What Jane Mayer is really on about

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Salome Strangelove @salstrange 5h
JFC — is this what she’s on about? Reliving her glory days?

Just pissed that Biden’s competency and press discipline won’t let them have the fake dementia narrative they’re salivating for?




...yep, she just wants to elicit a gaffe for another round of 'Biden old' articles.


2023:

The New Yorker @NewYorker
Should age disqualify Joe Biden or Donald Trump from another term in the White House? The staff writers Jane Mayer and Jill Lepore, plus the gerontologist Jack Rowe, discuss.

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[Midnight Writer]

1. Jane Mayer is a great reporter. Her specialty these days is political dark money coming from the uber-rich.

The reporting she did on Reagan and his Cabinet evaluating his mental fitness was shocking, but, like shocking stories about TFG, sank quickly without leaving many ripples. Reagan was the Teflon President and Trump is the Teflon Don. Nothing seems to stick to them.

I don't know of any reporter covering the depth and breadth of dark money on our whole society, not just the government, like she does.

It's no crime for a national news reporter to want to interview the sitting President.

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2. 'it's not a crime'

...to criticize a national reporter for whinging about how she and her fellow high-profile reporters aren't getting the exclusive they think their importance deserves.

Let's take a minute and think about the deep, pressing questions they want to ask Pres. Biden. We can even pretend that some of them are relevant to what actually interests and concerns Americans who would vote in the next election.

Questions about this president's mental fitness are an opportunistic invention of her very clique, Mayer hoping here, I'd guess to validate and complete her earlier prescience about Reagan by projecting all of that on Joe Biden.

That happens with many professional writers trying to remain current - plagiarizing themselves by superimposing earlier efforts onto new subjects with a weak and tenuous 'a-ha!' that's as mind-numbingly detached from present reality as a Maddow 'Agnew' podcast; or a Michael Isikoff comparison of Clinton's bimbos and the Trump hush-money trial (yes, he did that).