On Friday's Washington Week with The Atlantic, host Jeffrey Goldberg didn't convene a panel, instead hosting his buddy Jake Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson for the half-hour on their book Original Sin. The most shameless denial came when Goldberg suggested the media didn't cover up Biden's decline, while he completely omitted his show's infamous episode when he proclaimed President Biden was "mentally, quite acute." Mark Leibovich spat out it was "lying" to question Biden's fitness.

It happened on September 1, 2023:

LEIBOVICH: Can I just actually just point out, though, that, I mean, it’s not just making an issue of Biden’s age, it’s lying, it’s saying he’s senile, saying he’s demented, saying he’s out of it. I mean, I think it’s important to sort of state for a fact that a lot of these are just --

GOLDBERG: Right. Mentally, he’s quite acute.

A week later, Franklin Foer of The Atlantic doubled down on the same program: "So on the mental acuity part, Nikki Haley’s talked about giving a mental acuity test for presidents. I’m sure Biden would ace that test."

But now, Goldberg wants to pretend the media weren't actively denying the obvious.

PBS @WashingtonWeek with The Atlantic host @JeffreyGoldberg really said this on tonight’s show: “I don’t understand how this narrative is developed that the media was covering for Biden. I think what might be going on here is the lack of understanding about how reporting works.”… pic.twitter.com/nSHL6xifyd

— Brent Baker