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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 09:24 AM Mar 2021

Jen Psaki Explains No Covid Questions at Joe Biden Press Conference: Because He's Been So Good

Jen Psaki Explains No Covid Questions at Joe Biden Press Conference: Because He’s Been So Good

By Tommy ChristopherMar 26th, 2021, 7:41 am

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki offered an explanation for the much-criticized lack of COVID-19 questions at President Joe Biden’s first formal press conference: because he and the administration have been so good about delivering information on the pandemic.

During Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, Psaki spoke at length with host Lawrence O’Donnell about a number of issues, including President Biden’s new goal of 200 million vaccinations in the administration’s first 100 days. O’Donnell wrapped up the interview by asking about the press conference.

“We all watched you during the press conference, we know you’re anticipating the questions, we know you prepped for the questions,” O’Donnell said, and asked, “What question did you prep for that you were sitting there waiting for, and you did not get?”

“You know, I was surprised there wasn’t a question about gun legislation or gun safety earlier in the press conference, and also that there wasn’t more questions about Covid, given it is the number one issue that is on the minds of Americans,” Psaki replied. “The pandemic, what we’re doing to address it, how we can address it.”

She then offered that “Maybe it’s because we have the president out there, and we talk about it so much, but I was surprised there wasn’t more about that topic earlier in the press conference.”

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Jen Psaki Explains No Covid Questions at Joe Biden Press Conference: Because He's Been So Good (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2021 OP
Psaki Bomb Botany Mar 2021 #1
She's being too nice to them, they were horrible yesterday. One question was is VP Harris going to b uponit7771 Mar 2021 #2
2 months into his term MiniMe Mar 2021 #3
right uponit7771 Mar 2021 #5
media likes controversy and "crises" lapfog_1 Mar 2021 #4

uponit7771

(90,364 posts)
2. She's being too nice to them, they were horrible yesterday. One question was is VP Harris going to b
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 09:45 AM
Mar 2021

.... Bidens running mate again

WTF kinda question was that?!?

MiniMe

(21,718 posts)
3. 2 months into his term
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 10:01 AM
Mar 2021

They keep trying to compare him to tRump. As far as I am concerned, the more he is different than tRump the better. "Are you running again? At this point in his Presidency tRump had already set up a re-election committee" He set it up the day after inauguration which was ridiculous. Did they really ask him why he didn't do something as ridiculous as tRump?

lapfog_1

(29,226 posts)
4. media likes controversy and "crises"
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 10:31 AM
Mar 2021

like a group of 4 year olds playing soccer... they basically all chase the ball.

Repukes are very good at putting shiny paint on their turd colored balls... i.e "border crises"

Democrats come along and quietly pick up the really shiny balls like Covid.

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