update:Jen Psaki now a pundit at MSNBC, the real disinformation?

Psaki was a super asset. She knew biden's policies better than biden. Not the best timing for this change.

 

WH transcript at

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ess-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-may-16-2022/

excerpt

Q The President’s Twitter account posted the other day, “You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.” How does raising taxes on corporations reduce inflation?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, are you talking about a specific tweet?

Q He tweeted, “You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share?”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Look, you know, we have talked about — we have talked about this this past year, about making sure that the wealthiest among us are paying their fair share. And that is important to do. And that is something that, you know, the President has been, you know, working on every day when we talk about inflation and lowering costs.

And so it’s very important that, you know, as we’re seeing costs rise, as we’re talking about how to, you know — you know, build an America that is safe, that’s equal for everyone, and doesn’t leave anyone behind, that is an important part of that as well.

Q But how does raising taxes on corporations lower the cost of gas, the cost of a used car, the cost of food for everyday Americans?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, I think we encourage those who have done very well — right? — especially those who care about climate change, to support a fairer tax — tax code that doesn’t change — that doesn’t charge manufacturers’ workers, cops, builders a higher percentage of their earnings; that the most fortunate people in our nation — and not let the — that stand in the way of reducing energy costs and fighting this existential problem, if you think about that as an example, and to support basic collective bargaining rights as well. Right? That’s also important.

But look, it is — you know, by not — if — without having a fairer tax code, which is what I’m talking about, then all — every — like manufacturing workers, cops — you know, it’s not fair for them to have to pay higher taxes than the folks that — who are — who are — who are not paying taxes at all or barely have.

Q But was does that have to do with inflation? The President said, “You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.”

Jeff Bezos came out and tweeted about that. He said, “The newly created disinformation board should review this tweet.” Would you be okay with that?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Look, it’s not a huge mystery why one of the wealthiest individuals on Earth — right? — opposes an economic agenda that is for the middle class, that cuts some of the biggest costs families face, fights inflation for the long haul — right? — and that’s what we’re talking about; that’s why we’re — we’re talking about lowering inflation here — and adds to the historic deficit reduction the President is achieving by asking the richest taxpayers and corporations to pay their fair share. That is what we’re talking about.

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look, a squirrel!

 

Yeah this is a real hard one to figure out. More federal spending helps ameliorate the effects of inflation. Wow. That was complicated. You're welcome.

 

Bidenflation.

 

maybe she needs her own thread

Amateur hour at the White House briefing room

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3496791-amateur-hour-at-the-white-house-briefing-room/

 

it's official

Jen Psaki joins MSNBC

https://thehill.com/news/media/3499248-jen-psaki-joins-msnbc/

 

He don’t need a binder or to circle back

 

wonder how she'll spin this one

Politico: White House correspondents think KJP is a flop

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/07/01/politico-white-house-correspondents-think-kjp-is-a-flop-n480085

citing this piece:

Karine’s tough debut

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2022/06/29/karines-tough-debut-00043125

 

When is Karine stepping down?

 

there's still no Karine thread . . . maybe OP can change the title of this one

Questioned on Biden documents, his press secretary has only one answer
Karine Jean-Pierre, eight months into her tenure as White House press secretary, has frustrated reporters with her inability to shed light on the classified documents probe, raising doubts about her own access. Others say her wariness is wise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/02/karine-jean-pierre-biden-documents/

excerpt:

But even before the classified documents became news, some members of the usually obstreperous and rarely satisfied press corps privately grumbled that, unlike Psaki, Jean-Pierre doesn’t always know what’s going on in Biden’s White House.

“She doesn’t appear to be in the room where it happens,” said one senior correspondent, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoidalienating Jean-Pierre and other White House officials. “In this administration, unlike recent ones we’ve seen, the press secretary has been sent out to present arguments and defend decisions made by a small group of aides of which she doesn’t appear to be a part. That puts Karine in an awful position, and it shows.”

This correspondent added that “press secretaries who are truly viewed by their bosses as senior advisers are better positioned to speak for their bosses,” citing Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs and Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as examples.
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more at the link