McCarthy also refused to talk to reporters asking if he plans to honor the subpoena, as CNN’s Manu Raju reports. House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is not holding his usual weekly press conference Friday, one day after the Select Committee on the January 6 Attack served him with a subpoena demanding his testimony. She already calls on the doofus from Fox Entertainment way too often.” “I think she might be choosing NEWS organizations for questions not propagandists.” “Because OAN is admittedly not a news organization.” “Maybe get a job in journalism? Worth lookin’ into.”
“Why would she take a question from you? You’re a joke from the circus of lies and conspiracy.” Without accountability, without debate, government is not as strong.” You have challenged me, you have pushed me, you have debated me and at times we have disagreed. Psaki’s parting words to the White House Press Corps: “I want to thank all of you in this room. She has called on correspondents from far right-wing outlets, including Fox News daily or almost daily, the Christian right channel Eternal Word Television Network ( EWTN,) and Newsmax, to name a few. Psaki has told reporters during briefings she tries to get to as many reporters as she can. Psaki has taken 0 questions from /nD3UkjgTxF Psaki having just told the room she’s grateful for the press’s pushback takes questions from select few: #SimonOteba of Today News Africa says aloud what 80% of the briefing room has felt the entirety of Psaki’s reign.
Rion Friday afternoon voiced support for Ateba, suggesting without evidence that “80% of the briefing room” has felt Psaki “takes questions from select few.”
One America News, which has been labeled a “ Pro-Trump ‘propaganda’ channel,” earlier this week admitted there was “ no widespread voter fraud,” apparently as part of a settlement with two Georgia election workers who filed a defamation suit against the far right-wing cable network. He “tried interrupting Associated Press reporter Zeke Miller during a question and was ignored by the room and Psaki, but this did not deter Ateba.” He again tried, interrupting ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, who in frustration responded, “Simon, please stop.” “Ateba began shouting her name, asking repeatedly, ‘will you take a question from the back of the room?'” One Trump administration press secretary held no press briefings, at least three others were accused of lying to the press on a near-daily basis, as well as being exceptionally disrespectful and antagonistic to the press.īut One America News’ White House correspondent Chanel Rion was outraged with Psaki on Friday, the press secretary’s final briefing before exiting the administration next month.Īt the end of the briefing a reporter for Today News Africa, Simon Ateba, “interrupted her and other reporters multiple times in an attempt to get a question in,” as Mediaite reports. Unlike her predecessors in the Trump administration, she has held daily press briefings, her briefings have been thorough and open to a wide range of questions from a wide range of legitimate news outlets, and they have been exceptionally long – generally around an hour if not longer. By almost any measure Jen Psaki has been among the most successful and respected White House Press Secretaries in modern times.