Journalistic Corruption Continues with "Original Sin" Tour, and Charlie Kirk on What MAGA Wants Next
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Who is Mark Halperin and what is the podcast about?
Greetings, everybody. Welcome back to What is Next. I'm Mark Halpern, Editor-in-Chief at Two-Way, and so happy to have you here. We're happy and grateful we're a new program, and we're off to a pretty quick start. Because of you, those of you who've listened previously or watched previously, we're now the number four top podcast, new podcast, according to the Associated Press and Apple. And we're the top new news in the news category. And again, we couldn't be more grateful to you as we start out here. So thank you for being part of it. And again, you can watch us on YouTube and you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, as they say. Today, also grateful to have Charlie Kirk. uh of turning point uh usa here to join us to talk about everything uh maga and uh what's going on in the country great guy appear on his program regularly and he's returning the favor today and megan mccain will be here and megan and i are colleagues at two-way megan has a great interest in the topic we're going to spend some of our time talking about today which is
This issue of Joe Biden's cognitive decline and how that story was allowed to play out the way it did. Megan has known the Biden family for years and she knows Jake Tapper, the reporter who's one of the two who wrote the new book that's being discussed elsewhere in a year. She knows them both well and she's got strong feelings about it. So Megan will be here to talk about that. We're going to talk about Joe Biden and this issue of cognitive decline. And I know a lot of people are going to say, why not talk about Donald Trump and all the controversies involving Donald Trump? Those are important and interesting, too. And they're discussed elsewhere. And I'll continue to hold the Trump administration accountable and to cover that.
But the reason why I'm continuing to talk about this story. about Joe Biden is because there's no way to hold Donald Trump accountable if two institutions in this country aren't capable of doing it because they don't have the credibility. That's the media, my colleagues in the media, and that's the Democratic Party. Every one of you should want those two institutions to have credibility.
What are the media's failures in covering Joe Biden's cognitive decline?
even if you don't like the Democrats. And we know that those two organizations don't have credibility. That's true for a lot of reasons with a lot of people. The media is probably at an all-time low in terms of lack of credibility. And there's a new Associated Press poll out this week that shows people not particularly optimistic, including Democrats, about the future of that party. Democrats don't have no credibility, but they don't have enough. And that's part of why Donald Trump is not held accountable the way he should be. And so now's the time with this new book coming out next week, to use it as an opportunity not to engage in whitewashes, not to engage in the same kind of lack of truth that existed during this entire saga of the question of Joe Biden's cognitive decline. Now is the time to get people in my business to recognize there's a credibility problem and for Democrats to do it also.
The reason I spend so much time talking about this is I care about the media and I want there to be two strong political parties in the country. And most of the people trying to hold the media accountable for the biggest media scandal in American history, as I call it, are on the right. Jason Miller, who works for President Trump, he tweets about this all the time. He highlights the lack of credibility on this issue. There are other people on the right who do it. That's not good enough. OK, Byron York, very smart guy, writes for the conservative Washington Examiner. He wrote this morning in his newsletter on this issue of the press's dealing with their failures on Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
Understanding the press's handling of then President Joe Biden's obvious physical and mental infirmity. is probably more a matter for psychologists than for media and analysts. There's some truth to that, because understanding why the media not only failed before but continues to fail, I think does involve a lot about human nature and psychology.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Mark Halperin and what is the podcast about?
0:08–2:02
2
What are the media's failures in covering Joe Biden's cognitive decline?
2:02–14:33
3
How did Jake Tapper handle reporting on Biden's cognitive decline?
14:33–34:53
4
What is Meghan McCain's perspective on Jake Tapper and the Biden family?
34:53–43:29
5
How can major news organizations restore credibility after Biden coverage?
43:29–1:13:50