 They didn't do their jobs. And the whole take is, well, it didn't serve Democrats at that time. They're trying to protect them. And then when it would be advantageous to report it, then they do. Dowd writes, as he has gotten older, Biden, the words and ideas sometimes tumble out in the wrong order. Also, he's more slurry now, so words get smushed together and words and thoughts collide. Words get dropped, things get skipped, and sometimes sentences trail off into the ether. You don't say.