Jen Psaki Calls Out Fox News Hosts For Their Jan. 6 Hypocrisy

[tecelote]

Link to tweet

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Psaki on Jan 6 texts: "It's disappointing & unfortunately not surprising that some of the very same individuals who were willing to mourn, condemn, and express horror over what happened on January 6 in private, were totally silent in public. Or, even worse, were spreading lies"

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Twitter followup:

Link to tweet

[tecelote]

2. Thanks!

I love how she outfoxes Fox!

She's a national treasure.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Oh, I couldn't agree more!

She's both extremely knowledgeable and quick on her feet, perfect qualifications for the job! I honestly don't think we've ever seen anyone better, and I liked the press secretaries Obama had...

[jaxexpat]

8. But you know, her job may actually be EASY when it comes to Fox and company.

She can always make the accurate assumption that their questions are mean spirited, duplicitous, phoney and the questioner, uninformed. That makes about 50% of the effort to reply a no-brainer.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. You're right, but she has to know all the facts to fire back at them.

And she's incredibly informed, doesn't say like others have that she'll have to "get back to you." She already knows.

[jaxexpat]

14. Oh. Yes, she is a sharp one. I was hoping she'd be a fixture. At least for a while.

Quite sorry to hear of her leaving relatively son.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. What's that in reference to? Is there some story about trackers? It seems completely unrelated.

I'm not as cool as the kids who have TV sets.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I wasn't watching, but it does sound like the kind of bizarre "gotcha" question Fox "News" would ask

This was the only reference I could find and it's from October:

Close to 200 Americans are still seeking to leave Afghanistan, State Department tells congressional staff

Washington (CNN) The State Department informed congressional staff Thursday that it is in touch with 363 US citizens in Afghanistan, 176 of whom want to leave, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.

The figures presented on that call underscore the ongoing challenge faced by the Biden administration as Americans continue to come forward to seek help in leaving Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover and the chaotic US withdrawal.

Thursday's numbers -- combined with evacuation figures since August 31 -- present a far higher count of Americans looking to leave Afghanistan than the administration publicly estimated at the time of the US withdrawal.

The day before the US military evacuation was completed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the State Department was tracking "a small number of Americans, under 200 and likely closer to 100, who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave."

More than 200 US citizens have been evacuated with the help of the US government since August 31, according to the State Department, meaning that upwards of 400 Americans have sought US help leaving the country in the nearly two months since the military withdrawal.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/politics/us-citizens-afghanistan-withdrawal-biden-admin/index.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Thanks. Still a mystery, but sheds some light on it. I suppose it was Foxified by Faux Noise. nt

[wnylib]

10. Psaki was referring to the Jan 6 texts

from Fox employees to Mark Meadows begging him to talk Trump into calling off the Capitol attackers. Liz Cheney just read those texts publicly that the committee obtained from records that Meadows turned over to them.

At the same time that Fox employees made those texts, the Fox hyopcrites on air were saying that the attackers were probably antifa and denied any connection to Trump.

Psaki just called them out on it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Thanks. The OP tweet says that. It was the follow up tweet about tracking that seems unconnected

... even though it looks like Rupar tweeted them together.

[wnylib]

13. Oops. Didn't notice the follow up tweet.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

15. She needs to run for office in the future

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Rather like their coddling antivaxers while being fully vaxed and fully mandated by Fox. nt

[DFW]

9. What Jen Psaki does with Fox Noise hacks is like boiling a frog in a pot of water

She slowly turns up the heat, and the frog never realizes it is being cooked until it is done and ready to serve.