Posted on 03/16/2017 2:51:22 PM PDT by kevcol
"Sean, I'd like to ask you about two different topics but could you help us all by calling on Peter right now?"
Peter Baker is the White House reporter for the New York Times.
Spicer declined Simendinger's request.
"No, I'm gonna— I understand," Spicer said. "I actually call the questions. Alexis, if you don't want to [ask] your question, I can call on somebody else."
"Could you call on the New York Times, please?" Simendinger said.
But Spicer moved on to another reporter.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
"No."
All righty then, she asked a question and Spicer answered it. Next!
Yep, that occurred to me that the girl wanted to re-introducter her favorite media into the group again.
Spicer should call on the MSM reporters the same number of times that Obama and Hillary gave interviews to Fox News.
This is the whole enchilada:
Towards the end of this one. Audio off-podium is pretty weak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-WC9gxT9Y
Grateful thanks!
The NYT’s reporter got the first question today.
It was pretty heated today, all the fake news representatives wanted to argue. How Sean tolerates it is beyond me.
Sorry that it’s the whole thing. I’m not good at upload, snip, download.
Regards,
HLB
“The NYT, CNN, WaPo, HuffPo etc. shouldn’t even have press passes, never mind get to ask questions.”
You know, I used to think the same thing. But I have changed my mind. There is nothing that irritates a WH “journalist” more than to be in the room and then be totally ignored. They really get their panties all in a wad about that!
She could but what she really wanted to do is “prove” that there is a “chill wind” blowing through the ranks of the elites (reporters) and that their (NYTimes...who’s next????) civil rights to ask fake questions and print fake news is being infringed upon.
I remember Donald Rumsfeld had a press conference. Some reporter asked a very insipid question. Rumsfeld simply looked at her and said “Stupid question. Next?”
I am starting to really like Sean Spicer.
She wanted to give the Times the opportunity to further debate the “bugging” issue. He wasn’t buying.
Move her and Jim Acosta to the back row.
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