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‘Garbage’: White House reporters slammed for asking ‘ridiculous’ questions, from Tokyo Olympics to Sarah Sanders
January 26, 2021
Now that regular, daily White House press briefings are being held again, many Americans are praising the tenor of press secretary Jen Psaki, who some say is eager to impart actual information. After four years of press secretaries attacking both the press corps and Democrats, the new tone in the briefing room is a welcome change for many.
But on social media some blasted several White House reporters for asking "ridiculous" questions, like this unidentified reporter who wanted to know how high up on President Joe Biden's list of priorities is the Arkansas gubernatorial race, now that former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has thrown her hat in the ring.
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This question is just ridiculous. Come on. <a href="https://t.co/SvIrHO5QVX">pic.twitter.com/SvIrHO5QVX</a><br/>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354136883236921344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>This media, culture, and communications professor weighed in:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Why are there so many garbage reporters that make up this WH press corps. This is just insultingly bad no sequitur nonsense from this person <a href="https://t.co/XlF82SMHgt">https://t.co/XlF82SMHgt</a><br/>
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) <a href="https://twitter.com/gilmored85/status/1354138871542521856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>That was not the only "<a href="https://twitter.com/brianwacker1/status/1354147045825802240" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ridiculous</a>" question.</p><p>Here's Fox News' Peter Doocy, who appears to be trying to rack up a lot of attention for the conservative cable channel.</p><p>"The President said he 'hopes' the Senate can do the impeachment trial while working on the people's business. What if they can't?" he wanted to know, strongly suggesting the impeachment trial in the Senate is not the people's business.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Peter Doocy is Doocying <a href="https://t.co/BdOepAQENf">pic.twitter.com/BdOepAQENf</a><br/>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354129199972417536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>And Doocy also wanted to know President Biden's thoughts about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offering to host the Tokyo Olympics.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">
Peter Doocy really thought he had something here <a href="https://t.co/1cDJQNMFxq">pic.twitter.com/1cDJQNMFxq</a><br/>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1354135531018465283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>SiriusXMProgress host Joe Sudbay summed it all up:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
you work for a major network. you get the plum assignment of covering the white house. you get to ask questions of the new press secretary in the first week of the administration - and this is what you ask
some white house reporters are just ridiculous and <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> doesn't play <a href="https://t.co/JqzzZmCQ92">https://t.co/JqzzZmCQ92</a><br/>
— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeSudbay/status/1354138318871678976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2021</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Noam Chomsky slams 'liberal American intellectuals' for refusing to admit US is a 'leading terrorist state'
January 26, 2021
Although left-wing author Noam Chomsky was glad to see former President Donald Trump voted out of office in 2020, that doesn't mean that he doesn't have some vehement criticisms of the Democratic Party and American liberalism — including Democratic views on foreign policy. And during a recent interview with progressive journalist/author Chris Hedges, Chomsky stressed that American liberals have a hard time admitting how bad U.S. foreign policy can be.
Chomsky, now 92, appeared on Hedges' show, "On Contact," which airs on RT America — the U.S. division of the Russian cable news outlet RT. Hedges, like Chomsky, has been extremely critical of the Democratic Party."
<p>Just as you can't get the Republican mobs to admit that the election was lost," Chomsky told Hedges, "you can't get liberal American intellectuals to recognize that the United States is a leading terrorist state."</p><p>Chomsky told Hedges that throughout its history, the U.S. has had a belligerent and imperialistic foreign policy. And he notes some examples of U.S. foreign policy being condemned in other countries — for example, the International Court of Justice slamming the Reagan Administration's intervention in Nicaragua during the 1980s as a violation of international law.</p><p>"What the Reagan Administration was doing was the peak of terrorism by our own definitions," Chomsky told Hedges. "But the New York Times ran an editorial saying we can dismiss the judgment of the Court because it's a hostile forum. Why is it a hostile forum? Because it condemned the U.S."</p><p>Chomsky also slammed U.S. intervention in Cuba, noting its actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. "It was a serious terrorist war that almost led to the destruction of the world," Chomsky told Hedges.</p>
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Trump rioter who smoked a joint in the Capitol arrested by FBI after his co-workers turn him in
January 26, 2021
A New York man who was caught on video smoking a joint inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been arrested after his co-workers gave his information to authorities, the Daily Beast reports.
James Bonet has been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authorities and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
<p>"Capitol building smoking with all my people!" Bonet says in one video, which shows him smoking a joint with other rioters.</p><p>A criminal complaint states that Bonet's co-workers were aware of his penchant for anti-government conspiracy theories, including his belief that the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden. According to the Daily Beast, one of his co-workers contacted the FBI and said they were afraid Bonet would get COVID-19 at that protest and "spread it to them because they saw photographs of Bonet...not wearing a facemask."</p><p>The co-worker also informed the FBI about videos showing Bonet inside the Capitol. </p><p>As the Daily Beast points out, Bonet is among several Capitol rioters who smoked pot inside the Capitol. </p>
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