Joe Rogan torched White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over what he called a &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; answer to Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy about her 2016 stolen election claim.
During Spotify&#8217;s &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2iVChLxDKPFN9X8q4NtCsd?si=3eghO9CMSRK-GVT2rlAssQ">podcast</a> on Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">host</a> was speaking with stand-up comedians Tony Hinchcliffe and Hans Kim about the press secretary&#8217;s &#8220;hilarious&#8221; answer to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-doocy">Doocy</a> about a tweet she made in 2016 claiming that former President Donald Trump had stolen the election.
&#8220;Did you ever see her confronted on it?&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-slams-blood-red-dark-background-of-bidens-speech">Rogan</a> asked his guests. &#8220;You gotta see this. It&#8217;s hilarious. Cause that guy Peter Doocy from Fox News, who always asks the best questions. Like, if you want that show to be entertaining, you want that guy to ask questions, because he always catches them.&#8221;
&#8220;And so he brings up a tweet of hers from 2016, where she says the election is stolen while she&#8217;s talking about how important it is not entertaining any ideas of the 2020 election being stolen,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Like, what are you talking about? What?&#8221;
&#8220;First of all, what kind of audit have you done where you&#8217;re so confident that the election has been stolen or has not been stolen,&#8221; the podcast host continued. &#8220;How much work are you doing before you&#8217;re making these assertions? Almost zero.&#8221;
Rogan then read Jean-Pierre&#8217;s 2016 tweet that read, &#8220;Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election &#8230;..welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump.&#8221;
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Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election &#8230;..welcome to the world of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/unpresidented?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#unpresidented</a> Trump <a href="https://t.co/NI7vqPV6cu">https://t.co/NI7vqPV6cu</a>
&mdash; Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) <a href="https://twitter.com/K_JeanPierre/status/810294911815847936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-at-their-job-joe-rogan-says-after-stelter-canned-theyre-all-on-the-chopping-block">Rogan</a> then played video of the Fox News White House correspondent asking the press secretary, &#8220;if denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#8217;t it then?&#8221; It was a reference to recent comments from President Joe Biden that &#8220;extremists&#8221; in the MAGA wing of the Republican Party were the ones who denied results of the 2020 presidential election.
Jean-Pierre called the comparison he made &#8220;just ridiculous.&#8221;
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Doocy: &quot;You tweeted in 2016&#8230;Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#39;t it then?&quot;
KJP: &quot;So, let&#39;s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous.&quot;
Doocy: &quot;How is that ridiculous?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/JDTO1HMO8W">pic.twitter.com/JDTO1HMO8W</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1567197380662935556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The podcaster said her &#8220;saying that question is ridiculous is ridiculous.&#8221;
&#8220;That is not a ridiculous question,&#8221; Rogan told his guests. &#8220;That is a very good question. It&#8217;s a very good questions.&#8221;
At one point, he also blasted those who have claimed that asking voters to show &#8220;ID is racist,&#8221; but doing the same when it comes the pandemic is necessary.
In a character voice he said, &#8220;you don&#8217;t need to show ID to vote. But you better have your ID ready and your vax card if you want to eat in a restaurant.&#8221;
&#8220;Same people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Same people. ID is racist, but you need an ID, cause you have to do the right thing. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re bearing the weight of this hypocrisy all day long is just blowing their brains out.&#8221;
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Fox News White House correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-doocy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Doocy</a> cornered Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> during Tuesday&#8217;s briefing, asking why her previous tweets denying the results of elections did not constitute “extremism” as defined by President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>.
Doocy referred to Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-election-denier-claims-denying-elections-is-one-of-the-hallmarks-of-fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent comments</a> — arguing that “extremists” within the MAGA wing of the Republican Party were the ones who denied that he won the 2020 presidential election — and he pointed out Jean-Pierre&#8217;s own <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/a-threat-to-democracy-bidens-new-election-denying-press-secretary-meets-the-lefts-definition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prior claims</a> that former President Donald Trump had “stolen” the 2016 election from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and that Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp had “stolen” the election from Democrat Stacey Abrams.
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Doocy: &quot;You tweeted in 2016&#8230;Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#39;t it then?&quot;
KJP: &quot;So, let&#39;s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous.&quot;
Doocy: &quot;How is that ridiculous?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/JDTO1HMO8W">pic.twitter.com/JDTO1HMO8W</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1567197380662935556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“A follow up about the MAGA Republican attention. So, if we&#8217;re all in agreement that it is incorrect to say the 2020 election was stolen, what about the 2016 election?” Doocy began.
Jean-Pierre deflected at first, saying that she was not going to “go back to where we were” and that the Biden administration was choosing instead to remain focused on what was going on in the moment.
“But just in trying to understand the new attention on the MAGA Republicans, you tweeted in 2016 —” Doocy pushed back, prompting an interruption from Jean-Pierre.
“Oh, I knew this was coming,” she said. “I was waiting, Peter, when you were going to ask me that question.”
“Here we go,” Doocy responded with a smile. “You tweeted Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. If denying election results is extreme now, why wasn&#8217;t it then?”
“So, let&#8217;s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous,” Jean-Pierre insisted.
“How is that ridiculous?” Doocy shot back.
“I have been — you&#8217;re asking me a question, let me — let me answer it.”
“And you said it was ‘ridiculous,’” Doocy continued.
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KJP defends questioning the 2016 &amp; 2018 elections, telling Doocy she didn&#39;t storm the Capitol like on January 6 where &quot;people died&#8230;Law enforcement were attacked&#8230;That&#39;s what [Biden] has called out&#8230;When you have MAGA Republicans&#8230;who&#8230;deny&#8230;[he&#39;s] going to call that out.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/U90mqNCXbS">pic.twitter.com/U90mqNCXbS</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1567198604644810752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“I was talking specifically at the time of what was happening with voting rights, and what was in danger of voting rights,” Jean-Pierre insisted, apparently referencing the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-pushed-misinformation-about-georgia-voting-bill-now-shes-upset-by-the-consequences/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity measures</a> passed in Georgia. Despite the measures getting heavy criticism from the Left, Georgia has had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/georgia-voting-law-media-jim-crow-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher turnout</a> in the elections since their passage.
Jean-Pierre went on to say that in the months since, she had clearly stated that Trump won in 2016 and that Kemp had also won his election in Georgia — and then she pivoted to invoke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a>, arguing that the MAGA Republicans were being called out because of that.

