Until the hoax went down in flames Thursday night, legacy media had promulgated The Big Lie about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline for years.
To what lengths were they prepared to go?
In the run-up to the 2020 election, PBS produced an entire propaganda film guised as a 'documentary’ to convince you that Biden had a “stutter,” and that he was engaged in a heroic journey to prove his doubters wrong, titled:
"Biden’s Stutter: How a Childhood Battle Shaped Him"
Amazingly, the film did not feature a single video clip of Biden’s lifelong "speech impediment,” and any cursory search of archival Biden clips reveals that no stutter actually exists.
The quick clips they used to demonstrate this 'stutter' were recent gaffes, deceptively edited using photographs instead of featuring the actual video.
Also note the emotional manipulation and narrative sleight-of-hand employed by featuring an interview with a writer from The Atlantic, who actually has a speech impediment.
Below is a short excerpt — which casts Joe’s struggles with cognitive decline and mounting gaffes in the 2020 campaign as the heroic fight of a bullied underdog, “hellbent” on proving his critics wrong and overcoming a lifelong disability.
North Korean state-media propagandists must blush at this level of sycophantic media manipulation.
This angle was resurrected in WAPO as recently as March of this year.
“Biden’s stutter surges into the presidential campaign."
Framed as “Trump mocking an old man with a speech impediment."
The Big Lie.
The full documentary (6 minutes), if you are, like me, interested in a study in state-media lies and propaganda.
For contrast: Here is an excerpt from the same PBS series in the run-up the 2020 election on Trump. You might notice a slight difference in framing. This film is titled:
"Trump the 'Bully': How Childhood & Military School Shaped Him"
The narrative:
Trump’s ascent to achievement and power was from learning the ways of a trained “killer” — who “learned the power of bullying to get ahead."
Subtle, PBS. Very subtle.
The stutter narrative has made a comeback. Absolutely incredible.
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