Journalists who hid Biden's mental decline should be held accountable: NY Post editorial board

"Dem-friendly journalists saw the same evidence as the rest of us that Biden was compromised, and instead of being skeptical, asking questions and putting the White House's feet to the fire - doing their jobs - they joined the crusade to gaslight America," the Post's editorial board wrote Wednesday.

Despite polls showing the majority of Americans felt Biden was too old to serve a second term, many journalists treated questions about Biden's health like a right-wing conspiracy.

These concerns came to a tipping point after Biden's faltering June debate performance, after which he was pressured to drop out of the race.

"And at every turn, spineless, in-the-tank journos obediently did Team Biden's propagandistic dirty work - right up until the debate, when Biden's senility became too unmistakable to continue denying," the Post's editorial continued.

"I come out of 2024 with a lot of contempt for the president and for the people around him - who have essentially been engaged in elder abuse - and also with a fair amount of embarrassment that I didn't see through their deception earlier," journalist Josh Barro told Semafor.

"Like many others, I was completely, utterly, totally, embarrassingly wrong, about Biden's lack of mental competence," former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan also confessed to the outlet.

Biden's former defenders in the media shouldn't be let off the hook, the Post's editorial board insisted.

"No one who perpetuated, concealed or ignored this grotesque scandal should ever live it down," the editorial continued.