White House Press Briefing

YIKES: Doocy, O'Keefe SLAM KJP Over Biden 'GarageGate' Docs
Thursday’s White House press conference was as contentious as you would’ve imagined after the announcement that President Joe Biden kept classified documents in the garage at his home in Delaware. The reckless disregard for America’s national security by carelessly leaving classified documents in three different places was such a big story that even the leftist media couldn’t hide it from…

New Year, Same Story: KJP Ducks Doocy on Whether Biden Lied About Son
Tuesday marked the first White House press briefing of 2023 and, in her ninth month as press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre continued to stammer and stonewall her way through even the most benign questions. Meanwhile, Fox’s Peter Doocy kept up the heat by wondering whether anyone in the White House could say with a straight face whether “the southern border is secure” and if President Biden…

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden Avoids the Press, Karine Makes a Mess
He promised he'd be so much nicer to the press than President Trump, but President Biden gave only 7 interviews to journalists in 2022 and called only 5 solo press conferences. Curtis Houck joins the show to discuss how Biden and his press secretaries performed, and how some journalists pressed for serious answers.

Fireworks by the Dozen: Here Are the Top WH Briefing Moments of 2022
Inside the White House Briefing Room, 2022 began with more mountain-sized word salads and dodges from Jen Psaki before shifting in May to former MoveOn.org spokeswoman and former MSNBC contributor Karine Jean-Pierre, who made waves for her stunning ineptitude and using her binder as a life raft.

KJP Fumbles Border Questions, Ducks Twitter Files Question from Vaughn
Shortly before Chief Justice John Roberts stepped into temporarily thwart the end of Title 42, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fumbled her way Monday afternoon through the latest briefing with basic questions from reporters about the administration’s plans to (allegedly) deal with their ongoing crisis they’ve exacerbated.

‘Distraction...Full of Old News’; KJP Hit by Jacqui Over Twitter Files
xOver the course of Monday’s 48-minute-long White House press briefing, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich was the only member of the press corps called on who asked the ever-stammering Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Friday’s release of the Twitter Files by Twitter boss Elon Musk and journalist Matt Taibbi. Whether it be reporters for the Associated Press, CBS, or USA Today to name a few…

Doocy Puts KJP to Shame Over the Border Crisis, Targeting Elon Musk
On Wednesday, Fox’s Peter Doocy grilled inept and stammering White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over the Biden border crisis and Jean-Pierre’s concerning comments from Monday that the Biden administration would be “keeping an eye on” and “monitoring” Twitter now that it’s owned by Elon Musk. On the latter, Jean-Pierre offered some weak tea on how “monitoring” simply meant watching…

Doocy, Wegmann, Friends Grill WH Over Weak Support for China Protests
On Monday’s episode of the White House press briefing, numerous White House reporters challenged National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby on the Biden administration’s milquetoast response to the growing and potentially seismic protests in China over the communist regime’s ongoing lockdowns and human rights abuses.
KJP’s Veiled Threat to Pro-Free Speech Musk: ‘Keeping a Close Eye’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sent a veiled threat Monday to Twitter owner Elon Musk when she claimed that the The White House is “monitoring” Twitter after Musk took over the platform.

FIREWORKS: KJP Blows Gasket After Daily Caller Reporter Presses Fauci
Between the run-up to the midterms and President Biden’s lengthy foreign trip, White House briefings have been few and far between. But there was one Tuesday and it devolved into a near riot with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly excoriating Daily Caller’s Diana Glebova and her defenders when she tried to shout questions to Dr. Tony Fauci about his role in the origins of COVID-19…

NB's Houck Hits Media's 'Ridiculous' Defense of Long Vote Count Delays
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck appeared on Fox News at Night on Friday for their regular segment on the media's highs and lows of the week. Houck's low was the media;s "ridiculous" appeals for "patience" as the vote-counting process went on for days and days without resolution. The longer it goes, the more people suspect some fishy business with the ballots.

Fox’s Spunt Hits KJP Over Biden DOJ Meddling by Asking for Musk Probe
After Bloomberg’s Jenny Leonard asked President Biden on Wednesday afternoon about whether he thinks Twitter boss Elon Musk is a national security threat, CBS’s Weijia Jiang and Fox’s David Spunt followed up during Thursday’s White House press briefing and whether Biden actually meant that and how that’d square with his campaign promise to have an independent Justice Department (DOJ).

OUCH! Heinrich, Wegmann Swarm KJP in WILD Pre-Election Presser
Proving once again that she was only hired so the Biden administration could fill their diversity quota, President Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre struggled through another painful and cringeworthy press conference where she had difficulty stringing coherent sentences together in order to answer simple questions from reporters in the briefing room.

Doocy, Wegmann TORPEDO KJP Over the Left’s Abortion Obsession
In only the fourth White House press briefing this month, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced a litany of questions Tuesday about the left’s fixation on abortion (instead of crime or the economy). As we’ve come to expect, Fox’s Peter Doocy and Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann turned up the heat with Doocy asking if the White House is more concerned about abortions than struggling…