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The White House has been plagued in recent weeks by negative reports about President Biden’s press office coinciding with a series of messaging goggles, and major news organizations that are usually friends with Biden have noticed .
“It has been very interesting to see how the establishment’s media tried to adjust its coverage of the Biden administration. The mainstream media helped cover Biden in the 2020 campaign and during the first months of its administration.” , DePauw University Journalism Professor Jeffrey McCall told Fox. Digital news.
“But the media narrative that Biden was a unifier and that any national issues were just remnants of Trump only had to disintegrate in the face of cold reality,” McCall said. “Even the center-left media have reluctantly acknowledged that the Biden administration is fighting.”
McCall believes the media’s credibility is “already quite unfortunate” and Biden’s continued promotion has become unfeasible when opinion polls indicate that Americans see the administration’s problems.
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“In a sense, the mainstream media is figuring out what the public has known for months,” he said.
The White House has been plagued by drama in recent weeks, as negative reports about President Biden’s press office coincided with a series of messaging glasses. ((Photo by AP / Susan Walsh))
New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has stumbled frequently since taking over the podium last month, when Jen Psaki left the administration. When asked about a questionable statement made by the president during a speech to Navy graduates last month, Jean-Pierre said he “did not listen” to the part of the speech and refused to defend Biden’s claim. who was appointed to the academy in 1965., the same year he graduated from the University of Delaware.
“I can’t talk about it right now,” Jean-Pierre said.
Jean-Pierre has also developed a reputation for reading written answers from his notebook that conflict with Biden’s statements. Many journalists have already been frustrated with Jean-Pierre, and NBC News journalist Kelly O’Donnell essentially told the press secretary how to do her job during a heated exchange last week about who told Biden about the infant formula crisis.
“Saying that there is no specific person is not a satisfactory answer. When you have senior assistants to the president, I am sure there is a paper trail on briefings with the president. There is an internal policy council. There is a chief of staff. At some point we need to know who would have been the most likely person to talk to him, “O’Donnell said.
Jean-Pierre continued to dodge the question, and the NBC News reporter replied, “It seems elusive” not to have senior White House officials who admitted that they informed the president about the shortage of infant formula.
“We’re also trying to understand the flow of information in this White House, and it’s important for us to get that answer, which is where we’ll keep asking until we have that answer,” O’Donnell said.
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New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has stumbled frequently since Jen Psaki took the podium last month. (AP)
Jean-Pierre refused to identify anyone who discussed the issue with Biden despite O’Donnell’s request. But O’Donnell is not the only journalist who seems upset by the new press secretary in his short time at work, as Washington Post journalist Tyler Pager and CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe have had similar exchanges with Jean-Pierre in recent years. memory.
Others who believe Jean-Pierre has gotten off to a bad start have pointed to an exchange he had last month with Fox News’ Peter Doocy on a tweet that Biden suggested that higher taxes on wealthy corporations is the answer to fighting inflation.
McCall admits that “trying to put a happy face to so many administration problems” is a difficult task for Jean-Pierre, but she “is coming out as an overcoming as she tries to streamline policy failures.”
“Saying ‘I didn’t see that part of the speech’ or ‘I can’t talk about it’ won’t cut it off in front of a press body that could eventually be awakening its responsibility to thoroughly scrutinize Biden’s White House.” , McCall said.
The Biden administration is beginning to prepare for a potentially brutal midterm election cycle as Republicans are expected to regain the House and potentially the Senate, but White House messages have been widely criticized in the last few weeks. Biden employees have tried to blame rising inflation and gas prices on the invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, pushing a narrative of “Putin’s rising prices” despite both ‘were becoming problems for the Biden administration months before the global conflict.
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Biden also recently introduced a new insult to Republicans, referring to them as “ultra-MAGA,” an alteration of former Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. The slogan was not particularly popular with Democrats, and some Republicans have accepted the nickname, especially when Biden referred to Trump as “The Great Magician King.”
“The Five” co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters roasted Biden again for the wrong messages.
“You can’t burn someone with‘ king ’in the nickname,” Watters said. “It’s like calling me King Fox. Okay, I’ll take it.”
“Biden has such a hard time communicating that even his nicknames, his slanders, are ineffective,” added co-presenter Geraldo Rivera.
Meanwhile, the White House initially claimed the new nickname was created by the president, but the Washington Post revealed it was the result of a liberal-funded six-month focus group project.
Biden was hit with a slew of convictions just last week that shed light on the unrest that erupted in the White House, followed by a Politico article on Sunday night about White House fears that Jimmy Carter’s comparisons to Biden “stick.”
McCall finds it “interesting” that some recent media reports on the Biden administration’s problems focus on Biden’s concern for the messages, “as if poor political decisions could be overshadowed by rhetorical misdirection and hand-playing. “.
“Some media apologists also try to point out that Biden’s problems are due to factors beyond the president’s control. This, of course, is true to some extent, but the president is not just a victim of the circumstances and not “It simply came to our notice then.
NBC News published a report on the unrest in the White House in Biden. (Fox News)
NBC News started the negative stories Tuesday morning after the long Memorial Day weekend with a report titled “Inside a Drifting Biden White House,” telling readers: “In the midst of a continuing series of calamities and approval ratings are plummeting, the president’s sentiment lately is that he just can’t take a break, and that anxiety is spreading through his party. “
NBC News began its report by pointing out that Biden has pressured helpers to do a better job with messaging.
“In the face of a worsening political situation, President Joe Biden is pressuring his attendees to get a more convincing message and a clearer strategy as he confronts how they have tried to stifle the simply speaking person who has long been been one of its most powerful assets. ” NBC News wrote. “Biden is shaken by his drop in approval and seeks to regain the confidence of voters who can offer the leadership he promised during the campaign, say people close to the president.”
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The report lists the crises that have “accumulated” to make “the White House of Biden look crazy” from rising inflation, high gasoline prices, rising COVID cases to mass shootings. ‘have been producing for the past few weeks, writing as “Democratic leaders don’t know how to revive their prospects in November,” as Republicans are expected to make a red wave in the midterm elections. NBC News even suggested that there could be a possible shock in the White House, as rumors about Biden chief of staff Ron Klain could leave the administration after the mid-term and Biden’s adviser , Anita Dunn, could be her successor.
CNN’s Jake Tapper also used the term “flat-footed” on Sunday as he asked Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who seemed caught unawares by inflation and formula crises.
“We are talking about two critical issues here that directly affect the American people where he lives. Where the Biden administration seems to have stuck without problems: inflation and the infant formula, not to mention the record prices of the gas, which were affected by the war in Ukraine, no doubt, but this is not the only reason they are so high, “Tapper told” State of the Union. “
Sunday’s Politico piece also painted Biden as frustrated and the west wing harassed by the internal note on his poor voting numbers.
Hours after the NBC News report was published, the Washington Post published an article entitled “The White House faces inflation after Biden complains to helpers,” which states that Biden “smokes in private that [the] The administration is not doing enough to show concern about high prices. “
“The White House on Tuesday launched a new push to contain the political damage caused by inflation after President Biden complained for weeks to his aides that his administration was not doing enough to publicly explain the fastest price increases by about four decades, “the Post said. which appeared …