Cheap Fake
Last week, the White House caused a stir by labeling videos that showed behavior of the president in a bad light as “Cheap Fakes.” These videos were real, but the White House claimed that they were selectively edited to make President Biden look old and senile, something he is good at doing himself with little help. A take on AI generated Deep Fakes, Cheap Fakes are generated by the most dangerous form of AI known to humanity, real life. These videos include some highlighted on this Substack when they happened which include Biden at the G-7 Summit turning away from the main spectacle and Biden freezing up on stage at a fundraiser, resulting in former President Obama escorting him off stage. However, the world witnessed in real time the most elaborate and deceptively edited Cheap Fake in all recorded history last night in the form of the debate between President Biden and Former President Trump.
Already, teams of online Biden trolls are lambasting CNN for selectively editing a split screen that showed Biden’s face both while he was talking and listening to Trump tell lies. They also deceptively framed the current president and presumed leader of the free world by displaying him centered in full screen using basic rules of modern video composition making it appear that he could hardly complete a coherent thought or keep his eyes open. However, the most egregious of the cheap fakes of the night is how CNN used modern HD cameras to show how aged and feeble the president appeared as he stared blankly off into nothingness, mouth agape, with black, beady dead eyes as if lost in a daydream he is desperately trying to escape and is confused as to why he can’t sit down or get the ice cream they promised if he would just stay the lines they fed to him over the past week.
The President was sequestered at Camp David for seven days prior preparing for the debate. Indeed, the president emerged from Camp David Thursday ready for debate but unfortunately he saw his shadow and the experts predicted four more years of war in the Middle East. As the president began to speak, it was reported that he had been suffering from a cold and that’s why his voice sounded like a dementia patient. Not due to the fact that he is reportedly in too poor of health to be president. “The president exceeded our expectations!” Said Polly Fibbings, lead Propagandist for the Biden Campaign to the award winning show Only Worldview Confirming Things Considered. “We thought he might just die on the stage and we were prepared for the worst. This just goes to show how good Biden really is. And he did all this with just one week of solid debate prep. It just goes to show you how devoted he is to this country. While Trump was out playing golf, speaking to tens of thousands of supporters at rallies all over the county, and demonstrating that he is mentally and physically capable to assume the office once more, Biden was holdup at Camp David. Can you imagine if Biden had two weeks of solid preparation? We would see a groundswell of support to repeal the 22nd Amendment to allow Biden to be president for Life! Which may not be that long now that I think about it.”
Outside CNN Center in Atlanta, spontaneous chants of “Four More Months! Four More Months” broke out among the tens of Biden supporters who showed up, presumably trying to will the president to at least not die of old age before the November election.