This week, former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced she’d be coming out with a book about her career in Democratic politics entitled Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World. In a post on X (as well as on Monday night), Psaki said Tuesday that the book will have “[l]ot’s of stories (Obama, Biden and yes…even Peter Doocy are in there)” as well as “lessons learned over my time in politics and government.”
So, for all Resistance wine moms and sites like NewsBusters (since, as always, we watch and read what liberals are saying so you don’t have to), when is it coming out?
When can we expect her to dish on moments like these and others we chronicled from her time at the White House for Joe Biden and Barack Obama and the State Department for Obama? Well, we’ll have to be on pins and needles until....May 7 (that 7 months).
Someone remember to wake us up when it shows up on shelves.
🚨 @jrpsaki announced her new book, “Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World,” out on May 7.#SayMore offers stories about how to be an effective communicator as Psaki reflects on her years on the campaign trail, in the State Department and The White House. pic.twitter.com/5ESqwbluZy
— MSNBC Public Relations (@MSNBCPR) October 31, 2023
In the meantime, she’ll continue full-speed ahead with her MSNBC show, Inside, which airs on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights with the latter having been awarded to her at the expense of the usual 8:00 p.m. Eastern show, All In with Chris Hayes.
Psaki needed something to get liberals interested as, with the Israel-Hamas war raging, her Monday night tenure has been anything but a success.
The Monday editions of Inside with Jen Psaki launched on September 25 and, according to Nielsen Media Research, they’ve yet to be a ratings success.
Total viewership and the key 25-54 demographic put her firmly in third place. While the Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters Primetime has led the way with nearly 2.6 million total viewers (2.578) and 270,000 in the demo, Psaki has been way behind with just under 1.5 million total viewers (1.475) and 142,000 having come from the demo.
Hayes has kept his spot from Tuesdays through Fridays and he’s been well over a million clear of his colleague at 1.582 million total viewers with 169,000 having come from the 25-54 group.
Along with the nauseating press coverage of CNN and MSNBC rhetorically climbing over each other to win Psaki’s services, some in the liberal media have gone as far as to anoint Psaki as the new it girl at MSNBC in what will eventually be a post-Rachel Maddow network.
If that’s the case, good luck in the ratings war, MSNBC. You’re going to need it.
Then again, we should give her credit. At least she’s not in a position to be mocked like we’ve done to CNN.
