White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds fewer press briefings, so Curtis Houck has fewer opportunities to drool over her. He gavve her a chance to rant in an Oct. 3 post:
In a rare second White House press briefing of the week, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt largely avoided the disingenuous nonsense the liberal media have spewed this week about the federal government shutdown and declarations that Republicans are to blame and falsely claiming Democrats support free health care for illegal immigrants. But towards the end of the briefing, she ran into such partisan hijinks from CBS and the U.K.’s Independent.
CBS News Radio’s Linda Kenyon first raised this issue in the briefing’s waning moments, huffing there’s “a disconnect in the [GOP’s] messaging” with regard to the facts because “U.S. already prohibits” “giving health care to illegal immigrants.”
Leavitt was not having an ounce of this partisan spin and offered an extensive explanation about how Medicaid picks up the emergency room tabs for those unable to pay…which would include illegal immigrants and wreaked havoc on major cities[.] […]
A few minutes later, The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg had the briefing’s final question and wondered what the administration believes hospitals should do with illegal immigrants who arrive at their doorstep (i.e. turn them away, leaving them to fate):
Houck made sure to fluff his favorite biased right-wing reporter: “Fox’s Peter Doocy came with an important question about Project 2025 and the dance the Trump team in the campaign versus now in the White House.” That was joined b y anoher fluff job: “Another genuine, non-softball question from conservative media came when our buddy Mike Carter of Newsmax asked about the legality in the President “declar[ing] war against international drug cartels.”
That was the only briefing Houck wrote up during the month of October, which means that he ignored things he couldn’t put a positive spin on, as detailed by Mediaite:
- Kaitlan Collins Pushes Leavitt on Shutdown Layoffs: Isn’t That the ‘President’s Call?’
- Karoline Leavitt Asked If Trump Is Willing to Rule Out a Pardon For Ghislaine Maxwell
- ‘This Is the People’s House!’ ABC’s Mary Bruce Spars With Karoline Leavitt Over East Wing Demolition for Trump Ballroom
- CBS Reporter Grills Karoline Leavitt on East Wing Demolition in Fiery Battle: Can Trump ‘Tear Down Anything He Wants?’
As we’ve detailed, Houck only likes Leavitt when she’s on offense. Houck was also silent on Leavitt’s war on HuffPost reporter S.V. Date, which included expletive-laden texts from Leavitt and culminating with a lame “your mom” insult from her. Houck was also silent on Prewsident Trump once again disturbingly praising “that face” and “those lips” of Leavitt.
The next post Houck devoted to Leavitt was more than a month later, on Nov. 13, when he gave her spade to rant about the BBC:
Before the flurry of questions from liberal journalists Wednesday willing an Epstein-Trump link into existence (and so Trump could be impeached a third time), White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a question from the “new media seat” recipient in Beverly Turner from the great people at GBNews. The topic? The BBC’s deceptive and disgraceful edit of President Trump in a Panorama documentary about January 6.
Turner — who hosts GB News’s The Late Show Live at 7:00 p.m. Eastern (but midnight back in the United Kingdom) — began by acknowledging “the clock is ticking on the Friday deadline by which the BBC must retract and apologize for their malicious edits of the President in a documentary shown last year.”
She also brought up the comical declarations from the now-canned head of the BBC who “described the organization as the very best of society and blamed the enemies of the BBC for this outcome” and a Labour Party Member of Parliament insisting the network is “a light on the hill for people all over the world.”
[…]Leavitt started by making clear President Trump and Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer have “a very good relationship,” but this was an issue of disagreement as Trump (and anyone outside a leftist bubble) would acknowledge “this is a leftist propaganda machine that is unfortunately subsidized by British taxpayers, and he thinks that’s extremely unfortunate for the great people of the United Kingdom in Great Britain.”
“I think that the President was deeply concerned by the editing — the purposeful and dishonest editing of his speech that was so clearly fake news and he rightfully dubbed that term many years ago. And this is a classic example of that,” she added.
Houck went on to praise a fellow ideologue: “Our friend Reagan Reese of the Daily Caller provided a welcome contrast, asking about something that actually affects the entire country.” Apparently, nobody else was asking about anything that affected the entire country.