While the legacy media trains its sights on retiring Texas Rep. Kay Granger, they give a pass to other sunsetting government officials.

(Washington, DC) – The political world is one wrought with rumors and half-truths, both of which affect the news cycle more often than they should. The latest story revolving around retiring Texas Rep. Kay Granger is a great example of both this and the legacy media’s double standards.

Let’s set the record straight: Representative Kay Granger is battling health issues and moved to a retirement facility, as many Americans do, ahead of her departure from office of her own volition. Her son has said she experienced a “very rapid” decline — which would account for her missing some votes this year — and is not in the dementia wing of the retirement community she moved into.

We are seeing a media onslaught against a declining congresswoman who spent decades serving our nation in Congress and moved into a retirement community ahead of her exit from office. Not only that, we are seeing them attack a woman who is suffering health concerns, and had enough good sense to retire from office rather than pursue re-election. They do this while mostly ignoring President Biden’s glaring absence from the public eye during last week’s congressional spending fight, just as they were incurious the last four years about his mental fitness for office. In fact, the Biden administration faced very few questions about the president’s age and mental fitness until his disastrous debate performance against President Trump.

But members of President Biden’s administration and his allies have also gotten a pass. Let’s not forget the abject silence from the media after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was secretly hospitalized for days at the beginning of this year, or its sparse coverage of California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s public decline over several years. And, of course, one cannot forget Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s stroke on the campaign trail that the legacy media barely touched with a ten-foot pole.

Peter McGinnis, spokesman for FGI, issued the following statement:

“Suddenly, the media is scandalized an elderly politician isn’t up to the job any longer? That’s rich. Meanwhile, President Biden and his would-be successor, Vice President Harris are MIA on the budget fight. The hypocrisy and bias are breathtaking.”

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