The fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes has been playing out in Washington DC, thanks to Robert Hur. The special counsel documented what 86 percent of American voters already knew—that Joe Biden had a cognitive decline so profound that a trial for his violations in keeping top-secret documents would be pointless. 

Puck’s Dylan Byers confirmed that the mainstream media had assumed the role of imperial sycophants in the fable.  Byers reported that the White House press corps knew all along that Biden was failing and refused to report it. “He whispers, he shuffles, he misremembers,” one reporter told Byers. “Anyone with an elderly parent knows what this is.”

We hear plenty from media outlets about their necessity for a well-informed public. But the White House press corps didn’t report the facts or “speak truth to power.” They pandered to the Biden White House to curry favor—and to protect his political viability against Donald Trump.  

The Fourth Estate has transformed itself into a sycophantic cheering section. Biden’s not the only one standing naked after Hur’s report.