Those that lived via the Watergate scandal within the’70s with its related names and labels, together with President Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein, the plumbers, non-denial denials, press secretary Ron Ziegler, Haldeman and Erlichman, the tapes, Choose John Sirica, Particular Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, John Dean and the cover-up, will recall the blazing headlines.
Day by day, particularly in The Washington Submit, The New York Occasions and The Los Angeles Occasions, and most main broadcast community newscasts had been tales in regards to the rising scandal and requires impeachment of the president and the jailing of a few of his high associates.
Examine this to the huge double cover-ups of Joe Biden’s psychological decline and the announcement final Sunday that he has superior prostate most cancers. Among the many cover-up co-conspirators seems to be Biden’s physician, Kevin O’Connor, who assured the general public that Biden was “match” and will serve a second time period. There was nothing about Biden’s PSA stage, which is a measurement that helps decide whether or not males might need prostate most cancers.
I’ve had an annual bodily for a few years and the PSA outcomes are at all times included. In not telling the general public about Biden’s PSA stage, O’Connor was both incompetent, or extra seemingly, protecting it up. He was not alone. Jill Biden needed to know, not solely about his PSA numbers, however his psychological and bodily decline.
The place are Woodward and Bernstein, or their equal? The newspapers and broadcast networks stay fixated on what they regard as President Trump’s unhealthy character, moral breaches and to them, unhealthy insurance policies. They appear to treat the Biden cover-ups as an afterthought. As normal, the New York Submit is main the way in which in reporting and commenting on this, to the disgrace of what was known as “mainstream media.” The Submit reported Tuesday: “A senior Division of Justice official has recommended former first girl Jill Biden ought to face legal expenses for ‘elder abuse’ for not revealing what she knew about her husband’s well being issues.”
This scandal is way greater than Watergate as a result of it concerned the well being, life and decision-making by the president. If another person was making selections we have to know. Some Democrats who staunchly defended Biden are actually suggesting they may have understated his situation. Don’t search for them or the key media to apologize, for heads to position or for them to vow by no means to do that once more. Just like the Democrats, they like to “transfer on.”
All who had been engaged in these shameless cover-ups shouldn’t be allowed to get away with their actions (or inactions). This isn’t about revenge. It’s about sparing the nation from comparable episodes sooner or later and holding accountable those that engaged – actively or passively – within the cover-ups.
President Biden was requested on a number of events about his psychological well being and whether or not he’s examined. He claimed he was examined “on a regular basis,” however by no means launched the outcomes of these exams and reporters by no means pursued them. President Trump has launched his medical check outcomes, which embody a low .10 PSA stage.
The New York Occasions reported earlier this month: “ Months earlier than President (Biden) was pressured to desert his re-election marketing campaign, his high White Home aides debated having him bear a cognitive check to show his health for a second time period however finally determined towards the transfer, based on a forthcoming guide. The account illustrates the diploma to which Mr. Biden’s high aides harbored deep fears about how voters seen his age and psychological acuity. The guide, ‘2024: How Trump Retook the White Home and the Democrats Misplaced America,’ by Tyler Pager of The New York Occasions, Josh Dawsey of The Wall Avenue Journal and Isaac Arnsdorf of The Washington Submit, is about to be launched in July.”
Republicans have to uncover the cover-ups and do it shortly, earlier than the nation strikes on.
Readers could e-mail Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Search for Cal Thomas’ newest guide “A Watchman within the Evening: What I’ve Seen Over 50 Years Reporting on America” (HumanixBooks).
