Posted on 12/09/2022 8:15:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Another day, another disaster for White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Eventually, she is going to burn out on the continual slapstick comedy bits that the press briefings have become. She can only wipe the pie off of her face so many times before she hands in her two weeks’ notice. Then she’ll take a gig with CNN where nobody will ask her anything and she can become the star she was destined to be.
That will be a sad day, since waiting for the story of the latest flub or blooper has become a bit of a tradition. A fun, if cringe, Advent calendar, if you will. And while these moments in which the White House yet again becomes a whoopie cushion are somewhat entertaining, one stares at them with the same mixture of horror, curiosity, and fascination as one does a crash scene.
The Daily Caller reports that the latest episode of the wheels coming off a White House presser took place on Thursday. Simon Ateba is a reporter for Today News Africa. He had a question for Jean-Pierre about the U.S.-Africa Summit, in which President Biden will host leaders from 50 African nations. A perfectly reasonable expectation for a reporter from an African news agency at a White House presser. In fact, I can’t think of a better venue.
Not only did Jean-Pierre not answer the man’s question, but she also would not explain why she could not answer the question. She became so frustrated that she called an early lid and left the room. You can watch the exchange below:
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Ateba has been a thorn in the sides of both Jean-Pierre and her predecessor, Jen Psaki. He has been critical of both secretaries for only calling on a small number of reporters. He took issue with Jean-Pierre for refusing to call on a Daily Caller reporter during Anthony Fauci’s last briefing on November 22. Ateba noted that the reporter had a valid question for Fauci and that she should have been called on. Jean-Pierre said, “I hear the question, but we’re not doing this the way you want it. This is disrespectful. Simon, I’m done. I’m done with you right now. You’re taking time away from your colleagues.”
He has also been threatened with expulsion by the White House Correspondents’ Association. That stemmed from an incident in which Ateba raised the issue that Psaki was not taking his questions during her final presser in May. He is disgusted that the concept of freedom of the press apparently has no meaning in the White House briefing room.
It might be that Jean-Pierre knows that she is in over her head and that the problems of this administration cannot be spun. It might be she is simply exhausted from dealing with one blunder after another.
Stormed out in a huff, carrying with her a gigantic notebook of scripted non-answers.
She checks off all the intersectional boxes, therefore she’s untouchable and has her job for life, you racist.
RE: you racist.
I’m also homophobic when it comes KJP.
It’s even harder when you’re stupid.
” It might be she is simply exhausted from dealing with one blunder after another.”
Has to be torture to be so visibly overmatched, and under qualified. Any discomfort that comes the way of these radical leftists is pure joy for me.
My money sez she reigns effective 12/31 and returns to the bosom of her family. For those of you not noticing the suspicious preponderance of before election/after election distinctions (like no avoidable bad news releases before the election/all avoidable bad news releases after the election) they can now give her the hook.
Ray Charles could see on day one that Jean Pierre is in waaayyy over head and is nothing more, or less, than a mirror image of all the incompetent marxists working in America’s White House.
No wonder the country is so f’d up and no wonder trying to explain it to a bunch of equally stupid pressers is so frustrating. White House “pressers” are the best show we have of “the blind leading the blind”.
RE: My money sez she reigns effective 12/31 and returns to the bosom of her family.
My money says if that happends, she will promptly find a job as a pundit for MSNBC.
Same for me.
She realized she is going to loose her job to a now available WNBA player.
She looks like a black Ronald McDonald to me.
They pretty much need “stupid” due to the volume of ridiculous lies they have to tell. “Stupid” among a bunch of other negative character traits.
Good, she doesn’t do anything but spread disinformation anyway…stay in your office and play with your staff…
I think this African guy Ateba has mis-behaved and talked over others on a couple of occasions, so he could just be an a-hole also.
Black Female Lesbians taking up all the news. So what are they something like 80% of the population?
Except for a few bold individuals, it seems to take someone like reporter Ateba, another black person, to pressure this press secretary for appropriate responses.
She cannot play the Race Card with him, so she reacts as the angry woman who doesn’t like Mansplaining.
This article is both accurate and cruelly amusing at once.
“She can only wipe the pie off her face so many times before she hands in her two week’s notice.”
“It might be that Jean-Pierre knows that she is in over her head and that the problems of this administration cannot be spun. It might be she is simply exhausted from dealing with one blunder after another.”
An imbecilic assertion. She has been completely incompetent since DAY ONE. It was obvious to EVERYONE that she was in way over her head from the start.
To make the speculation that weeks of multiple administration “blunders” has worn her down in the ability to defend them is ludicrous.
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