http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/03/11/im-sorry-cant-hear-him-even-abc-news-says-president-biden-ducking-a-formal-press-conference-raises-accountability-questions/
We’re halfway into Joe Biden’s first 100 days as president, and the fact that he’s now broken a record going back 100 years as going the longest in office before holding a formal press conference can’t be ignored anymore. On March 1, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that there were still no plans for Biden to hold a press conference; on March 5, she said that he’d hold a press conference in the “coming weeks” and “before the end of the month” and blamed the pandemic for the delay. “We’re working on setting a final date for that,” was her final answer.
ABC News is out Thursday with a piece about Biden’s limited press access, saying it “raises accountability questions.” Here’s the Washington Post’s Seung Min Kim with the money quote.
Seung Min Kim ~ "I'm sorry, can't hear him," Biden said on Thursday as his aides screamed over a reporter and pushed the press out of the room.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-holding-formal-news-conference-raises-accountability-questions/story?id=76341787
Ben Gittleson reports:
[Psaki] said Monday that “the president has done about 40 Q&As since he took office.”
But those exchanges are often devoid of any meaningful back-and-forth, and typically last just seconds.
The president sometimes responds to one or two short questions — if that — while White House staff members yell, “Thank you!” and “Let’s go!” as they usher the journalists out.
“I’m sorry, can’t hear him,” Biden said on Thursday as his aides screamed over a reporter and pushed the press out of the room. The president did not answer the question.
It was just this Tuesday when a video went viral of Biden’s handlers shooing away reporters asking him if there’s a border crisis:
John Roberts ~ @POTUS ignores shouted question from the pool just now on whether he believes there is a crisis on the border. Day 48 now with no formal Joe Biden news conference. Longest period in a hundred years for a new President.
When The Levee Breaks ~ Trump took questions for hours weekly. You always knew where he stood. Now Susan Rice is president and Biden is kept in a hyperbaric chamber 22 hours a day.
capitalism hater ~ I think we all know why.
Yeah ... they just don't want the American public seeing Gropey Joe drooling all over himself.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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