In this monologue from The Dennis Prager Show, Dennis Prager reviews three recent New York Times pieces—a Times editorial, a column by Ross Douthat, and an opinion by Maureen Dowd— that allege President Joe Biden is mentally deteriorating and therefore unfit for re‑election. Prager distinguishes between Biden’s long‑standing moral decline and his current cognitive decline, arguing the media’s focus on age is a proxy for concerns about his functioning. He summarizes Douthat’s argument that whether Biden stays in the race or withdraws, the Democratic Party faces a political dilemma: staying in office leaves Biden perceived as incompetent, while withdrawing without endorsing Vice‑President Kamala Harris creates an “identitarian betrayal” narrative of a white man abandoning a Black woman. Prager notes the left is worried about this narrative and about Trump exploiting Biden’s perceived weakness. He frames the discussion as a catch‑22 for the Democrats and urges listeners to watch the full episode on PragerTopia.
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The New York Times is going crazy over the thought that Joe Biden might be the nominee. It's— I mean, they had— I think they had 3 pieces. They had an editorial, they had Ross Douthat, and I believe another one, Maureen Dowd. Well, oh yeah, she's at the Times. No, she is. So, okay, yeah, she doesn't write regularly, does she? Okay, I screwed that one up. All right, I guess I don't read her. I try, I read a lot of their stuff. Anyway, they're going crazy because he's deteriorating. I don't say this with any glee. I think he's a morally deteriorated decades ago, but he's deteriorating mentally. It's so odd they keep headlining age. It's not the age. Nobody talked about Fauci's age. He was the same age. The, the issue is that he's not functioning, and he's not popular beyond not functioning. So, but it's fascinating that he doesn't care enough about his party and his country as to say, you know what, I'm going to retire in a burst of glory. Daily Mail. The week Biden lost the New York Times. Liberal paper's editorial board unleashes astonishing broadside warning of a dark moment as it runs back-to-back opinion pieces knifing the elderly president after damning special counsel report. They said that Biden's performance at his news conference on Thursday night was, quote, intended to assure the public that his memory is fine and argue that Mr. Herr was out of line. But this is not what happened. Instead, according to the opinion piece, quote, the president raised more questions about his cognitive sharpness and temperament as he delivered emotional and snappish retorts in a moment when people were looking for steady, even, and capable responses to fair questions. About his fitness. The combination of Mr. Biden's age and his absence from the public stage has eroded the public's confidence. He looks as if he is hiding, or worse, being hidden. That's Debbie. The details in Mr. Herr's report will only heighten those concerns, which Mr. Trump's campaign is already exploiting. Ross Douthat, who is one of two conservatives— I mean, he's what we call moderate conservative— wrote in the Times, Joe Biden should not be running for reelection. He said if Biden drops out— that is Ross Douthat— he said if Biden drops out and anoints Vice President Kamala Harris, quote, she's even more likely to lose to Donald Trump. But he says, quote, if he drops out and doesn't endorse his own number two, he'd be opening himself to a narrative of identitarian betrayal. Aging white president knifes first woman of color veep and setting his party up for months of bloodletting and betrayal. A constant churn of personal and ideological drama. Yes, that's right. So I will state in other words what this New York Times columnist Ross Douthat said. It's a, it's a catch-22 here, in effect. If he stays in, He's regarded as incompetent by a majority of Americans. If he leaves and doesn't endorse his vice president, the headlines on the left will be, "White man betrays black woman," because that identitarian is the term he used, because the left is identitarian. They, they're very worried about the election. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to PragerTopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.
