Contrasting how Democrats and the media reacted to Joe Biden and John Fetterman reveal much about their party now. For years, Biden’s decline was dismissed as gaffes while suggestions he was unable to be president were met with personal attacks. Reporters feared helping Trump or losing access to Joe’s advisers for much coveted interviews.
While some of the “tell all” books are more forthcoming, one took the position Joe’s close advisers weren’t covering up his condition. Rather Chris Whipple (Uncharted) believes they were in a “fog of delusion” believing he could serve another term (Deseret News 4/10/25). Former Biden press secretary, Jen Psaki, on her MSNBC show struggled trying to disconnect the idea of a Biden “cover-up” with a Watergate cover-up. When your job has been White House spinmeister, of course you spin like a top.
When John Fetterman was running for the U.S. Senate, he suffered a stroke. His health was called into question by many including his opponent, a medical doctor. Dr Oz’s concerns were met with attacks on him as being a fraud and claims Oz was mocking Fetterman’s condition (NBC 9/6/22).
When the party elites turned on Joe, the soft coup ousted him. Unlike with Biden, it’s Fetterman’s own staff stating concerns about his mental fitness (Democracy Now 5/5/25). Some have left him as many reports of his erratic behavior emerged according to current and former staffers (Newsweek 5/2/25). One such was a concern that he drives recklessly but that didn’t get Ted Kennedy kicked out of the party or the Senate did it?
I’m not saying Fetterman doesn’t have serious issues however it’s blatantly hypocritical to see how he’s being treated compared to Joe where more was at stake. It also can’t be ignored how these “concerns” skyrocketed after Fetterman expressed strong support for Israel and visited Mar-a-largo. So how can Democrats be this way? The answer is, they do it with mirrors.
Ralph Miller