{"id":1478172,"date":"2022-05-17T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478172"},"modified":"2022-05-17T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:15:21","slug":"bernie-campaign-flack-claims-only-racists-and-sexists-think-new-press-secretarys-first-day-was-a-train-wreck-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-campaign-flack-claims-only-racists-and-sexists-think-new-press-secretarys-first-day-was-a-train-wreck-it-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Campaign Flack Claims Only Racists And Sexists Think New Press Secretary\u2019s First Day Was A Train Wreck (It Was)"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fbernie-campaign-flack-claims-only-racists-and-sexists-think-new-press-secretarys-first-day-was-a-train-wreck-it-was%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=1478172&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1397595939-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Bernie Sanders campaign alumnus (from both 2016 and 2020) Melissa Byrne tried to spin criticisms of Karine Jean-Pierre as \u201cracist and sexist\u201d after the new White House press secretary\u2019s embattled first day on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation began with a tweeted video of Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/new-white-house-press-secretary-spends-first-day-spinning-bidens-claim-that-higher-taxes-will-help-inflation\/\">struggling to answer<\/a> a question from Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy \u2014 about President Joe Biden\u2019s claim that raising corporate taxes would somehow lower inflation \u2014 and coming up decidedly short.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch what happens when Peter Doocy asks the new White House press secretary how raising taxes on the rich brings down inflation, as Biden tweeted last week. <\/p>\n<p>Big yikes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UIsACtP8Hv\">pic.twitter.com\/UIsACtP8Hv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1526289490377158657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jean-Pierre responded to Doocy\u2019s question by flipping through her briefing book and appeared to read a series of talking points about promoting \u201cequity\u201d in taxation and asking the wealthiest among us to \u201cpay their fair share\u201d \u2013 but at no point did she connect the dots and explain how achieving equity in taxation would work to lower inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy God she is bad at this job. She is visibly flipping through the briefing book and staring down at it while she reads off canned talking points that don\u2019t remotely answer the question,\u201d Robert Tracinski <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tracinski\/status\/1526410061723189248\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>National Review senior write Dan McLaughlin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/1526413742912811008\">weighed in<\/a> then, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s the White House. This was literally the most prepared person they could find?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was when Byrne joined the conversation, accusing McLaughlin of being critical of Jean-Pierre only because of her sex and race. \u201cRacist Sexist Men roll call,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Racist Sexist Men roll call <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHZPEZG7Kn\">https:\/\/t.co\/JHZPEZG7Kn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 melissa \u201ccancel student debt\u201d byrne (@mcbyrne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcbyrne\/status\/1526414753563910149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called having standards. I send you into court, I expect better than this. Same from the press podium. Responses like this would fail a Turing test,\u201d McLaughlin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/1526415666152103937\">replied<\/a>, referencing the \u201cTuring test\u201d and effectively suggesting Byrne\u2019s comments failed to \u201cdemonstrate human intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/t\/turing-test.asp\">Investopedia<\/a>, \u201cThe Turing Test is a deceptively simple method of determining whether a machine can demonstrate human intelligence: If a machine can engage in a conversation with a human without being detected as a machine, it has demonstrated human intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the conversation did not end there, as Byrne repeatedly attempted to claim that McLaughlin was racist and sexist and insisted that she was actually winning the argument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIm sorry. Someone at the NRO has an opinion on standards? You just can\u2019t stand seeing a Black woman exceeding you professionally. Therapy is helpful for working through your inadequacies,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcbyrne\/status\/1526416110400184321\">claimed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond try at the Turing test didn\u2019t go better than the first,\u201d was McLaughlin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/1526416844462104576\">reply<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSays the person who works for the NRO and has to attack a press sec to feel like a man,\u201d Byrne <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcbyrne\/status\/1526417110905376770\">tried again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThird try, becoming increasingly recursive,\u201d McLaughlin shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIm still winning,\u201d Byrne insisted. \u201cGo work through your inadequacies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFourth try, now running familiar scripts,\u201d McLaughlin said, prompting Byrne to once again claim that she was \u201cstill winning\u201d and add, \u201cI love how mad you are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Still winning. I love how mad you are right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w5OXNxIFcg\">https:\/\/t.co\/w5OXNxIFcg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 melissa \u201ccancel student debt\u201d byrne (@mcbyrne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcbyrne\/status\/1526419310385692672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McLaughlin, who was apparently so \u201cmad\u201d that he went to sleep and ignored Byrne\u2019s latest dig until morning, added, \u201cLOL there was a fifth attempt last night, still nothing that would pass a Turing test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove getting under the skin of racist men,\u201d Byrne tried once more, but McLaughlin wasn\u2019t biting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixth! Still nothing you couldn\u2019t program from a bot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sixth! Still nothing you couldn&#8217;t program from a bot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ffYUXtP5Sc\">https:\/\/t.co\/ffYUXtP5Sc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baseballcrank\/status\/1526553935250657282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders campaign alumnus (from both 2016 and 2020) Melissa Byrne tried to spin criticisms of Karine Jean-Pierre as \u201cracist and sexist\u201d after the new White House press secretary\u2019s embattled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1483425,"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-1478172","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\/1478172","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=1478172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}