Just Saying
Another sanction.
How does it feel when it happens to you?
Well, ask the White House press corps. It seems they’re being censored, yes that’s the term, with very little actual contact with the president.
Otherwise known as access. Biden’s always been a barker. With the latest backpack-leash development, however, you now know how frightened these pitiful folks are going into midterm.
Biden is subject to more slips than just climbing airplane stairs and they know it. A loose, angry cannon much of his political life who knows what he would do now.
Even more frightening for the progressive-in crowd is who is waiting in the wings.
Now one doesn’t have to be a so-called political science guru to wonder how come?
As the bottom continues to fall out of this circus can you imagine Biden, backpack and leash restrained, debating on national television in the run to 2024. Link
The White House Press Corps has blasted “historic” efforts to limit reporters’ access to Joe Biden during briefings, charging that their presence is being unprecedentedly and severely restricted without explanation.
In a joint letter to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the Corps pointed out that this isn’t the first time complaints have been made about the practice and demanded that access, which was formerly unrestricted under other administrations, be restored. Link
The letter states “We once again respectfully request the Biden administration – without exception-re-open all of the traditional venues for presidential remarks at the White House, including the East Room and the South Court Auditorium, for any reporter admitted to the White House campus.”
The letter further asserts that “The current method of allowing a limited number of reporters into these events is not only restrictive and antithetical to the concept of a free press, but it has been done without any transparent process into how reporters are selected to cover these events.”
“The continued inability of the White House to be candid and transparent about the selection process for reporters attending his remarks undermines President Biden’s credibility when he says he is a defender of the First Amendment,” the letter continues.
“It adds that “The incongruity of these restrictions underscores the belief by many reporters that the administration seeks to limit access to the president by anyone outside of the pool, or anyone who might ask a question the administration doesn’t want asked.”
The reporters further note that restrictions brought in under COVID have yet to be rescinded while other pandemic related measures have been dropped.
The Corps also outline that President Trump while openly expressing contempt for the media on a daily basis allowed freer access than the Biden camp, which is now demanding access request forms be filled in by reporters.
“The administration’s continued efforts to limit access to the president cannot be defended. Any notion that space is ‘limited’ is not supported by the fact that every other president before Biden (including Trump) allowed full access to the very same spaces without making us fill out a request form prior to admittance,” the letter notes.”