Curtis Houck began his malicious writeup of the July 30 White House press briefing by noting how many there have been under President Biden — though he didn’t mention that this number is more than twice the number held throughout the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency:
Depending on one’s outlook, it was either amusing, annoying, or frustrating to see Tuesday marked the 500th White House press briefing of the Biden regime and, true to form, Karine Jean-Pierre ducked hardballs about the left’s court-packing charade, the national debt, and even how often President Biden and Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris actually talk.
First, Jean-Pierre began by acknowledging this being the 500th time someone had taken to the podium that spawned so many “moments together and important exchanges” and thus they’re “proud of” and recognize “the importance of the role you all play” as “a pillar of our democracy”:
[…]Skipping ahead to Heinrich’s turn and she came out with a short, to-the-point question on the so-called Supreme Court “reform” package like you’d see from her colleague, Peter Doocy:
Heinrich had a natural follow-up: “But why would he not then read in top Democrats, including the Senate Judiciary chair, about this effort?”
Thanks to liberal narratives browbeating half the country into delegitimizing the court, Jean-Pierre claimed “the majority of Americans want to see this” and Biden’s claim to impose term limits and new picks every two years came thanks to “range of conservative legal experts and Republican elected officials”.
Heinrich wasn’t having it and fact-checked both this alleged support from a judicial commission and Biden’s own past comments:
Houck didn’t disclose that Heinrich is a right-wing reporter advancing Republican talking points against Supreme Court reform.
Houck spent much of his writeup of the July 31 briefing complaining about non-right-wing reporters:
Wednesday’s White House press briefing not only featured two special guests to help prop up the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre (Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and national security flack John Kirby), but there were a number of silly questions about climate change, Islamophobia, fawning over Kamala Harris, and live reaction to former President being ambushed at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference.
Reuters’s Andrea Shalal got in a question to Vilsack and questioned whether he’d be able to ensure the Biden administration’s far-left climate change policies would be cemented and irreversible if Trump wins in November:
[…]Meanwhile, USA Today’s Joey Garrison had this insanely loaded softball inviting Jean-Pierre to share what Biden thinks of Harris’s “strong initial enthusiasm the Democratic voters are showing” with improved polling, large crowds, and oodles of money:
[…]Showing coordination in the liberal media’s world, NBC’s Peter Alexander chose to not follow-up on a question from a reporter on the CBS seat about why Biden and Harris have ducked the NABJ Conference, but instead read Trump’s comments on Harris’s racial identity as a softball to hit out of the park.
Houck has never accused right-wing reporters of engaging in “coordination” with their hostile questions to Jean-Pierre. Surprisingly, he referred to only one right-wing reporters in his writeup:
Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich was also there and wondered where in the world is Joe Biden and, given his lack of public appearances, “[i]t lends itself to the appearance that he’s done governing.”
Jean-Pierre scoffed:
[…]Heinrich then brought up what’s happened in the Middle East and why has Harris and Biden’s Secretaries of Defense and State weighed in publicly, but not him.
Maybe Heinrich and her fellow ideologues didn’t coordinate enough for Houck’s satisfaction, and he decided to punish them by not promoting their attacks.