Senator Kennedy Slams Media Hypocrisy Over Biden Health Bombshell Like Only He Can [WATCH]

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) criticized members of the mainstream press Friday for what he described as years of deliberate silence regarding Joe Biden’s declining health, arguing that journalists failed to do their job and are only now reporting what millions of Americans already saw with their own eyes.

His comments came in response to the release of Original Sin, a new book by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.

The book explores dysfunction within the Biden White House and provides previously undisclosed details about how the Biden family concealed the extent of Joe Biden’s health issues—as well as those of his late son, Beau Biden.

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In one revelation, the authors claim that the Biden family kept Beau Biden’s terminal brain cancer diagnosis in 2013 a secret, with then-Vice President Biden directing his staff to mislead the public about his son’s condition and whereabouts.

Beau, then Delaware’s Attorney General, reportedly traveled under a different name to receive treatment, and at least one doctor was said to have issued a false “clean bill of health.”

Kennedy used the book’s revelations to call out what he said was a systemic problem in American media.

“My biggest concern with all of this has to do with the state of the media in America today,” Kennedy said in an interview.

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“I watched bits and pieces of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner this year, and I listened to speaker after speaker, all Washington reporters, all defend ‘freedom of the press.’ And I kept thinking, they wouldn’t have to defend it if they didn’t work so hard to undermine it every day.”

Kennedy added that the public saw Biden’s decline long before journalists acknowledged it.

“We saw a president who couldn’t finish a sentence without taking a nap. We saw a president—an elderly man—who talked like he was from outer space. He walked like he was underwater; you could bake a Thanksgiving turkey in the time it took him to walk across the stage.”

The senator accused 90 percent of the media of ignoring or denying concerns about Biden’s condition during his term in office.

“This is just one more example of so many members of our media squandering the trust of the American people,” Kennedy said.

“There are other examples—the Steele Dossier, the Hunter Biden laptop. I could go on and on and on.”

He also called out journalists now reporting on the book while avoiding responsibility for their earlier silence.

“Today, the media’s happy after Mr. Tapper’s book’s coming out. But none of them have taken responsibility for not reporting what was so obvious to the American people,” Kennedy said.

“Hypocrisy never takes a vacation around here, I can tell you.”

When I watched bits and pieces from the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, I listened to speaker after speaker “defend the freedom of the press.”

They wouldn’t have to defend it if they didn’t work so hard to undermine it every day. pic.twitter.com/1TwKCbl3tG

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) May 22, 2025

In a follow-up clip, Kennedy said that only Axios reporter Alex Thompson had admitted the media should have done more.

“I have heard one reporter, Alex Thompson with Axios, stand up and say, ‘We should have done our job, we should have reported what we saw.’ But I haven’t heard a single—other than Mr. Thompson—a single member of the Washington press corps stand up and say ‘boy, we blew that.’”

Kennedy said the issue wasn’t personal loyalty to Biden, but rather a political calculation. “I don’t think they were in love with President Biden. I think they thought that anything that hurt President Biden would help the Republicans and would help President Trump,” he said.

The senator warned that this pattern of “advocacy journalism” is undermining the First Amendment and eroding public confidence in the press.

“I’m not asking them to take my side on everything, I’m just asking them to be curious, to report what they see,” Kennedy said.

I’m not asking members of the media to take my side on everything.

I’m just asking them to be curious and report what they see. pic.twitter.com/Ybnv8aZ1O1

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) May 23, 2025

His remarks align with similar comments made by former Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd in April.

Appearing on Piers Morgan’s program, Todd said members of the media hesitated to report on Biden’s health out of fear it would benefit Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

“The only thing I can chalk it up to is this… fear that some members of the media had sometimes that they would be perceived as helping Trump if they somehow diminished Biden,” Todd said.

The release of Original Sin has sparked renewed focus on how much the public was told—and when.

But according to Kennedy, the damage has already been done.

“The media’s now eager to dissect President Trump’s every word and movement,” Kennedy said.

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