{"id":1142969,"date":"2021-12-22T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142969"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T21:49:45","slug":"take-that-scrooge-jen-psaki-claims-president-biden-saved-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/take-that-scrooge-jen-psaki-claims-president-biden-saved-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Take That, Scrooge\u2019: Jen Psaki Claims President Biden \u2018Saved Christmas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftake-that-scrooge-jen-psaki-claims-president-biden-saved-christmas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1142969&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Wednesday that President Joe Biden had \u201csaved Christmas\u201d by delivering on his promise of stocked shelves ahead of the coming holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Early Wednesday morning, Psaki shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/22\/business\/christmas-gifts-delivery-supply-chain.html?smid=tw-share\">New York Times<\/a> article titled \u201cWhy Christmas Gifts are Arriving on Time This Year\u201d along with the comment, \u201cTake that Scrooge, the Grinch and all of the doubters that this could happen. Also shelves are stocked at 90% (pre-pandemic levels are 91%).\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Take that Scrooge, the Grinch and all of the doubters that this could happen. Also shelves are stocked at 90% (pre-pandemic levels are 91%) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/THrlScmXwf\">https:\/\/t.co\/THrlScmXwf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@PressSec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1473647904858509321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psaki noted that in-store stock levels were nearly back to pre-pandemic levels \u2014 90% now vs. 91% prior to the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>When someone commented on her tweet wondering when Republicans were going to acknowledge everything President Biden had done to untangle the supply chain and say \u201cthank you,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1473651018852352004\">Psaki replied<\/a> simply, \u201cHard same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki doubled down on the claim during Wednesday\u2019s White House press briefing, once again citing the New York Times article and saying, \u201cAs The New York Times said today, Christmas gifts are arriving on time this year \u2026 Good news. We\u2019ve saved Christmas &amp; that is because President Biden recognized this challenge early, acted as an honest broker to bring key stakeholders together \u2026 and focused on addressing \u2026 problems across the global supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jen Psaki: \u201cAs The New York Times said today, Christmas gifts are arriving on time\u2026Good news. We\u2019ve saved Christmas &amp; that is b\/c President Biden recognized this challenge early, acted as an honest broker\u2026&amp; focused on addressing\u2026problems across the global supply chain.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LcokMvRHso\">pic.twitter.com\/LcokMvRHso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1473712752275431434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psaki went on to tout several steps the Biden administration had taken to address specific problems in the supply chain, concluding, \u201cSo people can go purchase \u2014 purchase presents even at this point if they haven\u2019t done their shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/buttigieg-slammed-for-claiming-supply-chain-clog-caused-by-biden-success-would-make-trump-blush\/\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> posted a similar tweet, bragging about the steps the Biden administration had taken to untangle the supply chain ahead of the Christmas holiday and claiming credit for \u201cstocked shelves\u201d and an expected retail boom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShelves are stocked. Retailers anticipate their best year ever.&nbsp;That\u2019s because workers, businesses \u2013 and our President &amp; administration \u2013 stepped up,\u201d Buttigieg tweeted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shelves are stocked.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers anticipate their best year ever.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because workers, businesses \u2013 and our President &amp; administration \u2013 stepped up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretaryPete\/status\/1473701910951641095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain did not appear to get the memo claiming that Biden was responsible for righting the ship, and he suggested that the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/supply-chain-crisis-leads-to-shortage-of-chicken-tenders-second-chicken-shortage-in-2021\/\">supply chain<\/a> kinks had simply been a collective hallucination shared by media.<\/p>\n<p>Klain also shared the NYT article, but with a very different comment: \u201cMerry Christmas to all, and to this over-hyped narrative, a Good Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Merry Christmas to all, and to this over-hyped narrative, a Good Night. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bXnvrUFmea\">https:\/\/t.co\/bXnvrUFmea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHCOS\/status\/1473660679395721227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeems kinda hard to take credit for having turned the tide with the considerable number of supply chain actions the administration has touted in recent weeks if their position is it was all just a media narrative,\u201d San Francisco Chronicle Washington correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalKopan\/status\/1473674577775632386\">Tal Kopan<\/a> remarked.<\/p>\n<p>And New York Post columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1473715607308808194\">Karol Markowicz<\/a> noted that even Psaki\u2019s tune had changed dramatically from months earlier, when she snapped at a reporter who had asked whether Christmas gifts could be expected to arrive on time. \u201cWe\u2019re not the postal service,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-on-if-americans-will-get-christmas-gifts-on-time-we-are-not-the-postal-service-or-ups-or-fedex\/\">Psaki<\/a> said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/22\/business\/christmas-gifts-delivery-supply-chain.html?smid=tw-share\">NYT article<\/a>, Americans ordering and shipping gifts earlier than usual and shopping in stores rather than online were driving factors that allowed the majority of gifts to arrive on time.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Wednesday that President Joe Biden had \u201csaved Christmas\u201d by delivering on his promise of stocked shelves ahead of the coming holiday. Early Wednesday morning, Psaki shared a New York Times article titled \u201cWhy Christmas Gifts are Arriving on Time This Year\u201d along with the comment, \u201cTake that Scrooge, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}