‘They Sat On Their Hands!’ Brian Kilmeade Rips New York Times’ Biden ‘Lapses’ Article

Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade hit out at the New York Times for finally “doing some real reporting” on President Joe Biden’s viability as a candidate after having lambasted coverage by outlets like Fox News as “crazy.”

In the continued coverage fallout following Biden’s performance during the CNN presidential debate, Kilmeade told the rest of the Fox & Friends team that “suddenly the rest of the media was starting to wake up.”

Kilmeade said: “What I find offensive is that story in the New York Times, where they detail all of his mistakes and the people behind the scenes saying that Joe zones out, he goes catatonic or rigor Mortis at a fundraiser… And then they say overseas ambassadors and officials saying he seemed out of it, that the president of Italy knew…

He continued: “Now they are telling us? Wait a second. Did you have this ready to go? You just hit print? Now you want to pretend that you are a reporter? Does this pattern sound familiar? The Russia hoax.”

Co-host Lawrence Jones agreed: “That’s right.”

Kilmeade pressed on: “They told us this thing was worse and [Trump] was in business with [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, here to throw the country to Russia. Then it turns out not to be true. They move on. They have their trophies and go. Now they are finding out all these things we have been reporting on [about Biden]. [Fox News journalist] Jacqui Heinrich and your son [Fox News journalist Peter Doocy] asking these questions but isolated.”

He mocked mainstream journalists’ for their response to Heinrich and Doocy’s past focus on questions about Biden’s health: “‘Look at these crazy people asking these questions.’ Now they’re asking the same questions! They don’t remember that we know they sat on their hands?”

As other hosts discussed Heinrich’s appearance at Tuesday’s White House press briefing and challenged the administration’s previous assertion that videos of Biden appearing disoriented were “cheap fakes.”

Kilmeade pressed on, defending the New York Post and pushing his point that the rest of the media are only starting to pay attention to the issue: “Don’t include the Post in that. The Post has been telling us all along, we didn’t need the Biden White House to confirm it. But now the rest of the media is suddenly waking up doing some real reporting.”

Seizing on the idea that the hesitancy to report was politically motivated, he followed: “Jill Abramson used to run the New York Times, used to be the editor there. She said this, ‘I worry that too many journalists didn’t try to get the story because they did not want to be accused of helping elect Donald Trump.’”

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