America This Week, July 4, 2024: "Incident in Mediaville"

sort of masked nonstop party and bad behavior fest. that's happening in Washington.

And but let's dip into that. I mean, I've had enough bucking Bronx and popcorn and cotton candy. I'm ready.

So, you know, right now, I was saying before the show, the press reminds me, especially the press of a showgirl Las Vegas showgirl kind of aging, who married a rich guy, and then he divorced her. And now she's trying to get her virginity back so she can get the next rich guy. And,

you know, I'm watching, I'm watching journalist after journalist, try to restore their, you know, stained honor, or, you know, or run, you know, run history backwards, to the point where they were, you know, before they started lying about this.

It's pretty, it's pretty hard to imagine a situation where anyone's going to buy it. But they're really trying hard. And some of these efforts have been, I think, kind of heroic in their goal, you know, right?

The first. the first thing, and this is more of a humor thing than anything else, but I just want to talk about a certain tweet that came out yesterday, and we're recording this on Wednesday because of the holiday.

But, Walter, did you see this by Brian Stelter, the inimitable Brian Stelter?

In reality, news outlets are merely trying to report the news. Which is, and then, as if you can see, he actually ends up taking lots of fire from Democrats saying, why are you bringing this up at all?

Which is also amazing, but my question to you, do you think he believes that or?

just sort of inertia, where they, they follow orders and they've emptied their own minds and and maybe don't have a head of their own anymore. And they've sort of achieved a new state.

Right. And they never go anywhere alone, which is kind of the problem.

Right. He is. he is the exact measure of the 50 percent mark, you know, you know, he won't be. he won't be in the last, you know, quintile. He won't be in the first quintile.

He will be at exactly that moment.

It's like watching the deciding vote, though.

He completely doesn't catch that he's a weathervane. He thinks that. He somehow mistakes his reactiveness for her, for volition. And he came, you know. Something was triggered in him a few days ago, which he thinks is integrity.

Right. Right. Yes. But from the outside is obviously just a kind of, you know, completely mechanical state that is induced when 50 percent of things change.

it's so obvious what's going on with these folks, and it's been popping up everywhere. And we'll get into more, the more serious aspects of what, what this all means in the post debate, fallout and everything.

But there has been a remarkable series of developments. just in the first couple of days of this week. We've seen high profile Democrats, Lloyd Doggett, being the first, I think, elected Democrat to suggest that Biden drop out. Then you had Nancy Pelosi, who's been saying for a year that, you know, experience is an advantage. And then she, then she, adds a new clause saying, well, but is it a condition, maybe, and not just age?

So that's she's now opened the door to examining the question of whether or not, you know, he's disabled. And as to that question, I actually want to play two clips in succession. This is these are both from the White House daily briefing on July 2nd. Now, Karine Jean-Pierre has. Taken a lot of these questions over over the course of the last six months or seven months.

But she has a. she has a tendency, she's. she's mostly kept her cool in these exchanges. But yesterday, an interesting thing happened. Now, I want to show you first an exchange she had.

I think I'm trying to remember who the who the reporter was. It was from some conservative outlet. Let's, let's just play on and we'll see what happens here.

And that is the reality of the situation. That is the reality of what happened that night.

I'm not as a smooth, smooth talker as I used to be. I don't walk as easily as I used to be. I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to. I mean, the president is admitting and saying and this is not the first time.

Right. He's talked about his age. He's joked about his age many times before. And so you heard that directly. We are acknowledging what, what people are saying.

But we do believe this was a in in this instance, it was a bad night. No, no. And let me let me finish with your colleague, please. And I know. But shouting out.

Come on. You know better. You know better.

So that's kind of at the start of this. And that was Newsmax. OK. And then James Rosen popped in at the end there. So that whole, come on, you know better.

You see that the way the press pool works is. there's kind of an unwritten rule. Like she gave him something at the beginning of that speech. You know, we're admitting he's a little slower. We're admitting, you know, you're not supposed to take more.

But what do you think about that admission, first of all? Or do you have any other comment about that?

She resents being challenged. She can't believe that it happened. It just happened. And it's been so long that came as an offense. I think she's really envying Jen Pisaki right now.

How how dare that person get to go off from this, you know, complete prostitute job and get a kind of respectable position on a network? And I'm still stuck here having to lie. Where's my seat?

And in her defense, the these people have not. these people have been going along with the B.S. for so long, except for a couple of them. How dare they suddenly act, all, you know, like reporters? Right.

I wanted to just say, listen, you've been eating my oatmeal, for, you know, and calling it filet mignon for a year or two. right now. Suddenly, you're scared for your own reputations. And you're acting like you're reporters. You know, the stories I could tell on you, people, you know, about you coming to me afterward and saying, hey, can you teach us a better way to lie about this?

And then I do. And they say, thank you. And now you're acting like adversaries. Where do you people come off?

