Jen Psaki

Was It The Wheaties? Doocy, Journos Fire Away on China, Israel, Spying
Friday’s White House press briefing was quite a doozy as numerous reporters offered either challenging, interesting, or yes, lefty questions to Press Secretary Jen Psaki on boycotting next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, Egypt’s role in the Hamas-Israeli ceasefire, and government spying on reporters.

Doocy Battles Psaki Over Team Biden Going Soft on Russian Pipeline
Thursday featured the first White House press briefing in nearly a week (due to President Joe Biden’s travel schedule), and so Fox’s Peter Doocy made the most of it by grilling Press Secretary Jen Psaki over the origins of the coronavirus, the Biden administration allowing Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to go through, and Middle East violence.

Friday Fun: Doocy SCHOOLS the WH Over the Sudden Change on Masks
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy went into the weekend on a bang, hammering the Biden administration during Friday’s briefing about the sudden change no longer requiring vaccinated people to mask or socially distance indoors and outdoors. Specifically, he wondered what the “big breakthrough” was since President Biden had said in March that such a change was “neanderthal thinking…

Doocy Destroys Psaki on COVID, Gas Lines; NBC Brings Heat on Bailouts
Tuesday brought us a packed White House press briefing amid an East Coast gas shortage, fears of inflation, and ongoing crises on the border and with the coronavirus, so it was only natural that Fox News’s Peter Doocy brought the heat with questions about the Biden administration denying there being a border crisis, energy regulations, and peddling fear about outdoor transmission.

Cage the Boss? Psaki Admits We Tell Biden 'Don't Take Questions'
White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted to her old Obama administration colleague David Axelrod on his CNN podcast The Axe Files that the staff tries to tell President Biden not to take questions from reporters. It's like he has to be caged to prevent his gaffe-prone mouth from going "off message."

Doocy Presses Psaki on Unemployment Benefits Keeping People From Jobs
With Kristin Fisher having left to join the evil empire, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy soldiered on during Monday’s briefing and found success in repeatedly questioning Press Secretary Jen Psaki over the fallout from Friday’s jobs report and whether increased unemployment benefits are keeping people from wanting to rejoin the labor force.

Politico Wonders: Is Fox’s Peter Doocy ‘Trolling the White House?’
Politico Magazine’s Friday “cover story” profiled Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy and, topping out at nearly 5,000 words, featured plenty of interesting biographical information about his upbringing (with his father being Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy), his approach to covering the White House, and his views on journalism.

‘Competence Porn’; D.C. Mag Pens Love Letter to ‘Unflappable’ Psaki
On Wednesday, Washingtonian magazine came out with a nearly-2,220 word profile of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki that could best be described as a slobbering love letter that hailed her as a fact-based saint who refuses to play to the cameras, plays and works well with reporters, and represented a break from the belligerence and back-talking of the Obama and Trump…

OUCH: Fisher Asks Press Secretary If Teacher’s Union Runs the CDC
The White House press briefing returned on Tuesday following a week-long hiatus and, with plenty to talk about, Fox News’s Kristin Fisher burst out of the gate and asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether teachers unions hold sway over CDC recommendations for school reopenings as well as what the White House thinks Americans should be allowed to do once vaccinated.

Gayle King Urges Psaki: ‘Give Yourself a Grade’ on Biden’s 100 Days
Wrapping up a friendly chat with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday, CBS This Morning co-host and Democratic Party donor Gayle King urged the Biden administration flack to ‘grade’ the President’s first 100 days in office. Even Psaki realized how embarrassing the question was and refused to respond, despite King’s repeated insistence.

Damage Control: Reporters Skip Asking Psaki About Kerry Burning Israel
Without someone from the Daily Caller, the Fox News Channel, or Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann in the room, the White House reporters seated for Tuesday’s briefing refused to follow up on Wegmann’s attempt from Monday to ask Press Secretary Jen Psaki about former Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly selling out Israel to his friends in the terrorist-loving Iran.

He’s Back! Peter Doocy Presses Psaki on Biden Wearing a Mask
After a few uneventful White House press briefings, Monday’s episode drew a number of interesting exchanges on the border crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, masking, schools, and President Biden’s Wednesday address to a Joint Session of Congress. And after having been off to get married, Fox News’s Peter Doocy returned with a bang in an exchange on the administration’s continued masking despite…

NY Post to Psaki: Isn’t Biden Culpable in Creating ‘Systemic Racism?’
Near the end of Wednesday’s White House press briefing, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson irked Press Secretary Jen Psaki with a basic question about whether President Biden “acknowledge[s] his own role” in major crime legislation that leftists argue contributed to the “systemic racism” his administration has claimed they will work to eradicate.

DEFUND PBS: Alcindor Defends Waters While Other Reporters Grill Psaki
Hours before the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, White House reporters stepped up Tuesday afternoon and did their due diligence in a briefing filled with harsh questioning. At least six reporters went toe-to-toe in slamming Press Secretary Jen Psaki over President Biden’s earlier comments demanding a guilty verdict and the White House’s refusal to call out Congresswoman Maxine…