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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki was cornered Wednesday by a student reporter who told her we was entering "Peter Doocy mode."
What happened?
While speaking at a forum hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, freshman student Daniel Schmidt, a student journalist with the student-run Chicago Thinker, asked Psaki about encouraging protests at the homes of Supreme Court justices.
After Schmidt read Psaki's own words, the forthcoming MSNBC pundit claimed she did not say what Schmidt claimed she said.
"I never said that," Psaki challenged.
"I'm quoting from —" Schmidt responded.
"I said peacefully," Psaki interjected, adding, "That's a key word in there."
Jen Psaki brazenly lies to @UChicago student journalist, @RealDSchmidt, denying she encouraged anti-lifers to illegally protest outside Supreme Court justices\u2019 homes to influence SCOTUS abortion decision:pic.twitter.com/6mx3Th9kwZ— The Chicago Thinker (@The Chicago Thinker) 1652919941
After Psaki's interruption, Schmidt completed his question.
"Do you regret encouraging people to protest outside of justices' homes?" he asked, noting that protesting outside the homes of judges likely violates federal law.
In response, Psaki appeared to contradict herself. She again claimed that she "never encouraged anyone to protest," then immediately admitted that she encouraged Americans to "engage" — albeit peacefully.
Well, first, thank you for your question and bringing it forward. Let me first say, because I think facts matter and facts are important. I never encouraged anyone to protest. I encouraged them to do engage peacefully, and to do it without violence, without threats, and without intimidation. And that’s something I said many, many times and I think is vitally important.
It is also true that peacefully protesting in places where it is legal — and it is legal in many places in the country, including outside of some places in the country for sure — is something that is, that is allowed. And I’m not going to tell people, I don’t think it’s the role of the government to tell people where they can or cannot peacefully protest. If they’re breaking the law, of course they shouldn’t do that. And I also said that, too. Thank you for your question!
So what did Psaki say?
The comments in question stem from a White House press briefing on May 10 in which Psaki was asked about protests happening outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. A reporter asked Psaki whether Biden believed the protesters were attempting to intimidate Alito.
In response, Psaki — like Schmidt recounted — said Biden encourages protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, though she did qualify her statement with the adjective "peaceful."
"I know that there’s an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date — and we certainly continue to encourage that — outside of judges’ homes. And that’s the president’s position," Psaki said.
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Student confronts reporter who called Hunter Biden laptop scandal 'right-wing media smears.' Her reaction speaks volumes.
The Washington Post admitted recently the media's reaction to the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 "is an opportunity for a reckoning." But reporter Anne Applebaum apparently disagrees.
Applebaum, a writer for left-leaning magazine the Atlantic, was confronted with a substantive question about the media's reaction to the story at a "disinformation" conference on Wednesday. Instead of engaging in honest self-reflection on behalf of her peers, Applebaum dismissed the story's importance.
What happened?
During a Q&A panel at the University of Chicago event, a student asked Applebaum, citing a Media Research Center poll, whether the mainstream media acted "inappropriately" for suppressing and dismissing the Hunter Biden story.
"Do you think the media acted inappropriately when they instantly dismissed Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, and what can be learned from that in ensuring that what we label as disinformation is truly disinformation and not reality?" the student asked.
"My problem with Hunter Biden’s laptop is, I think, totally irrelevant," Applebaum said.
"I mean, it’s not whether it’s disinformation — I mean, I don't think Hunter Biden’s business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States," she continued. "I don’t find it to be interesting, I mean, that would be my problem with that as a major news story."
When Applebaum concluded, moderator David Axelrod ended the panel.
WATCH The Atlantic\u2019s @anneapplebaum refuse to answer @RealDSchmidt's question about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop during @UChicago\u2019s \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference!pic.twitter.com/1OgXBBiiI0— The Chicago Thinker (@The Chicago Thinker) 1649285597
Applebaum wrote about the Biden-related controversies in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election, calling them "right-wing-media smears"
Meanwhile, despite admitting that she is not interested in the Hunter Biden story, Applebaum repeatedly raised concerns of conflict of interest over the proximity of Donald Trump's children to him when he was president (such as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner serving as senior advisers) and the possibility that the Trump family profited from the White House.
Thus, Applebaum's reaction to the question was described as "arrogant" because it "perfectly encapsulates why so many distrust the media."
Anything else?
The Hunter Biden laptop story is anything but irrelevant.
Despite media outlets and social media companies suppressing the story in October 2020, the New York Times and Washington Post — the nation's biggest newspapers — recently confirmed what was already known: The laptop and emails are real, and they belonged to Hunter Biden.
In a honest editorial published on Sunday, the Post thus admitted the lesson that should be learned from 2020 is that there is "a danger of suppressing accurate and relevant stories."
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