{"id":2009431,"date":"2023-08-23T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-adviser-says-biden-was-showing-empathy-by-comparing-kitchen-fire-to-deadly-maui-blaze\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:22:21","slug":"ex-obama-adviser-says-biden-was-showing-empathy-by-comparing-kitchen-fire-to-deadly-maui-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-adviser-says-biden-was-showing-empathy-by-comparing-kitchen-fire-to-deadly-maui-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama adviser says Biden showed empathy by comparing kitchen fire to deadly Maui blaze."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fex-obama-adviser-says-biden-was-showing-empathy-by-comparing-kitchen-fire-to-deadly-maui-blaze%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=2009431&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>Former Obama Adviser Defends Biden&#8217;s Kitchen Fire Story as Empathy<\/h2>\n<p>Leave it to a former Obama administration official\u2062 to showcase conventional D.C. gaslighting at its most\u200d brazen.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday on Fox News\u2019 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d with hosts Bill Hemmer and \u200dDana Perino, former Obama White House Deputy Chief of\u200d Staff Jim Messina repeatedly insisted that President Joe Biden\u2019s now-infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-insults-maui-wildfire-victims-desperate-attempt-relatable-exaggerated-story-losing-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kitchen fire<\/a> story showed how\u2063 the president connects with voters.<\/p>\n<p>Messina said it again and again, so it must be true. That is, after\u2064 all, how gaslighting works.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic operative\u2019s\u200d defense of Biden came\u200c after \u2064nearly two weeks of obliviousness\u2064 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hawaii-dem-horrified-bidens-callous-comment-americans-dying-maui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">callousness<\/a> that defy belief even for this president.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8,\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-obama-adviser-says-biden-was-showing-empathy-by-comparing-kitchen-fire-to-deadly-maui-blaze\/\" title=\"Obama adviser says Biden showed empathy by comparing kitchen fire to deadly Maui blaze.\">fast-moving wildfire devastated<\/a> the coastal town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Officials have confirmed more than 100 people dead and over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/list-missing-maui-residents-grown-substantially-last-2-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">800 missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the tragedy, \u2064Biden \u2064responded\u200b with \u2062an incomprehensible \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-heartless-two-word-response-asked-death-toll-devastating-maui-fires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no comment<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued to enjoy a Delaware beach vacation and \u2063then headed to Lake Tahoe for another\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/details-bidens-second-august-vacation-emerge-not-good-look-joe-jill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relaxing getaway<\/a>. Finally, on Monday \u2014 13 days after\u2064 the wildfire \u2014 Biden \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-kicks-off-maui-trip-making-cracking-jokes-people-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Maui<\/a> for a few hours before resuming his vacation.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to the devastated people of Lahaina, Biden made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-eviscerate-joe-biden-maui-totally-inappropriate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stupendously lame<\/a> effort to relate. He\u200c told wildfire victims who have \u200clost everything that he once experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-lost-an-awful-lot-in-house-fire-jill-biden-reported-the-small-kitchen-fire-that-was-doused-in-20-minutes\/\" title=\"Biden Claims He \u2018Lost An Awful Lot\u2019 In House Fire. Jill Biden Reported The Small Kitchen Fire That Was Doused In 20 Minutes\">small kitchen fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLightning struck at home, on a little lake that\u2019s outside of our home,\u201d \u2064the president said. \u201cTo make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">long story short<\/a>, \u2062I almost lost my wife, my \u201967 Corvette and my cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hemmer said this kind of talk from \u200cpoliticians \u201cfails\u200c because it\u2019s not real,\u201d but\u200b Messina\u2064 disagreed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Is Messina right about \u200cBiden?<\/h3>\n<form id=\"firefly-poll\" onsubmit=\"ff_poll_submit(event)\">\n    <label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"yes\">Yes<\/label><br \/>\n    <label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"no\">No<\/label><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>      Completing this poll entitles you\u2063 to The Western Journal news updates\u2064 free of charge. You \u2062may opt out\u2064 at anytime. You also\u200b agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.<br \/>\n  \u200c \u200c\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Vote\"><br \/>\n  <\/form>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>      Yes: \u20630% (0 Votes)<br \/>\n  \u200c \u2063\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>      No: 0% (0\u2062 Votes)\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think\u200b his empathy, his stories, his way \u2062he connects with voters \u2062are why he won\u2064 the 2020\u2063 presidential election,\u201d Messina said of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has empathy and\u200c connection with voters that press and D.C. pundits like me don\u2019t fully give him\u2064 enough credit for, and I think this kind of thing is the way your neighbor would talk to you, and it\u2019s why people like him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>If your neighbor talks to you the\u200d way Biden talked to the \u2063people of Lahaina, build a fence. Or sell your home. Your neighbor might be\u2063 a pathological narcissist.<\/p>\n<p>When Hemmer \u2062pressed\u200b Messina \u2062on Biden\u2019s tone-deaf story\u2063 of a kitchen fire extinguished in less than 20 minutes, the D.C. pundit doubled down on\u2062 his \u201cpersonal connection\u201d nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I think it\u2019s\u2062 how he connects with\u200d people. I think it\u2019s\u200c his way \u2064of connecting and telling a personal story. \u200dI\u2019ve been with him on the ground where he does this, and people connect with it,\u201d Messina said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those\u200c who did not keep count, Messina used the word \u201cconnect\u201d or \u201cconnection\u201d five times in five sentences. In fact, he used one of those words exactly once per sentence.<\/p>\n<p>This is Establishment Gaslighting 101. Tell the opposite of the truth. Be subtle about\u2063 it. But repeat the lie often enough that people begin to distrust their eyes, ears and sense of moral decency.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a practiced liar with skills honed\u2064 by years of experience\u2062 can even gaslight with rhythmic symmetry. Exactly one use of \u201cconnect\u201d or \u201cconnection\u201d per sentence shows an expert at work, a veritable gaslighting Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>So it turns out that the \u2063president is not a soulless oligarch eager \u200cto return to vacation. Biden connects with people. They like him.<\/p>\n<p>Do I \u2064need \u2062to say it again?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-obama-adviser-says-biden-showing-empathy-comparing-kitchen-fire-deadly-maui-blaze\/\">Ex-Obama Adviser Says Biden Was Showing Empathy\u2062 by Comparing Kitchen Fire to Deadly Maui\u2064 Blaze<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to an ex-Obama official to display classic D.C. gaslighting. 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