Upon realizing Monday’s White House press briefing had been dominated by questions about President Trump’s tweet on NASCAR and the Confederate flag, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany ended the liberal media’s charade with one of her strongest mic drops yet, shaming them for their refusal to ask about the spat of deadly weekend violence across America.
“I was asked probably 12 questions about the Confederate flag. This President is focused on action and I'm a little dismayed that I didn't receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend,” McEnany began.
McEnany noted that she wasn’t asked “about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week, and over the last seven days shooting skyrocket [sic] by 142 percent,” which translated to 42 people shot and nine dead over the Fourth of July weekend.
Reporters could be heard after this portion audibly groaning and shouting at McEnany, but they quickly dissipated as she continued with the sobering statistic of how, across the country, five children were gunned down, including an eight-year-old girl in Atlanta.
The girl, Secoriea Turner, was shot dead as she rode with her mom near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks died in his fight with Atlanta Police. After her murder, McEnany concluded with a quote from Turner’s father and how all black lives should matter, regardless of where they died:
I didn't receive one question about five children who were killed, and I’ll leave you with this remark by a dad. It broke my heart. A dad of an eight-year-old loss in Atlanta this weekend. “They say black lives matters [sic]? You kill the child, she didn't do nothing to nobody,” was his quote. We need to be focused on securing our streets, making sure no lives are lost, because all black lives matter, that of David Dorn and that of this eight-year-old-girl.
Of course, the shameless liberal partisans continued shouting at McEnany as she left the podium. Near the end, ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl could be heard pleading: “Kayleigh, we’re glad to ask you a couple more questions.”
Leave it to the liberal media to fixate on one thing that didn’t help keep Americans safe or pertain to the coronavirus, and then complain when McEnany noticed them asking nearly identical questions on the Confederate flag.
FNC’s Outnumbered Overtime host Harris Faulkner reacted by hailing McEnany’s conclusion as “quite the mic drop, because that's true with [what] the grandfather and his daughter were saying after their little eight-year-old was gunned down outside that Wendy's.”
After pointing out that Turner was killed when her mother tried to maneuver around a barrier Black Lives Matter protesters had erected, Faulkner made her own mic drop: “And the question looms today, do black lives matter or not? And who do they matter to?”
Unless it involves police and/or a separate racial group the liberal media can use to level charges of racism, too many in the liberal media don’t seem interested or the same degree they do for other shootings.
To see the relevant transcript from July 6's briefing, click “expand.”
White House press briefing
July 6, 2020
1:50 p.m. EasternKAYLEIGH MCENANY: And finally, I’d end with this. You know, I was asked probably 12 questions about the Confederate flag. This President is focused on action and I'm a little dismayed that I didn't receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend. I didn't receive one question about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week, and over the last seven days shooting skyrocket [sic] by 142 percent. Not one question. [REPORTERS SHOUTING] I didn't receive one question about five children who were killed, and I’ll leave you with this remark by a dad. It broke my heart. A dad of an eight-year-old loss in Atlanta this weekend. “They say black lives matters [sic]? You kill the child, she didn't do nothing to nobody,” was his quote. We need to be focused on securing our streets, making sure no lives are lost, because all black lives matter, that of David Dorn and that of this eight-year-old-girl. Thank you.
[REPORTERS SHOUTING]
JONATHAN KARL: Kayleigh, we’re glad to ask you a couple more questions.
HARRIS FAULKNER: Well, that was quite the mic drop, because that's true with the grandfather and his daughter were saying after their little eight-year-old was gunned down outside that Wendy's. The mom was trying to go around the barrier that those people had set up, and when they didn't even bother to identify, well, who met this person be? It wasn't officially set up by the government, by police or anybody like that, these were protesters, people who were out there, and that child is dead. And the question looms today, do black lives matter or not? And who do they matter to? The mayor saying enough is enough, of the city of Atlanta.
