Embarrassing: ABC Sucks Up to Incompetent Jean-Pierre in Softball Interview

ABC’s Good Morning AmericaThis has earned him a bad reputation as a corporate whorer, liberal fluffist, and superficially nonsense. It was therefore logical that White House Press Secretary Karinejean-Pierre joined Robin Roberts for a softball session lasting nine minutes plus about the economy. “gun violence, abortion rights,” “her trailblazing role,”And what? “representation means”Send it to her.

Robin Roberts, Robin’s co-host for the interview boasted how Jean-Pierre was throughout six ridiculously long teases. “breaking barriers”And “making history in a new role”All the while, lamenting. “the challenges”That was it “facing President Biden.” Also, it was said that the skids had been greased.

Roberts started with platitudes and gushing that she had “been looking forward to having this opportunity especially today because with gun violence rising to the top of the agenda,” Adding that ABC was helping the administration in its efforts to focus all of its news on guns,

Roberts took the pain out of Jean-Pierre’s inability to get started with her job after two prominent shootings. “[T]The President has not implemented any major federal gun control measures in the past 30 years. What can he do?”

Jean-Pierre has been prone to lack an ability to speak coherently without prepared notes, so her answer to a softball question meandered through nothingness for nearly two minutes with all Roberts being able to do was off another softball about Biden’s involvement in Senate negotiations (click “expand”):

JEAN-PIERRE: Well, Robin, first of all, thank you so much for having me on and it has been a — a tragic three weeks with Uvalde and then Buffalo and I traveled — I traveled with the President to — to Buffalo to talk to the grieving families — the grieving — the grieving families of the ten who were doing what — what many of us do on the weekends, go to the grocery store and sadly, their lives were taken by this public health epidemic that we’re seeing of gun violence and then we traveled sadly to — less than two weeks later to Uvalde and the parents — there meeting the — the President meeting the parents and grieving with them and their family and I was there when they cried out to the President to do something, to take action, and, you know, I had time with the President afterwards and I — he is just as committed as he was when he was a senator. He talked about 30 years ago, we — there was the assault ban weapon [sic]In 1994, the president led on as senator. He was Vice-President and was responsible for dealing with gun violence during his time in office. He has taken on or he has signed the most executive actions than any — any other President at this time in their term and so this is a priority for him. It is very important for the President. However, right now we are watching Congress because this is not something we can do on our own. We are encouraged that he cannot accomplish this task alone. He’s very encouraged with what Senate is trying to do — the bipartisan negotiations that we’re seeing now because we haven’t seen — to your point, Robin, we haven’t seen real legislation really move forward in 30 years so this is significant. This is a significant moment, and we hope that Congress continues to make progress. 

ROBERTS: Is he personally — personally lobbying these politicians, these congressmen? 

JEAN-PIERRE His speech was delivered on Thursday. The American people were directly addressed by him. He continued his speech and stressed the need to deal with gun violence. This is clearly destroying schools and communities. We must act immediately. However, he wanted to allow the Senate as well as Congress on Hill the space they need to engage in that discussion. It sounds like as you know, Senator Chris Murphy and others — 

ROBERTS: Mmhmm.

JEAN-PIERRE: — have been leading this effort. This sounds extremely promising. It is encouraging. Our staff, our office of leg affairs have had direct communications with negotiators on the hill since Uvalde and have spoken to them dozens of times and so that is — that is how we have been really dealing with this, making sure that we can do whatever it is that we can do at our end and getting updates from them as well.

Roberts thanked Jean-Pierre for her answers before moving to inflation and citing ABC News polling that contradicted Roberts’s own claims about gun control being paramount with the inflation being something “80 percent of Americans say…is an extremely or very important factor in how they’re going to vote and just 28 percent approve of President Biden’s handling of inflation.”

Roberts decided to make a joke about pressing instead. “[S]o what does the administration have to do because I don’t have to tell you a lot of people — a lot of people that are struggling to make ends meet.”

Jean-Pierre resumed her lengthy answers that centered around claims that not only does the White House feel the pain Americans are facing, but President Biden does because he’s lived a life where “prices [going] up just a bit…impacted their lives.”

Roberts moved on without challenging her for more answers on inflation or why actions they’ve taken haven’t worked. Alas, America’s highest-paid newscaster transitioned to “the other big issue,” which she said was abortion.

“[I]It seems that the Supreme Court may be going to court.Roe vs. Wade, so what can the President offer if it’s all going to be in the hands of the individual states,”Roberts added to the left

Jean-Pierre trashed the proposals of pro-lifers as “extreme” and contrary to what actual Americans think and reiterated the need for the Senate to “codify Roe v. Wade” (even though it It would have worked.You can go beyond this.

Roberts was full of praises for Jean-Pierre “[t]he first black, the first immigrant, the first openly gay person” with her job and an open ended question about “what does representation mean to you” (click “expand”):

ROBERTS: Can we speak about your role as a trailblazer? First black person, first immigrant and first openly homosexual to be White House Press Secretary. That representation is what does it mean to you? When I look at your parents, I can see that your little girl is smiling. How do you define representation? 

Robin JEAN-PIERRE, thank you so much. Because it’s so important because I hope, as a young man, I see that young girls and boys can look up and see me. I believe that it’s crucial to have representation. I’m glad that our President understands the importance of representation. The administration we have is diverse in history. It is all due to this president’s leadership. You know, I — I think about my daughter, I think about her friends and I hope that, when she sees me on TV, she thinks to herself, I can do this and I can do more when I’m — when I’m older and so it matters so much. Let me end by saying that I’m there because I stand on so many shoulders. It’s a privilege to stand here with people who have sacrificed so much, and it’s a learning experience. I’m learning from their sacrifices because I would not be standing here, I would not be at that podium being a spokesperson for the President of the United States — which is truly an honor and a privilege — without the people who came before me. 

Roberts even made Roberts’ goodbye gooey “Very kind of you to say. Karine, we are so thankful. You must be busy. It is a great thing that you took the time to spend some quality time with me this morning. All the best to you.”

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Click here to see the ABC transcript relevant from June 7.