{"id":1516518,"date":"2022-06-15T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516518"},"modified":"2022-06-15T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T11:50:20","slug":"even-with-the-media-tossing-her-softballs-biden-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-cant-get-the-bat-off-her-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-with-the-media-tossing-her-softballs-biden-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-cant-get-the-bat-off-her-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Even With The Media Tossing Her Softballs, Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Can\u2019t Get The Bat Off Her Shoulder"},"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\">38<\/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%2Feven-with-the-media-tossing-her-softballs-biden-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-cant-get-the-bat-off-her-shoulder%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=1516518&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/51440584701_71a0839c12_o.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You\u2019d think every Biden White House press conference would be a home run because, despite the president being largely incoherent, the press corps is exceedingly friendly to Democrats. Nonetheless, there are no home runs for President Joe Biden\u2019s new press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. It seems everything she says is a swing and a miss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s been the case since Jean-Pierre inherited her post from her predecessor Jen Psaki, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/01\/jen-psaki-transfers-to-msnbc-bureau-of-the-biden-white-house-comms-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left the White House spin team<\/a> for the one over at MSNBC. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j0N7lOX3Bls&#038;ab_channel=TheWhiteHouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monday<\/a> was particularly bad for Jean-Pierre, who stuttered, lied, and fumbled her way through her massive binder to avoid saying what anyone with eyes knows: Everything is a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most disastrous is the state of the American economy, and when Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy asked about it, a flustered Jean-Pierre parroted the tired \u201cPutin price hike\u201d defense.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"EtOYoMmKOXP9Y7XJMf2PHRGwSg3pgGNeVDv8IUdShDAiLZ0h7Kw16djk6EbkiWBenmc5uj4bfAsqVpHFcaFWTqxsT5vI\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;President Biden once bragged about the stock market &#8216;hitting record after record after record on my watch.&#8217; How about now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;Meaning\u2026?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the gains from President Biden&#8217;s time in office have been wiped out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: \u201cPutin\u2019s price hike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o5WkyEVP4n\">pic.twitter.com\/o5WkyEVP4n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1536441429911691264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She took the lie one step further and even said we\u2019re seeing a \u201chistoric economic boom\u201d thanks to the so-called American Rescue Plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t it also lead to historic inflation?\u201d Doocy asked, to which Jean-Pierre unconvincingly insisted, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"uO052BQHImWDnxYz\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy just owned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PressSec<\/a> so bad that she literally just stuttered and lied about inflation:<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;[The American Rescue Plan] led to this historic economic boom that we&#8217;re seeing with jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doocy: &#8220;Didn&#8217;t it also lead to historic inflation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP: &#8220;No.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XhcodK3vaw\">pic.twitter.com\/XhcodK3vaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1536441077137301504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Inflation has gotten so bad, even CNN has been forced to acknowledge it, however amicably. On Monday, Don Lemon asked Jean-Pierre whether \u201cthe Biden administration bear[s] some responsibility\u201d for inflation, saying economists conclude that the American Rescue Plan did contribute to the spike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has put us in a place where we can actually put us in a place where the American people feel can actually, we can take on inflation,\u201d babbled Jean-Pierre in response. \u201cIn order to take this on, we\u2019ve got to have, to be in a good historic economic place, which is where we are right now.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"LEGeVdAZtYMIp27WBDw5jTJkaXuCQH\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lemon: &#8220;Experts say last year&#8217;s stimulus package contributed to inflation. Does the Biden admin bear some responsibility for this?<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre: &#8220;It has put us in a place where we can actually put us in a place where the American people feel can actually we can take on inflation&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XQ963pgeSK\">pic.twitter.com\/XQ963pgeSK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1536556373789523975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Jean-Pierre also snapped at Lemon for asking about Biden\u2019s \u201cstamina, physically and mentally\u201d to run again in 2024, just taken aback that Don would ask such a thing: \u201cDon, you\u2019re asking me this question! Oh my gosh! He\u2019s the president of the United States!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"JhACI98cQyGOqz2WfEUgjiKPdNBMTew30FlVp5kuYvbrma1xL6XS4sRHt7nDo\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WH\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/K_JeanPierre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@k_jeanpierre<\/a> takes offense at CNN\u2019s Don Lemon asking if Biden \u201chas the stamina, physically and mentally\u201d to run in 2024: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon, you\u2019re asking me this question! Oh my gosh! He\u2019s the president of the United States!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1sRyXg0TF\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1sRyXg0TF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1536627378381901825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the economic crisis and the president\u2019s fitness tripping up the press secretary, either. On Monday, Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/karine-jean-pierre-baby-formula-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flipped<\/a> through her mega-binder for more than 20 seconds before saying \u201cI don\u2019t have anything new\u201d on the dire baby formula shortage that\u2019s left infants across the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/baby-formula-shortage-more-children-hospitalized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hospitalized<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The same day, in a large word salad about how the \u201cDepartment of DOJ\u201d prevented the murder of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/press-sec-claims-biden-condemned-kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-despite-his-continued-silence\">lied<\/a> that \u201cthe president has [condemned]\u201d the assassination attempt. Fact-check: As the <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision that would put pro-lifers on the starting line of the abortion fight by overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> looms, Biden hasn\u2019t said a single word about the attempt to intimidate the court by taking a sitting justice\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"wuXzYlQJq2bNsEeBDvk5KARiO3IfWSPomjZdxhaCcG10UnHt879rpVL6y\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jean-Pierre says &#8220;the president has condemned&#8221; the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>No he hasn&#8217;t. Joe Biden literally has not said a single word about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dtqvHcRWXh\">pic.twitter.com\/dtqvHcRWXh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1536445056047005698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>One could maybe empathize with a press secretary tasked with taking on a hostile and lying press \u2014 such as, say, I don\u2019t know, anyone speaking for the Trump administration \u2014 but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening here. The corporate media lapdogs love Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why they ask questions like whether migrants are flooding the border because Biden is just too \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/25\/in-first-biden-presser-compliant-corrupt-taxpayer-funded-media-ask-if-hes-just-too-moral-and-decent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moral<\/a>\u201d and \u201cdecent.\u201d It\u2019s why they frame Biden\u2019s economic performance as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/05\/bidens-media-lapdogs-if-everything-werent-horrible-everything-would-be-awesome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unmatched<\/a> \u2026 if it weren\u2019t for inflation.\u201d It\u2019s why they say Biden\u2019s banal, left-wing talking points are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/13\/lapdog-corrupt-media-coverage-of-bidens-carteresque-speech-is-embarrassing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soothing<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/03\/12\/last-night-is-why-joe-biden-won-the-presidency-492086\">praise<\/a> him for restoring the \u201cunique pastoral role of the presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Especially in front of this fawning media backdrop, there\u2019s really no other way to say it: Jean-Pierre is really bad at her job.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d think every Biden White House press conference would be a home run because, despite the president being largely incoherent, the press corps is exceedingly friendly to Democrats. 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