GOLIKEHELLMACHINE: knowing that the white house just signed a massive parkinson’s bill in july changes the entire tone of this story so much that this makes it wildly, horrifically offensive

knowing that the white house just signed a massive parkinson’s bill in july changes the entire tone of this story so much that this makes it wildly, horrifically offensive

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

this crosses some kind of line to me where it goes beyond "obviously they have it out for him" and into "they are actively trying to get Trump elected by printing overt lies"

yeah this is a real transition from 'they have a grudge and being shitty' to 'this is active fucking malice posing actual fucking danger'

they’re ratfucking they know what they’re doing

FUCK THESE PEOPLE

With the rustiest of chainsaws.

I was around for the NYT's failures on the Iraq war and her emails, but this feels like a real escalation. Just raw, uncut narrative pushing.

My dad has Parkinson's. Likely related to his time at camp lejeune. I think having a Parkinson's expert at the White House is encouraging. Guess he's just a sucker though.

…with a rusty chainsaw

Also that he was evaluated for peripheral neuropathy in his feet and the guy is neurologist, not a dedicated specialist in Parkinson's. It's just a complete smear built up from misrepresented fact.

Also as someone who lost a relative to Parkinson's (and is seeing my House rep fall to what is essentially ultra-Parkinson's) I find it both offensive *and* absurd to imply that what we're seeing from Biden could be that, of all diseases. If anything has *unmistakable* symptoms, it's Parkinson's!

bsky.app/profile/just... Alex Berenson possibly the ur source here.

Yoffe in the Free Press on July 7: www.thefp.com/p/why-did-pa...

And repeated by reprehensible TERF Emily Yoffe

Jfc

they think they have the lathe

If this isn’t flying too close to the sun, I don’t know what is, but those wings better start goddamn melting

Did not wake up today planning to block The Paper of Record™️ but here we are!

I did that back when they kept banging the drum against trans kids.

Bingo. Same.

"Breaking News" Like dude what the fuck. The Post and other tabloids that shit several days ago. NYT isn't breaking shit besides their own reputation

I think it also was a minor story on the Guardian Webpage .

How did they get to the point that Eric “Game Theory” Garland has somehow gotten a bit better than them at this

What does MatPat have to do with this?

Campos really covered himself in glory, esp as his blog post is still up and not updated.

nor will it be, is my guess

the nyt: breathlessly telling me that a movement disorder specialist at walter reed published a paper on parkinson's !!!1! me: ok

this paper is on ...11 year outcomes of dbs in parkinson's & he's the 4th author what are we doing here, nyt

his -most- recent paper is extremely my jam & is on anti-nmda receptor antibodies in csf in a case of japanese encephalitis based on this, i must conclude that trump's behavior is secondary to the long term cognitive sequelae of autoimmune encephalitis* *no, i don't, & no, it isn't

taking cues from alex berenson (really)

next they should accuse biden of injecting the marijuanas

it's also possible that the whmu is caring for someone else with a different movement disorder (eg torticollis) or that they had repeat f/u specifically to rule out a parkinsonian disorder or that he's providing guidance re the parkinson's advisory committee they don't know!

odds that we'll get a retraction / clarification on this stuff is pretty much zero bsky.app/profile/goli...

hoo boy gonna be a big fucking thumbs' down from me on LGM publishing breathless speculation about biden having parkinson's based on the speculation of doctors who know good and goddamned well that they can't and shouldn't try to diagnose people who aren't their patients through the fucking tv

it’s beyond obvious what they’re intentionally trying to do here

on top of all the other stupidity here, parkinson's?! my mom has parkinson's, it's not a hideable illness. the medicine only does so much. everyone who has ever seen him would know it's real fuckin obvious

Yellow rag strikes again

If the doctor was visiting for the bill, I'd think the White House would comment on the record to that effect. Not saying the president has Parkinson's or the Times is good.

He visited 15+ times under Obama, so I do think the article is trying to make implications that aren't supported as well.

“The Administration has said that the President has no signs of the disease.”

bsky.app/profile/saba...

"Dr. Cannard made 10 visits in 2012 plus a family tour; four visits in 2013; and one in 2014. . . . Mr. Trump rescinded Mr. Obama’s voluntary White House visitors disclosure policy, so records are not available for his four years in office." NYT once again rewarding Republicans for their perfidy

Peter Baker got jealous that everyone called his kid a shitty, biased writer and sought to reclaim the familial crown

1000%

It's pretty offensive to begin with!

Why didn’t the WH say that he was there to consult on legislation? That is the easiest answer ever, if true. That wasn’t the answer given.

They’re also not very good at this.

Biden is a bike rider, which takes balance and coordination, so that seems unlikely to begin with. Meanwhile trump only rides golf carts

"Flights carrying chlamydia and syphilis experts regularly traveling through the same airports as Elon Musk's jet. He has no comment." Hey, I made one, too!

bloody hell

Even though the WH has explained his visits in an official statement and it had absolutely nothing to do with the Parkinson's bill?

as was Ed O'Keefe losing his mind in the press briefing

It's not just the times, this BS is all over the place. A Colorado source throws in that the throws in that the specialist is also a Biden donor.

Completely on brand for NYT. They suck at political reporting. They can't help showing their bias......