WH Brings in More Help for Briefing, but It Still Turns Into a Dumpster Fire – Opinion

Karine Jean-Pierre is the White House Press secretary and has been struggling with her job. And yes, she’s–without argument–not doing very well. But to be honest, how can anyone effectively defend Joe Biden’s actions at this point, because he keeps doing the indefensible? The mess is too messy to be effectively defended so anybody who attempts would fail.

In a bizarrely false comment, she claimed that American Rescue Plan was one of those things which likely contributed to inflation.

Instead of changing policies, or being right on the mark, Biden seems to have two tactics.

The first is cutting short Jean-Pierre’s time at the podium. The time was only 13 minutes. She then booked it.

Karine Jean-Pierre finishes her press briefing, after she has answered 13 minutes of questions pic.twitter.com/YBp7lP0MQw

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Her short time answering questions has ticked off even the laissez-faire liberal media, as we’ve reported before. They feel (rightly) that they’re not getting any answers. The Biden team seems to think that the more time they spend, the lower the chance of them getting nailed on any topic. Of course, even with 13 minutes they’re still getting nailed and saying silly things like scolding the oil companies to “stop talking about the war,” as an excuse for not producing more, when it’s been Joe Biden blaming Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine.

They also hired John Kirby. Kirby was the Pentagon’s spokesperson. Some on the left got offended when it was announced that Kirby was going to be brought in to help on some of the White House briefings, because they thought that was showing up Jean-Pierre and that screamed “patriarchy” or something. You may remember how awful Kirby was during the debacle of the withdrawal in Afghanistan and how he virtually never had answers–and worse, when it came to the number of Americans left in Afghanistan.

John Kirby joined @PressSecThe White House Briefing Room is the place where you will find this information for the first-time. pic.twitter.com/Oi5FkRsnd9

— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) June 15, 2022

So, the Biden team, keeping up their sterling record of being wrong about virtually everything, brings him in to help out and then, just as before, he still can’t provide any coherent answers. Fox’s Peter Doocy asked some pretty good questions, including why did they seem to be concentrating on drilling overseas rather than here, and how much more we could deplete the Strategic Petroleum Reserves before it becomes a danger to national security.

DOOCY – “How low can we allow the strategic petroleum reserve to fall before this becomes a problem?”

Kirby can’t provide a definitive answer. pic.twitter.com/MfNXn5jREf

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Kirby had no answer and said Doocy should ask Biden’s energy advisers. But it’s a national security question, and Kirby is the new National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications. How can they not know the answer to the question and properly evaluate the moves being taken to deplete the reserves, if they don’t even know how much is there? The fact that they don’t know seems truly ridiculous–and shows they aren’t taking national security or any future emergency seriously.

Some seemed to think Kirby was marginally better than Jean-Pierre because he didn’t look as much like a deer caught in the headlights, as Jean-Pierre. Maybe.

But that’s not saying that much.