Jon Stewart rips CNN over Jake Tapper book on Bidens decline: How fking weird

Jon Stewart tore into CNN Monday night, blasting the network for aggressively promoting anchor Jake Tapper’s new book about former President Joe Biden’s health — a topic Stewart said the network should have covered during Biden’s term.“Forgetting about the fact how f–king weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago for free,” Stewart said.“The Daily Show” host criticized the network for continuing to promote the book just as news broke of Biden’s recent cancer diagnosis.“It’s just fun to watch them not only continue to push the book in light of this difficult news, but to actually frame this difficult news as perhaps even more of a reason to buy this book,” according to Stewart.Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson wrote “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”In a biting segment, Stewart mocked CNN’s on-air campaign for Tapper’s book, which reportedly includes revelations about Biden’s cognitive health as well as embarrassing anecdotes about the former president forgetting the names of his top aides.He played a montage of Tapper plugging the book in eight separate CNN appearances before questioning the ethics of holding back information for commercial purposes.“Don’t news people have to tell you what they know when they find it out?” Stewart said.“Isn’t that the difference between news and a secret? ‘You won’t believe what we found out!’ No, that’s why I’m watching.Breaking news… in a week.”The timing of CNN’s push for the book has come under particular scrutiny following recent reports of Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis.

Stewart noted the tension between the network’s promotional efforts and the president’s health announcement.“You’ve prepared an entire smorgasbord based on what you thought would be a relatively uncomplicated story about mental decline,” Stewart said, r...