{"id":383156,"date":"2021-04-03T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=383156"},"modified":"2021-04-03T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:12:45","slug":"psaki-insults-reporter-for-asking-if-biden-will-pull-out-of-beijing-olympics-after-his-mlb-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-insults-reporter-for-asking-if-biden-will-pull-out-of-beijing-olympics-after-his-mlb-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Insults Reporter For Asking If Biden Will Pull Out Of Beijing Olympics After His MLB Remarks"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fpsaki-insults-reporter-for-asking-if-biden-will-pull-out-of-beijing-olympics-after-his-mlb-remarks%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=383156&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\/04\/fb_image-453.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki snapped at a reporter on Friday after the reporter asked her whether President Joe Biden would make a decision about if the U.S. will participate in the Olympics given that the president had just weighed in on political issues in Georgia and said that he would \u201cstrongly support\u201d Major League Baseball essentially boycotting holding the All Star Game and Draft in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President had voiced his support for MLB making a decision about the All-Star Game in Georgia,\u201d the reporter said. \u201cI\u2019m wondering, when can we expect a final determination from the President about the United States participating in the Beijing Olympics, given that he said the Chinese President doesn\u2019t have a democratic bone in his body?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think the U.S. Olympic Committee would play a big role in\u2014\u201d Psaki deflected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut he\u2019s weighed in on Major League Baseball here in United States,\u201d the reporter responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe actually didn\u2019t,\u201d Psaki claimed. \u201cI think, I don\u2019t know if you heard the, the answer, the question and the answer that happened a few minutes ago where we addressed this, and I answered the question. And I gave you a little more context, but maybe you weren\u2019t paying attention to that part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden weighed in on Major League Baseball, responding to a question from ESPN this week on whether he would support the league moving the All Star Game and Draft out of the state of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think today\u2019s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/01\/politics\/biden-mlb-all-star-game-georgia\/index.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cI would strongly support them doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.511428571429\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealClearNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealClearNews<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipWegmann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhilipWegmann<\/a> asks Jen Psaki if the Biden White House is so adamant about having MLB move its All-Star Game from Georgia because of the voting law, why aren&#8217;t they calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing?!<\/p>\n<p>Psaki did NOT like this question. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1GbTxRsmhC\">pic.twitter.com\/1GbTxRsmhC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1378034157545213953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki\u2019s response drew condemnation from critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an absolutely fair question, and Psaki dodging the question by attacking [the reporter] is the exact kind of nonsense that people went after Trump\u2019s press secretaries for,\u201d one commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NumbersMuncher\/status\/1378064837318705153\">wrote<\/a> online. \u201cBiden willingly went down this rabbit hole with MLB, so the Olympics being in China is a fair question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJen Psaki\u2019s refusal to answer tells us all we need to know about this White House\u2019s priorities,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelseybolar\/status\/1378054013552328710\">commented<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: Thank you. I\u2019ll follow up. And then, you know, the President had voiced his support for MLB making a decision about the All-Star Game in Georgia. I\u2019m wondering, when can we expect a final determination from the President about the United States participating in the Beijing Olympics, given that he said the Chinese President doesn\u2019t have a democratic bone in his body?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Well, I think the U.S. Olympic Committee would play a big role in \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: But he\u2019s weighed in on Major League Baseball here in United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: He actually didn\u2019t \u2014 I think \u2014 I don\u2019t know if you heard the&nbsp;\u2014 the answer \u2014 the question and the answer that happened a few minutes ago where we addressed this, and I answered the question. So \u2014 and I gave you a little more context, but maybe you weren\u2019t paying attention to that part.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki snapped at a reporter on Friday after the reporter asked her whether President Joe Biden would make a decision about if the U.S. will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311609,"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\/04\/fb_image-453.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Insults Reporter For Asking If Biden Will Pull Out Of Beijing Olympics After His MLB Remarks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-453.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Insults Reporter For Asking If Biden Will Pull Out Of Beijing Olympics After His MLB Remarks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383156","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=383156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}