The Media Obsesses Over Biden's Age And Ignores A Trump Medical Lie

While the media spent Joe Biden's birthday talking about his age, Donald Trump came up with a doctor's note dodge.

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Biden’s Age Has Become The Media’s New ‘Thing’

What is a corporate media that is dependent on drama to do when faced with an incumbent president who has done a good quiet drama free job and could win reelection over their chosen chaos monger who also just so happened to elevate legacy media back into relevance at a time when they were fading away?

If you big corporate media and the president is Joe Biden, you obsess about something that Biden can’t control, namely his age.

Here is Peter Baker in The New York Times:

For President Biden, who turns 81 on Monday, another birthday may bring more liability than revelry, offering one more reminder of his age to an already skeptical electorate. Unlike other presidents who have celebrated birthdays with lavish political events, Mr. Biden plans to observe his milestone privately with family in Nantucket later this week.

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