{"id":1474724,"date":"2022-05-13T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474724"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:00:00","slug":"good-riddance-jen-psaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/good-riddance-jen-psaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance, Jen Psaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/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%2Fgood-riddance-jen-psaki%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=1474724&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Press Secretary Jen Psaki leaves the Biden White House today after more than a year overseeing a dishonest operation that helped a partisan and malleable press keep the American public in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Dishonesty was a calling card at Psaki&#8217;s briefings. As President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/10\/politics\/biden-fewer-news-conferences-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hid from the press in an unprecedented fashion<\/a>, Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/president-joe-biden-has-held-fewer-news-conferences-interviews-than-predecessors-during-first-year-in-office.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserted<\/a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s just not accurate to suggest that he isn&#8217;t accessible or doesn&#8217;t answer questions.&#8221; And while pledging to fight &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; she used her bully pulpit to spoonfeed it to the national media.<\/p>\n<p>She was dishonest as the Biden administration grappled with the pandemic. She\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1491929881021759490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed<\/a> for masks in schools amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/01\/kids-masks-schools-weak-science\/621133\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing consensus<\/a> that it harmed children. She obfuscated the administration&#8217;s school reopening strategy, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1361878992807198720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flip-flopping<\/a> on how much in-person learning would constitute a &#8220;reopening.&#8221; In March, Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1504540507464245248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> &#8220;we don&#8217;t know&#8221; whether COVID is less dangerous to children, even though there has been plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/12\/briefing\/covid-age-risk-infection-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence<\/a> it is.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y9bL4LpMOOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> no one could have predicted inflation would soar to record highs, even as liberal economists warned Biden&#8217;s policies would create that exact problem. And she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1371615725165674500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> the Biden administration had the situation at the southern border under control amid horrific <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/1st-news-media-allowed-inside-overcrowded-migrant-facility\/story?id=76768789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> of children trapped in facilities at 1600 percent capacity.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst of her deceits came during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Psaki served as the stonewaller-in-chief and shared blatantly dishonest assessments. She waved away\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/psaki-dismisses-dem-congresswomans-afghanistan-withdrawal-criticism-easy-to-throw-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticisms<\/a> from her own party, claiming the administration had the situation under control as American evacuees were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9971445\/Psaki-insists-no-one-believes-Taliban-respected-member-global-community.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trapped<\/a> in enemy territory due to a lack of intel.<\/p>\n<p>When journalists asked how many Americans the Biden administration left behind Taliban lines, Psaki leaned on her trademark condescension, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1470837604211908610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissing<\/a> as preposterous the idea that the administration could keep tabs on every American overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki treated Fox News&#8217;s Peter Doocy, one of the few White House reporters to challenge her, with hostility and contempt. She wrote off his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1420076999494807567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legitimate<\/a> questions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/07\/jen-psaki-fox-news-reporters-russian-chinese-propagandists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">likened<\/a> him to Russian and Chinese propagandists, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fox-news-makes-peter-doocy-sound-like-stupid-son-of-a-bitch-jen-psaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he sounded like &#8220;a stupid son of a bitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DOOCY: &#8220;Does the White House think 16 cents off a bbq has more of an impact on people&#8217;s lives than gas being a dollar more?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a>: &#8220;I would say if you don&#8217;t like hot dogs, you might not care about the reduction of cost.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WYmxekL5FS\">pic.twitter.com\/WYmxekL5FS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1411024038655299590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki once <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHolden360\/status\/1416091315155111939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued<\/a> anyone banned from one social media platform for spreading &#8220;misinformation&#8221; should be banned from all other platforms. Some would see this as a call for Big Tech censorship. But not the media, who fawned over and adored Psaki. Poynter, the media research group that runs PolitiFact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/commentary\/2022\/jen-psakis-legacy-one-of-the-best-press-secretaries-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> her &#8220;one of the best press secretaries ever.&#8221; Our rating: pants on fire.<\/p>\n<p>In her penultimate briefing, Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1524845466520801290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed<\/a> as a &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221; the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/yes-safe-smoking-kits-include-free-crack-pipes-we-know-because-we-got-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that the Biden administration was funding a $30 million harm-reduction program that will fund the distribution of free crack pipes in &#8220;safe-smoking kits.&#8221; With one quip, Psaki insulted a journalist and dismissed deeply sourced reporting that exposed inconvenient facts.<\/p>\n<p>In that respect, her outburst serves as a perfect capstone to her tenure\u2014one that was condescending and dishonest, hostile to the truth and those seeking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Secretary Jen Psaki leaves the Biden White House today after more than a year overseeing a dishonest operation that helped a partisan and malleable press keep the American public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"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-1474724","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\/1474724","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\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474724\/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=1474724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}