Curtis Houck spent his writeup of the Oct. 10 White House press briefing spewing hate and insults at anyone who failed to be a servile Trump-fluffer like him:
Thursday’s White House press briefing appropriately had a central focus of late Wednesday’s landfall of Hurricane Milton on Florida’s Gulf Coast and tornadoes across the state, but the partisan shills chose to ask a slew of questions emphasizing about this vague “misinformation” campaign they claim has had catastrophic consequences in the south as somehow on part with apocalyptic physical devastation and incalculable loss of life and fortune.
CNN’s Kayla Tausche first went there with this question to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who obviously went along with angry but also vague claims:
There was nothing “vague” about that hurricane misinformation — it was all too clear, and Houck’s MRC colleagues helped Donald Trump and others spread those lies. Houck then lashed out at ABC’s Mary Bruce for pointing out that FEMA personnel have faced threats of violence over the misinformation, bizarrely attacking her as “Disney’s resident North Korean news lady for the Biden-Harris regime”:
Ah, yes, Mary. Definitely put FEMA workers at the center of one’s pity, not those who lost everything in Helene and/or Milton.
She dug deeper her pit of selfishness, clearly alluding to Russia: “Do you have any information to suggest that any foreign governments have tried to take advantage and amplify this misinformation about the response and recovery effort?”
Is Houck claiming that FEMA workers deserved to be bullied and intimidated for trying to do their job based on right-wing misinformation? Seems so — which makes us wonder what psychological issues he’s having these days.
Houck’s focus of ire turned to Mayorkas, whom he deemed “evasive, prickly, and seemingly unpleasant,” going on to praise one of his biased Fox News coterie, Jacqui Heinrich, for asking a loaded question about a different subject even though Mayorkas was there to talk specifically about hurricane relief efforts, prompting Houck to screech:
Mayorkas unsurprisingly declared he was “here in North Carolina” talking to those who’ve lost family members and their homes, so he would only address it “in a different setting.”
He was such a miffed prick he threw in a condescending, “thank you.”
To Heinrich’s credit, she wasn’t having it and not intimidated by Mayorkas’s rudeness[.]
Houck’s headline stated “Despicable Tools,” but he may as well been talking about himself and Heinrich.
From there, Houck moved to spreading gossip about press secretary Karine Jean-PIerre in an Oct. 15 post:
Axios’s Alex Thompson – one of the few establishment media journalists who’s been doing real journalism on the Biden-Harris administration – uncorked a doozy late Monday revealing further tension in the regime’s ranks as sources told him “Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been blocking national security spokesperson John Kirby from joining her at the podium at White House press briefings.”
Noting the two have long feuded (which he’s covered before), Thompson noted “Kirby has been mostly absent” from briefings even as Middle East tensions have continued to rachet up and his entire job is, in essence, to serve as the regime spokesman on foreign policy matters.
Thompson even brought the statistics to back this up and cited “the departure this summer of Anita Dunn, the White House’s top communications aide” as the point of divergence. Of the briefings since she left July 30, Kirby has only been there 15 percent of the time versus 55 percent in the 2024 briefings prior.
The White House unsurprisingly trotted out regime keyboard warrior Andrew Bates to claim there’s no there and had another source (perhaps Bates too, but again…anonymous!) that Kirby fading from view was planned “closer to the election,” but Thompson’s case was damning.
Again, Houck is projecting here — it’s clear he’s the real keyboard warrior who doesn’t have the guts to confront Jean-Pierre in person.
For the Oct. 21 briefing, Houck complained that legitimate questions were raised about Elon Musk’s shady cash giveaway to voters:
Monday’s White House press briefing was a light affair given the world’s focus on the upcoming election, but there were still some notable exchanges, led by ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang beating the liberal media’s drum that Telsa founder and X owner Elon Musk should face the wrath of the Biden-Harris Justice Department for his $1 million giveaways to registered voters in swing states who sign a petition with his group America PAC.
“Elon Musk is pledging to give away $1 million every day up until the election to voters in battleground states. Some experts are saying this is clearly illegal vote buying. Does the White House believe what he’s doing is illegal,” Wang huffed, to which Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment.
Wang really, really wanted Musk to pay for his political activity, though: “Can you talk about how the President’s reacting to this in terms of does he believe it’s appropriate? Does he agree with what Governor Shapiro is saying about how this needs to be investigated?”
To her credit, Jean-Pierre didn’t change her answer, saying that’s not something for her “to speak to” and she “would have to leave to” the Federal Elections Commission.
Wang tried not once but twice more, implying something should happen to Musk’s company SpaceX given its government contracts[.]
Houck didn’t explain why Musk’s actions should not be held to scrutiny. Then again, all Trump supporters are expected to excuse any crime committed by Trump and his allies.
Jean-PIerre held one more press briefing for the month, on Oct. 30, but Houck couldn’t be bothered to write about it. Couldn’t think of enough insults to lob, apparently.