official told CBS News Saturday that the White House was not involved in any preparation for the two radio interviews. The official added that providing questions to interviewers is not standard practice for the White House, and the campaign is not planning to do it again going forward.

Not involved in any preparation, except for preparing the exact questions? And they’re not planning to do it again, so they did do it already?

These Men Are on the Front Lines of the Abortion-Rights Movement - WSJ

“The whole point of our organization is to get guys who are passively pro-choice but would not speak up, show up, donate—to get them to do those things,” said Florida-based Deputy Executive Director Aaron Bos-Lun. “It is the role of men to be additive, it isn’t the role of men to be dictating when it comes to reproductive freedom.”

Men advocating for abortion is not additive; it’s self-serving.

Just about perfect.

The ‘MAGA Supreme Court’ Doesn’t Exist - WSJ Opinion

Democrats denounce the Supreme Court for making the Presidency too powerful, while they also denounce the Justices for stopping Mr. Biden’s unilateral regulatory actions, including his effort to forgive $430 billion of student loans without Congress. Who really thinks he’s king? The Justices are keeping each branch in its constitutional lane, and those decisions will apply to President Trump, if he wins, the same as they do to President Biden.

Biden Aides Wrote Questions for Radio Hosts Who Interviewed Him - WSJ

Biden’s aides, grappling with the biggest political crisis of Biden’s career, sought to exert control over the Wednesday interview. “I was sent eight questions to choose from,” Lawful-Sanders told The Wall Street Journal.

The purpose of a free press is to hold leaders to account, not to lob scripted softballs at them while pretending it’s an “interview.”