{"id":6098,"date":"2020-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:20:58","slug":"media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Say Biden&#8217;s Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now"},"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\">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%2Fmedia-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now%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=6098&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>Former Vice President Joe Biden will make history by having a female-led communications team in the White House, the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-hires-all-female-senior-communications-team\/2020\/11\/29\/5b60b58e-3277-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social\">reported<\/a> on Sunday. The only problem with the claim is that President Trump\u2019s communications team is led across the board by women right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer Psaki, a veteran Democratic spokeswoman, will be Biden\u2019s White House press secretary, one of seven women who will fill the upper ranks of his administration\u2019s communications staff. It is the first time all of the top aides tasked with speaking on behalf of an administration and shaping its message will be female,\u201d the Post\u2019s Annie Linskey and Jeff Stein falsely claimed.<\/p>\n<p>NPR\u2019s Benjamin Swasey and Franco Ordo\u00f1ez also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/biden-transition-updates\/2020\/11\/29\/939904431\/biden-names-all-female-white-house-communications-team-will-tap-tanden-for-omb?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">regurgitated the spin from the Biden team<\/a>, writing that it would be \u201cthe first time in history\u201d such roles were filled by women.<\/p>\n<p>White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews, a woman, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahAMatthews1\/status\/1333185237703077888\">noted<\/a> that the Trump administration\u2019s communications team is entirely female-led right now:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234328\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-9.59.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"551\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234328' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-9.59.44-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='551'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to believe that Washington Post and NPR reporters on the White House beat are unaware of the fact that women lead the Trump communications team.<\/p>\n<p>Kayleigh McEnany is the current press secretary for President Trump, the third woman in a row to hold that role for the current president. She is also the third mother in a row to hold that role.<\/p>\n<p>Communications Director Alyssa Farah is a woman who has served in communications roles with the Trump administration for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president\u2019s communications director is Katie Miller. She is a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The first lady\u2019s spokesperson is Stephanie Grisham. She is a woman who previously served as President Trump\u2019s press secretary. And Karen Pence\u2019s director of communications is Kara Brooks, also a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with passing familiarity with the Trump administration\u2019s communications team knows that, in the Post\u2019s phrasing, all of the top aides tasked with speaking on behalf of an administration and shaping its message are female.\u00a0As Ben Williamson, a deputy advisor to the president, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_WilliamsonBen\/status\/1333233156493893634\">joked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234330\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.18.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234330' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.18.05-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='535'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Rather than admit that these stories were wrong and that Trump was the first president to have all-female leadership of his communications team, reporters pointed to lower-level men in the White House communications team to deflect. Here\u2019s Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, for instance, responding to McEnany\u2019s tweet on the matter:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234335\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-30-at-12.24.11-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234335' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-30-at-12.24.11-AM.png' alt='' width='500' height='357'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Haberman could have emailed or called Deere and asked him. Or she could have perused his Twitter account, where he\u2019d already tweeted the following:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234336\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-30-at-12.24.54-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234336' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-30-at-12.24.54-AM.png' alt='' width='500' height='368'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The Trump White House would be known for its high placement of females in key roles if the media were even remotely honest about the facts. Throughout his administration, women have been many of President Trump\u2019s top advisors and communications leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Under President Trump, as was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/10\/historic-first-under-trump-half-of-national-security-council-leaders-are-women\">reported by The Federalist in June<\/a>, \u201cFor the first time in history, half of the senior leaders of the National Security Council are women. Twelve of the 24 directorates are led by women now, including three of the six regional directorates that cover the world.\u201d They include Dr. Deborah Birx, Allison Hooker, Elizabeth Erin Walsh, Sue Bai, and Julia Nesheiwat, all women.<\/p>\n<p>As Rebeccah Heinrichs, a Hudson Institute senior fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RLHeinrichs\/status\/1333214638994051076\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234329\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.16.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234329' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.16.36-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='253'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The trumpeting of false claims that are beneficial to Biden and other Democrats while ignoring the achievements of Trump and Republicans is typical for many media corporations. Many reporters alternate between cartoonish hostility to Trump and sycophantic obeisance toward Biden. A few examples from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yamiche\/status\/1333175615105675264\">Yamiche Alcindor<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/30\/media-reaction-to-yamiche-alcindor-dustup-with-trump-shows-why-their-approval-ratings-are-low\">particularly beclowned herself<\/a> during the Trump era, and others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234331\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.34.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234331' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.34.29-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='177'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234333\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.50.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234333' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.50.15-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='271'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234332\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.37.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234332' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.37.31-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='195'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s lovely that political media are so encouraging and supportive of Biden operatives, the contrast with their posture toward Trump officials is difficult to ignore. And it\u2019s not that there isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWolking\/status\/1333241066984759296\">embarrassing material<\/a> to highlight for the new Biden team:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-234334\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.51.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter wp-image-234334' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-10.51.06-PM.png' alt='' width='500' height='461'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Psaki was previously a contributor to CNN and might be best remembered for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/brettt-3136\/2016\/05\/09\/gone-in-a-flash-james-rosen-reports-his-iran-deal-question-was-excised-from-archives-video\/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=f38f090d670a9a4ec6e2d1078451d6eb60b28175-1606707980-0-AcYo4Jg_49KrG0auGTCNLuO4CJw-pIzD9BzmLc1ZEm_s6HODBb99nIWvnqdwtdIuAz48oldocq2TOF47LvUW5HWgwfu96WzoH2kiZSk2x6hTc-ZO6StGsO7c2MYQQGjhaACklG5-LSLCFoBxDVqt-CD4_iHlwimwmT1m5qeUt83RXKDdfz66tpBMp-oMHCloO3BJOUZkVIiGNtXw6bx54a_ocjn_pZYFNmm6SZ37c12edJcnntChXcswBJOlH1eqsudG3w6ht6e244CepWvpUkreIvlvjP-qlkrgGny8nbVHMSKMK2YQKizELNyeLOyYm49o4aD08irfyBl43sdak_Iswm8KdVvc4AWfiMTsBiQIEHtH7xmBk7LjV-Ry8eIH_wraIy-HqFsD9Wlw71WyC-prIEqg6hgntK1Hofc3NOEmAYXE-ZQ5ZeIPXHDzj9xfg4PF4JDyCgSfSa7UzUXwhdM\">her role in a scandal<\/a> involving the Obama-Biden administration\u2019s deletion of embarrassing footage from a State Department video press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Joe Biden will make history by having a female-led communications team in the White House, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. 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