MONDAY: On Fox News, she's the latest demon!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

"Editing" what she said: David French has turned out to be a very strong hire by the New York Times.

Last Monday, his column about the Cracker Barrel logo dust-up appeared in print editions. Full disclosure—we thought he slightly misconstrued the nature of the dust-up, and pretty much did so throughout.

We thought he slightly misconstrued the nature of the dust-up. But along the way, he provided the type of service mainstream journalists rarely attempt to provide.

Good lord! French described some of the ways entities like the Fox News Channel generate a never-ending sense of grievance among Red America's voters. At one point, he offered this:

The Corporate Logo That Broke the Internet

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If you had to sum up the mission of right-wing media in a sentence, it would be: Democrats are weird, humorless and evil, and they want to destroy your way of life. No distinction would be made between the Democrats and the far left—anything that any far-left activist does is automatically attributed to the Democratic Party—and so the Democratic Party has to answer for anything the far left does.

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The process of stoking outrage has another effect: It crowds out the news cycle. Most Democrats I know would be shocked at how little the average Republican knows about Trump’s actual conduct and his actual wrongdoing. Republicans can, however, cite chapter and verse about left-wing outrages and left-wing overreactions to Trump.

That creates a reality where they simply can’t conceive of how any reasonable, rational person would vote Democratic or oppose the president and his policies.

So true! Let's consider those points:

On Fox, the owners of the messenger children search the globe looking for the dumbest thing any Blue American blogger or podcaster has recently said or done. On Fox, the messenger children then tell their viewers that this is what "the left" (or "the Democrat [sic] Party") currently says or does.

If one obscure person has recently said it, everyone on "the left" has said it! As French explains, that is intended to "create a reality where [Fox viewers] can’t conceive of how any reasonable, rational person would vote Democratic or oppose the president."

This practice goes on all day and all night—and you can't find a stupider practice. Possibly for that very reason, the angry messenger children—"the D-minus students" of whom we've spoken—seem to love to perform it.

Sometimes, the children are instructed to perform a different game. They will take a truncated quote by a well-known Blue American person and paraphrase the edited statement in a demonized way. That may be happening at the present time as Psaki is being aggressively demonized.

At issue is something she said back in May about President Biden:

Was President Biden suffering from some sort of cognitive decline during his years in the White House? We would assume that he probably was, although we aren't medical specialists.

(As you know, such occurrences are always a human tragedy.)

Did President Biden suffer a cognitive decline? We would assume that he probably did. This remains an overwhelming favorite theme all over the Fox News Channel.

Back in May, the New York Post reported what Psaki said about the cognitive matter. The report appeared on May 4. This is the way it started:

Jen Psaki insists she ‘never saw’ signs Biden had declined while she worked as press secretary

Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki claims she never saw any signs of the ex-president’s diminishing mental acuity during her tenure in the White House, but agreed that aging happened fast.

Psaki made the shocking claim when asked about the previous administration during her appearance on the “Mixed Signals” podcast Friday.

“I never saw that person—not a single time, and I was in the Oval Office every day—that was on that debate stage,” Psaki said regarding Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump in June 2024.

Critics and allies both called for Biden to drop out of the presidential race over the nationally televised trainwreck.

In fact, that televised debate was a trainwreck for President Biden—but Psaki, the Biden press secretary, said she "never saw that person" during her time in the White House! On Fox, the messenger pigeons routinely cite that (tightly edited) statement as they create the latest person for their viewers to hate, and occasionally to threaten.

She said she never saw that person! That statement, tightly edited, is trashed as an obvious lie.

All the children behave that way; it's their route to their generous pay checks. They don't mention the rest of what Psaki said on that podcast that day. Continuing directly from above, the New York Post included that statement in their news report:

Host Ben Smith asked Psaki about the theory that White House staffers had covered up Biden’s mental capacity at the end of his tumultuous term.

“I think cover up is such a loaded phrase, but I also left in May 2022 just for the facts here, and I have seen Biden once since then,” Psaki shared.

The 46-year-old said she hadn’t seen Biden in person during the time critics were questioning the president’s ability to lead the country.

“I’m not a doctor, aging happens quite quickly,” she said. “Were things that people saw during that period of time that were similar to that or would’ve been in a category of that? I don’t know, possibly and all these books are gonna tell us.”

She left from the White House post on May 13, 2022. A bit more than two years would pass before that fateful debate in June 2024.

Assuming there was a cognitive decline, is it possible that it occurred or started to show during that two-year period? Isit possible that President Biden never behaved that way, within the White House, during Psaki's earlier tenure?

Stating the obvious, everything is possible. We don't know if Psaki's statement was accurate, but we do know this:

The messenger children at Fox never take a chance! You will never see them describe that chronology as their turn their weapons against Psaki, working to make viewers hate her.

Did Psaki ever see President Biden struggling in some serious way? We don't have any way of knowing, and neither do the children.

We don't have any way of knowing, but we'll remind you of this:

During the 2020 campaign, Candidates Biden and Trump engaged in two debates. The leading authority on those events describes those debates as shown:

2020 United States presidential election: Debates

The first, moderated by Chris Wallace, took place on September 29...Biden was generally held to have won the first debate, with a significant minority of commentators deeming it a draw.

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The [second] debate took place on October 22 and was moderated by Kristen Welker. The changes to the debate rules, which included the candidates' microphones being muted while the other was speaking, resulted in it being generally considered more civil than the first debate...Biden was generally held to have won the debate, though it was considered unlikely to alter the race to any considerable degree.

Weird! Rightly or wrongly, Biden was widely held to have won the two debates back in 2020. Psaki was named press secretary in late November—roughly one month later.

As of her departure in May 2022, is it possible that Psaki never saw Biden in anything like the way he later seemed to be? He had seemed to win a pair of debates with Candidate Trump shortly before she began her tenure.

Is it possible that she never saw him as he later seemed to be? Presumably, yes, it is—and we have no way of knowing the truth. On the Fox News Channel, the corporate tools don't take a chance with that:

They simply refuse to tell their viewers about when Psaki left the White House.

If there was some such as terrible people, the various pigeons on the Fox News Channel would be truly terrible people. The same is true of the timorous Blue American journalists who refuse to tell the world about what the Fox News Channel does all day long and then on into the night.

In fairness, the pay is good and the hours are short—and the memorization is easy. The decision to engage in a cowardly silence seems to be amazingly easy too.

As in Dubliners, so too here! A type of paralysis is gripping our nation, but only on our own Blue American side. The fury is endless over on Fox. Over here, we're served by The Dead.

The gentle boy named Michael Furey died at age 17 from singing "The Lass of Aughrim." Our Blue American silent lambs are hoping to live forever.