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(Starting Monday) Biden Admin to Charge Reporters $170 Every Time They Go to a Briefing
GP ^ | February 27, 2021 | Cassandra Fairbanks

Posted on 02/27/2021 2:25:09 PM PST by White Lives Matter

The mainstream media goons who shrieked and moaned about a “free press” during the Trump administration are pretty mum after the Biden admin announced that they will be charging reporters for their COVID tests every time they enter the building.

Without taking the $170 test, reporters will not be allowed to enter the building to go to press briefings.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that the White House is seeking to put the new charges in place on Monday.

Charges this high would make it much harder for smaller and independent outlets to get into the briefings, which would make corporate media shills dominate the room even harder than they already do.

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To: White Lives Matter

10% to the big guy. Get a second job building solar panels to make ends meet.


41 posted on 02/27/2021 3:12:06 PM PST by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: White Lives Matter

That old corrupt bastard can’t even hold a press conference


42 posted on 02/27/2021 3:12:31 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Swamp express to communist hell !! )
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To: White Lives Matter

My wife goes through a quick test when she goes to visit her mom in the nursing home. If you own the machine(s) and have in house qualified lab techs the materials cost about $3 per test.

They are not charging $170 per test to visit old people. Maybe Biden should have his stuff at the nursing home. It’s where he should be anyway.


43 posted on 02/27/2021 3:16:26 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: cpdiii
Someone is making a hell of a profit. The cost of the test is less than 50 bucks. All the rest is profit.

This is no doubt being done under contract.

Government contract boost cost a lot.

If they do it under prevailing wage guidelines you can bet the person performing the test $30+ per hour.

44 posted on 02/27/2021 3:17:35 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: White Lives Matter

Welcome to “The Reveal” part of the Great Awakening folks.

I’m willing to bet President Trump mentions this at tomorrow’s SOTU from Orlando.


45 posted on 02/27/2021 3:20:26 PM PST by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: Truthoverpower

(That old corrupt bastard can’t even hold a press conference)

Exactly. Trump loved having press conferences with these hostile reporters. Just shows the difference between he and Biden.


46 posted on 02/27/2021 3:20:40 PM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

why is the WH charging 10 times the cost ? and...

does that fee include a free drink ticket?


47 posted on 02/27/2021 3:20:49 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: White Lives Matter

I can’t help but laugh!


48 posted on 02/27/2021 3:20:53 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: White Lives Matter

OK, we now have razor-wire topped fence around the Capitol and the White House plans on charging reporters $170 to attend press briefings. Yet we are being told that Trump was a dictator, the dictator who constantly took questions from a hostile press. But of course, he was bad because he was hostile right back. But at least he didn’t charge them an admission fee.

Perhaps the WH can acquire some of those “more accurate” Chinese anal swabs for the press.


49 posted on 02/27/2021 3:24:37 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: White Lives Matter

BWAHAHAHAHA!


50 posted on 02/27/2021 3:38:04 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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To: White Lives Matter

This also means that when Jen says she’ll circle back to you, that’s gonna be an extra $170.


51 posted on 02/27/2021 3:44:50 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: White Lives Matter

The smaller outlets should form a pool and alternate the representative for each briefing.


52 posted on 02/27/2021 3:48:17 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: antidemoncrat; Liz

Hell, all of the rabies tests would be positive.


53 posted on 02/27/2021 3:51:33 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Well, most folks pay for fiction entertainment...


54 posted on 02/27/2021 3:54:53 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: Jonty30

Culling the herd.


55 posted on 02/27/2021 3:59:56 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: White Lives Matter

Biden can’t recognize anyone so it will be embarrassing. He will need flash cards.Honestly just have Jill read him questions with prescripted answers those are really entertaining anyway.


56 posted on 02/27/2021 4:04:28 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: White Lives Matter

57 posted on 02/27/2021 4:31:00 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: White Lives Matter; All
Given that the most commonly used test for determining of someone has the corona virus is notoriously unreliable in its results, this could get interesting real quick.

The creators of the RT-PCR test, the most commonly used coronavirus test, say it yields between 80 and 97 percent false positive results

58 posted on 02/27/2021 4:36:42 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: White Lives Matter

And still the media will practice slavish obedience to his every wish.


59 posted on 02/27/2021 4:44:24 PM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: All

I bet it will only ACTUALLY be required for ‘unfriendly’ media. Toe the Administration Line, never ask a serious question, and they will be allowed in with a wink and a nod.


60 posted on 02/27/2021 4:45:24 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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