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Podcast king <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-at-their-job-joe-rogan-says-after-stelter-canned-theyre-all-on-the-chopping-block" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a> blasted ex-Biden administration spokeswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jen-psaki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jen Psaki</a> as a liar and said former Trump press secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kayleigh-mcenany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kayleigh McEnany</a> was the &#8220;Michael Jordan&#8221; of the profession.
Rogan’s comments came on Saturday while he discussed COVID vaccines with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-blasts-medias-vaccine-witch-hunt-in-chat-with-joe-rogan-reveals-immunized-strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL superstar Aaron Rodgers</a>, who famously declined to get the jab. Rogan accused Psaki of pushing vaccines that many Americans questioned.
“When Jen Psaki said these vaccines are approved by the FDA, which is the gold standard, that was a lie,” Rogan said, noting that the vaccines were initially administered under an “emergency use authorization.&#8221;
“They weren’t approved. But she was a propagandist.”
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Rogan called the White House press secretary position a “weird job” because it requires toeing the administration line even when it may not be accurate or true. But he singled out McEnany, a Harvard-trained lawyer who held the post for Trump’s last year and frequently sparred with a hostile press, as an exception.
“That lady was a f***ing assassin,” Rogan raved. “That lady had like binders, with footnotes. And anyone would say something and she’d be like, ‘That’s interesting, because actually CNN said this.’ And she would like quote it back to them and stuff it in their face.&#8221;
“That lady was the best ever at that job,” Rogan added. “She’s the f***ing Michael Jordan of White House press secretaries.”
The comments echoed prior remarks by left-wing CNN personality Van Jones, who warned liberals in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 interview</a> not to dismiss McEnany’s sharp intellect.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to defend the messaging, but what I hope people can acknowledge is there&#8217;s very few people in either party who can accomplish what Kayleigh has accomplished in such a short time,” Jones said. “People keep taking her lightly, and they keep regretting it.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_429988" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429988" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-429988 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-864x576.jpg" alt="Joe Rogan called former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany the 'Michael Jordan' of the profession for her ability to spar with the liberal media." width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/GettyImages-1291451243-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Joe Rogan called former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany the &#8216;Michael Jordan&#8217; of the profession for her ability to spar with the liberal media. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)</div>
McEnany is now a co-host on the Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered” show.
While talking to Rodgers, Rogan had praise for another Fox News employee, Peter Doocy. The reporter has long stood out among the Biden-friendly White House press corps for asking tough questions. Rogan praised him for pressing Psaki, who has since left for an MSNBC gig, on the vaccines.
“The hard questions were all by Peter Doocy from Fox News,” Rogan said. “He’s the only guy [who was] pushing back against her. And she just f***ing flat out lied and not just one occasion, multiple occasions.”

