Matthew Gertz Profile picture
Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the GOP congressman, didn't pay for the blue check.

Sep 29, 2020, 7 tweets

Here's Sean Hannity getting from "Joe Biden is struggling cognitively" to "Joe Biden has memorized all of the answers he's going to give during the debate" inside a minute and a half, kind of seem like conflicting arguments!

Sure why not.

Ari Fleischer questions whether Joe Biden can physically stand on a stage from 9:00 pm to 10:30 p.m., with Sean Hannity responding that Biden "has been readjusting his peak cognitive hour to 9:00 P.M."

They're really not sure what to do with expectations here/are liars.

Theory: The "cognitive decline" talking point was supposed to be Fox News primetime schtick for the rubes, with the hosts selectively distorting short video clips to hype up their viewers like they always do -- only the president is one of those rubes, and so here we are.

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