Two nationally recognized journalists, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, have released a meticulously researched and documented tell-all book about the scandalous mental decline of former President Joe Biden and the band of media entities that conspired with the White House to keep it all covered up. The book, Original Sin, contains several jaw-dropping revelations like this:
The authors mentioned an occasion in mid-June, two weeks before Biden’s debate with Trump, when the president didn’t seem to recognize actor George Clooney at a fundraiser despite the two having known each other for more than 20 years.
“Clooney was certainly not the only one concerned. Other high-dollar attendees who posed for photographs with Obama and Biden described Biden as slow and almost catatonic,” they reported. “Though they saw pockets of clarity while watching him on television, and onstage later that night, there were obvious brain freezes and clear signs of a mental slide. It was, to some of them, terrifying.”
While salacious details entertain us, a rational person should not fail to ask, “if all that is true, didn’t all those ‘high-dollar attendees,’ didn’t both Clooney and Obama, didn’t all the media members who witnessed the scene have a moral and patriotic obligation to say something?” Why didn’t they? The answer is clear: because power is too intoxicating.
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Meanwhile, a nonprofit called ProPublica was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the death of a Georgia mom named Amber Thurman. The specific article that won was entitled:
“Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.”
The problem with that “expert” assessment, of course, is that Amber Thurman didn’t die because of pro-life laws. She died because she ingested dangerous abortion pills designed to kill her unborn twins that had been given to her in contradiction to all those “pro-life laws.” The pills were administered by abortionists, without proper care or oversight by medical professionals, like almost all chemical abortion drugs are. Complications predictably arose and Thurman didn’t survive them.
No matter how much you support a cause, how could a reporter and media organization be given a prestigious award for dishonestly obfuscating facts that threatens to endanger more lives? Because power is too intoxicating.
We’re still not done. A Republican lawmaker, Representative Nancy Mace, is in the news again after she showed naked pictures of herself during a congressional hearing. She did it as part of her quest to destroy an ex-boyfriend she wants to make the poster child of male chauvinism and predation.
This is the same ex-boyfriend that Mace once joked about having premarital sex with…at Tim Scott’s prayer breakfast. How could her conservative and Christian supporters continue to abide her alarming and immoral behavior? Because power is too intoxicating.
The way of the world is evident every time we turn on the TV or check our newsfeed online. It surrounds us to the point that we begin to imitate it, or at least believe its approach is how we can accomplish or achieve our objectives. But as Christians we should resist that impulse because we’ve been taught differently by One who knows far better.
In every way, Jesus not only resisted the intoxication of worldly power, He completely upended our understanding of what power actually is. How so? Look at this…