Biden Team Disables Chat On Virtual Press Conferences After Reporters Ask Tough Questions

https://www.dailywire.com ^ | By Emily Zanotti • Dec 31, 2020

[Red Badger]

Democrat Joe Biden’s White House transition team has reportedly disabled the chat function on their Zoom virtual press conferences after invited journalists began complaining about the group’s lack of transparency.

As the Daily Wire reported last week, reporters were becoming “frustrated” with the Biden team — and Joe Biden himself — because the team appeared to have a slate of favored journalists who were always called up on to ask questions during the team’s virtual press conferences.

The “New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, PBS and Politico” were given the opportunity to ask questions of the team at nearly every press conference, while even mainstream media outlets like the Associated Press were shut out.

“Hey guys, there tons of folks looking to ask questions and since this is being done once a week, could we PLEASE go longer or at least hold more frequent briefings,” a reporter from the Daily Beast said in the chat of a Zoom press conference held last week.

“Any chance you can take a few more questions? There are a lot of folks here with questions,” Zeke Miller from the Associated Press added.

“Is there a point in saying we want to ask questions if you only call on the same small group every week?” another asked.

The system had a direct impact: Biden’s team rarely had to answer an unexpected question, particularly about touchy subjects, like an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into his son Hunter’s finances and foreign dealings. Biden has yet to answer questions on Hunter’s issues in any substantive way, and even then when questioned by late-night television hosts, not network reporters.

His team has a typical statement response to the question: “President-elect Biden is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.”

After reporters complained in public about the situation, though, the Biden team didn’t take more questions, they simply shut down the chat, according to at least one reporter who was on the most recent virtual press conference Zoom.

“The Biden transition team appears to have disabled the public chat function on its transition zoom calls, a place where I and others had been routinely complaining to them to take more questions,” incoming Politico editor Sam Stein said on Twitter, per Fox News.

Biden’s team did not comment on the situation according to Fox, but the team did say, last month, that they value “transparency” and believe the press’s job is to hold Biden “accountable” during his tenure.

“He also believes, though, that it’s the media’s job to hold him accountable,” a spokesperson said. “He’s there to do the people’s work and he welcomes that relationship. He welcomes their role, the media’s role in our democracy and I think it will be, frankly, the polar opposite of what we’ve seen over the last four years…I think you’ll see a huge change in the culture in the way this White House treats the media.”

[mware]

An AP reporter complaining? Get use to it you b@st@eds. I hate the lot of you.

[BenLurkin]

New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, PBS and Politico are reliable Democrat Party organs.

These so-called “news” outlets are not just pro-Democrat Party. They are Democrat Party.

[DarthVader]

Its because they are still not getting transition briefings.

[DarrellZero]

Tough questions like, “What year is it?”

[lodi90]

“Any chance you can take a few more questions? There are a lot of folks here with questions,” Zeke Miller from the Associated Press added.

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Ha ha ha. Zeke Miller is the Fake Newser who spread the MLK bust was removed from oval office hoax on POTUS. Nice to see Team Biden rubbing their boots on him.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

Maybe they should have asked him for an update on his leg and dog?

Media sour grapes ... boo hoo hoo hoo

They were perfectly fine during the election, actively working with the Buyden campaign that “no difficult questions” and 14 hour daily naps were necessary to rig the election ...even threw in censoring stories before and after the election.

[Drango]

Compare the above article to the fluff piece from NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/31/951452717/bidens-incoming-press-secretary-briefings-wont-be-a-platform-for-right-wing-spin

[Common Sense 101]

Tough questions? Like “What’s your second favorite flavor of ice cream”, you enemedia communist scum.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[forgotten man]

Here is one short yes or no question that needs to asked of Joe Biden: “Did you meet with Mr. Bobulinski at the Beverly Hilton Hotel?”

[Bullish]

Have you heard the old saying “you get what you vote for”?
Well, America’s getting what it DIDN’T vote for forced upon them.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

“They are Democrat Party.”

Maybe this will be the end or a neutering of the demonkkkraps? In the 1930s, US commies and socialists were on the rise riding the Depression to their advantage in organizing labor, pushing social insurance, etc, They kept joining forces from local level to state to national to international. Eventually they started infighting and their best days were behind them by the mid-40s. The race riots and hatred pulled them together ... maybe this will happen again with puppet Buyden.

[Balding_Eagle]

And they complain about Trump, who answers their tough questions.

I hope Trump raises Holy Hell on the 6th. Give the press something to complain about.

Like calling him a dictator and thief for taking an election we won.

[colorado tanker]

Bite-me is “deeply proud” of his son??? Including his refusal to pay child support to the mother of his child while living in a mansion and raking in millions from the Chicoms???

[Red Badger]

And walking around naked in front of his 14 year old niece...............

[gw-ington]

Biden ... Reporters Ask Tough Questions

Fake-news MSM reporter: What will you wonderfully do in your glorious first 100 days in office?

Dr. Jill Biden, M.D., Ed.D., Ph.D., D.M.D., etc. (speaking on behalf of her husband, Sleepy Joe, sitting right next to her): Hey! ... ha-ha-ha ... what kind of question is that? You said you were gonna ask him about what his favorite pie flavor is. What are you trying to do, audition for Newsmax? C'mon, man! I think that's the end of this interview. Right, Joe?

Sleepy Joe Basement-Biden: Z-z-z-z-z-z-z .....

Dr. Jill Biden: Oh Joe, you're being so silly again. He likes to pretend he's sleeping. He likes to act silly. Ha-ha ... Joe? ... JOE? ... Buehler? ... BUEHLER? ... and there he is! ... he's AWAKE! ... Joe, you're AWAKE! ... Thank Goodness! ... WHEW! ... ya scared me for a second there, Joey! ...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Maybe they should have asked him for an update on his leg and dog?”

Surely you jest. So many reporters are humping his leg the dog wouldn’t be able to get close.

[Spok]

Biden feels no sense of moral obligation to the American people. After all, it’s not like they elected him.

[ronnie raygun]

reporters tough questions, what flavor ice cream do you like