Posted on 01/26/2022 4:11:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
With their obsessive need to be perceived as nice, Republicans never play the game right.
The big news on Monday night was that Joe Biden, in response to a perfectly appropriate question from Fox News White House correspondent Steve Doocy, not only refused to answer but openly and into the mic called Doocy a “stupid son of a b****.” Biden then called Doocy, ostensibly to apologize. In fact, he didn’t apologize at all but Doocy seemed happy to be the nice guy who accepted a private non-apology in exchange for a public insult. In other words, Doocy handled the whole thing completely wrong.
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My beef is with Peter Doocy. Preliminarily, I think very highly of Doocy because he’s willing to ask questions that no one else in the press room asks. (Others in the alternative media would but they’re barred from the press room.) Doocy’s not as probing as I would wish but he does push harder than anyone else and that’s definitely something.
As to this matter, though, Doocy failed completely. He shouldn’t have had a “nice call” with Biden and said that he didn’t need an apology. He did need an apology...a big one. What he should have said was, “Mr. Biden, you very publicly and crudely insulted me. I expect an equally public, explicit apology.” And that should have been the whole call, followed by daily reminders.
Game theory says that, if you’re the decent type, you first play by the rules. However, if your opponent refuses to play by the rules, and seeks to obtain an advantage through bullying and cheating, you teach him a lesson by bringing the same tactics to him, except on rocket-fueled steroids. You don’t say, “We had a nice call.”
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I don’t think Biden has a reputation as being a nice guy, but the MSM tries to portray him that way.
Nothing personal, pal. Is not an apology. It is a further insult.
Most conservatives are dizzy.
He’s a mean, nasty little man...... about to show his ugly face.
This is why he is endangering our troops and our ntl security....so he can vent his spleen over Putin.
Bidung can drop his Near Death Dementia Act, his Victim Act, and his Gold Star Father act.
Besides....war profiteering is great for the greedy Biden Crime Family.
IMO, Doocy is handling it like a grown up, professional news man. Unlike the lefties that like to make huge, front page deals out of everything a right wing politician says that they see as insulting.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. I would have called braindead a treasonous bastard.And that would be the nicer terms.
I’d be happier if journalists did a better job of “explaining” things and actually “setting the table” so that an event could be better understood.
I don’t follow journalists. I don’t know who these people are. And American Thinker seems to assume that I do. I did a little research and apparently Steve Doocy is the father of Peter Doocy.
Steve Doocy asked President Biden a question and was called an SOB.
Peter Doocy had a phone call with President Biden and did not receive the apology he was owed.
Or something like that. I’m still pretty confused.
I disagree. Most Republicans, perhaps. But not most conservatives.
IIRC, while covering Biden on the campaign trail, he said more than once that Biden was a nice guy and other complimentary things. I remember thinking Peter was a Dem.
I would have said “I don’t take it personally but it’s my mother you insulted and that I do take personally!”
American Thinker called Peter 'Steve' by mistake.
Steve Doocy is the dad and is a cohost on FNC's morning show. Peter is the White House correspondent who Biden called an SOB and then later pretended to apologize to.
For this writer, everything is a game and she is the ref throwing the flag.
No, you’re still slightly confused...
Peter Doocy is the Fox News White House correspondent.
Peter Doocy asked the question.
Peter Doocy got the non-apology phone call from Plugs.
Steve Doocy is Peter’s father, but Steve Doocy does the morning show on Fox News, and is not the Fox News White House correspondent.
“You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier”
“You’re a damn liar, man. [snip] I’m not sedentary, I get up and… Look, the reason I’m running… You want to check my shape on, let’s do push ups together, let’s run, let’s do whatever you want to do, let’s take an IQ test.”
“Look, fat—”
“You’re full of shit.”
“I know you’d ask it. I have no response, it’s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.’”
Hard call- This is the right thing to be the bigger person- but Doocy needs to come at him harder and edgier to where Jao Bai Dan implodes on the podium
The author is a stupid son of a bitch.
Of course Doocy is a conservative, but he’s trying to be a reporter and not make himself the story.
Attacking Doocy is misplaced, in any event.
Their list of accomplishments (x the past 50 years) could fit on the back of a match box. The left, OTOH, have changed America (for the worse)
Eff me. This idiot author might as well jump off a cliff if his irony meter is so defective.
It's like the southern expression "bless her heart" which is not about forgiveness and prayer for redemption.
Trump uses the same turn of phrase. It doesn't exactly mean what this author thinks it means.
He should have said “the stupid son of a bitch called me, said he likes applesauce, shit his pants and hung up”.
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