{"id":187885,"date":"2021-03-03T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187885"},"modified":"2021-03-03T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T12:44:45","slug":"fourth-estate-free-pass-for-mia-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fourth-estate-free-pass-for-mia-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Estate Free Pass for MIA Biden?"},"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\">14<\/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%2Ffourth-estate-free-pass-for-mia-biden%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=187885&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><a class=\"republishingLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/republishing-guidelines\/\">Please respect our republishing guidelines &#8211; Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feature-img test\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/media-feature.jpg\" alt=\"Fourth Estate Free Pass for MIA Biden?\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It has been more than 40 days since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/was-biden-just-kidding-about-kids-in-cages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a> took office, and he has yet to face the press by himself. To date, he has not participated in a single solo press conference and, worse, appears not to have plans to start answering the questions the public and even the Fourth Estate demand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-563375 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Joe-Biden-feature-300x226-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Joe Biden feature\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/>Responding to queries about Biden\u2019s unwillingness to engage, the White House press secretary answered with her almost ubiquitous dodges. \u201cNot yet, but we will definitely have one,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-jen-psaki-pretty-in-commie-pink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jen Psaki<\/a> said. \u201cWe will schedule it, and you\u2019ll be the first to know. \u2018Cause you\u2019re pivotal participants in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>AWOL<\/h3>\n<p>This lack of communication is fast becoming a symbol of the Biden administration. As Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re 40 days into Joe Biden\u2019s term. He hasn\u2019t addressed Congress to lay out his agenda. He hasn\u2019t given a formal press conference. He\u2019s signed 34 Executive Orders. He\u2019s only signed one bill into law\u2014a waiver for his Defense Secretary. But don\u2019t worry\u2014he found time to bomb Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet it is not only a stand-alone press conference that President Biden has been avoiding. The traditional State of the Union address, tentatively slated for Feb. 23, has also been shunted into the long grass. <strong><em>Liberty Nation\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> Leesa K. Donner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/where-oh-where-has-the-state-of-the-union-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">succinctly<\/a> put the problem in perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor now, the American public is left to wonder. If the president avoids this opportunity to address Congress on the big stage, one must question if he is ready, willing, and able to carry out the duties he swore to uphold just over a month ago. If the answer to that question is negative, then no speech to inform us of the State of the Union will be necessary \u2013 it will become evident soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Is Anybody Out There?<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps part of the answer is that nobody is paying much attention to the Biden presidency. Judging by social media engagement, would it even make a difference if the president did meet the press? According to the official White House YouTube page, with just under two million subscribers, each video released gets a mere 36,000 average views.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in perspective, conservative commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/culture-corner-a-new-kind-of-political-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Joseph Watson<\/a> has a similar number of subscribers but averages 555,000 views per video. The Thomas Sowell channel has just 370,000 subscribers yet averages around half a million views per release.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong><em>Liberty Nation<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/a-bad-beginning-for-crisis-prone-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> shortly after Biden\u2019s inauguration, on the official White House YouTube channel, the down-votes far outweighed the up-votes, but the video-share platform was only too willing to help:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWithin hours of the videos going up, YouTube began removing the \u2018dislikes,\u2019 more than 16,000 of them. Speaking to The Epoch Times, the Google-owned video platform stressed that it was only removing activity that it thought to be inauthentic. The spokesperson did not elaborate on how the company determines a genuine downvote.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>On-the-Job Training?<\/h3>\n<p>If Biden were a newcomer to the D.C. political scene, he could be forgiven for a softly-softly coming-out party with members of the Fourth Estate, but he is no debutante. Biden is a longtime member of the Swamp and has handled \u2013 in his past \u2013 more press interactions than most.<\/p>\n<p>The role of president is not one in which a lax learning curve is either desirable or expected. About the Four Crises that Biden touted from day one, the American public could, and should, expect a certain amount of communication from the top dog. Psaki\u2019s constant refrain of \u201ccircle back\u201d is more than just tedious; it is damaging to public trust and political transparency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasement Joe,\u201d \u201cHidin\u2019 Biden,\u201d and more were among the monikers applied to candidate Biden. These nicknames \u2013 joyously shared by many on the political right \u2013 were derided as cheap jibes by an anti-Trump media. But perhaps the journalists in the Biden camp are beginning to rue their defense of Biden\u2019s unique ability to remain incommunicado. As Mark Twain wrote, \u201cThe humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact <a href=\"https:\/\/lngenz.com\/california-schools-ban-legacy-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that<\/a> he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A president missing in action is no longer a laughing matter.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/author\/mark-angelides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mark Angelides<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please respect our republishing guidelines &#8211; Click Here It has been more than 40 days since President Joe Biden took office, and he has yet to face the press by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893523,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187885","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}