Nick Arama notes that Clooney just threw Biden a fundraiser a few weeks ago.

Now he's throwing him under the bus.

You may recall the story of how Joe Biden blew off a peace summit about Ukraine to rush back from the G7 to attend a Hollywood fundraiser hosted in part by actor George Clooney.
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That was the fundraiser that created a huge controversy. Barack Obama took Biden by the hand to lead him off the stage and the media tried to call video of the event a "cheap fake," despite the fact those were the facts. It's just they didn't like to hear it at this point.

Now, however, the boot suppressing the facts seems to have been lifted. Not only that, we now have a bit of a stunning op-ed from George Clooney, saying Democrats need a new nominee, not Biden.

Clooney writes in an op-ed:

I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. As a tender but fierce lover.

Whoops, I accidentally wrote that last sentence.

I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he's won many of the battles he's faced.

But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe "big F-ing deal" Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.

Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn't see what we just saw. We're all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we've opted to ignore every warning sign. The George Stephanopoulos interview only reinforced what we saw the week before. As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.

I call upon my good friend Alec Baldwin to hire Joe Biden as the cinematographer for his movie Dust.

Whoops, I accidentally wrote that last sentence myself.

Nick Arama asks why, given that Clooney saw Anti-Elite Joe's performance at that fundraiser, and now admits to always being on the edge of his seat when Biden is asked an unscripted question, did he participate in the "Cheap Fakes" coverup? Why didn't he speak up and say "Biden was shaky and lost at the fundraiser"?

They're all liars. They all fancy themselves Brave Truth Tellers but they lie and lie us with every word and syllable.

Suddenly Georgey Orgy Stephanopolous is pretending to be a Brave Truth Teller again, too.

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos admitted Tuesday that he does not believe President Biden can serve out a second term -- days after conducting a closely watched interview with the commander-in-chief following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last month.

Stephanopoulos, 63, was recorded in a video obtained by TMZ answering a question from a passer-by in Midtown Manhattan about Biden's political future.

"Do you think Biden should step down?" the anonymous interrogator asked the "Good Morning America" co-host and "This Week" moderator.

"You've talked to him more than anybody else has lately."

"I don't think he can serve four more years," the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos responded after a pause.

"You don't think he can serve four more years?" the questioner repeated before adding: "All right, that's an answer."

Hours later after the video made headlines, Stephanopoulos expressed regret for offering his candid response.

"Earlier today I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn't have," the news anchor told Puck News in a statement.

And ABC News, in its own statement to the outlet, added: "George expressed his own point of view and not the position of ABC News."

Video at TMZ.

You know who else is changing her tune on Biden? The also-demented Nancy Pelosi. Previously she shot down any talk of replacing him.

Now she says Biden can do whatever he wants to do. He can run. He can also drop out.

LEMIRE: So Madam Speaker, you just went through the president's record, but let me ask you about the current moment. Does he have your support to be the head of the Democratic ticket?

PELOSI: As long as the president has, it's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. The, I think overwhelming support of the caucus, it's not for me to say, I'm not the head of the caucus anymore, but he's beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision, not me.

LEMIRE: He has said, he has made the decision. He has said firmly this week he is going to run. Do you want him to run?

PELOSI: I want him to do whatever he decides to do, and that's the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go with. I think it's really important, and I would hope everyone would join in, to let him deal with this NATO conference. This is a very big deal. 30 heads, over 30, heads of state are here. He is the host of it, and that means not just hosting, but that means orchestrating the discussion and setting the agenda, and he's doing so magnificently.

And I've said to everyone, let's just hold off. Whatever you're thinking, either tell someone privately, but you don't have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week.

Video at the link.

This is very pronounced tactical repositioning.

He's also lost gonzo partisan Jake Tapper, the most odious of the preening, sanctimonious liars in the corrupt Marxist Media.

Via Ed Driscoll, who comments:

Which is so odd -- in mid-June, CNN was still acting as a party operatives with bylines pushing the "cheap fakes" and "deceptive editing" White House talking points whenever video emerged of the (p)resident acting just as we've seen during the debate and afterward.

Or as Oliver Wiseman writes at the Free Press: How 'Misinformation' Becomes Common Knowledge: "Every White House reporter, every fancy magazine profiler, they knew exactly what was going on with Joe Biden. They just didn't think you, the reader, were ready to know. Also, did we mention the risk of getting yelled at by an intern? That's hard. The Biden era has to be one of the least covered White Houses in modern history. Read the mainstream press, and you'd think Trump had been president these last four years."

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