{"id":2207388,"date":"2024-03-27T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-lies-about-lying\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:38:09","slug":"jen-psaki-lies-about-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-lies-about-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki&#8217;s dishonesty under scrutiny"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fjen-psaki-lies-about-lying%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=2207388&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>The \u2062situation involving Ronna McDaniel&#8217;s \u2062hiring \u200band subsequent \u2064firing at NBC News due to conflicting views sparked\u2064 controversy. \u200bJen Psaki&#8217;s comparison between herself and McDaniel as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-news-to-fire-former-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel-after-on-air-hosts-revolt-report\/\" title=\"NBC News reportedly plans to dismiss former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel following a rebellion by on-air hosts\">truth versus lies<\/a>&#8221; raised eyebrows.\u200c Psaki&#8217;s \u200bhistory of spreading misinformation, from misleading statements \u200bto outright lies, has fueled \u2064skepticism. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-gets-publishing-deal-for-two-political-thrillers\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams Gets Publishing Deal For Two Political Thrillers\">media landscape continues<\/a> to be embroiled in clashes and misinformation debates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ronna McDaniel, formerly chair of the Republican National Committee, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-male-government-worker-sues-after-learning-black-female-colleague-paid-more-for-same-job\/\" title=\"White Male Government Worker Sues After Learning Black Female Colleague Paid More For Same Job\">recently hired<\/a> and subsequently fired by NBC News when the \u201ctalent,\u201d unable to countenance even moderate dissent, revolted on air. The entire kerfuffle is unsurprising in the modern \u201cmedia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But one of the funniest moments of the McDaniel blowup at NBC News came when newish host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, another political operative hired by the network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/jen-psaki-erupts-comparisons-between-her-ronna-mcdaniel-truth-versus-lies\">argued<\/a> that the distinction between her and McDaniel was \u201ctruth versus lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What in the holy hell is she talking about?<\/p>\n<p><em>Only last week,<\/em> Psaki was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichSementa\/status\/1770407812042011005\">l<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichSementa\/status\/1770407812042011005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">y<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichSementa\/status\/1770407812042011005\">ing<\/a> about Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cbloodbath\u201d comment \u2014 which every sentient being understands was a metaphor for economic collapse, not as the MSNBC host explained, an \u201cembrace of political violence\u201d or \u201cdehumanizing language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s set aside the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1666068117288546304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election denialism<\/a>\u201d of the 2016 contest, which she claimed was \u201crigged\u201d by Russia. Psaki is proficient in lies big and small, whether she\u2019s spreading run-of-the-mill lies about how Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1694525055663747157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">don\u2019t support<\/a> abortion until birth (almost all <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/09\/of-course-democrats-support-abortion-on-demand-until-the-moment-of-birth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do<\/a>) or whether she\u2019s telling the press that Biden\u2019s dog Major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/biden-dog-major-attacks-psaki-b1910232.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had not<\/a> bitten Secret Service officers (he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/02\/22\/biden-dog-commander-bite-24-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bitten them<\/a> 24 times, at least) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/dhs-secretary-mayorkas-was-informed-whipping-incident-was-bogus-hours-before-he-condemned-border-patrol-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she\u2019s spreading hoaxes<\/a> about Border Patrol agents \u201cwhipping\u201d Haitian migrants, Psaki is a wellspring of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Even within the normal mendacious parameters of being a White House press secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2021\/10\/18\/how-jen-psaki-plays-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she excelled<\/a>. When Democrats were campaigning to cram through that massive welfare\/cronyism expansion agenda \u2014 first named \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d and later \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d [sic] \u2014 she told the media that \u201cno economist\u201d in the country was predicting higher inflation because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/midler-blasted-after-threatening-to-bring-peanut-butter-to-school-targeting-children-with-peanut-allergies\/\" title=\"Midler Blasted After Threatening To Bring Peanut Butter To School Targeting Children With Peanut Allergies\">massive government spending<\/a>. Biden, at least, had the decency to contend that a \u201cserious economist\u201d was warning of disaster. Of course, numerous respected economists, including well-known Democrats, had warned that injecting trillions into a hot economy would exacerbate inflation, as Psaki well knew. She made her claim in November 2021. A month earlier, inflation\u00a0had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/10\/business\/economy\/consumer-price-inflation-october.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risen<\/a>\u00a0at its fastest rate since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>During the Biden administration\u2019s deadly botching of Afghan withdrawal, which saw 13 American servicemen murdered at the Abbey Gate outside Kabul\u2019s Hamid Karzai International Airport, Psaki lied. When the administration, tied to a political timeline, ignored warnings from intelligence officials that terrorists were taking advantage of unsecured paths that the U.S. was encouraging civilians to use to get to the airport,\u00a0Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/08\/24\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-august-24-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brag<\/a>ged that all \u201cAmerican citizens,\u201d \u201cAfghan partners,\u201d and \u201callies\u201d were being rescued. When someone asked her how many Americans had been left behind in the country, she indignantly told them it was \u201cirresponsible to say Americans are stranded.\u201d But they were right. John Kirby, Pentagon spokesperson flippantly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/pentagon-spox-we-have-americans-that-get-stranded-in-countries-all-the-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0the press only days later \u201cWe have Americans that get stranded in countries all the time.\u201d Everyone knew.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Risch%20Afghanistan%20Report%202022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that as many as 9,000 Americans were left in Afghanistan during the Biden Administration\u2019s disastrous withdrawal. An NGO report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/investigations\/us-left-78000-afghan-allies-ngo-report-rcna18119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that the U.S. \u201cleft behind\u201d 78,000 Afghan allies in the chaotic withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, even before Psaki was a White House Press Secretary she had been deputized to enact Iran-booster Ben Rhodes\u2019s \u201cecho chamber,\u201d in which the Obama administration manipulated young, pliable, credulous journalists into spreading misinformation about a nuclear deal to empower the Islamic terror state, one of the administration\u2019s highest priorities at the time.\u00a0When the State Department deliberately cut embarrassing answers within press briefing videos to avoid scrutiny over their concerted effort to mislead the media, Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/obama-adviser-lashes-out-at-fox-news-amid-questions-over-deleted-footage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lied<\/a> to the American people about that, as well.<\/p>\n<p>That is only a small sample of Psaki\u2019s prodigious work. And I have no doubt McDaniel lied for political expediency. But let\u2019s face it, she is a mere piker next to Psaki.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>   David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abandoned-all-pretense-of-being-conservative-jonah-goldberg-joins-cnn-as-a-commentator-social-media-erupts\/\" title=\"\u2018Abandoned All Pretense Of Being Conservative\u2019: Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN As A Commentator, Social Media Erupts\">nationally syndicated columnist<\/a>, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronna McDaniel, previously head of the Republican National Committee, faced a quick hiring and firing at NBC News due to backlash against her differing views. This incident reflects common clashes in today&#8217;s media landscape. Amid the McDaniel debacle at NBC News, a notable amusing incident occurred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2207389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-11.02.29-AM-e1711555454263.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-11.02.29-AM-e1711555454263.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207388","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}