In this explosive interview, journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon exposes the legacy media’s complicity in concealing President Biden’s mental and physical decline. She argues the scandal reveals not just political bias, but a deeper alliance between elite journalists and the Democratic Party, that needs to end before the legacy journalism can ever reclaim public trust. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.
Chapter 1: What are the bombshell revelations about Joe Biden?
The bombshell revelations about the mental and physical decline of Joe Biden during his presidency has implicated not just the Biden White House and family, but also the left-leaning legacy media. How much did reporters know about the president's condition but choose to hide? And is the scandal the nail in the coffin for their credibility?
Chapter 2: How did the legacy media cover up Biden's condition?
In this episode, we sit down with Batya Angar Sargon to discuss the role the legacy media played in perpetrating the cover-up and what fueled that complicity. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Saturday, May 24th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
Joining us to discuss the legacy media's role in the Biden mental decline cover-up is Batia Ungar Sargon, who once guest hosted for us. Hey, Batia. Thanks so much for coming on.
Thank you so much for having me. It's always an honor to be here with you.
So look, we just witnessed something pretty remarkable, one of the biggest scandals in American history, the biggest presidential scandal I think we've ever seen. We wanted to talk to you about the media's role in all of this, how much they played a part in keeping information that was so key for the American people to know.
away from the American people, is there any way that the legacy media can claim that they simply didn't know that they were doing their jobs and that this was all really the Biden administration's fault? Or is this the media's fault as well?
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Chapter 3: What role does power play in the media's reporting?
From my point of view, this is first and foremost a media scandal because it is in the nature of power to hold on to itself, to expand itself, to protect itself. It's not surprising at all that Joe Biden's inner coterie, his family, his cabinet were protecting him from the revelations that would have ended his presidency if everything was working well, that he was declining mentally.
That should make a lot of sense to all of us. That is what power does. It expands itself and it protects itself. That is why the fourth estate, the media, is so important because its job is to look at the natural way that power operates and to hold power to account in the name of the American people who do not have the same access to the people in power.
And here is the thing that is so galling about the media's defense of Joe Biden. It's that when it comes to Donald Trump, They are very good at holding power to account. In fact, they are too good at it. They overstep, they over-criticize. They won't say a single positive thing about him.
And so they are deeply inaccurate in the portrayal they give the American people of Donald Trump, which is of course why they've lost so much credibility. It's because they cast themselves as the resistance, but only in one direction. The huge scandal here is not just that the media covered for Joe Biden, a person in power.
It's not just that they made themselves the handmaidens of power rather than having an adversarial relationship with power. It's that the media... by and large, was revealed to have the same interests as one political party, the Democratic Party. And the reason for that is not just because the media is by and large liberal and left-leaning. It's because the media is part of the elites.
The majority of American journalists have degrees from fancy universities. They're in the top 10%. They live in the same neighborhoods as the politicians and the millionaires that they're supposed to be covering fairly. Their children go to the same schools as the rich people in this country who have the most power. And so their economic interests...
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Chapter 4: Why is the media criticized for its handling of Biden versus Trump?
are aligned with those of the Democratic Party, which now caters to the wealthy. So that's why Joe Biden's decline was very much in their interest to hide, because Donald Trump now represents the working class, and it is his policies that represent a threat to
to the hegemony of the elites, both from a cultural point of view, a political point of view, but most importantly, an economic point of view. That's the story here. And now that Joe Biden has no power anymore and can't hurt them, now that he is a cancer-ridden, old, senile man, they are lining up to kick him
acting like somehow they deserve credit for speaking truth to power now that he no longer has any more power. And to me, that is the worst part about this, the godlessness here of humiliating the person that they protected because now he's powerless to defend himself against them. And that also is a very important piece of this story.
Yeah, I wanted to ask you specifically about that element. CNN's Jake Tapper, he's co-written this bombshell book, Original Sin. It's revealing a lot of this information that at least the top levels, we in conservative media were reporting all along. But we have, to be fair, learned some new things from this book.
Tapper said, for example, that Democrats were strangely willing to talk to him right after the election when it didn't matter anymore. He's getting a lot of plaudits for his bombshell book. Do you think he deserves that? Is this an act of courageous journalism? What are we witnessing here?
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the elite media's relationship with the Democratic Party?
