On Monday, the White House invented a fresh excuse for Joe Biden’s repeatedly publicly displayed senility. According to Karine Jean-Pierre, the worst press secretary in history, all the videos you have seen are “cheap fakes.”
What is a “cheap fake,” you may ask? According to the internet, it is essentially synonymous with deep bogus and indicates that a video has been manipulated or fraudulently created. I assume the word “cheap” is to convey that this is easily accomplished using various AI tools.
SEE: White House responds to videos depicting Biden as senile, and the explanation is ridiculous
Karine Jean-Pierre is PISSED that we are releasing unfiltered, unedited, and publicly available clips of Biden to the public.
(We will do more) pic.twitter.com/ps6gDqY8yb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 17, 2024
JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, and I think all of you have called this video affordable fakes. They are “cheap fakes,” they are done in bad faith, and some of your news organizations have made the point very clearly that these right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because the fact-checkers have repeatedly caught them spreading misinformation and disinformation, and that’s what we see, and that’s coming from your part of the world, where they’re called affordable fakes and misinformation.
Originally launched by the Washington Post, where the White House got the claim of “cheap fakes”, NBC News and others join the fight.
NBC News: pic.twitter.com/9rMvvAQwW8
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 18, 2024
More Americans might think that President Joe Biden tried to sit on a nonexistent chair the other day than know the dull truth that there was actually a chair.
The chair that was there was just one of many low video clips that the conservative media ecosystem made viral over the past two weeks, leaving fact-checkers and Biden’s team little chance to catch up.
The Republican National Committee, major conservative media outlets and right-wing influencers have managed to publish videos that they claim Present “evidence” by Biden’s digress, freezing over or fill his pants with a substance usually represented by a brown swirl emoji.
Let’s take a closer look at the example given there. Did Biden try to sit in an imaginary chair when he went to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day? Technically, no. But what significance does that have if that wasn’t necessarily the claim? While some joked that there was no chair because it looked like there was, the point of the video was to show that Biden was feeble and completely confused about what was going on around him.
The other world leaders were not He attempted to sit down, standing hunched over and stumbling for several very awkward seconds. He was later led away by his wife while French President Emmanuel Macron stayed to shake hands with veterans who are about 20 years older than Biden.
So was the video “misleading” or a “cheap fake”? I think the answer is no. Biden’s behavior in public seems senile. There is no getting around it, which is why this Strictly speaking Misleading claims are made that the videos are not representative.
The irony, of course, is that the videos are not misleading or edited at all.
But Democratic activists have learned that if they shout “cheap fake” or “the laptop contains Russian disinformation” loudly enough, the media will follow their instructions and amplify the whole story.
Apparently nobody learned anything. https://t.co/wtAj1Il1Ol
– Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) June 18, 2024
And as for the most recent example, which shows Biden freezing on stage at a fundraiser for an uncomfortably long time before Barack Obama has to lead him away, absolutely nothing has been changed or edited in that video.
Nevertheless, NBC News decided to turn to an authority on the matter: White House coffee boy Andrew Bates.
“Rupert Murdoch’s sad little Super PAC, the New York Post, was just scrutinized by at least six mainstream media outlets for lying about President Biden with cheap fakes and is now once again showing disrespect to its readers and itself,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement, referring to a video of Biden at a fundraiser with former President Barack Obama over the weekend that landed on the cover of the Post, a conservative tabloid.
Well, that settles it. If some “fact-checkers” have attacked the New York Post, then Biden is clearly razor edged. Unfortunately for Bates and the rest of Biden’s advisers, we have eyes. All the smearing in the world won’t change that. The is Joe Biden.
SEE: Even more awkward confusion from Biden at the G7
BIDEN: “She knew it all along! She knew that our freedom could never be secured.” pic.twitter.com/Ip44EUEVZt
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 11, 2024
The fact that this gets into the White House and the press so often shows how effective this strategy is for the Trump campaign. They and others should keep harping on it. Let the media smoke, but we have eyes and ears. What’s on the video is what’s on the video.
