Biden Learned His Approach to the Presstitutes From Obama
Biden feels more comfortable talking to late-night clowns than even favorable Pressititues
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Republicans tried to exploit a vulnerability in Joe Biden’s campaign by presenting him as basement-bound candidate who relied on scripts in order to deliver a coherent message.
President Biden has since made several notable “gaffes” when given the chance to speak “off-the-cuff,” most notably when he said, twice, that the U.S. would defend Taiwan if China invaded.
Biden’s appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” drew more attention to his avoidance of the media.
Biden used his appearance on the clown show to knock the press.
“Look how the press has changed,” Biden told Kimmel. “With notable exceptions, even the really good reporters, they have to get a number of clicks on nightly news. So instead of asking a question, anyway, it’s just everything gets sensationalized.”
Biden’s media avoidance has drawn the attention from top reporters in Washington.
Peter Baker, The New York Times’ chief White House correspondent, told Politico, “Reporters whining about not getting interviews is one of the least attractive elements of White House press corps. But the president talks about defending democracy and that’s part of democracy too – answering questions from people not on your side.”
Politico: He hasn’t done a sit-down interview with The New York Times’ or Washington Post’s non-opinion sections since taking office, a departure from his former boss BARACK OBAMA, who regularly gave one-on-ones to the Times during his first year. Biden has similarly shut out major wire services like The Associated Press and Reuters. Though he’s given a handful of interviews to the major networks, he still hasn’t conducted a one-on-one with CNN (though he’s done several town hall appearances).1
Sometimes even a teleprompter doesn’t seem to help.
Kyle Smith wrote in The New York Post in March: Even when Biden is reading off a prompter, he says things like “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he’ll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people,” at the State of the Union speech. (The White House tweeted a falsified version of this, substituting “Ukrainian” for “Iranian.”)
A poll by Pew Research released in April found that 32 percent of stories about the Biden administration had a negative assessment, while 23 percent had a positive one and 45 percent were neither positive nor negative.
The poll found, as expected, the coverage depended on the outlet.
“Fully 78 percent of the stories from outlets with predominantly right-leaning audiences carried a negative assessment. That stands in stark contrast to the 19 percent of stories with a negative assessment from outlets with left-leaning audiences and about a quarter of stories (24 percent) from outlets with a mixed audience,” the poll found.
TRENDPOST: In 2015, James Risen, the former New York Times reporter who is now The Intercept’s senior national security correspondent, called the Obama administration the “greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.”
“[Former Attorney General] Eric Holder has been the nation's top censorship officer, not the top law enforcement officer,” Risen tweeted at the time. “Eric Holder has done the bidding of the intelligence community and the White House to damage press freedom in the United States.”
Risen wrote about a CIA plan to undermine Iran’s nuclear program and cited an unnamed source in his 2006 book, Politico reported. He vowed to never give up the name of his source. The Justice Department later dropped the demand after CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was found guilty for the leak.
"I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting to undo damage done to press freedom in the United States by Barack Obama and Eric Holder," Risen tweeted, according to Politico. "My son is a reporter. I don't want him to have to live in a country where there is less press freedom than when I started as a journalist."
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