{"id":358315,"date":"2021-03-31T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=358315"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:31:01","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-bidens-bizarre-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/behind-the-scenes-at-bidens-bizarre-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Scenes At Biden\u2019s Bizarre Press Conference"},"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%2Fbehind-the-scenes-at-bidens-bizarre-press-conference%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=358315&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-4719.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After 64 days without a press conference \u2014 the longest span of any new president in a century \u2014 President Joe Biden last week finally held a presser and it was, uh \u2026 just plain weird.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, 78, lost his train of thought a few times, rambled off topic, answered questions that weren\u2019t asked, randomly yelled angrily and repeatedly referred to cheat sheets to answer questions from reporters. At one point, Biden just weirdly wandered away from the podium and started talking before he was back at his microphone.<\/p>\n<p>But there was something far more bizarre going on behind the scenes. While the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> briefing room holds 49 reporters in assigned seats \u2014 and presidents often hold press conferences in the Rose Garden, allowing for dozen more reporters to attend \u2014 there were just 30 reporters allowed in the East Room for Biden\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>It all gets weirder. Here are the journalists who attended and their news outlets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cecilia Vega (ABC)<\/li>\n<li>Karen Travers (ABC News Radio)<\/li>\n<li>Jerome Cartillier (Agence France-Presse)<\/li>\n<li>Zeke Miller (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<li>Justin Sink (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<li>Nancy Cordes (CBS)<\/li>\n<li>Steven Portnoy (CBS News Radio)<\/li>\n<li>Kaitlan Collins (CNN)<\/li>\n<li>Peter Doocy (Fox)<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Robillard (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<li>Gary Martin (Las Vegas Review-Journal)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Wilner (McClatchy)<\/li>\n<li>Kristen Welker (NBC)<\/li>\n<li>Zolan Kanno-Youngs (New York Times)<\/li>\n<li>Emerald Robinson (Newsmax)<\/li>\n<li>Ayesha Rascoe (NPR)<\/li>\n<li>Yamiche Alcindor (PBS)<\/li>\n<li>Anita Kumar (Politico)<\/li>\n<li>Marek Walkuski (Polskie Radio)<\/li>\n<li>Philip Wegmann (RealClearPolitics)<\/li>\n<li>Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters)<\/li>\n<li>Ching-Yi Chang (Shanghai Media Group)<\/li>\n<li>Scott Thuman (Sinclair)<\/li>\n<li>April Ryan (The Grio)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Bennett (Time)<\/li>\n<li>Janet Rodr\u00edguez (Univision)<\/li>\n<li>Courtney Subramanian (USA Today)<\/li>\n<li>Ken Thomas (Wall Street Journal)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Johnson (Washington Blade)<\/li>\n<li>Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I covered the White House for a dozen years and I can tell you that aside from Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and Newsmax, every other outlet ranges from liberal to hard left (although I\u2019ll admit I\u2019ve got no idea about Polskie Radio).<\/p>\n<p>Before the presser, the&nbsp;White House&nbsp;Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA) informed journalists who cover the beat how it decided who would attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent with its longstanding mission and in service to the public, the WHCA Board has worked to ensure that the journalists in the room will be representative of the broader press corps. Working from the Briefing Room rotations we\u2019ve established for the pandemic, and the WHCA\u2019s permanent seating chart, we have aimed to include a variety of outlets \u2014 large and small, national and regional, domestic and foreign \u2014 across all formats, with the aim to ensure that the journalists in the room reflect the diversity of our press corps and the nation,\u201d the WHCA wrote to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll also note that the \u201cvariety of outlets\u201d the WHCA was seeking did not include \u201cliberal and conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How one-sided was the presser conference? Consider this question from Ms. Alcindor of PBS, who badgered former President Donald Trump and his press aides for four years, almost always with biased, loaded questions. For Biden, she puckered her lips and smooched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYamiche?\u201d Biden said after consulting a cheat sheet of pre-planned reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks so much, Mr. President. You\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 \u2014 as a moral, decent man \u2014 is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and entrusting you with unaccompanied minors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Loaded much? The scene was reminiscent of one from the movie \u201cBroadcast News,\u201d in which a low-level TV news staffer sucks up to her big boss, drawing scorn from reporter Aaron Altman, played by Albert Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, you think anyone who\u2019s proud of the work we do is an ass-kisser,\u201d says the staffer. \u201cNo, I think anyone who puckers up their lips and presses it against their boss\u2019s buttocks and then smooches is an ass-kisser,\u201d Altman says.<\/p>\n<p>Cordes of CBS followed with an equally biased \u2014 and smoochy \u2014 question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to go back to voting rights. And as Yamiche mentioned, Republican legislatures across the country are working to pass bills that would restrict voting, particularly, Democrats fear, impacting minority voters and young voters \u2014 the very people who helped to get you elected in November. Are you worried that if you don\u2019t manage to pass voting rights legislation that your party is going to lose seats and possibly lose control of the House and the Senate in 2022?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not softball, that\u2019s tee ball.<\/p>\n<p>Say what you want about Trump, but he accomplished one major achievement while in office: He unmasked the pseudo-unbiased press corps for what they are \u2014 hardcore liberals bent on getting a Democrat into the White House&nbsp;and, now, keeping him there, getting his back.<\/p>\n<p>And now, there\u2019s no going back. That may well be Trump\u2019s most lasting legacy.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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