Jon Stewart ripped into CNN for its promotion of a bombshell e book about Joe Biden’s declining well being amid the previous president’s prostate most cancers analysis.
An individual holds “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on Might 20, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Picture by ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
On Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Stewart featured a number of clips of Tapper teasing the e book, promising viewers they “will not believe” what the co-authors uncovered throughout their analysis.
Through the section, Stewart additionally questioned CNN’s journalistic integrity for its aggrandizement of Tapper’s newest product up on the market.
“Now, doing the story seems almost disrespectful,” Stewart added, earlier than asking: “Can CNN thread the needle? How do you pivot from excitedly promoting your anchor’s book to somberly and respectfully promoting your anchor’s book?”
A Biden spokesperson introduced Sunday that the previous president has an “aggressive form” of prostate most cancers that has unfold to his bones.
Biden, 82, posted a photograph with former First Girl Jill Biden on Monday with the caption, “Cancer touches us all. Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places.”
