{"id":1922842,"date":"2023-05-02T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-jokes-about-cheerfully-walking-away-from-press-accountability\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:28:36","slug":"joe-biden-jokes-about-cheerfully-walking-away-from-press-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-jokes-about-cheerfully-walking-away-from-press-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Jokes About \u2018Cheerfully Walking Away\u2019 From Press Accountability"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fjoe-biden-jokes-about-cheerfully-walking-away-from-press-accountability%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=1922842&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--><h2>Is President Biden Avoiding Genuine Questions from Reporters?<\/h2>\n<p>At the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, President Joe Biden made a joke about never taking genuine questions from actual reporters and hiding from any kind of journalistic accountability. Unfortunately, the supposed journalists in attendance gleefully giggled along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office,\u201d the president quipped Saturday night. \u201cI\u2019ll talk for 10 minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The joke\u2019s on the American people, and the corporate media are in on it. If Biden\u2019s predecessor had cracked the same line, it would have launched a thousand think pieces proclaiming Trump\u2019s hatred for press freedoms. But since the propagandists who fill seats at the Correspondents\u2019 Dinner and in the White House briefing room make their living by running cover for Democrats like Biden, they couldn\u2019t see the obvious irony: a room full of people tasked with asking tough questions of the president, laughing as he boasts about not answering their questions at all.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Cheat Sheet and Prior Access to Questions<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, it was revealed that Biden not only possesses a cheat sheet of which \u201cfriendly\u201d reporters to call upon during press briefings, but also appears to have prior access to the exact questions they plan to ask. During a press conference Biden shared with the South Korean president, a photographer snapped a photo of a cue card in Biden\u2019s hand that listed the name, outlet, photo, and question of Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian. With a system like this, Biden staffers could pre-write an answer for him to rattle off onstage, perpetuating the facade of a good-faith interaction between the press and an accountable president.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Record of Avoiding Genuine Interactions with Reporters<\/h3>\n<p>Biden\u2019s occasional press conferences are typically brief and scripted, and he\u2019s also simply held fewer of them than his recent predecessors. Even The New York Times admitted the aging Biden \u201chas taken steps to reduce opportunities for journalists to question him in forums where he can offer unscripted answers and they can follow up\u201d \u2014 before using the very next paragraph to remind readers why Biden doesn\u2019t hate press freedom as the bad orange man did.<\/p>\n<p>In his tone-deaf speech Saturday night, Biden waxed poetic about journalistic freedoms and the First Amendment\u2019s guarantee of a free press. But as celebrities nodded along to his clich\u00e9s, he was celebrating the ouster of perhaps his most popular critic in media, Tucker Carlson. He was also bragging about his incessant avoidance of meaningful interactions with genuine reporters. Remarkably, no one in the room seemed to care. Then again, his joke was a mockery of a free press \u2014 so I guess it didn\u2019t apply to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is President Biden Avoiding Genuine Questions from Reporters? At the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, President Joe Biden made a joke about never taking genuine questions from actual reporters and hiding from any kind of journalistic accountability. 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