“…When reached for comment, a White House spokesperson provided Fox News with the same statement in the Daily Beast’s report.
“Our goal is to make the daily briefing as useful and informative as possible for both reporters and the public. Part of meeting that objective means regularly engaging with the reporters who will be in the briefing room to understand how the White House can be most helpful in getting them the information they need. That two-way conversation is an important part of keeping the American people updated about how government is serving them,” the White House spokesperson said.”
“Two-way conversation” with reporters prior to the press briefing? Since when?!?
To the undying disgrace of the “expert” class, what follows is, if anything, more incredible than what came before:
“Psaki, a former CNN pundit who is typically praised by the mainstream media, needs to tread lightly if she’s probing reporters for the wrong reasons, according to DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall. “The White House press office needs to balance this matter carefully. It does make sense, on one level, for the press secretary to be prepared in advance to best respond to topics on reporters’ minds. On the other hand, gathering questions in advancecould well appear to veteran reporters that press secretary Psaki is pre-screening questions or pre-preparing spin,” McCall told Fox News.
“Every press briefing is a risk situation for the White House and Psaki should, indeed, want to be responsive and prepared for reporter questions. The key here, it seems, is whether this process is being used to stage the briefings or simply to prepare for them.”
McCall feels it would be excusable if reporters are asked for questions in advance “merely as a way to get a heads-up and gather information in advance” for the purpose of providing responsive answers. “If, however, the process is designed to duck the tough questions or prepare rhetorical cover, then the risk factor is eliminated and the pressers look staged,” McCall said…”
Seriously, if Jeffrey McCall thinks only veteran reporters might find the gathering of questions in advance not merely highly suspect, but concrete evidence of a design to duck tough questions…
…and better spin responses, he’s not a “media critic”, but a shill for the Dimocratic Party. Thus the fact FOX quotes him speaks volumes.
More importantly, if the process is “designed to duck the tough questions or prepare rhetorical cover”…which it most manifestly is…the pressers don’t merely look staged, they are staged!
Most importantly, despite all its vast resources and practically unlimited budget, stillFOX conveniently failed to communicate…
…46*’s prescreening of questions is simply another step down the Road to Socialism pioneered by The Obamao, when, as the WSJ reported back in 2009, The Great Prevaricator became the first Dissimulator-in-Chief on record who preselected the reporters who’d question him, not to mention prescreened interrogators at “town hall events”, rather incongruous actions for an Administration pledged to transparency.
Here’s the juice: the MSM is so in the tank for 46* their noses are approaching the fuel injectors. As this meme from Balls Cotton demonstrates, nothing they say, write or feature…
…can be trusted.
And, in concert with Big Tech, woe betide anyone or anything not toeing their prescribed…and completely arbitrary…politically-correct line. Thus is Iran’s Ali Khameini able to continue spreading his virulent anti-Semitic messages, while back home…
It’s all in Romans 1:21-29. So woe betide them, not those who adhere to God’s immutable truths.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, this headline accompanying Bronson Stocking’s report at Townhall.com doesn’t tell you the real story:
“…Pointing to long lines at courts in Buffalo, New York, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about the need for more judges in places where they “don’t have enough.”
According toThe Hill, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the incoming Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and Senate Majority Whip, said he’s been approached by a Republican colleague who expressed a need for additional judgeships in his state.“Interestingly enough, I had a Republican senator who approached me about expanding the number of federal judges in his state so there seems to be some sentiment that there [are] backlogs in the dockets of federal judges,” Durbin recalled.
Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn has said that he is willing to have a conversation about adding judges to the lower courts…”
Jon Cornyn: apparently slightly dumber than Groper Joe…with an IQ just above a sack o’ hair.
Next, a septet of items you have to see to believe:
Two quick thoughts on that last one: (i) As The Boss noted, one cannot expect students to have any grasp of the real world with “teachers” like this; and, (ii) Sanders is symbolic of a privileged class, alright: the POLITICAL class, more and more composed of those who’ve never produced or created anything, let alone once risked everything on a business venture at any point in their parasitic lives.
And P.S.
(6). As Balls Cotton noted in his forward, so it begins. The question isn’t which handguns were decertified in California, but rather which weren’t!
Moving to the Science Section, as Townhall.com’s Matt Vespa relates, immediately after stating, “If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective”, The Left’s favorite 80-year-old infectious disease “expert” tempered his cracker barrel logic with a wee bit of actual science:
Soooo…now, “common sense”…utterly unsupported by any studies or data…trumps science. Is it any wonder millions like us don’t trust a word Dr. Faux Chi…or any other bureaucrat, government official or Progressive politician…pronounces?
And in the EnvironMental Moment, courtesy today of Jeff Foutch, writing at Substack.com, Roger Pielke, Jr. offers actual data detailing…
“Last week a paper published in Science concluded that worldwide, “To date, there has been no firm evidence of global trends of the frequency of tropical cyclones with maximum wind speed above the hurricane-force wind (64 knots) at landfall.” That finding, which confirms our work, was based on data since 1982. But what happens when we take a look further back in time? What we find might surprise you…”
Then again, maybe not; particularly if, like the author, you’re a inquiring mind well-versed in the cold truths and hard facts which can only lead to the conclusion those who promote the junk-science of anthropogenic global warming are on a par with deniers of the Holocaust and moon landings.
Meanwhile…
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this from Richard Colt…
…along with two more from the lovely Shannon:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, and this headline detailing how the…
You’ll forgive us an additional three quick thoughts: (A) With all due respect, Special Agents Laura Schwartzenberger and Daniel Alfin no more exemplified heroism than any other American killed while performing the duties of their position; (B) We’re going to go out on a limb and predict they died not because of their heroism, but due to an omission in SOP; and (C) As Sunrise, FL is a majority minority enclave, and the name of the departed child pornographer has yet to be released, we’re really going out on another limb by predicting he’s a perpetrator of color.
Should facts prove otherwise, we’ll be more than happy to admit our error.
Magoo
Video of the Day
As contributor Balls Cotton notes, few people realize how much of their existence is intertwined with hydrocarbon petroleum-based products, from the paint and finishes in their homes to the synthetics in the clothes they wear, to all the different plastic products they touch every day. Enjoy this glimpse of life sans petroleum: GO GREEN!!!
Tales of The Darkside
We present Part 1 of John Stossel’s 5-part series busting the myths with which The Left has shrouded the heinously harsh realities of Socialism.
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