More Tea Is Spilled on Biden White House's Press Access Rules, and It's Worse Than You Think

Watching alums of the Biden-Harris administration admit to some inconvenient truths well after the fact has in some ways been welcome, refreshing news but has in other ways been infuriating considering they could have (and should have) spoken up at the time but didn't.

Among them has been Michael LaRosa,

 who worked for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign as Jill Biden's traveling press secretary. After the former veep to ex-President Barack Obama was sworn in, LaRosa became the First Lady's press secretary but resigned in the summer of 2022 after Mrs. Biden's San Antonio "breakfast taco" debacle.

Since then, LaRosa has made some concerning admissions about what he says went on in the Biden White House during his time as the First Lady's spokesman, but it's what he's claimed since the Bidens left office that has raised even more eyebrows and prompted some "toldjah so's."

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For instance, LaRosa stated in February that "The president’s team was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unchoreographed, anything, they couldn’t compete for the attention economy."

"We were always, from day one, cognizant that age was an issue,” he also admitted at the time, while also confessing that "the gaslighting" people accused Biden's handlers of engaging in regarding questions about his cognitive health was absolutely happening.

In a recent interview with "Young Turks" founder/host Cenk Uygur, however, LaRosa took it even further, detailing for example how many in the lapdog press went along with the demands made of them by Biden's staffers, with some offering up questions they'd ask beforehand just so they could get face time with the POTUS:

“I thought it was weird that they only did interviews for ‘quote approval.’ There was this thing in Biden world about quote approval, everything had to be on quote approval,” LaRosa said, explaining that the practice involved “one person” on Biden’s team deciding “what the reporter can use, what quotes they can use” after an interview with the president. 

LaRosa also claimed that young Biden press staffers were “dog trained” to force reporters to ask certain questions and divulge their questions ahead of interviews. 

“I mean you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters that summer, summer of 2024. It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews,” he said. 

“And I said to them, ‘Please never ask the journalist for the questions ahead of time. You can always ask about the topics, but do not ask them for the questions for Dr. Biden,’” LaRosa explained, claiming that he refused to take part in the practice when handling press for the former first lady.

This dovetails with everything we saw and read about for the four years Biden was in office and the lengths his handlers would go to not only to limit the press's access to him but also the questions they could ask - and the answers they could use. 

One series of incidents that comes to mind was what happened in the aftermath of his disastrous June 2024 debate performance against then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, when it was revealed that leftist radio hosts agreed in advance to ask certain White House/Biden campaign-approved questions during "interviews" which were designed to reassure voters and make his nightmarish debate appearance look like a one-off.

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As independent journalist Glenn Greenwald once observed, "The most significant media scandal of the Biden years was how they did not just hide what the public knew -- Biden's severe cognitive decline to the point he couldn't remotely govern -- but their aggressive attacks on anyone pointing it out as 'disinformation agents.'"

This is one of many reasons why the howling from the MSM and their defenders about Trump's standoffs with certain news outlets like the Associated Press are mostly falling on deaf ears outside of the Acela Media cocktail circuit. It's called reaping and sowing.

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