Madsplaining: Double Whammy Cover Up

What elephant in the room?

Last week, Americans learned that former President Joe Biden had been diagnosed with an advanced form of prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones. Well wishes for his recovery have been expressed but the prognosis is quite grim. The revelation stunned many—not because of the cancer itself, but because of the timing of the announcement and its deeply unsettling implications.

According to medical experts appearing on national talk shows, it is highly improbable that the president’s doctors just stumbled across such an aggressive form of cancer “last week.” The level of progression suggests it’s been present—and likely known—much longer. Oncologist Dr. Zeke Emanuel told MSNBC he believes the president has “had this for many years — maybe even a decade.” So why are we only hearing about it now?

That question gained weight when, the very same week, a new book dropped from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson. The authors accuse the Biden White House of systematically concealing the president’s cognitive decline throughout his administration. According to their interviews, staff aggressively silenced internal concerns and manipulated media coverage to preserve the illusion that Biden was still sharp and capable. They even describe conversations about Biden needing a wheelchair—but the consensus was to delay its use until after the 2024 election.

Add to this the release of recordings from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation. Hur, who ultimately declined to charge Biden for retaining unauthorized documents, concluded that a jury would see the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.” That line sparked outrage. For his restraint, Vice President Kamala Harris questioned Hur’s integrity and accused him of partisan motives. The media slammed him for mentions of the president’s son Beau, who died from cancer, but the facts remain: Biden himself brought up the death of his son Beau—years off from the incident—as an excuse for having government documents in his garage. It wasn’t a cheap shot. It was evidence. And the media tried to shoot the messenger.

So now we know: they knew. They all knew. And they agreed to lie.

Now, a guild of complicit journalists is trying to rewrite their own reporting, endorsing each others’ plays at shock and surprise. Tapper, who readily criticized those questioning Biden’s acuity, now says he “regrets not pressing harder”, but insists he believed what the White House told him. That’s kind of hard to believe. Meanwhile, Biden’s granddaughter denounced the reporting as “uninspired lies”. That’s hardly a convincing defense and yet, the press, party insiders, and many lawmakers stood silent while the illusion was maintained.

But it wasn’t hard for anyone who has been watching, to see that talk about the president’s zest did not match his walk. Journalist Mark Halperin said it was obvious to him in 2017 that the President’s mental acuity was a “train wreck”. Right up to last June’s disastrous debate, White House mouthpieces insisted that Biden was as vigorous as ever, and that videos of the president being lead around or disoriented were “cheap fakes”, deceptively edited by haters. All the while, the president’s handlers knew that they had engaged director Steven Spielberg to help magic away Biden’s shaky walk and slurred speech.

Journalists may claim the cover up by the inner circle was so complete that they could not have known. But their skepticism and ability to “speak truth to power” seems to wax and wane depending on the ideology of their interviewee. They knew of “Operation Bubble Wrap” but carried water for the White House’s story that the president was a perfectly capable commander-in-chief, never asking why. Let’s not forget that in 2022, Biden casually claimed during a speech that he “had cancer.” At the time, the press waved it away as a gaffe. Turns out, he may have been telling the truth—whether he meant to or not.

Some medical professionals have noted online that cancer treatments can indeed cause brain fog and cognitive disruption. But that doesn’t explain away Biden’s ongoing mental confusion over the past three years. If anything, it confirms that the cover-up was twofold: hiding the cancer, and hiding the decline.

This is not new territory. American history offers several examples of presidents whose serious health issues were hidden from the public while their wives, advisors, or handlers quietly took the reins. The most notorious case might be Woodrow Wilson, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919. For over a year, his wife Edith was effectively running the executive branch—without a single vote cast in her name. Biden’s case may prove to be the 21st-century equivalent. Only now, instead of whispers behind closed doors, the deception has played out in broad daylight, shielded by a compliant press and a political class with no interest in transparency.

And we are left with questions.

Did the president know and chose not to get help? Did people around him know but withheld information? Could it possibly be that it is a ”turbo cancer”, exacerbated by the COVID shot? Who was running the country for the last four years?

They are all troubling questions with no good answers.

The deeper scandal here isn’t just the president’s illness. It’s the scale of the lie. The audacity of the charade. The way the truth was bent, delayed, and buried—not for the sake of the nation, but for the sake of power. Lawfare against Donald Trump was launched to drown out bad press for the Biden family. Back in 2021, I asked whether anyone could “cover up the fact that a president was wheelchair bound?” in reference to FDR’s time in office. Perhaps I was asking the wrong question. It would seem, despite all the evidence, in an age of smartphones, document leaks and endless internet chatter, keeping a very ill and non compos mentis man in the White House is entirely possible so long as the media refuses to ask real questions and the public is conditioned to expect lies.

White House loyalists and Democrat operatives like David Axelrod are now telling the media to “mute” and “put aside” concerns about the president’s mental condition. While anyone can feel for the president and his family, the cancer revelation is now being used as a shield against scrutiny, a pretext to call for silence, compassion, and deference. The scrutiny necessary for there to be any restoration of public trust is being trampled over by those who want to avoid accountability at all costs.

The spin doctors benefit from a bureaucratic system that produces “tyranny without a tyrant” as Hannah Arendt described it. The last administration was enabled to carry out a very progressive program under cover of some of the biggest lies in recent history – Russia collusion, the terror of covid and then the myth that President Biden was just fine. Those who corrupt the truth and grasp for power assume they will never be held to account, but Psalm 10 tells a different story:

“Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.”

But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.”

Ask the Father to bring light, truth and justice to every dark corner of our nation.