The Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck had a meltdown over a White House spokesperson that wasn’t Karine Jean-Pierre in his post on the March 18 briefing, in which he manufactured outrage over the dishonesty of biased Fox News reporter Peter Doocy getting called out:
With the lone possible exception of Friday, Monday marked perhaps the week’s lone White House press briefing and Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan certainly made waves for his decidedly anti-Israel pivot to help his boss President Biden stave off further hemorrhaging of pro-Hamas Arab voters (such as arguing Jews meddle in U.S. elections) and telling Peter Doocy his question was akin to the phrase “when did you stop beating your wife”.
The question that drew Sullivan’s pompous bit concerned an NBCNews.com story about how Biden has reportedly felt increasingly angry about the state of his reelection fight. Doocy relayed one passage revealed that “when President Biden was told his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas was starting to affect his poll numbers, the quote is, ‘he began to shout and swear.’”
“So, when he does that, is he shouting and swearing about Netanyahu or about Hamas or about his poll numbers,” Doocy asked.
The snide foreign policy hack immediately went personal: “This is the ‘when did you stop beating your spouse’ question because I don’t think he ever did that.”
Reacting as most would to this sudden turn, Doocy reacted with an incredulous look on his face and an, “excuse me?”
Of course, no one followed up on Sullivan’s arrogant answer that runs counter to the years of reporting about Biden having a less-than-clean mouth:
Houck went on to whine that Sullivan was “peddling anti-Israel nonsense during the briefing,” though he didn’t explain why it’s “anti-Israel” for anyone to issue even the slightest criticism of how it’s conducting its war against Hamas. He also served up a fit of whataboutism: “the press corps were so bent out of shape concerned about Gazans (and the Hamas members embedded in their population) that it took until the 29-minute mark (29:27) of the nearly 54-minutes briefing (53:49) for anyone to bring up the roughly 1,000 Americans trapped in the hellscape that is Haiti.”
Houck returned to maliciously portraying anyone who asks questions about Israel’s prosecution of the war as “anti-Israel” in his writeup of the March 22 briefing in which he praised non-right-wing reporters for echoing right-wing narratives about the border:
Friday’s White House press briefing was largely dominated by anti-Israel-leaning questions directed toward John Kirby, but there was still time for the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre to make a fool of herself with exchanges such as ones with ABC’s MaryAlice Parks and Fox’s Peter Doocy over the viral video from our friend Jennie Taer at the New York Post and freelance videographer James Breeden of illegal immigrants overrunning a border fence.
To her credit despite being a lefty, Parks went first as the second reporter called on: “Has the President seen that dramatic video of migrants surging past National Guardsmen in Texas — in El Paso?”
Jean-Pierre not surprisingly admitted she had “not spoken to the President about that video”, but what she would say was it’s the fault of Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) because Biden “has worked with Congress…about getting an immigration bill done” whereas Abbott has “politicize[d] this” and the reason the border has become “chaotic” and “dangerous”.
She even seemed to take disgusting and classless potshots at Texas National Guardsmen as weaklings. Parks wouldn’t push back on this, but wondered if this means Americans should “continue to” accept another “standoff” (click “expand”):
Of course, Houck takes disgusting and classless potshots at Jean-Pierre all the time. From there, he served up more slobbering over his mancrush:
A few minutes later, it was a textbook Doocy Time, starting with this short and biting but respectful and important question: “[W]hat does President Biden think should happen to adult men who are assaulting and overpowering U.S. National Guardsmen?”
Jean-Pierre refused to denounce the attacks on American soldiers, solely because they serve in Texas under a Republican governor. Instead, she thanked “Border Patrol agents for their — to — quickly — to quickly work and get the situation under control and apprehend the migrants” and again blamed Abbott for “politicizing” the border.
Doocy then called out the Biden administration for “talk[ing] so much about having a more humane immigration system,” but the video showed the opposite with “adult men landing haymakers on U.S. troops in uniform” as opposed to “helpless women and children begging for a safe place to come in”.
“If that was happening anywhere else in the world, wouldn’t President Biden sent reinforcements,” he asked.
When Jean-Pierre initially replied “[e]veryone was apprehended,” Doocy followed up: “Were they deported?”
Of course, Jean-Pierre refused to answer (because, as Taer reported Friday morning, they were released into the U.S.) other than more Abbott blaming.
Houck concluded by whining that another reporter “lobbed a softball at Jean-Pierre to attack Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL).” We don’t recall him complaining that anyone lobbed softballs at Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany — or that he lobbed his own softballs at her.