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Education Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/miguel-cardona/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miguel Cardona</a> conceded on Wednesday that borrowers who had repaid their student loans would get no benefit from President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> planned cancellation of up to $10,000 in student debt for many borrowers.
Cardona spoke briefly with Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who asked him to weigh in on those who had worked to repay their debts — and Cardona admitted that the mass cancellation would provide nothing for them.
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Doocy: &quot;The people that already paid their student loans, they don&#39;t get anything out of this deal.&quot;
Ed Sec Cardona: &quot;Right.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/w6YQotUaAK">pic.twitter.com/w6YQotUaAK</a>
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&#8220;Just the final one on this: The people that already paid their student loans, they don&#8217;t get anything out of this deal,&#8221; Doocy prompted.
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Cardona agreed.
&#8220;That&#8217;s right, okay,&#8221; Doocy confirmed.
Critics of the plan have argued that taxpayers will get something out of the mass cancellation of student debt — <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-student-loan-cancellation-would-cost-330-billion-and-largely-help-the-wealthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">namely the bill</a>. Because the federal government creates budgets that depend on predicted income — student loan payments included – the cancellation of a large chunk of that debt in one fell swoop would result in a lesser amount coming in. The government would then have to compensate for that shortfall by reducing spending or increasing taxes — and the latter happens with more regularity than the former.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a longtime proponent of student debt cancellation, had a similar reaction when she was asked whether people who had paid off their own student loans might qualify for some kind of reimbursement.
&#8220;My daughter is in school,&#8221; a man <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479608-warren-confronted-by-man-at-campaign-event-over-tuition-reimbursement/">asked</a> Warren at a 2020 campaign event. &#8220;I saved all my money just to pay my student loans. Can I have my money back?&#8221;
&#8220;Of course not,&#8221; Warren replied.
&#8220;So you want to help those who don’t save any money and the ones that do the right thing get screwed?&#8221; he asked.
Doocy also asked Cardona about comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — who said weeks earlier that President Joe Biden did not have the authority to unilaterally cancel student debt — and Cardona argued that a post-9/11 law allowed him to do so under certain conditions.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PDoocy</a>: &quot;Speaker Pelosi said last year, she thought this was something a president could not do. It would require an act of Congress. So is this legal?&quot; 
&quot;The HERO&#39;s Act, page 637&#8230;gives me the authority to provide a waiver to ensure Americans are not worse off&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hWF2hL3HhK">pic.twitter.com/hWF2hL3HhK</a>
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&#8220;Speaker Pelosi said last year, she thought this was something a president could not do. It would require an act of Congress. So is this legal?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;The HEROES Act, page 637 &#8230; gives me the authority to provide a waiver to ensure Americans are not worse off after an emergency — a national emergency — which the pandemic was.&#8221;

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared to struggle with her response when Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy asked about President Joe Biden&#8217;s insistence on forcing Americans to make the transition from fossil fuels to green energy.
Doocy pressed <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-view-hosts-lob-softballs-at-wh-press-secretary-ask-just-two-questions-about-inflation-and-gas-prices/">Jean-Pierre</a> on the subject during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, noting that such a transition was painful for Americans who could not afford a $60,000 electric car any more than they could $5-per-gallon gas — and asking how much pain Biden viewed as acceptable.
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DOOCY: &quot;A lot of people can&#39;t afford a $60,000 electric car, and they also are having a hard time affording gas right now. That sounds like a painful transition, so how much of that kind of pain is the president ok with?&quot;
KJP: &quot;That&#39;s apples and oranges. It&#39;s not the same.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PJTnX8Djn7">pic.twitter.com/PJTnX8Djn7</a>
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&#8220;The president yesterday was talking about this transition to greener energy someday,&#8221; Doocy began, adding, &#8220;A lot of people can&#8217;t afford a $60,000 electric car and they also are having a hard time affording gas right now. That sounds like a painful transition, so how much of that kind of pain is the president ok with?&#8221;
&#8220;No, that transition — we are in a transition to clean energy,&#8221; Jean-Pierre replied. &#8220;That is something that is important. It is going to create jobs when you think about electric vehicles. It is going to give — give families some tax credits, it&#8217;s gonna be really important to have &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Right now they can&#8217;t afford an electric car, the average price is $61,000,&#8221; Doocy pushed back.
&#8220;Well, we&#8217;re going to continue to move forward with what we have put for the bipartisan infrastructure —&#8221; Jean-Pierre tried again.
&#8220;Five dollar a gallon gas or a $61,000 electric car —&#8221; Doocy interrupted.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not — first of all — that&#8217;s apples and oranges, it&#8217;s not the same,&#8221; Jean-Pierre objected. &#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do right now is to deal with an acute problem right now, which is why the president again asked for a 90-day suspension of the gas tax, the gas tax holiday. It is going to make a difference, Peter, we&#8217;re talking about $0.18 on the federal level, we&#8217;re talking about an average of $0.30 on the state level, and if the oil refinery does their job, if they do what we are asking them to do which is put their profits back in so that gas prices can go down, that&#8217;s almost a dollar per gallon. That matters.&#8221;
Critics of the move have argued that a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/democratic-senator-not-a-yes-right-now-on-bidens-proposed-gas-tax-holiday/">gas tax holiday</a> — especially if the federal government acts alone — will do little to ease the pain at the pump. If that tax holiday saves consumers $0.18 per gallon, that adds up to a savings of $2.70 for the average 15-gallon tank. At $5 per gallon, a 15-gallon fill-up costs $75 — meaning the consumer still pays $72.30 for a tank of gas. If gas goes up to $6 per gallon — $90 for a 15-gallon tank — the total savings would still be $2.70 and the net cost would be $87.30.

