Stop the presses!

The The New York Times editorial board on Saturday gingerly suggested that perhaps - just maybe - Joe Biden is too old to be president of the United States and leader of the Free World.

Yet it’s undeniable to all but the most delusional lefties that the man in the White House is an elderly meat puppet, doing the bidding of radicals in the Democrat party who are whispering in his ear and pointing to where he needs to stand at public events. 

Biden - never very bright - is now a  stumbling, rambling mess when faced with microphones and without teleprompter or note cards. That’s what age has done to him. At 80, he’s clearly in decline and the fact that he plans to seek re-election - that would make him 86 at the end of his second term - is a sign that he is being pushed by those around him who believe that in a Trump-Biden rematch, a man with dementia has the best chance of beating the bully from Mar-A-Lago.

God help us.

Concerns about age — both in terms of fitness for office and being out of touch with the moment — are legitimate, as Mr. Biden acknowledged in an interview in February with ABC News. His standard line, repeated in that interview, is: “The only thing I can say is, ‘Watch me.’”

But Mr. Biden has given voters very few chances to do just that — to watch him — and his refusal to engage with the public regularly raises questions about his age and health.

The usual White House method of demonstrating a president’s mastery is to take tough questions in front of cameras, but Mr. Biden has not taken advantage of that opportunity, as The Times reported on Friday. He has held fewer news conferences and media interviews than most of his modern predecessors. 

Nice little two-step, Times editors. What you’re trying to say is that Old Joe is hiding. The same technique he used to great success during the 2020 campaign when he hibernated in his basement, pretending he was nobly fighting the great battle against killer Covid.

When Jane Fonda famously said that year that “Covid is God’s gift to the left,” this was what she was talking about. Overblown fear-mongering allowed a creaking gaffe machine to socially distance himself from the electorate during the entire campaign.

He can no longer use Covid as an excuse for dodging the public, unless he can find a new, lethal variant before the national health emergency is set to be lifted on May 11.

Instead, Biden’s counting on lickspittles in the press corps to continue protecting him - on the rare occasions he wanders away from his handlers and encounters a friendly reporter - with cotton ball questions about his favorite ice cream flavor.

Democrats, alarmed by even a tepidly critical editorial in the mighty Times, began trying to mount a lukewarm defense of Biden on Sunday.

When Sen. Amy Klobuchar was asked about Biden’s age she did her own little dance:

“President Biden has such a strong record to run on,” she said, adding that obligatory qualifier that he was better than Trump. “People don’t want that chaos back again.”

Yep, according to the senator from Minnesota, America’s choice in 2024 will be chaos or dementia. 

Lucky us.

Here’s Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois when NBC’s Chuck Todd asked his reaction to The Times editorial:

What Todd didn’t mention is that Durbin will be 78 this year. Of course he isn’t going to admit that Biden is too old to serve.