{"id":544793,"date":"2021-05-28T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544793"},"modified":"2021-05-28T18:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:36:01","slug":"the-3-biggest-softballs-the-media-asked-the-biden-administration-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-3-biggest-softballs-the-media-asked-the-biden-administration-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Biggest Softballs The Media Asked The Biden Administration This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fthe-3-biggest-softballs-the-media-asked-the-biden-administration-this-week%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=544793&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\/05\/GettyImages-1233140573-1-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the aftermath of a mass shooting, swirling questions about the origins of the coronavirus, and a disconcerting rise in anti-Semitic attacks on the streets, the media refuse to give President Joe Biden even a moment away from their prying inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>As the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-reporters-fawn-over-bidens-choice-of-ice-cream-again-as-he-slams-opposition-to-jan-6-commission?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">emerged<\/a> from Cleveland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gohoneyhut.com\/\">Honey Hut Ice Cream<\/a> on Thursday, a reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hale_razor\/status\/1398014774005231618\">called out<\/a> the question burning through the nation\u2019s collective consciousness: \u201cMr. President, what did you order?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChocolate chocolate-chip,\u201d Biden replied, holding his waffle cone aloft like a scepter of old.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.8888888888889\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gas prices are at a 7-year high, Jews are being beaten by Biden voters, murders are up 800% in Portland, and MSM is focused on POTUS\u2019 ice cream flavor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3dDkXHnWnu\">pic.twitter.com\/3dDkXHnWnu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Razor (@hale_razor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hale_razor\/status\/1398014774005231618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reporters responded with enthusiastic chants of, \u201cOooh! Aaaah!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When another reporter attempted to inject real issues into the stop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-the-media-use-and-abuse-interviews-to-push-their-narrative\">inviting Biden to respond<\/a> to \u201cRepublicans who are prepared to block the Jan. 6 commission,\u201d the president responded, \u201cEat some chocolate chocolate-chip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporters got in spirit, as CBS News White House reporter Kathryn Watson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathrynw5\/status\/1397997297317781504\">tweeted<\/a> the 16 flavors available at the custard stand, adding, \u201cI\u2019m craving a couple scoops of sea salt caramel.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.989247311828\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So much journalisming <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yxI15iKrax\">https:\/\/t.co\/yxI15iKrax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1398001184934436866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2019s sweets-stand message discipline drew adoring smiles and doting coverage on MSNBC, rather than questions about his grasp of the underlying issues, intellectual flexibility, or mental presence in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Ali Velshi ran a three-minute-long segment on the fact that \u201cJoe Biden really, really loves ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.993288590604\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TodayInJournalism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TodayInJournalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a 3-minute MSNBC segment on Joe Biden eating ice cream <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bk5PK8CBo\">pic.twitter.com\/4bk5PK8CBo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1398255236624666626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Velshi\u2019s puff piece came five years after CNN ran a segment titled \u201cJoe Biden really, really likes ice cream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joe Biden really, really likes ice cream\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_A4jS8gUtjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s ice cream feeding frenzy was only one of several media softballs the White House press pool served up to the president or his officers this week.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The president likes Gatorade and cookies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>On Monday, The Washington Post ran an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-daily-routine-gatorade\/2021\/05\/23\/b6f608c2-b40e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html\">investigative piece<\/a> seeking to blow the lid off the president\u2019s daily schedule titled \u201cWeightlifting, Gatorade, birthday calls: Inside Biden\u2019s day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author wrote that she probed seven White House insiders, \u201cmost speaking on the condition of anonymity,\u201d before she revealed treasured secrets like the fact that Biden regularly indulges in his \u201cfavorite treats, from orange Gatorade to chocolate chip cookies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The food obsession continued, as Ashley Parker \u2014 a regular MSNBC contributor \u2014 wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>Biden\u2019s preferred lunch is a soup and a salad \u2014 usually a chopped salad with grilled chicken \u2014 and he is partial to orange Gatorade and Coke Zero. Offsetting the low-calorie diet, he has a well-known penchant for sweets, including chocolate chip ice cream.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden also carries around a bag with peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, stocks an office with saltwater taffy, and lets visitors snag chocolate chip cookies \u201cenclosed in a wrapper with a gold White House seal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The piece was so feckless that the reliably leftist \u201ccomedian\u201d Stephen Colbert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vMWScGHfo0M&amp;t=414s\">ridiculed<\/a> the \u201cexplosive, behind-the-curtains look\u201d at the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, what has the \u2018Democracy Dies in Darkness\u2019 paper dug up on Joseph R. Biden?\u201d he asked. \u201cThe biggest story of the year: This president likes salad, in what many are calling Watercress-gate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No. 45 Sweats As Cable News Speculates About Criminal Charges And A Flipping CFO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vMWScGHfo0M?start=414&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Does he have a Peloton bike?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Also on May 24, a reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1396910177429999617\">asked<\/a> White House spokesperson Jen Psaki:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>What more can you tell us about the president\u2019s health regime [sic]? We hear he\u2019s lifting weights. What sort of weights is he lifting? Does he have a personal trainer? And what happened to his Peloton bike \u2014 did he bring it to the White House?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki, who often has her questions screened in advance, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/02\/white-house-press-office-screened-questions-to-jen-psaki\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cI didn\u2019t know where this was going.\u201d She added merely, \u201cI can tell you, having traveled with him a fair amount, sometimes he\u2019s hard to keep up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stopped just short of claiming that Biden regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/china-media-project\/the-jury-is-out-mao-zedong-swam-faster-than-todays-olympic-champions-d01a38bee2f3\">swims several miles<\/a> in the Yangtze River, at a record-breaking pace (which is probably better, given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/flashback-joe-biden-accused-of-swimming-naked-in-front-of-female-secret-service-agents-media-dismissed-the-claim\">Biden\u2019s swimming habits<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What discerning viewers should know<\/strong>: Each of these tiny moments of journalistic malpractice share the same subtext: They are nothing more than image management for the Biden-Harris administration. Questions about Joe Biden\u2019s sweet tooth make the president seem personally adorable, while questions about his physical fitness make him seem robust. Neither deal with the president\u2019s mental faculties, the substance of his budget-busting proposals, or the disastrous outcome of his policies in the U.S. or around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to the Trump administration, where each question attempted to present Donald Trump as a Diet Coke-swilling, morbidly obese, racist imbecile reviled by people in his own administration.<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s treatment of President Biden give new meaning to the term \u201csoft-serve.\u201d The people who are not well-served by the media\u2019s uncompensated PR campaign are American viewers, subscribers, and voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of a mass shooting, swirling questions about the origins of the coronavirus, and a disconcerting rise in anti-Semitic attacks on the streets, the media refuse to give &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313458,"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\/05\/GettyImages-1233140573-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The 3 Biggest Softballs The Media Asked The Biden Administration This Week","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1233140573-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The 3 Biggest Softballs The Media Asked The Biden Administration This Week","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544793","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=544793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}