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Fox News White House correspondent <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/is-he-going-to-bring-the-key-players-doocy-asks-why-biden-is-hitting-the-beach-if-gun-violence-is-an-emergency/">Peter Doocy</a> confronted Press Secretary <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/does-biden-take-any-responsibility-peter-doocy-grills-karine-jean-pierre-on-inflation/">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, disputing President Joe Biden&#8217;s claim that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thanks-joe-republicans-blast-biden-over-record-high-inflation/">inflation</a> was worse everywhere outside the United States.
Doocy pressed <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jean-pierre-touts-bidens-decades-of-work-on-gun-violence-but-reporter-objects-isnt-that-more-of-an-indictment/">Jean-Pierre</a> on the president&#8217;s claim several times — noting that inflation rates were actually higher in several other countries — prompting Jean-Pierre to revert immediately to what appeared to be the White House&#8217;s proscribed talking point on the topic.
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DOOCY TIME: &quot;Why is [Biden] saying that inflation is worse everywhere but here?&quot;
KJP: &quot;B/c of what we have seen across the globe. First of all, inflation is a global challenge, as we have said. It is&#8211;it is&#8211;it is&#8211;it is caused by, clearly, the pandemic&#8230;and also&#8230;the war&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3UPQnVjYPL">pic.twitter.com/3UPQnVjYPL</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1537474638393098242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why is the president saying that — pardon — why is the president saying that inflation is worse everywhere but here?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;Because what we have seen across the globe,&#8221; Jean-Pierre began. &#8220;First of all, inflation is a global challenge, as we have said. It is — it is — it is — it is caused by, clearly, the pandemic, this once in a generation pandemic that we are coming out of. And  also most recently the war that — that Putin started in Ukraine that has caused inflation as we looked at food and as we looked at gas prices.&#8221;
&#8220;So if you look at globally, other countries, and if you look at where we are economically, when you think about the Group 7, the G-7, we are in a much stronger place than we are economically than the rest,&#8221; Jean-Pierre replied.
Doocy immediately pushed back, listing several countries that were facing higher inflation rates than the United States.
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Doocy: &quot;He says&#8230;inflation is worse everywhere but here. That&#39;s not true. U.S. has worse inflation than Germany, France, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia&#8230;Why is he saying that?&quot;
KJP: &quot;Well, I think what we are saying is&#8230;it is a global thing&#8230;everyone is feeling&quot; <a href="https://t.co/FW46GK1LH0">pic.twitter.com/FW46GK1LH0</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1537475044519161860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He says that inflation is worse everywhere but here. That&#8217;s not true,&#8221; Doocy objected. &#8220;U.S. has worse inflation than Germany, France, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia. So why is he saying that?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think what we are saying is that when you talk about inflation, it is a global thing,&#8221; Jean-Pierre made no effort to address Doocy&#8217;s rebuttal and instead simply repeated her initial statement. &#8220;And it is not just about the United States, this is something that everyone is feeling — because of coming out of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, because of the war that Russia has started in Ukraine.&#8221;
According to Pew Research, the United States <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/15/in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world-inflation-is-high-and-getting-higher/">ranks 19th</a> on a list of 36 nations in terms of the change in annual inflation rate between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2022. Of the top five nations, Israel ranks highest followed by Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal — and all five have seen their annual inflation rate increase by a factor of at least ten between 2020 and 2022.

New Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Holds First White House Media Briefing

‘That’s Not True’: Peter Doocy Throws Cold Water On White House Claim Inflation Is ‘Worse Everywhere But Here’

