A brand new report from the folks over at The Daily Wire has revealed that an analysis of official transcripts from the White House shows that President Joe Biden’s speaking errors have doubled over the course of the last 12 months, leading up to the horrific performance he gave at the first — and probably last — presidential debate on June 27.
It was an extremely hard event to watch. Seeing Biden clearly out of it during the vast majority of the debate almost made me feel sorry for the guy. What’s happening to him is elder abuse. Democrats should be ashamed of themselves and aghast at their own treatment of one of their own.
White House staff tasked with preparing transcripts of his “speeches and remarks” cross out Biden’s erroneous words — or insert the words he should have said using brackets. They had to do that a staggering 51 times in May 2024. The rate of errors per words spoken was one of the worst of his presidency, and he was whisked out of the public eye for much of June, speaking only half the number of words in official remarks that he normally does — until, of course, his cognitive difficulties captured the world’s attention at the June 27 debate.
In the animated graphic below, the red bars represent the rate of his speaking errors (per 10,000 words spoken) in the 12 months leading up to that, with the trend increasing steadily upward. As the graphic cycles through each month, it displays the modified language in official transcripts, with some of the most egregious quotes highlighted in larger text at the bottom.
In June 2023, the White House corrected 33 errors, amounting to an error rate of 3.2 per 10,000 words. The 51 errors in May led to a rate of 7.2 for that month, when he spoke 70,000 words.
If you think that things have chilled out a bit and Biden’s sort of collected himself since the debate, you’d be what I would call an “optimist.” However, you would not be correct. Things have continued to need correction.
On Friday, Biden made a campaign appearance in Madison, Wisconsin where he tried to address the worries people have about his age by saying, “They’re trying to push me out of this race. Well, let me say this as clearly as I can: I’m staying in the race. I’ll beat Donald Trump. I will beat him again in 2020.”
Last time I checked, we’re in 2024, not 2020.
So how did the White House change things in the transcript?
How much more do folks need to see in order to accept something is wrong with Biden? It seems the number of Democrats seeing the light is increasing, but it’s too little, too late.
The “speeches and remarks” transcripts capture how he spoke at nearly 400 official events, about one per day. They do not include every utterance, but the transcripts are prepared in a standard way that makes it possible to objectively compare them over time.
The officially-designated errors suggest that the man overseeing a multi-trillion dollar budget has difficulty communicating numbers. He routinely says numbers that are off by multiple orders of magnitude, when an awareness of basic facts such as the size of the federal budget or the population of the country would seemingly alert the speaker that they could not be right. He also repeatedly fails to distinguish the debt from the deficit, which are different terms with different meanings.
Another big issue is Biden’s sense of time. He’s beginning to mix things that happened a long time ago, sometimes decades, with what is going on in the present. For example, he referred to pop superstar Taylor Swift as Britney Spears, who hasn’t put out any new music for a very long time.
When the terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel happened in October 2023, he said it had been 65 years since the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust, which he said was 65 days ago. Obviously, that should be the other way around.
Biden is not fit for duty. That much is clear. However, it’s now too late for Democrats to seriously consider running someone else. Doesn’t mean they won’t. The radical left has done a number of things that make little sense. But the chances of choosing a new nominee are low.
Which increases the probability that former President Donald Trump will once again occupy the White House after the November election. That’s good news for America.