They go, oink, oink, oink. Exactly. A few of them might buck and, you know, jump up on their hind legs. But that's, you know, that's part of the job.

You know what we haven't seen yet, which we might, is the Biden administration starting to burn these people and saying, you know, listen, Anderson Cooper saw, I'm making this up, Anderson Cooper saw him fall to the floor and have a seizure, you know, and be taken away on a stretcher. And, you know, he didn't say a damn thing. And we've got pictures of it, frankly.

Anderson Cooper saw Biden address a potted plant instead of him on air.

It'll be something like that, right? I mean, because, and this is going to come out. See, this is the thing I was trying to say about Pelosi. Pelosi has given the same answer over and over and over again for a year about, about Biden's health. Oh, age is, you know, experience is a plus.

He's younger than I am. You know, Donald Trump is the really demented one. And then suddenly, you know, now suddenly it's, yeah, but now that tape is going to be out there for every single Democrat all the way down the ticket. And this is the problem. This is, this is why this whole thing is snowballing, because the Republicans have begun to run this as a down ticket issue for every single candidate, and they're going to have something on basically every single person who has come out and made statements to that effect, which is now going to increase the pressure for the Democrats to remove him so that people down the ticket can win.

I just think, I don't see how the momentum on this thing stops, but it's, it's fascinating to watch just from kind of a zoological point of view.

So this is serious. And they're trying to keep it a political, who's, you know, who's going to be the best candidate question, because they want to distract America from the, oh my God, there's no commander in chief, at least a lot of the day or certain days of the week.

Because if, if they don't, if they don't distract us from that question, then we ask the other question, which is quite obviously, there are other people standing in. I mean, we hope, we pray, and, and I'm pretty sure-.

That we are being subtly introduced, right? Hang on, to...

Sorry. We're being subtly introduced to the idea that the presidency is a diffuse, impersonal office and that the buck stops nowhere. that is immediately conventionally identifiable. I mean, they are, that's exactly what they're saying.

Even in that press conference with Jean-Pierre, there's a moment where she, kind of, she, comes out and she says, we are not turning the page on age, which was, I think, was meant to be the big soundbite of the day. But she goes on to say, but we want to, we want to continue to deliver, you know, this great presidency, the, you know, the terrific performance and the record, this administration. Well, who's, who's we? This idea that the presidency is now this thing that doesn't have a face and... To pull it, Burrow.

Right, yeah, it's, it's right. It's the Supreme Soviet. Right.

And that is a very strange concept. to kind of foist on the public. I mean, they've been doing it, but to come out and jump on that concept with both feet is, is really amazing.

Now, they could run against Trump similarly, using that logic, saying we think that the agencies under his command would, would go in the wrong direction compared to ours. But they're not making that same argument. They're saying the individual is bad over here, but here on our side, we're, we are an unknown, faceless collective.

Consistency doesn't matter. But I think they're equating the kind of president that Donald Trump wants to be, which is the kind of president that America traditionally understood as president.

A passionate individual who moves things by force of personality, they're equating that with dictatorship.

And, and as the alternative to dictatorship is this sort of deep state, you know, they may as well, just, they may as well just give up the masquerade that there's no deep state now, right? Because everything that's happening requires a deep state.

Making the government function has obviously not been something that Biden alone could oversee, or his, you know, the executive branch function. And we now are in some process, as some politicians have caused, have called it, of shifting him out. But who's making those decisions? Are someone other than him? The party brass?

Is that it? Really? Or is it something else?

And I think what we're seeing, you know, I even saw a story about, and it was in Politico or something like that, about the oligarchs will decide, you know, that there's a certain.

These names keep coming up of sort of faceless finance types that I've never heard of, who people say are, you know, really the power behind Biden. And it's the first time I've heard their names, you know, as a non-wonk. But somebody is making a decision about Biden's fitness. that's not by, who is it?

And so what is that report all about?

Is it going to be in the vice president's office? Is it going to be, you know, continue to be in Biden's camp with, you know, sort of jail at the helm?

But the move for the aide is to be the one who can deliver the killer anecdote to the enemies of the boss. You know, in other words, the person who says, I happen to know that he goes to meet his mistress at 3.20 p.m., you know, at New York Tower's apartment building. I'm just saying. I hope nothing happens to him during that time, but he always goes.

You know, so, yeah, that aide will survive, OK? Merely because they will have shown an aptness for betrayal and so on. that will get them into the next job at which they will be assassinated and someone will come say, people like you have no loyalty. Thanks for delivering it. But, you know.

but, you know, the feast was added to by this immunity decision because at the same time, we found out that our president isn't, you know, isn't confident and isn't there, we are also told by the, you know, sophists on the left that he has infinite power.

To find out your president's retarded at just the moment. the Supreme Court hands him the power to do anything.

Like he could be. he could be organizing, you know, huge Biden squads that are rolling out in tanks now.