Peter Doocy Disputes President Biden's Claim Inflation Is Worse Outside US

Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy grilled Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, asking why President Joe Biden was headed to his Delaware beach house if he truly believed gun violence was a national emergency.
Doocy noted that Biden has called on Congress to act on gun violence right away, and he is expected to repeat that call in an address scheduled for Thursday evening — right before he leaves the White House for a weekend at the beach.
&#8220;If the president thinks that Congress must act immediately to end this epidemic of gun violence, is he going to bring any of the key players from Capitol Hill to the beach with him tonight?&#8221; Doocy asked.
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DOOCY TIME: &quot;If [Biden] thinks&#8230;Congress must act immediately to end this epidemic of gun violence, is he going to bring the key players from Capitol Hill to the beach with him tonight?&quot;
KJP: &quot;Oh, okay, so, I don&#39;t have&#8211;&quot;
Doocy: &quot;Isn&#39;t that a big part of [his] whole thing[?]&quot; <a href="https://t.co/W81tAz8Tfz">pic.twitter.com/W81tAz8Tfz</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1532464822310297607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Oh, okay,&#8221; Jean-Pierre appeared to scoff at the question, adding, &#8220;So I don&#8217;t have —&#8221;
&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t that a part of candidate Biden&#8217;s whole — thing — that he knows how to get things done with Congress &#8230;&#8221; Doocy continued.
&#8220;He does, he does!&#8221; Jean-Pierre insisted, going on to claim that Biden had beaten the gun lobby in the past. Doocy quickly pushed back, saying that was all the more reason for Biden to be sitting down with lawmakers and showing them how to do the same.
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KJP: &quot;He&#39;s beaten the gun lobby before. He has.&quot;
Doocy: &quot;Then why not invite these lawmakers who haven&#39;t &#8212;&quot;
KJP: &quot;But it&#39;s not &#8211;&quot;
Doocy: &quot;&#8211; beaten the gun lobby &#8211;&quot;
KJP: &quot; &#8211;but it&#39;s not &#8211;&quot;
Doocy: &quot;&#8211;and say this is how it&#39;s done?&quot;
KJP: &quot;&#8211;but it&#39;s not his thing.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PtGGL4I2Ds">pic.twitter.com/PtGGL4I2Ds</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1532465306983141376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I mean, he&#8217;s beaten the gun lobby before. He has,&#8221; Jean-Pierre asserted.
&#8220;Then why not invite these lawmakers who haven&#8217;t —&#8221; Doocy tried to push back.
&#8220;But it&#8217;s not —&#8221; Jean-Pierre objected.
&#8220;— beaten the gun lobby —&#8221; Doocy interjected.
&#8220;—but it&#8217;s not —&#8221; she tried again.
&#8220;—and say this is how it&#8217;s done?&#8221;
&#8220;—but it&#8217;s not his thing,&#8221; the press secretary said, appearing to suggest that because Biden was no longer in Congress himself, he did not need to be a part of the &#8220;immediate action&#8221; he was calling on Congress to deliver. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually fact. We saw he did that in the Senate, during his Congress days, that he beat the gun lobby.&#8221;
Then-Senator Biden was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/john-hinckley-biden-texas-buffalo-congress-588e9c6e02139b35043143932fe993c6">at the helm</a> of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the 1994 &#8220;Assault Weapons Ban&#8221; — which was allowed to lapse in 2004 — became law. And in the days since the May 24th shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, he has <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-just-sick-biden-uses-school-shooting-address-to-slam-gun-lobby/">called for Congress</a> to consider a similar ban in the coming days.
He has also repeated his <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-a-9mm-bullet-blows-the-lung-out-of-the-body-and-people-couldnt-own-cannons-in-1776/">false claim</a> that individual citizens could not buy cannons when the Second Amendment was ratified (they could, and did) — and also claimed that 9 mm bullets could &#8220;blow the lung out of the body.&#8221;
He is scheduled to speak on gun violence on Thursday evening prior to his departure for Delaware.

Press Briefing Held By Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre And COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha

‘Is He Going To Bring The Key Players?’: Doocy Asks Why Biden Is Hitting The Beach If Gun Violence Is An Emergency

Doocy Asks Why Biden Is Hitting The Beach If Gun Violence Is An Emergency

Delaware

Gun Control

Gun Violence

Vacation

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy grilled Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Tuesday&#8217;s briefing, asking her whether President Joe Biden took any responsibility for implementing policies that could have made record-setting inflation levels worse.
Doocy began with the fact that gas prices had hit yet another <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/heres-how-much-gas-prices-have-risen-since-last-memorial-day/">record high</a>. &#8220;In some places in this country now, a gallon of gas costs more than the people on the federal minimum wage are making in an hour. What does the White House want these people to do? Just stop driving to work?&#8221; he asked.
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Doocy: &quot;In some places in this country now, a gallon of gas costs more than the people on the federal minimum wage are making in an hour. What does the WH want these people supposed to do? Just stop driving to work?&quot;
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&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1531722398520823808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Jean-Pierre responded by saying that President Biden understood what the American people were feeling. &#8220;He understands what it means for people who are sitting at their kitchen table and see gas prices go up,&#8221; she said.
She then pivoted to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/doocy-jabs-at-psaki-are-you-guys-going-to-just-start-blaming-putin-for-everything-until-the-midterms/">blame the rising prices</a> on Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing that the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine were the main drivers impacting inflation.
Doocy pushed back, asking whether the Biden administration believed that any of their policies were impacting inflation.
&#8220;You just mentioned Putin a few times as a reason for recent inflation. Do you guys think that any part of inflation this year is because of President Biden&#8217;s spending plans? Or is it all Putin&#8217;s fault?&#8221; Doocy asked.
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Doocy: &quot;You just mentioned Putin a few times as a reason for recent inflation. Do you guys think that any part of inflation&#8230;is b/c of&#8230;Biden&#39;s spending plans? Or is it all Putin&#39;s fault?&quot;
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&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1531722821235253254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Jean-Pierre responded by touting low unemployment numbers and claiming that Biden&#8217;s policies were the reason that he had been able to &#8220;create&#8221; more jobs than any other president in his first year — and then circled back to blaming Putin.
Doocy made one more attempt to get a straight answer with regard to Biden&#8217;s policies and their impact on inflation. &#8220;So I guess the next question would be, does President Biden take any responsibility for his policies potentially contributing to inflation?&#8221;
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Doocy: &quot;Does President Biden take any responsibility for his policies potentially contributing to inflation?&quot;
Karine Jean-Pierre: &quot;His policies has [sic] helped the economy gets back on its feet. That&#39;s what his policies has [sic] &#8212; his policies has [sic] done.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/vYGpboygRc">pic.twitter.com/vYGpboygRc</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1531724053605666818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;His policies has [sic] helped the economy gets back on its feet. That&#8217;s what his policies has [sic] — his policies has [sic] done,&#8221; Jean-Pierre insisted. &#8220;This — when we talk about the gas prices right now, this is indeed Putin&#8217;s gas hike. This is what we have seen in the most recent months of what we&#8217;re seeing at the gas pump. And so that is a fact, we have seen about 60% increase in the past several months.&#8221;
Jean-Pierre then claimed that the biggest frustration for President Biden was watching what the American people had to go through.

