The Daily Beast is worried about Fox News Channel speculating baselessly about the health of former Vice President and current senior citizen Joe Biden, who is running for the highest office in the land and, for the moment, leading the pack.
On Twitter, Daily Beast editor Sam Stein tweeted about it, sharing the article from his website, as editors are wont to do.
NEW — Taking a page from the 2016 playbook, Fox News hosts are already spreading baseless rumors about Joe Biden’s healthhttps://t.co/RH4zB1x7FA
— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 10, 2019
That article tweet was, in turn, retweeted by CNN’s Brian Stelter, with a comment from Biden’s team.
Biden camp says "these are baseless lies meant to stoke fear in their viewers. It has no place in our public discourse, and anyone amplifying it bears some responsibility for giving it legitimacy it most certainly does not deserve" https://t.co/Eg6smwzTES
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 10, 2019
The article in question says this:
In the news business, it is considered irresponsible to spread baseless, potentially damaging rumors about public figures. Even Fox News briefly suspended Judge Andrew Napolitano in early 2017 after he made the unfounded claim on-air that British officials helped President Obama spy on the Trump campaign. Beyond news personalities, the American Medical Association considers it wholly unethical for physicians to speculate on public officials’ health without having personally examined them.
Look at that last line. Now look at this tweet and article which indulges such “wholly unethical” behavior from physicians as they “speculate on public officials’ health without having personally examined them.”
These top 27 shrinks think Trump might actually be nuts https://t.co/TV7rnIarHK
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 13, 2017
Or better yet, this one, which is a sort of follow-up to that one:
How close is Donald Trump to a psychiatric breakdown? https://t.co/FTcHjGNOYw
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 26, 2018
It’s spooky how pertinent this is. Check out this line:
Our question: Will the president approach a psychiatric breakdown before, or after, he fires Mueller?
Kind of speaks for itself. And this is also from Stein’s The Daily Beast. It not only indulges mental health professionals speculating on the president’s mental health, it extensively and favorably presents their argument against the existence of the very professional standards which they used on Monday to denigrate Fox.
It presents the ethical standard with a dismissive air, even putting “rule” in scare quotes and implying it is old and out-dated and complaining that it was created by “a trade organization” – the least medical sounding way to put it – forever ago “before the internet even existed.”
The writer, from the same Daily Beast which Monday intoned about the rules, in the March article induced a doctor and former head of the association to simply ignore them: “Notwithstanding the above, when asked if he had ever seen or heard a candidate for the presidency who was as grandiose in stating his unique self-importance, he said: ‘Not [in] an American candidate.’”
They even got that doctor to say Trump is medically and manically a match for Mussolini. Wasn’t there just a big freak-out about comparing people to Mussolini?
The article goes on to favorably present, at length, the case against preventing medical professionals diagnosing Trump through the TV rather than in person, positing it as a violation of free speech, calling it a “gag” order, scare-mongering about nuclear codes. Seriously, go read it, it does that.
Remember, on Monday, we are citing these ethical standards to bash Fox. In March, we’re bashing those ethical standards to permit diagnosing and speculating about Trump. And that’s not the only example of the switch. Check it out.
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Biden isnt real, nor competition. He should tour on his rascal.
Biden is a placeholder, probably for Michelle Obama.
His health might be excellent for a 77-year old.
But, if you watched his Iowa meeting yesterday you saw for yourself: he has to read every point, his voice was low and weak-sounding with no enthusiasm.
He looked at notes, teleprompters, the ground, not his audience most of the time he was speaking.
He embraces 180′ switches in opinion like it was nothing.
Even his own handlers can’t keep up with his wavering viewpoints.
Later, if the Dem convention can’t come up with a clear winner, he will step aside for the Dem elites’ choice (I think it is Michelle, but we’ll see.)
He has no heart in fighting for the win.
Well, Hillary was repeatedly collapsing, falling, staggering and slurring speech. SOMETHING was wrong and it was a news item. Meanwhile, aside from Trump not promoting the socialist liberal agenda, he presents no signs liberals would logically take as mentally or physically ill. Like all their other accusations, they are fabricated and totally for political effect.
Of course, discussing a Democrat’s health is verbotten while discussing a Republican’s, especially Trump’s, is fair game. Meanwhile, Biden, as he always has, exhibits signs of dementia.
Tucker Carlson was doing a story about how all the Democrats get the same message or phrase and repeat it, as if it was their own thought. This time it was “no one is above the law”, though Carlson pointed out all those speaking the Phrase of the Day support about 20,000,000 illegal immigrant’s “right” to live above the law in a country where they don’t belong. I also noted that ALL those speaking never took that attitude with Hillary when she violated FOIA rules, archiving rules, laws covering the handling of classified information or committed perjury. Again, different rules for different parties.