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It’s been almost four years since the mainstream media asked us to not believe our lying eyes, to pretend that Hunter Biden’s infamous incriminating laptop was all Russian disinformation.
So it should come as no shock to anyone that, as Joe Biden and his presidency are crumbling around us, his media allies and supporters are at it again, this time making the absurd claim that the president’s apparent mental decline is all just a “cheap hoax.”
The term itself is a seemingly absurd derivative of “deepfake,” which means images or videos manipulated by software, while “cheapfake” seems to mean legitimate, accurate videos meant to make Joe Biden look bad.
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Joe Biden staring blankly into space while everyone else dances around him? Cheap fake. He loses sight of world leaders in the field and has to be brought back by the Italian Prime Minister? Cheap fake. Endless footage of the commander in chief muttering gibberish? All cheap fake.
To be clear, none of these videos are manipulated — rather, the White House is concerned that Republicans are trying to present voters with something that isn’t actually there.
To be fair, this is something Democrats know a thing or two about. We all remember the videos of Border Patrol agents on horseback, accusing this administration of whipping immigrants for months like antebellum planters, when they clearly weren’t whipping anyone.
And then, of course, there’s Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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Just days before the 2020 election, the Biden campaign, which had every reason to know the laptop was real, assembled 51 intelligence experts to make the absurd claim that it was probably Russian disinformation.
But the real disinformation was the letters from these so-called experts themselves, a cynical ploy to buy enough time to win the election before the truth inevitably came out.
The exact same thing is happening with this ridiculous “cheap fake” nonsense.
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Joe Biden, like many of his generation, is in decline. We can see it day by day, week by week. It is clear that it will only get worse, and all his campaign can do is, as George Orwell once said, “reject the evidence of your own eyes and your own ears.”
This time, Democrats are replacing 51 intelligence officials with fact checkers and disinformation experts who are warning about the grave dangers of watching a completely accurate video and drawing completely sensible conclusions from it.
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To be clear, falsely claiming that real video footage has been manipulated in some way is just as much an act of disinformation as presenting a manipulated image as real. It’s just as insidious.
This is the same administration that turned musical-loving, conservative-hating Nina Jankowitz into the queen of internet censorship, trying to protect us from disinformation, yet is also one of the most pernicious disseminators of disinformation in the country.
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Four years ago, the Biden campaign used disinformation to cover up the corruption of the Biden family. This year, they are using disinformation to hide the fact that Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline is real and entirely evident.
But this time, he may have gone a bit too far: It’s one thing to lie to convince news organizations and social media companies to ignore a reprehensible laptop, but quite another to cover up the mismanagement of a man running for president of the United States.
Perhaps most tellingly, the Biden campaign is rolling out this ridiculously false Hail Mary tactic so early in the campaign, as if they know the next four months will bring increasingly embarrassing senior moments to America’s screens.
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Therein lies the problem. Biden should have kept the laptop a secret for a few weeks before Election Day. This “cheap fake” disinformation they’re spreading will continue through November.
This is very bad news for Biden because, like his presidency itself, it is already starting to unravel.
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