I honestly have not seen him getting a lot of plaudits. I have seen wall-to-wall contempt. I've seen a lot of that meme of the guy in the hot dog suit, you know, pointing to the hot dog car that crashed into the store and saying, we're all looking for the guy who did this, right? Um...
The people lining up to now humiliate President Biden in these interviews are not doing so because they think that this book is going to be hard on the Democrats. They're doing so because they believe that this book is their best chance at laundering the reputation of the party. It is a performance art of accountability like so much else in the Democratic Party right now.
They're hoping that voters will look at this and say, oh, look, they're actually trying to do a mea culpa when what they're actually trying to do is scapegoat Joe Biden for their own crimes, both the crimes of the cover up and the criminal agenda that they enacted, whether it was opening the border.
A huge scandal in which 12 million illegal immigrants invaded the country, or whether it was the illegal student loan forgiveness, or the Green New Deal aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act, right? All of these things were giveaways to rich leftist elites in real economic terms.
An upward transfer of wealth from the working class who is struggling to the elites who are very wealthy and now control over 60% of the GDP, right? Donald Trump represents the opposite of that. He represents that spigot being turned in the opposite direction. That's what tariffs and controlling the border are all about.
It is a free market redistribution of wealth to the hardest working Americans from the elites, which is why they were so desperate to stop him and so desperate to protect Joe Biden at all costs. So to me, this book is a confession. The original sin is the sin of the Democratic Party, but really of the media who protected them instead of doing their jobs.
And there's one question they need to answer for us to ever take them seriously again. And they can't and they haven't. And that question is, what are you going to do differently going forward?
To stop what happened here, which was a scandal utterly fueled by contempt for the working class, contempt for conservatives, contempt for right wing media, all of whom knew this was happening, could see it with their own eyes and who were silenced by the liberal legacy media. What are you going to change in your campaign?
character to stop letting yourself think you are so much smarter than everybody else when all you're doing is protecting your own interests. What are you going to do to prevent that scene in which Jake Tapper mocks Laura Trump, humiliates her, chastises her for pointing out the truth that he was unwilling to admit at that time?
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Chapter 6: Is Jake Tapper's book an act of courageous journalism?
I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to.
It makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage search for questions. It's so amazing to me that- And try and figure out an answer. A cognitive decline. Well, when you're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was a stuttering- I think that you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you were mocking his stutter.
And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline.
It's really the question that they refuse to answer, which is, why did you get this wrong when the rest of the American people knew what was happening? Why did you get it wrong? And that is the question they don't have an answer to, because the answer is very simply, they are aligned with the Democratic Party. And until that breaks, the media is worthy of nothing but our contempt in return.
Chapter 7: How do Democrats attempt to shift blame with Biden's decline?
As you said, we haven't seen a mea culpa admission to the actual original sin of the media at this point. Do you see any hope for them turning around their credibility in the near future with the American people? Or do you think the media is really dead and buried at this point?
I'll give you an example, which is my best way of answering this, which is when there was a was it the director or the chief producer of 60 Minutes recently stepped down and I saw that headline. And he said he felt that there was, you know, he was not being able to do his job.
And before I read the article, I thought to myself, oh, surely he is trying to sort of come back to the center to give the president a fair shake, which, of course, doesn't mean protecting him from criticism. But admitting when he does good things, having a respect for the people who voted for him.
You know, surely he's trying to sort of drag his program back to an honest representation of journalism. And there's all this pushback from within, like, no, you can't do that. We only cater to the left. And I thought, oh, interesting. You know, there's the tide is turning. And then I clicked on the article. No. It was the exact opposite.
He was stepping down because his higher ups were demanding that he be a little bit more fair to the president. And this was, of course, unacceptable and unbearable to him. And the fact that this was covered as an act of bravery rather than an
act of the very problem with our journalism, which is that our journalists think they're so much smarter than everybody, and they have an utter contempt and hatred of the American people, the American normie, the average working class American. That tells you everything you need to know about the media right now.
They're incapable of self-correction because they have the same profile as the elites, and that powers within them a deep contempt for the everyman who is actually the person they're supposed to be working for and towards.
Well, the good news for us in the new media is that the door is wide open for us to reach more and more people. So I guess we appreciate it to the legacy media. Batia, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you so much for having me. God bless you and all of your listeners.
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