Between a dearth of White House press briefings and overall laziness, the Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck turned in only one Karine Jean-Pierre-bashing briefing writeup during the entire month of June, a summary post on June 19. He started off by whining that Jean-Pierre called out misleading videos that make President Biden look senile:
With it being summer and the first presidential debate only eight days away, President Biden has been and will soon go into hibernation with trips to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and Camp David in Maryland, leaving only Monday and Tuesday for White House press briefings.
However, the press corps made it count with hardballs and softballs on what the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre called “cheap fakes” videos and some whacks from the left on Biden’s new executive order for illegal immigrants.
The Associated Press had Will Weissert play Biden tool on Monday with this question about the latest string of videos showing a decline in Biden’s mental faculties: “[T]here seems to be a sort of rash of videos that have been edited to make the President appear especially frail or mentally confused. I’m wondering if the — the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we’re seeing more — more often?”
Sure enough, this set the table for Jean-Pierre to uncork this new term of “cheap fakes”[.]
Houck made sure to show love to biased right-wing reporters in the room: “Fox Business’s Edward Lawrence grilled Jean-Pierre on the struggling Biden economy while Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann sought confirmation on whether the President would pardon son Hunter.” He also whined about Jean-Pierre defending a Biden executive order protecting some undocumented immigrants: “Anita Powell of taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) lamented this expansion of legal status for illegal immigrants married to Americans would be difficult to bring to fruition because, well, paperwork is xenophobic or something,” adding:
Jean-Pierre gave up by saying in part that this discussion was why “the way to actually deal with this is to have a comprehensive immigration legislation — is for Congress to do their jobs and to move forward.”
Wang’s ABC colleague Karen Travers had her own softball: “[H]as the President met with any families that would be impacted that could benefit from what he’s going to announce today. Has he been moved personally by any stories that then led him to take action?”
Paperwork is not xenophobic, of course, though Houck certainly seems to be.