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‘Does Biden Take Any Responsibility?’: Peter Doocy Grills Karine Jean-Pierre On Inflation

Peter Doocy Grills Karine Jean-Pierre On Inflation

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Economy

Inflation

Vladimir Putin

A simple math error may be the reason that drilling permits have been held up in some locations, the Biden administration has revealed.
According to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/19/biden-administration-oil-gas-drilling-permit-delays/?utm_source=piano&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2680&amp;pnespid=6OZ3FCVXPaAb1ePB.WykT5vUtgnzSJZnLrXhxPRh8EJmc4NGr5f.wxyluKEvHgfZX20uKwAwDA">report</a> from The Daily Caller, the administration acknowledged in a letter to industry leaders that &#8220;a mathematical error is delaying the federal offshore oil and gas program.&#8221;
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) head Richard Spinrad said that permitting delays had been attributed to a miscalculation that resulted when the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) used a flawed model to measure the ecological impact of offshore drilling.
In the letter, which was addressed to National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), Spinrad noted, &#8220;NMFS understands the concerns of industry and is working with [the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)] to expeditiously develop … revised regulations.&#8221;
When pressed to address the skyrocketing gas prices — coupled with concerns that not enough was being done to expedite domestic production of oil and gas — former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was fond of touting the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/it-sounds-like-youre-blaming-putin-peter-doocy-spars-with-psaki-on-gas-prices-she-keeps-blaming-putin/">thousands of leases</a> that had already been approved for drilling in U.S. territories.
But as Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy and others pointed out, having the leases approved did not mean there was any oil to drill. And even if there was oil, in addition to owning the leases, oil companies had to have approved permits in order to legally drill — and the Biden administration already had a massive backlog of permits waiting for approval.
&#8220;Republican congressional candidate Jan Kulmann, who worked in the energy industry for 23 years, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deliberate-effort-to-mislead-the-public-psaki-hit-for-comments-on-unused-drilling-permits-as-gas-prices-skyrocket">explained the situation further</a>.
&#8220;In the course of defending the Biden administration’s refusal to issue new oil and gas leases on federal land, Psaki said that there are over 9,000 unused leases already. So, why issue new ones?” Kulmann <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/jen-psakis-excuse-on-unused-drilling-permits-is-truly-clueless">wrote</a> for the Washington Examiner, adding, &#8220;You might be fooled into thinking this is a valid point, but only if you know nothing about the energy industry, in which I have worked for 23 years.&#8221;
&#8220;An existing lease means nothing if you cannot get surface agreements in place or pipelines close by enough to move the oil and gas,&#8221; Kulmann continued. &#8220;A new lease may be more promising for short-term production than an existing lease. But whenever this issue comes up, Democrats try to make it sound like companies are just sitting on permits, irrationally doing nothing, and therefore no new ones ought to be issued. In short, this is misdirection — a deliberate effort to mislead the public with a falsehood that sounds plausible.&#8221;

US President Biden Visits Japan

Biden Admin: Gulf Oil & Gas Permits Got Slow-Walked Because A Federal Agency Is Bad At Math

Biden Admin Claims Gulf Oil & Gas Permits Got Slow-Walked Because A Federal Agency Is Bad At Math

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Oil and Gas

Now former Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed the reason that President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House intentionally avoided all-out war with Fox News during a Wednesday interview.
Psaki, who gave her last White House <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/psaki-claims-white-house-is-on-top-of-baby-formula-shortage-but-hoarding-is-a-enormous-problem/">press briefing</a> on Friday, made an appearance at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago for a forum titled &#8220;Notes from the Frying Pan to the Fire&#8221; — and was asked almost immediately about her often <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/what-is-he-talking-about-peter-doocy-asks-why-biden-thinks-republicans-will-segregate-lgbtq-kids/">contentious exchanges</a> with Fox News reporters like Peter Doocy.
&#8220;So I’m just going to get this out of the way. We’re just going to do the Doocy,&#8221; IOP Speaker Series Director Jennifer Steinhauer began. &#8220;The country was sort of mesmerized by these weekly, or often more than that, sparring that you had with the Fox News reporter in the briefing room.&#8221;
&#8220;Some people think that you hate each other. Some people think you secretly have brunch,&#8221; Steinhauer continued, asking, &#8220;So I’m curious, what was your true role of those moments in the briefing room, and what was your approach there?&#8221;
&#8220;First, let me say that I do like Peter Doocy, and that may not be popular with everybody. That’s okay,&#8221; Psaki began. &#8220;But part of the objective when I came into this job was to reestablish civility in the briefing room and make it a place where people could hear information through the media, to the public, not a place where there wasn’t debate and tough questioning. Actually, when that is happening, in my view, that’s when it’s working. And that’s an important part of our democracy, not just in the United States, but it’s also a message we’re sending to the world. This is not a common thing that other countries do, where there’s three briefings nearly every day that happen in the U.S. government.&#8221;
Although she did not mention former President Donald Trump by name, Psaki made it clear that the White House&#8217;s goal had been to set itself apart from the previous administration — particularly by fostering a civil relationship even with members of the press corps who might work for outlets that were less &#8220;friendly&#8221; to the administration.
&#8220;Peter — so we made a decision from the beginning that part of restoring civility was treating people with respect in the briefing room, with, to calling on everyone, including Fox, which didn’t always have positive reporting about the president or the vice president, and not making a dispute with Fox the story. And there are times when that may be appropriate, but not when you follow an administration where they were disputing the legitimacy of institutions or the media,&#8221; she said.
Her overall conclusion was simple: &#8220;We did not brunch, but we also didn’t hate each other. It was somewhere in between. What I will say is that we had a civil, good relationship.&#8221;
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Secretary Psaki Holds Daily Press Briefing At The White House

