Curtis Houck spent his writeup of the May 16 White House press briefing complaining that there was discussion of football player Harrison Butker’s borderline-misogynistic commencement speech:
ABC reporter Karen Travers used her round of Q&A during Thursday’s White House press briefing to invite a willing accomplice in Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to join the liberal media mob against Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for his alleged crime of giving a pro-family, pro-life, pro-parenting commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.
“I want to ask you about the topic that’s getting a lot of attention,” Travers began, adding Butker’s “facing criticism for his recent commencement address where he told female graduates that the most important title a woman can hold is homemaker.”
Fact-check: Pants on fire. Butker did not, in fact, say that. Here’s a transcript of his full speech, but here’s a key line: “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”
Seems like a distinction without a difference, but Houck wasn’t done whining:
Travers’s softball wasn’t done: “He was critical about surrogacy, IVF, and Pride Month, and he also criticized the President for being a Catholic who supports abortion rights. Has the President seen those comments? Does he have a reaction to that?”
Jean-Pierre had the gall to initially bat it down by saying Biden’s “been pretty busy today, so I haven’t had a chance to — to focus on this particular issue” and she herself had only seen “some reports on it.”
Nonetheless, Jean-Pierre pivoted to implicitly torching Butker and argued Biden won’t “back away from supporting women and reproductive rights, reproductive health care” because “it is important to fight for all of our freedoms”.
She obviously had to throw in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and argued pro-lifers support putting women “in a position to not get the health care that they need” and “causing chaos”.
[…]Travers offered a follow-up to further attack Butker and implicitly accuse him of being a partisan tool: “As the President gets ready to give his own commencement address, does he think a message like that is appropriate at a commencement address?”
A May 17 post by Houck was a lazy summary of “the smartest and dumbest questions” over a week of briefings. Unsurprisingly, Houck thinks most of the “smartest” questions came from biased right-wing reporters like Philip Wegmann, Edward Lawrence of Fox Business and — of course — his mancrush, Peter Doocy.