During Thursday’s White House press briefing, our friend, 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner, and Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan triggered former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy plus the liberals at Mediaite for asking Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about “trans ideology” playing a role in the Wednesday’s Minneapolis Catholic school shooting by a transgender psychopath.
Olohan first asked about “consequences” for those who engage in what the left calls “gender-affirming” behavior and whose children, students, or patients go onto commit a crime such as, say, killing two children and injuring 20:
But what set them off was this second question:
OLOHAN: I’ve seen a lot of calls for action among these lawmakers saying that we shouldn’t just be praying. One that I’ve seen on the right, actually, is calls for the FBI to institute a new class of domestic terrorism that involves trans ideology. Is that something that the administration would support?
LEAVITT: I would have to check with the appropriate people on that.
This left Mediaite’s Ahmad Austin Jr. rather triggered, as evidenced by his piece “Pro-MAGA Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt If FBI Is Looking at New Terror Designation ‘That Involves Trans Ideology’.”
Austin’s lazy article restated the headline as the lede and then did not even mention Olohan by name or her outlet until the fifth paragraph.
In an editor’s note added early Thursday night, they included a direct response from Olohan on X:
Over at his newsletter site Status, Darcy threw a temper tantrum at Olohan, refusing to say her name. Instead, he said was just “a Daily Wire figure” who “shamefully...pressed press secretary Karoline Leavitt on whether the FBI should ‘institute a new class of domestic terrorism that involves trans ideology.’”
“The same individual asked if the administration would support such a move. Leavitt replied she would need to ‘check with the appropriate people,’” he added.
This, Darcy whined, was proof of “right-wing media turn[ing] up the anti-trans rhetoric, weaponizing the suspect’s gender identity against the entire community” and “fram[ing] the violence as proof that transgender people pose a public threat.”
Elsewhere in the short briefing, our friend Reagan Reese of the Daily Caller cued Leavitt up to respond to the hateful tweet from Biden regime Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki:
Reese also took aim at the broader media:
REESE: [T]here have been several media outlets who’ve glazed over the fact that the shooter was confused in their gender identity. Does the administration believe that this element needs to be investigated in the shooting?
LEAVITT: All of the elements are being investigated in the shooting. Absolutely. Which is why part of the reason the FBI director came out and immediately confirmed that facet of the investigation.
And, on a different topic, Real America’s Voice’s Steve Gruber was filling in for Brian Glenn and concluded the briefing with this question:
