For about four years, talk of invoking the 25th Amendment was all the rage in corporate media circles. Those four years — from early 2017 to late 2020 — just happened to coincide with Donald Trump’s time in office as the 45th president of the United States.
When they weren’t cheerleading Trump’s impeachment, they were fascinated by the possibilities of the 25th remedy, as improbable as it was.
Now the left has its man, even if that man doesn’t always quite seem to know where he is, why he’s there, or who he is. Count the many ways President Joe Biden has stumbled near the line of incapacitation, and it’s amazing to think how radio silent the accomplice media have been on the subject of the 25th Amendment over the past few years.
Remarkable, really.
The good folks at NewsBustersNewsBusters, the conservative watchdog committed to documenting and exposing bias in corporate media, found more than 600 search results — on Nexis alone — for “25th amendment” between 2018 and early 2021. That only includes TV transcripts. And NewsBusters left out of that search clips from 2017, which was dominated by Trump removal talk.
The website, a project of the Media Research Center, put together a hilarious (and sad) montage of video clips from Trump-hating “journalists” breathlessly invoking the post-Kennedy assassination amendment outlining the method to fill the office of president or VP in case of death, resignation, removal, or incapacitation. Ratified in 1967, the amendment establishes that the vice president and
