It’s not the worst hit piece. It
sort of weaves between the lines of attacking Leavitt and charts her
meteoric rise within Trump's world. The headline does set the tone: “In
Karoline Leavitt’s world, Trump’s word is enough.” And there is plenty
of lamentation about how this White House treats the condescending,
snobby, and out-of-touch fake news press, who no longer have the power
they once wielded because we all see their game.
It’s why this administration was able to lock out The Associated Propaganda
Press from certain White House events for their refusal to call the
Gulf of America what it is. The media tried to cast this as an
unprecedented lockout—it’s hardly new. Half the country would like to
kick the teeth out of these clowns, so no one cares (via WaPo):
“I
was very up-front in my briefing on Day One that, if we feel that there
are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold
those lies accountable,” Leavitt said. “And it is a fact that the body
of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America. And
I’m not sure why news outlets don’t want to call it that, but that is
what it is.”
She was talking about the Associated Press. The
nonpartisan news organization had announced it was primarily sticking
with “Gulf of Mexico,” the gulf’s name for more than 400 years, so as
not to confuse its readers, who span the globe. The previous morning,
Leavitt had summoned the AP’s chief White House correspondent (photo below)
to inform
him that the wire service would no longer be permitted inside the Oval
Office.
It was the latest salvo in the president’s war, almost a
decade old, on those he perceives to be his enemies in the political
press. In his first press briefing, eight years earlier, Sean Spicer had
berated the White House press corps for its reporting on the size of
the crowd at Trump’s first inauguration. Kellyanne Conway, speaking in
Spicer’s defense, coined the term “alternative facts.” Back then,
Leavitt was a sophomore at a Benedictine college in her native New
Hampshire, absorbing the anti-press rhetoric of early Trumpism and
echoing it in a singsong voice on her student news station. Now 27, she
presides over a briefing room where the White House’s affection for
alternative facts is no longer shocking.
At her first briefing,
Leavitt said that Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service had found approximately
“50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in
Gaza” — a claim for which the administration, challenged by
fact-checkers, could not wrangle any persuasive evidence. But while
Leavitt’s remark inspired a few late-night jokes, it didn’t seem to
scandalize the American public, which reelected Trump last year despite
his well-known pattern of making false and exaggerated claims.
Of course, there’s 2020 election stuff and other anecdotes about her
upbringing and family life in the piece. Here’s why this piece is
ridiculous: first, of course, anything that makes the political class
look bad, like the work DOGE has done to expose waste and fraud, the
media will say is lacking in evidence. The fact checkers are all DNC
operatives, or should be considered as such, so that means nothing. The
Washington Post
might as well be a clown store because no one cares if
you’re a reporter who works there, you’re just another left-wing stooge
trying to foment division through well-manufactured fake news.
Speaking
of fact-checkers, was Karine Jean-Pierre subjected to a piece like this
when she lied to the nation during the Biden administration, which had a
president who was mentally incapacitated, physically depleted, and
all-around moped and shuffled his way around while the nation burned?
Everyone knew Biden was cooked; his aides noticed on day one of his
presidency. Why didn’t anyone do anything? Why wasn’t there a piece
about how Karine stood up there and lied incessantly? You already know
the reasons. It again shines light on the war between us and the legacy
media. There is ‘us and them,’ and these people should be treated with
disdain and unbridled hatred.
"Karine Jean Pierre stood at the White House podium for almost 3
years dissembling and deflecting, and the Washington Post never once
wrote a story like this about her," wrote RealClearPolitics' Tom Bevan.
That perfectly describes this piece.
We must hate them more than
they hate us, then we can go about plotting how to destroy this
institution that has about as much utility to the nation as fool’s
gold.
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