{"id":802622,"date":"2021-09-22T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=802622"},"modified":"2021-09-22T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T18:59:09","slug":"biden-will-not-answer-press-questions-and-its-shocking-world-leaders-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-will-not-answer-press-questions-and-its-shocking-world-leaders-and-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Will Not Answer Press Questions And It\u2019s Shocking World Leaders \u2014 And The Media"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fbiden-will-not-answer-press-questions-and-its-shocking-world-leaders-and-the-media%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=802622&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\/09\/joe-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With every new president, the wall between the most powerful man in the world and the people charged with covering him grows higher.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton was affable, known to stop by in the back of Air Force One to chat with reporters \u2014 sometimes even speaking only as a \u201csenior administration official\u201d so he could say more and get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>But George W. Bush got burned early on in his presidency by trying to chat up the AF1 journalists when one White House correspondent from a liberal news network reported every word W. said when he was off the record. He never dropped back again.<\/p>\n<p>Things got worse under Barack Obama, who called only on pre-approved reporters during press conferences in which he often ran out the clock, taking an hour to answer seven or eight questions. He also limited sit-down interviews to only the most sycophantic outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump knocked a few bricks out of the wall, often holding 90-minute pressers in which he\u2019d take 40-50 questions. But he, too, sought to limit his foes, at one point pulling the press pass of a CNN gadfly.<\/p>\n<p>But Joe Biden has not only built a wall, he\u2019s constructed an Iron Dome, complete with an army of aides who shut down reporters\u2019 questions and drive them out of the Oval Office, shouting all the time so the president can\u2019t hear a word.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, Biden has completely changed how things work. Every president in the modern era has held press conferences when important allies and foreign leaders come to the White House, but Biden has snubbed both the president of Israel and, just yesterday, the prime minister of Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Biden called reporters into the Oval Office before his meeting with Boris Johnson (another trick: No one can ask what they talked about since they haven\u2019t yet talked).<\/p>\n<p>At the end of short remarks from the two leaders, Biden made a move to shut it all down \u2014 but Johnson had other ideas. He\u2019d traveled across the ocean and was fully prepared to take some questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think \u2014 would it be OK if we just have a couple of questions? Just a \u2014 just a couple of questions for the \u2013\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck,\u201d Biden said glumly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think we\u2019re going to be ruthless. We\u2019re going to be ruthless. I\u2019m going to go to \u2014 I\u2019m going to go to Harry Cole from The Sun,\u201d the PM said.<\/p>\n<p>But Cole tried to ask Biden a question. \u201cMr. President \u2013\u201d he said before being cut off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, he \u2014 ask him the question. (Laughter.) No, I\u2019m jo-\u201d Biden said, apparently about to saying \u201cjoking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson jumped in. \u201cI\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole still tried to question Biden. \u201cMr. President, is Britain still at the back of the queue for a trade deal \u2014 a free trade deal, as your predecessor, President Obama, promised?<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, apparently under the belief Biden didn\u2019t want to play, said \u201cWell, it\u2019s actually (inaudible) a nice question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the next few minutes, Johnson took questions, with Biden chiming in only occasionally with a terse comment.<\/p>\n<p>CBS reporter Ed O\u2019Keefe complained after the bizarre interaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIN THE OVAL OFFICE\u2026 @POTUS Biden and British PM @BorisJohnson meet to discuss pandemic, trade and other issues. Johnson took 3 questions. White House aides shouted down U.S. attempts to ask questions. I asked Biden about southern border and we couldn\u2019t decipher what he said,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA chaotic scene in the Oval Office today as Boris Johnson unexpectedly took questions from British reporters, and White House aides shouted over American reporters as we tried to ask Biden questions,\u201d Wall Street Journal reporter Andrew Restuccia wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA) went so far as to file a formal complaint, a rare move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire editorial component of the U.S. pool went immediately into Jen Psaki\u2019s office to register a formal complaint that no American reporters were recognized for questions in the president\u2019s Oval Office, and that wranglers loudly shouted over the president as he seemed to give an answer to Ed O\u2019Keefe\u2019s question about the situation at the Southern Border,\u201d WHCA President Steven Portnoy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsaki was unaware that the incident had occurred, and suggested that she was not in a position to offer an immediate solution,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>But even a reporter from the highly liberal Washington Post was beyond miffed. \u201cWorth noting that Biden ran for office promising to restore democracy after 4 years of Trump. But today it was the British leader, NOT the American one, who spotlighted a key tenet of a flourishing democracy \u2014 respect for a free press \u2014 by taking questions from his press corps,\u201d Ashley Parker wrote on Twitter.<\/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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every new president, the wall between the most powerful man in the world and the people charged with covering him grows higher.Bill Clinton was affable, known to stop by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802622","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=802622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}