‘A Civil, Good Relationship’: Jen Psaki Explains Why Biden’s White House Avoided All Out War With Fox News

Jen Psaki Explains Why Biden's White House Avoided All Out War With Fox News

New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued that disinformation spread by critics of President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration were responsible for putting the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Disinformation Governance Board on hold.
Jean-Pierre took questions on the topic at Wednesday&#8217;s press briefing, after it was announced earlier in the day that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-disinformation-chief-resigns-after-homeland-security-puts-board-on-hold/">the board was on hold</a> and the woman who had been tapped to head it up — Nina Jankowicz — had resigned.
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DOOCY TIME: &quot;Last wk, you guys said&#8230;you needed the Disinformation Governance Board at DHS to make sure&#8230;freedom of speech is protected across the country &amp; that these platforms are not used for forums of disinformation&#8230;What changed?&quot;
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&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1527011162461716481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Last week, you guys said that you needed the Disinformation Governance Board at DHS to make sure that freedom of speech is protected across the country and that these platforms are not used for forums of disinformation,&#8221; Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy said, asking, &#8220;So, what changed?&#8221;
Jean-Pierre noted that the official statement from DHS had been that the board had been &#8220;intentionally mischaracterized&#8221; despite the administration&#8217;s efforts to &#8220;explicitly&#8221; detail what the board would and would not do.
&#8220;It was never about censorship, policing speech, or removing content from anywhere,&#8221; Jean-Pierre continued, adding that the goal was to make sure that DHS was aware of threats posed by disinformation pushed by foreign actors. She went on to say that while the board was on hold, the mission would continue regardless.
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Doocy: &quot;So, if it&#39;s pausing b/c you think the board was mischaracterized, then the Disinformation Board is being shut down b/c of disinformation? Is that what&#39;s happening here?&quot;
KJP: &quot;Look&#8230;it&#39;s going to pause. There&#39;s been a mischaracterations [sic] from outside forces.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KWzUHqSrrg">pic.twitter.com/KWzUHqSrrg</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1527012377631371264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So, if it&#8217;s pausing because you think the board was mischaracterized, then the Disinformation Board is being shut down because of disinformation? Is that what&#8217;s happening here?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;Look, I mean the board was put forth for a purpose, right? To make sure that we really did address what was happening across the country when it came to misinformation,&#8221;Jean-Pierre pushed back.
&#8220;And it&#8217;s okay to wait now 75 days?&#8221; Doocy pressed.
&#8220;Well, no it&#8217;s just — it&#8217;s going to pause. There&#8217;s been a mischaracterations [sic] from outside forces,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said again, once more promising that even though the board was going to &#8220;pause&#8221; for reevaluation, officials within the DHS still planned to continued the work.
&#8220;The work doesn&#8217;t stop. We&#8217;re still going to continue the work, the DHS is still going to continue the work,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said.
Jean-Pierre&#8217;s comments echoed the framing of a report that broke Wednesday morning at The Washington Post — written by Taylor Lorenz — which claimed essentially that the board was derailed by a &#8220;coordinated&#8221; attack campaign promoted by Right-wing activists and had resulted in such &#8220;harassment&#8221; that Jankowicz had ultimately resigned.
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald mocked the framing in a series of tweets, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s a cause of momentary celebration that the Department of Homeland Security was forced by popular anger to &#8216;pause&#8217; its Disinformation Board and the absurd #Resistance cartoon they hired to run it, but read this to see how angry Post and @TaylorLorenz are that this happened.&#8221;
&#8220;Investigating and criticizing a Homeland Security official is now &#8216;harassment&#8217; and bullying according to the WashPost and @TaylorLorenz. Only ordinary citizens can be investigated — not high-level U.S. Security State operatives. Them&#8217;s the rules,&#8221; he continued.
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Investigating and criticizing a Homeland Security official is now &quot;harassment&quot; and bullying, according to the WashPost and <a href="https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TaylorLorenz</a>.
Only ordinary citizens can be investigated &#8212; not high-level US Security State operatives. Them&#39;s the rules:<a href="https://t.co/rtHpupbeMw">https://t.co/rtHpupbeMw</a>
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Press Briefing Held By White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre And National Security Advisor Sullivan

