{"id":1442165,"date":"2022-04-17T08:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T12:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442165"},"modified":"2022-04-17T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T12:15:14","slug":"eddie-scarry-medias-silence-on-psakis-fox-slur-and-conflict-of-interest-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eddie-scarry-medias-silence-on-psakis-fox-slur-and-conflict-of-interest-speaks-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Scarry: Media\u2019s Silence on Psaki\u2019s Fox Slur \u2014 And Conflict of Interest \u2014 Speaks Volumes"},"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\">32<\/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%2Feddie-scarry-medias-silence-on-psakis-fox-slur-and-conflict-of-interest-speaks-volumes%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=1442165&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Remember when it was considered a direct assault on American democracy for a president to answer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/16\/trump-has-answered-nearly-900-more-reporter-questions-than-biden\/\">a reporter\u2019s question <\/a>if his tone rubbed the media the wrong way? What a difference a change in administrations can make, so long as the new one is headed by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>With Joe Biden in the White House, it\u2019s apparently barely worth a murmur when his press secretary says out loud that a well-known journalist questions her like <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fox-news-makes-peter-doocy-sound-like-stupid-son-of-a-bitch-jen-psaki\/\">\u201ca stupid son of a b\u2014\u2013.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jen Psaki actually said that Thursday evening during a live-audience recording of a liberal podcast. Referring to Peter Doocy of Fox News, she said, \u201cHe works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/24\/biden-calls-peter-doocy-to-clear-the-air-after-insult\/\">including Peter Doocy,<\/a> but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for the media melting down every time former <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/05\/trump-rips-slimeball-reporter-for-story-alleging-soldier-mockery\/\">President Donald Trump<\/a> or one of his spokesmen cracked a joke or mocked a reporter, Psaki\u2019s remark might just be taken as a lame ribbing. But there\u2019s also the wildly inappropriate dealings she engaged in with NBC to get her own show as soon as she leaves the White House \u2014 a deal she reportedly locked in even as she\u2019s been working as the Biden administration\u2019s top spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, NBC\u2019s news division (yes, it still has one of those, in theory) and MSNBC have been actively covering a senior White House official who the reporters know is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/01\/jen-psaki-to-reportedly-leave-the-white-house-for-msnbc\/\">their soon-to-be colleague.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we found out that Sarah Sanders or Kayleigh McEnany had been in talks with Fox News for even just contributor roles while they were still working in the Trump White House, we would have never heard the end of it as an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/01\/ex-trump-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-hands-over-texts-to-jan-6-panel\/\">earth-shattering scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/DonaldTrump-1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump never cursed out on reporters while the liberal media constantly berated him.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joe Scarborough, Don Lemon and every columnist at The New York Times would be in raging fits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Corruption! Assault on democracy! Fox is Trump\u2019s propaganda arm!<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>To their semi-credit, a few journalists have offered some mild criticism of the Psaki affair. CNN\u2019s Oliver Darcy last week called the current <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/07\/psaki-the-professional-prevaricator-is-a-perfect-fit-for-msnbc\/\">NBC-Psaki conflict<\/a> \u201can awkward dynamic.\u201d Insider.com\u2019s Claire Atkinson said \u201cthere\u2019s something very, very wrong\u201d should Psaki go immediately from being White House press secretary to appearing on news programs where she will certainly continue to promote and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/23\/jen-psaki-is-the-condescending-face-of-the-biden-administration\/\">defend her former boss.<\/a> \u201cThis move seems too fast to me,\u201d she said. (Though that was after Atkinson showered sweet compliments on Psaki, describing her as \u201cvery compelling television,\u201d confessing that \u201cI like listening to her\u201d and admitting that \u201cI think she\u2019s very good at commanding the room.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s about the extent of any problems the national media can find as far as that goes.<\/p>\n<p>It feels so long ago that The Washington Post made a melodramatic show in adopting the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/14\/the-establishments-orwellian-line-on-elon-musks-twitter-crusade\/\">\u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d<\/a> slogan and CNN began running corny TV ads explaining that an apple was not a banana. They did it not because there were new, looming hazards to the country\u2019s foundation or because government officials had never played loose with facts before. There was no threat to press <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/13\/fec-backs-twitter-over-hunter-biden-censorship\/\">freedoms or legitimacy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, the threat was to the national media\u2019s chokehold on who gets to determine what\u2019s important and in the public\u2019s best interest. The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and all the rest of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/08\/how-the-new-york-times-publishes-lies-to-serve-a-biased-narrative\/\">the mainstream media<\/a> are far more comfortable when that power rests solely with them. It\u2019s far easier for them to promote the candidates and political figures they like.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kayleigh-McEnany.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Kayleigh-McEnany.jpg\" alt=\"Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany\" class=\"wp-image-21924638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kayleigh-McEnany.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kayleigh-McEnany.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kayleigh-McEnany.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany never hinted at a Fox News gig during the Trump administration.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Evan Vucci, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And they like the Biden administration. It doesn\u2019t threaten their power. So when the president\u2019s spokesperson uses profanity to mock a critical reporter, or when that same spokesperson lines up a lucrative news-media opportunity while she\u2019s still working at the White House, eh, no big deal. They like Psaki, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eddie Scarry is a columnist at The Federalist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when it was considered a direct assault on American democracy for a president to answer a reporter\u2019s question if his tone rubbed the media the wrong way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442165","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\/1442165","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442165\/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=1442165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}