http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/05/24/alex-thompson-wsj-op-ed-response-n2413263
Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper are trying so hard to absolve the media of any wrongdoing in the Biden debacle. They insist the White House lied to them and they -- as journalists -- just couldn't do a darned thing about it. They're victims too, don'tcha know?
BUT ...
No one is buying it. Victor Davis Hanson wrecked Tapper for it, calling his role in the cover-up 'one of the greatest acts of moral duplicity I’ve seen in my lifetime.'
He's right.
And so is the Wall Street Journal, when they said the Democrats and media cover-up of Biden led to a second Trump term.
Alex Thompson didn't like this one bit and responded:
Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) ~ My letter to the editor in response to this editorial.
First of all, Alex ... we're concerned ...
Secondly, your letter is a pack of lies.
You try to bolster your arguments by referencing your interviews "of over 200 people - mostly Democrats." Using the words of known liars is not very reassuring as to the veracity of your contentions - just sayin'. Your feeble attempt to dismissively ignore what you disingenuously style as a few "verbal gaffes and physical tumbles" is pathetic. The ONLY people who were even remotely surprised by Biden's poor debate performance were you libtard media schmucks who were extremely willing and happy to be lied to. You morons. And, no ... the time to be curious about Biden's OBVIOUS mental and physical inability to be POTUS ... well, obvious to EVERYONE except you bought-and-paid-for lickspittles, that is ... was BEFORE the 2020 election - NOT now in a lame attempt to somehow salvage a professional reputation that you don't actually own and to make a quick buck as the sleazy whore that you most certainly are.
Even under the lightest of scrutiny, this doesn't pass the smell test.
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} Your Co-Author called it a stutter and became enraged at any other suggestion otherwise in 2020 because it was a Trump. You are beyond full of shit and until you start issuing apologies and nothing more, you will be continued to be treated as such. Shameless.
Issuing apologies and naming names: Cabinet members, staffers, etc. who saw Biden's decline years ago and didn't do anything about it.
Yeah, this is THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL in the U.S. in at least the past 100 years - if not the past 250 years.
LG in AZ (@myfoureyedtribe) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} Name all the names. Not just 5 old people you can scapegoat since they have no future in politics. Just disgraceful.
They are beyond disgraceful.
Jack Bauer after dark (@JackBauerAD) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} Yeah, keep going, Alex. You're definitely doing a great job here. Shameless hack.
That's all they are: shameless hacks.
Carlton Hinds (@methuselaschild) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} People noticed Biden's mental decline before the 2020 election. Hell, normies started noticing then too. Why didn't you? Why should anyone ever trust #youpeople to bring them the news ever again?
We were told it was a conspiracy. Those videos were 'cheap fakes.'
Tapper attacked Lara Trump over Biden's 'stutter.'
Tapper viciously attacked Lara Trump on air.
We all saw it. We all knew.
Rae A (@xrae) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} You mfer - this info did need to be out there. But not 6 months down the road, or 1 year, or 4 years, but as soon as it happened. You're no hero for digging into this story when it was finally "safe" to do so. You and all the other journos are infested with TDS.
And there it is: this was all driven by their unhinged hatred of Trump.
Mike Moss (@_MikeMoss) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} It's just so weird how you did all this work AFTER the election. Ignored it before then. DEFENDED Biden before then. ATTACKED and RIDICULED those who pointed these VERY things out. But then went "behind the scenes" AFTER the election.
Well, that's an easy one ... these media whores are doing it now because the cat's already out of the bag AFTER the damage has already been done and they desperately need to try to excuse their direct culpability and score a few bucks in the process.
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} Alex, you granted anonymity to White House operatives and cabinet members. All you're trying to do is mitigate the damage to Democrats going forward.
And he's failing at mitigating that damage.
Everybody is Insane (@colorblindk1d) ~ {Replying to @AlexThomp} "After speaking with 200 people after the election." That's the problem!! Nobody was asking these people these questions WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING.
It's literally the job of journalists to dig into this stuff, even if the White House tries to thwart it.
If Donald Trump was drooling into a cup off-hours, you better believe Tapper and Thompson wouldn't just take the White House at their word.
And that's the problem.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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