Jencompetent

 I will apologize in advance.  I have been watching the impeachment circus and I am particularly ornery.  Gird your loins.  

My, my, aren’t we living in a world of delicious contrasts?  I was watching yet another dull performance by the entirely lackluster Biden press secretary, Jen Psaki, when it suddenly occurred to me that she was reading her responses to questions from the press.  So much for spontaneity.

But for starters, who exactly is Jen Psaki? Well, of course, if you read the Biden Administration propaganda, she would be “leading the first all-female senior White House communications team in US history.”  First this, first that……so what.  You do recall that Trump had in his senior advisory staff more women, and women with children, than any previous administration.  No?  Well, that doesn’t surprise me.  So Biden had to resort to the one-upmanship game and have an “all female” team.  Bravo.  I wouldn’t expect a democrat administration to actually tout their qualifications.  And at the risk of wading into the most obvious of one-liners: perhaps they just had to pass the Biden sniff test.  Sorry.  So back to Jen: After graduating from the College of William and Mary she joined John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as deputy press secretary.  She then served a short time as spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee before joining the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign as traveling press secretary, riding that horse through the 2012 reelection.  She served as deputy press secretary, then deputy communications director under Obama.  That’s more deputies than a season of Bonanza.  Google it, kids.  In 2011 she was senior vice-president and managing director at a Washington PR firm before returning to the Obama team.  She then served as spokesperson for the State Department under John Kerry then returned to the Obama White House as communications director for his final two years in office.  During those unfortunate years when Trump was in the White House actually accomplishing something, Jen made the predictable democrat leap to CNN as a political commentator and was vice-president for communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace before leaving for the Biden –Harris transition team.  Deputy this, spokesperson that, vice-president of this, that and the other propaganda machine.  It’s all so fascinating.  Basically a whole lot of propagandizing at a podium, speaking policy for somebody else with little in the way of substance or education.  And about that turn at the podium, where it certainly appears to me that she is reading her responses to questions from the press.  Turns out: she is.  Apparently the Biden White House Press Office has, according to the New York Post, “come under fire for reaching out to Capitol reporters to quiz them about the questions they’ll ask during scheduled briefings.”  Now that would explain things.  It is glaringly obvious that after fielding a question, the appallingly unspontaneous redhead looks down at the podium and appears to be reading her response.  And she is not paraphrasing, nor is she consulting notes……Jen is actually reading the answer verbatim.  Didn’t Obama try this trick with the teleprompter?  Not cool.  After four long years of being subjected to the likes of Jim Accosta and “gotcha” journalism, we are now going to allow a democrat White House to tilt the playing field?  Of course we will, it’s a democrat in the White House. And when left to her own devices Jen, like her boss, has made it a habit of sticking her foot in her mouth.  She famously tweeted a reference to then Judiciary Committee chairman, Lindsay Graham as “LadyG”, an obvious homophobic slur, and disparagingly made reference to Trump’s Space Force, in levels of snark that a Republican spokesperson would never survive.  Her demeanor is haughty, dismissive, and largely unimpressive and her press conferences are for the most part uninformative as the fawning press serves her up softballs in the in this honeymoon period after the inauguration, a honeymoon Trump never experienced.  She also attacked “conservative Twitter”, as if there is such a thing, for pointing out the obvious fact that she repeatedly fails to answer reporter’s questions.  Townhall.com astutely pointed out that she repeatedly makes claims that she intends to “circle back” and eventually answer the question.  In one of the most convoluted attempts to explain incompetence ever, she stated: “I often note I’m going to circle back.  I hate to disappoint conservative Twitter, but I’m going to circle back on a number of things, as we often do directly.” Huh? A brief perusal of her press conference video, offered up by the Internet in this young Administration, yielded over 16 “circle back” references and, of course, she never does.   In Jenspeak this may simply be code for “I have absolutely no idea,” something McEnany and Huckabee would never have been allowed to get away with. 

Now back to my contrasts.  You do recall Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s press secretary?  The accomplished woman who the leftie lunatics are trying to cancel, trying to assure that she cannot find employment.  Ever.  Because she did her job and did it well. She faced the most aggressive, partisan, hostile reporters in the history of the White House Press Corps.  McEnany attended the Academy of the Holy Names, a college prep school for girls in Tampa, Florida.  She graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and studied abroad at Oxford.  She spent three years as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show before matriculating into the University of Miami School of Law.  She then transferred to, and earned her law degree at Harvard Law School.  She interned for a few politicians, most notably George W. Bush in his 2004 campaign.   She also appeared on CNN where she was initially critical of Trump as being an “inauthentic” Republican before changing her opinion, a change the left leaning news outlets attributed to her seeing an opportunity to advance her career.  Regardless, the woman is accomplished.  In her position as press secretary, she was glib, poised, she parried attacks, and if she didn’t know the answer, she sifted through her notes and found it.  She never “circled back”.  Yet Yahoo News correspondent (I know, I laughed when I typed it) Brittany Shepherd called Jen Psaki “a refreshing change of pace” likening McEnany to “having a really bad ex-boyfriend”.  “We were getting essentially abused by Kayleigh for so long…. calling us fake news and inciting her followers and followers of the president to not only harass us online but obviously go to deadly ends from some people with that threat.”  Obviously? Deadly? Oh, boo-hoo.  So when a Trump administration representative stands up to your partisan attacks you claim you are being abused?  Suck it up.  You might be more concerned with your phenomenal lack of self-awareness in not recognizing the absurd double standard.  Simultaneously, while fending off the “deadly” name calling from the Trump White House, the press was busy lobbing the hard questions at then candidate Biden like: “What flavor milkshake did you get?” Conservative columnist Gavin Wax, meanwhile, was lambasted as being sexist when he compared McEnany to Psaki side-by-side stating: Stunning and smart press secretary Kayleigh vs. ugly to the bone Jen Psaki.  Kayleigh was TV ready every morning.  Psaki can’t bother to prep or do her makeup”.  Unfortunately the “ugly” comment overshadowed the fact that Psaki indeed does seem either unprepared or is clearly not smart enough to handle the position. Even the Daily Dot, as anti-Trump as any of these no-name leftist “news” outlets, called Psaki’s briefings “a rather staid affair”.  Staid, now that’s being kind.  

But why should Jen Psaki be forced to think on her feet, try to be captivating, or even to have a command of the subject matter when they’re gaming the system? The Biden Administration checked the box, and appearance is all that really matters, qualifications be damned.  And so the charade continues, this bizarre dance the democrats do with their complicit press, all the while pretending the game isn’t rigged in their favor, when in actuality the fix is in.  But what you should be most concerned with, is not that the game is fixed, but their arrogance in thinking we don’t know it’s fixed.