White House Press Briefing
NB’s Houck Hammers ‘Sophomoric’ Joy Reid as Media Low-Light
Appearing on Fox News @ Night early Friday morning, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck identified far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid’s “stupid and sophomoric” accusation that conservative Supreme Court justices are “fine” with supposed GOP efforts “to hurt black people” as a media low-light of the week. He also touted Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressing Jen…
OMG: Journo Asks If WH Is Probing ‘Right-Wing Forces’ Helping Truckers
Monday marked another return to a full White House Briefing Room and, for this episode of the Psaki Show, Reuters’s Andrea Shalal strayed into authoritarianism by asking Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether the Biden administration was investigating “conservative” and “right-wing forces in the U.S.” for supporting truck drivers in Canada protesting that government’s COVID mandates.
Jen Psaki on Spotify: ‘More That Can Be Done’ to Censor Joe Rogan
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called on music and podcast streaming platform Spotify to tighten its grip on speech to stop so-called “misinformation.” It’s a culture-war tactic often used by the left: Accept some subservience by others to its agenda, but say that’s only a start.
Back to Business: Doocy Duels Psaki Over Illegal Immigration, Ukraine
Aside from a question by the White House Correspondents Association president, it was back to business Tuesday in the White House Briefing Room a day after President Biden called Fox’s Peter Doocy “a stupid son of a bitch” and then called him to hash it out. Doocy led the way in shifting focus back to the news, battling Press Secretary Jen Psaki over illegal immigration and the crisis at the…
WHOA! Biden Calls Fox’s Peter Doocy ‘A Stupid Son of a B****’
Early Monday evening, following remarks at the start of a White House Competition Council meeting, President Biden lashed out at Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy as “a stupid son of a bitch” and mocked inflation as “a great asset” to the economy. After the remarks, Doocy joined FNC's The Five and handled it with plenty of class and humor, which were two things that the…
Doocy Returns Post-Covid Bout, Battles Psaki Over WH’s Testing Failure
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy returned to the Brady Briefing Room on Monday for the first time in 2022 following a mild case of Covid and promptly threw down with Press Secretary Jen Psaki over “why” was the Biden administration “so unprepared for the need for testing,” President Biden’s falsehoods about Covid spread, and disinformation from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
We’ve Survived 2021! Here’s the Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs From 2021
Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.
DOOCY TIME: Here’s Peter’s Top Briefing Tangles With Jen Psaki in 2021
Following four years of combative White House press briefings and showboaters like Jim Acosta and April Ryan becoming Resistance household names, the White House Briefing Room saw a different show in 2021 with Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Often times, one could count on one man to do what Acosta refused to do in respectfully challenging an administration: Fox’s Peter Doocy.
Doocy for the Holidays: Peter, Jen Tangle in Last Psaki Show of 2021
Affectionately referred to here as The Psaki Show, Thursday featured 2021’s final White House press briefing and it served as solid encapsulation of the year as Fox’s Peter Doocy tangled with Press Secretary Jen Psaki on a variety of issues (with Covid and crime on Thursday’s docket) mixed in with other reporter questions that ranged from solid to inoffensive to boring to hitting from the left…
Contrast: Doocy Asks Psaki Real Questions While Lefties Lob Softballs
Hours before Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s lame attempt at humor, Tuesday’s White House press briefing similarly featured moments of stupidity as liberal journalists hit Psaki from the left on gun control, January 6, cutting back holiday parties due to Covid, and, worst of all, the dark red voting tendencies of Kentuckians who lost their homes in violent tornadoes. However, it wasn’t all lost as…
Psaki REFUSES to Tell Doocy If Biden Thinks Lefty Policies Drive Crime
On Monday’s abbreviated edition of The Psaki Show, Fox’s Peter Doocy came prepared (as always) with tough questions many of his colleagues refuse to answer, focusing this day on issues pertaining to the cost of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better (BBB) boondoggle, whether Vice President Harris is still in charge of combatting illegal immigration, and the role of liberal prosecutors…
Surprise: WH Reporters Join FNC’s Heinrich in Pressing Psaki on Russia
Tuesday’s White House press briefing was jam-packed amid Russian troops gathering on the border with Ukraine and a high-stakes call between President Biden and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, so it was a welcome sight when Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich and others highlighted the U.S.’s acquiescence to Russia on the Nord Stream II pipeline, Biden’s lack of public comments about the tensions, and…
New York Post Reporter Dares to Ask Psaki About Hunter (She Hated It)
During Monday’s episode of The Psaki Show, New York Post reporter Steven Nelson made the most of his infrequent opportunities to question Press Secretary Jen Psaki by invoking news about Hunter Biden’s Chinese business dealings and Miranda Devine’s new book about Hunter’s laptop. However, Psaki wanted nothing to do with either of them.
NewsBusters Podcast: How Is Jen Psaki Struggling Against 'Doocy Time'?
The toughest part of Jen Psaki's White House briefing is dealing with respectful hardballs from Fox's Peter Doocy. On this episode of the Podcast, our briefing specialist and Managing Editor Curtis Houck discusses how Doocy made Psaki's spin this week just too lame to take seriously.
