‘Are You Kidding Me?’ WH’s Leavitt Touts Bias Page, SLAMS NYT for Doubting Trump’s Health

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt closed out Monday’s press briefing by weighing in on-camera on her team’s decision to implement a media bias page on the White House website as well as lambaste The New York Times for their cartoonish, 2,100-plus-word November 25 piece suggesting President Trump is in both cognitive and physical decline.

Conservative talk radio host John Fredericks queued this all up, asking Leavitt to explain “your objective with” the page on the White House website dedicated to “Media Offender of the Week” that, as of this blog’s publication, has 31 such entries featuring everyone from broadcast news (ABC, CBS, NBC) to newspapers like The New York Times to online-only sites (Axios) to even local news (KTLA).

Leavitt said she was “glad you noticed, much to the dismay of some of your colleagues in the room” and the aim will be to fulfill their “promise on day one to hold the media accountable, because unfortunately, and we deal with this all day, every day around here, there are so many fake stories that are unfortunately written” based on anonymous sources.

 

“We appreciate the journalists, some of those who are in this room, who do reach out for comment, who try to get things right...[B]ut overwhelmingly, the fake news that we see pumped out of this building on a day to day basis. It’s — it’s honestly overwhelming to keep up with it all and to constantly have to defend against these fake news and these attacks,” she added.

This went straight into her torching of The Times for a “deeply unfortunate” article by Katie Rogers, who happened to write two such articles during the Biden presidency laughably declaring him fit for office:

At one point, an exasperated Leavitt declared “are you kidding me” in reference to claims Trump was slipping (and thus linking him to Biden’s decline):

 

Rewinding to the start of the briefing, the great Isabelle Brown of The Daily Wire was in the new media seat and asked about cracking down on legal immigration in light of Wednesday’s deadly ambush of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C.

 

In response later on to a question from The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg, Leavitt further expanded on the need for those who do immigrate to the U.S. assimilate with our values and respect for the rule of law (which the left tried to cancel the great Kaylee McGee White for voicing last week):

 

But most of the Q&A touched on the hubbub surrounding a November 28 Washington Post article claiming — despite vehement pushback to the contrary from the Pentagon and White House — that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of everyone onboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on September 2 even some had survived the initial strike.

NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez kicked those questions off immediately following Brown:

 

Following a question about President Trump’s pardon of a former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker, Gutierrez had back up from reporters such as CBS’s Weijia Jiang, AFP’s Danny Kemp, PBS News Hour’s Liz Landers (the girlfriend of Jim Acosta, who said really journalists should stop going to the White House), and ABC’s Rachel Scott to name a few.

But another person who remained tight on Gutierrez’s trail about the drugboat strikes was Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich, showing those who care to pay attention Fox News is not there to carry water for the administration (pun intended):

 

To see the relevant transcript from the December 1 briefing, click here.