Who is Cory Bernardi? Joe Biden is 'struggling with dementia', not up to task 'sworn in to do': Sky News host
Sky News host Cory Bernardi said US President Joe Biden is 'struggling with dementia' and is not up to the task he has been 'sworn in to do'. He also added that never before has a leader of the free world been so 'cognitively compromised'.
Bernardi said the fact had been 'evident' during the election campaign, but the 'partisan and poisonous' mainstream media chose not to highlight anything which could have 'derailed a Biden victory'. “Even now, after he has been sworn in, many of them are still refusing to speak the truth about Biden’s lack of capacity,” he said.
Bernardi noted that when Biden recently emerged to make his 'sanitized' Presidential Town Hall Debut, at which the new president gave away his teleprompter, the result was a 'disaster'. "It was littered with total falsehoods,” Bernardi said in a Sky News report. “It’s all rather pathetic, but even usually smart people are blinded by the nonsense put out by the mainstream media. They believe every perceived sin of Donald Trump while they seem intent on canonizing St Joe.”
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Who is Cory Bernardi?
Bernardi is a former Australian politician, who served as Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020, and was the leader of the Australian Conservatives, a minor political party he founded in 2017 but disbanded in 2019. He is a former member of the Liberal Party of Australia, having represented the party in the Senate from 2006 to 2017. Bernardi is a staunchly conservative Roman Catholic and author of 'The Conservative Revolution'. Born and raised in Adelaide, Bernardi, son of an Italian immigrant who came to Australia in 1958, attended Prince Alfred College in Kent Town. He then took a business and management course at South Australian Institute of Technology before winning a scholarship and furthering his rowing career at the Australian Institute of Sport in 1989.
Bernardi became an Australian national representative when he was selected in the three-seat of the coxless four which competed at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in the town of Bled in former Yugoslavia, and placed tenth. After a back injury terminated his rowing career, Bernardi traveled Europe and Africa, working as a laborer. Returning to his home country, he managed the family's hotel before spending four months in a hospital with tuberculosis. He subsequently worked as a stockbroker and financial adviser before entering politics.
After taking up the post vacated by former South Australian Senator Robert Hill in 2006, Bernardi became the number one candidate on the Liberal ticket twice, during the federal elections in 2007 and 2013. In February 2017, seven months after the 2016 election, Bernardi left the Liberal Party to form his own separate party, which was born out of Bernardi's Australian Conservatives movement to 'unite conservatives', which by August had claimed 50,000 members.
The member of the right-wing of the Liberal Party is no stranger to controversy. On April 21, 2007, Bernardi published an essay questioning whether global warming was caused by human activities, prompting then-environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull and other Liberal parliamentarians to distance themselves from his views. He also received death threats for saying there should be a ban on wearing the burqa in public, that "Islam itself is the problem—it's not Muslims", that Islam was a totalitarian political and religious ideology, and that multiculturalism had failed.
Bernardi has controversial views on sexuality, too. He does not support abortion and said that permitting same-sex marriages would lead to legalized polygamy and bestiality. Several of his colleagues from the Liberal Party at the time distanced themselves from Bernardi's comments, including Tony Abbott who also opposes same-sex marriage. He has also condemned women seeking combat roles in the military.
He resigned from politics in 2020 and is currently a news show host at Sky News Australia.
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