It got tired of Joe sniffing its ass.
Posted on 12/06/2020 3:48:12 AM PST by Kaslin
President-elect Joe Biden proudly has announced that his White House senior communications team will be "filled entirely by women."
As a woman, I like to see women break barriers and take a seat in what used to be men's clubs.
But it's hard to get excited at the notion that Biden's upper-press operation will be Ladies Only. Men represent some 49 percent of the population, so you'd think there would be a place for at least one of them in the top seven plum spots.
Mayhap Team Biden was finding it hard to come up with "firsts." Dee Dee Myers, after all, became the first female White House press secretary in 1993 thanks to President Bill Clinton. In 2007, President George W. Bush made Dana Perino the second female press secretary.
President Barack Obama's press secretaries were entirely men. President Donald Trump apparently prefers spokeswomen. He chose Sarah Sanders to follow Sean Spicer's short tenure, and then Stephanie Grisham, who never gave a briefing, and then current Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
So having Jen Psaki as Biden press secretary and Kate Bedingfield as communications director is hardly groundbreaking. By adding communications directors, spokespersons and deputies for the president-elect, first lady and vice president, Team Joe baked the all-women team.
Psaki noted that her team includes mothers of young children, which makes her the third press secretary/mother of a young child after Sanders and McEnany.
McEnany took umbrage with a Washington Post story on Biden's distaff press shop. Trump, she tweeted, "already has an ALL FEMALE Senior White House Press Team," citing herself, Communications Director Alyssa Farah and communications pros who work for the vice president and the first and second ladies.
McEnany was onto a media double standard. Top female staffers are hailed as trailblazers when they are Democrats but dismissed as Stepford Wives when they are Republicans. Perino recently offered that conservative women know they "aren't going to get the glowing profiles."
For her troubles, McEnany was schooled by New York Times ace Maggie Haberman, who suggested principal deputy press secretary Judd Deere and spokesman Brian Morgenstern might not like McEnany's tweet. Message: McEnany, a Harvard Law School graduate who studied at Oxford, can't set her own definition of who is senior staff. She's supposed to stick to the Biden version.
"If Kayleigh McEnany and Alyssa Farah were Democratic women, they would be on the cover page of Vanity Fair or Vogue," assistant press secretary Karoline Leavitt told me. Ditto the first lady.
Friends expect Biden briefings to be boring affairs -- which would make them like the former vice president's rare and brief press availabilities. Staff, not Biden, choose which reporters are graced with the opportunity to toss softballs at the future president. Obviously, the Biden press corps sees little upside in pressing Biden. Often their questions focus not on Biden but on Trump's bad-boy antics.
Perhaps for a change in pace someone can ask Psaki to pass the Grey Poupon.
Like Trump, the cantankerous Biden has been known to insult reporters who ask him tough questions. When Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Biden how many times he talked to his son Hunter about his son's overseas business dealings, Biden snapped that Doocy, who has covered Biden for his network, should ask Trump that question.
When CBS News reporter Bo Erickson asked Biden if he would encourage teachers unions to reopen schools, Biden knocked him as "the only guy that always shouts out questions." (Sad.) When another interviewer asked Biden if he would take a cognitive test, Biden asked the interviewer if he was a junkie.
In other words, meet the new boss, same as the old boss. As for the press team, it will be "A League of Their Own, the Sequel."
Another good one Kaslin. Thanks for all of your thread starts.
https://thedonald.win/p/11QlKQQ1Xd/joe-hey-joe-youre-screwed/c/
The Donald on the right reminds me of Dylan. Donald Dylan very talented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mb3CoWwNyY
R.I.P. Bob Merchant. Old buddy I worked on the railroad with loved Dylan. Used to go to his apt. and listen.
Puerto Rican buddy Johnny (Ja Homie) Fiqueroa at the BIG BOX I worked...I call him Johnny’s in the basement. He’s still there at the pro desk. Great guy.
I am and have always been a walker between worlds.
Land and water, I am at home.
[but I’m not sure if “amphibian” is actually a “gender” or not]
:D
A FReeper posted that picture in reply to my comments about how hard it is to find pants to fit a salamander.
I stole it.
And here we are.
;)
If I had to do liberal men, I’d have a permascowl, too.
It got tired of Joe sniffing its ass.
Someone linked it at thedonald.win thread. WHOA! Never heard of it. CIA has it also?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45yXkHdYkLU&feature=youtu.be&t=584
Watch out sailing, MAGAMATTKAG
: ) C’mon man, sniffer. Wifey and I recently got a cool puppy. Born on April 1, 2020. No joke. Wolfgang Amadeus. He’s scratchin at the door wall to go out. Sometimes seems like a Chinese dog. Wu Fur. White English Golden (never heard of that B4)
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OMG I thought you meant the salamander in pants.
:D
Yep, they’re around.
They remind me of small Pyrenees.
:)
Nope not BIG MIKE.
Watch their heads explode
2024 The REAL BIG MIKE. PENCE. 2028
2032 & 2036 E.T. phone house?
America gets clean.
Pyrenees.
That’s the one we couldn’t think of Bel and Sebastion. Daughter loved that when she was little. 2 goldens B4 was Belle. Current buddy of Woofer is Charlie. Thanks, Sal
LMAO!
I envy you your puppy.
Mine are all grown and I get that unbearable need to cuddle a puppy, quite often.
[I have to settle for cuddling my Dobe’s 40 pound head...or so it feels]
:)
Moar stuff...
https://positivepsychology.com/abraham-maslow/
Also read BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity. What a nutcase. Majored in PSYCH @ WSU Detroit. Was a very good urban university back in the day. Commuted. Worked midnight at Great Lakes Steel on track labor...moved up to switchman. Whew the stories from that.
Double minor biology, chemistry. Not breaking bad type. The beakers were fragile though.
/ again...sowwy...was refreshing on Maslow. I thought about him yesterday. Had forgotten about him.
Biden’s All-Female Press Team? Yawn.
Free feels?
Dobe? For some reason my girlfriend’s cousin’s Dobe used to snap at me. I was always leering of the Pinscher.
Speaking of snapping yapper worse than yapper Tapper...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmkb-S3i9Uw
I should add: Gloria Booger, Allyson Camarotten, Stephanie Stool, Katy Turd, ...
All begging on the corner.
President Donald Trump apparently prefers spokeswomen. He chose Sarah Sanders
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Go Sarah. She was my fave.
This piece has several very good barbs.
One thing about a potential Biden presidency is he will make a very soft target.
Golden still have one. Charley is getting old though. #me too. BIL Al liked it when the puppies came out of the kennel on vacation on the beautiful beaches of the beautiful women at Punta Cana DR. Great vacay in the day. 12 out of 14 years to get away from Michigan winters. Dunno anymore. It’s been a while.
All inclusive. Great vacay. I recommend it of some such.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO5d6ROAUm4
I’m doing a shot with the camerman go pro Aaron. Wife and daughter in back seat on party boat. Fun times.
I get around.
218 strand blvd upper (maybe 318) upper condo is sweet. Been there with entire family last 5 years in summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPL5OXSBNE
The kids are hip at FR and thedonald.win
Enjoy life. It’s goes fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYBtfQ3QDo
47 years of them.
My dogs would love to play with that guy.
Some Dobes snap or click their teeth in play,, others give big toothy smiles.
Yet others “talk” constantly like Siamese cats.
They’re very communicative.
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