{"id":326050,"date":"2021-03-27T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=326050"},"modified":"2021-03-27T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T14:00:28","slug":"graham-the-pro-biden-press-corps-is-deeply-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-pro-biden-press-corps-is-deeply-embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: The Pro-Biden Press Corps Is Deeply Embarrassing"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fgraham-the-pro-biden-press-corps-is-deeply-embarrassing%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=326050&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\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3922.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media\u2019s job is to hold presidents accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor was the worst. She complimented the president, saying: \u201cYou\u2019ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn\u2019t come to this country right now; this isn\u2019t the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, you\u2019re a decency magnet! Biden replied: \u201cWell, look, I guess I should be flattered people are coming because I\u2019m the nice guy. That\u2019s the reason why it\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One overarching theme of the reporters Team Biden hand-picked was their lust for the destruction of the filibuster and their channeling power-hungry leftists such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who want a \u201cbig agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alcindor followed up by noting that Zeke Miller of the Associated Press began the event by vaguely asking how far Biden is willing to go to override Republicans (hint, hint). She mentioned immigration: \u201c(I)mmigration is a big issue, of course, when it \u2014 related to the filibuster, but there\u2019s also Republicans who are passing bill after bill trying to restrict voting rights, Chuck Schumer calling it an existential threat to democracy. Why not back a filibuster rule that at least gets around issues, including voting rights or immigration?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim echoed: \u201cTo follow up on the filibuster: So, do you believe it should take 60 votes to end a filibuster on legislation or 51?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS News reporter Nancy Cordes repeated that Republicans want to \u201crestrict\u201d voting for young people and minorities and asked, \u201cIs there anything else you can do about it besides passing legislation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins didn\u2019t rip into Biden like Jim Acosta. She doubled down on crushing the filibuster. \u201cAt John Lewis\u2019 funeral, President Barack Obama said he believed the filibuster was a \u2018relic\u2019 of the Jim Crow era. Do you agree?\u201d she asked. Biden said yes. She added, \u201cWhy not abolish it if it\u2019s a relic of the Jim Crow era?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Was it racist when Obama or Biden filibustered? No one asked.<\/p>\n<p>How is it fair or factual to claim that Republican bills that would require voters to show voter ID at the polls or a signature verification for a mail-in ballot are relics of Jim Crow? CNN claims to be \u201cFacts First\u201d? This is a pants-on-fire lie.<\/p>\n<p>The other dominant issue was immigration. ABC News\u2019 Cecilia Vega channeled the story of a 9-year-old immigrant being sent to America by his mother. (There\u2019s no criticism of the mother.) She lectured Biden by noting that unaccompanied minors are sleeping on floors.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Rodriguez with Univision, which is both a TV network and an immigration advocacy group, demanded to know when all these shameless border crossers are going to get a smoother entry. \u201cWhen can we expect your promise of things getting better with contacting and expediency and processing?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>To her credit, NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker asked when Biden will allow the press inside the overcrowded facilities for unaccompanied minors, and she was denied a serious answer. There were serious questions about Afghanistan and China and North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>But overall, there were no questions allowed from outside the liberal-media bubble. Peter Doocy of Fox News was snubbed. It all felt carefully scripted, as Biden seemed to be reading some answers from a notebook. Most reporters pushed the president to be more partisan, more radical, to defeat allegedly racist, democracy-destroying, \u201crestrictive\u201d Republicans. It felt much more like a cozy Democratic strategy session than a press conference.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media\u2019s job is to hold presidents accountable.Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311240,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3922.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: The Pro-Biden Press Corps Is Deeply Embarrassing","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3922.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: The Pro-Biden Press Corps Is Deeply Embarrassing","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326050","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=326050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}