New White House Press Sec Claims Disinformation, ‘Mischaracterizations’ Tanked Disinformation Board

Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Disinformation Tanked Disinformation Board

Disinformation Governance Board

Nina Jankowicz

Bernie Sanders campaign alumnus (from both 2016 and 2020) Melissa Byrne tried to spin criticisms of Karine Jean-Pierre as &#8220;racist and sexist&#8221; after the new White House press secretary&#8217;s embattled first day on the job.
The conversation began with a tweeted video of Jean-Pierre <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-white-house-press-secretary-spends-first-day-spinning-bidens-claim-that-higher-taxes-will-help-inflation/">struggling to answer</a> a question from Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy — about President Joe Biden&#8217;s claim that raising corporate taxes would somehow lower inflation — and coming up decidedly short.
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Watch what happens when Peter Doocy asks the new White House press secretary how raising taxes on the rich brings down inflation, as Biden tweeted last week. 
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Jean-Pierre responded to Doocy&#8217;s question by flipping through her briefing book and appeared to read a series of talking points about promoting &#8220;equity&#8221; in taxation and asking the wealthiest among us to &#8220;pay their fair share&#8221; – but at no point did she connect the dots and explain how achieving equity in taxation would work to lower inflation.
&#8220;My God she is bad at this job. She is visibly flipping through the briefing book and staring down at it while she reads off canned talking points that don&#8217;t remotely answer the question,&#8221; Robert Tracinski <a href="https://twitter.com/Tracinski/status/1526410061723189248">commented</a>.
National Review senior write Dan McLaughlin <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1526413742912811008">weighed in</a> then, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s the White House. This was literally the most prepared person they could find?&#8221;
That was when Byrne joined the conversation, accusing McLaughlin of being critical of Jean-Pierre only because of her sex and race. &#8220;Racist Sexist Men roll call,&#8221; she tweeted.
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Racist Sexist Men roll call <a href="https://t.co/JHZPEZG7Kn">https://t.co/JHZPEZG7Kn</a>
&mdash; melissa “cancel student debt” byrne (@mcbyrne) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1526414753563910149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s called having standards. I send you into court, I expect better than this. Same from the press podium. Responses like this would fail a Turing test,&#8221; McLaughlin <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1526415666152103937">replied</a>, referencing the &#8220;Turing test&#8221; and effectively suggesting Byrne&#8217;s comments failed to &#8220;demonstrate human intelligence.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/turing-test.asp">Investopedia</a>, &#8220;The Turing Test is a deceptively simple method of determining whether a machine can demonstrate human intelligence: If a machine can engage in a conversation with a human without being detected as a machine, it has demonstrated human intelligence.&#8221;
But the conversation did not end there, as Byrne repeatedly attempted to claim that McLaughlin was racist and sexist and insisted that she was actually winning the argument.
&#8220;Im sorry. Someone at the NRO has an opinion on standards? You just can’t stand seeing a Black woman exceeding you professionally. Therapy is helpful for working through your inadequacies,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1526416110400184321">claimed</a>.
&#8220;Second try at the Turing test didn&#8217;t go better than the first,&#8221; was McLaughlin&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1526416844462104576">reply</a>.
&#8220;Says the person who works for the NRO and has to attack a press sec to feel like a man,&#8221; Byrne <a href="https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1526417110905376770">tried again</a>.
&#8220;Third try, becoming increasingly recursive,&#8221; McLaughlin shot back.
&#8220;Im still winning,&#8221; Byrne insisted. &#8220;Go work through your inadequacies.&#8221;
&#8220;Fourth try, now running familiar scripts,&#8221; McLaughlin said, prompting Byrne to once again claim that she was &#8220;still winning&#8221; and add, &#8220;I love how mad you are right now.&#8221;
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Still winning. I love how mad you are right now. <a href="https://t.co/w5OXNxIFcg">https://t.co/w5OXNxIFcg</a>
&mdash; melissa “cancel student debt” byrne (@mcbyrne) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1526419310385692672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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McLaughlin, who was apparently so &#8220;mad&#8221; that he went to sleep and ignored Byrne&#8217;s latest dig until morning, added, &#8220;LOL there was a fifth attempt last night, still nothing that would pass a Turing test.&#8221;
&#8220;Love getting under the skin of racist men,&#8221; Byrne tried once more, but McLaughlin wasn&#8217;t biting.
&#8220;Sixth! Still nothing you couldn&#8217;t program from a bot,&#8221; he said.
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Sixth! Still nothing you couldn&#39;t program from a bot. <a href="https://t.co/ffYUXtP5Sc">https://t.co/ffYUXtP5Sc</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1526553935250657282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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