Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to the state today to tout the recently passed COVID “relief” bill, which fell $600 per eligible person short of the campaign promise then-candidate Joe Biden pledged to voters. According to Denver Channel politics reporter Meghan Lopez, local reporters were “not allowed on the tour and will not get any access to the Vice President to ask questions”:
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Some in the media even sounded alarm bells last year about lack of press availability with Kamala Harris after Biden announced her as his VP pick, with one reporter saying the whole issue reeked of a “foul stench of insecurity.” Those issues are front and center yet again, barely two months into their time in office.

My guess is that Harris is not sitting down with local reporters in Colorado because the administration is unfamiliar with the local press and wants to avoid the headaches she causes when she starts talking. Best to keep things controlled and scripted, right?

Trump was ruthlessly criticized by the press for his adversarial approach and Pence was treated like a drone by the media, but one thing that is not in dispute about either of them, as far as the press is concerned, is that they didn’t hide from the media for all their grievances with them.

For all the talk from the Biden-Harris administration about “restoring respect” between the press corps and the White House, they’ve done a poor job of putting that plan into action. But after the way the media let Biden get away with conducting his campaign in the basement for most of last year, with not much engagement with journalists beyond the friendly ones, really the main people to blame here for the administration continuing to limit access falls on the press themselves.

Doesn’t make it right, but that’s the reality of the situation. And now, here we are with an administration that takes advantage of it by restricting access to the two most powerful people in the country, presumably because neither one of them are effective messengers — which leaves the American people with a lot of unanswered questions in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, a dangerous border crisis, and an economy that is still trying to sprout its sea legs.

If it wasn’t obvious before, it should be now: We are so screwed.

Coffee is for Closers!

Suggest you learn re-loading or some similarly useful trade.

The press is the willing poodle (to use British slang) of the elite. They prance and scamper about hoping for scraps from the master’s table. I treat them with all the scorn and derision they have earned.

Using my offensive mindset I always wondered why the tables aren’t turned on the poodles by making them research and report on an issue. In other words they ask a question and you respond with a fact and assign them to verify if it is true or not. Then every time you see them ask them how their research is going. If they aren’t doing it then you ask them if they enjoy being ignorant.

Kayleigh would have been a perfect person to deliver this as she is smart as a tack and quick witted.

sigh – so many missed opportunities.

“Hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word “psychology” was ever invented. It works, too.” Robert A. Heinlein, “Revolt in 2100”

Anyone who thinks that a conservative victory is possible in 2022 and 2024 is in willful denial. Besides Dominion and the plethora of means by which the Presidential election and Georgia Senate elections were stolen, HR-1 ensures a one-party state.

Marisa has the right of it, we’re not going to vote our way out of this amount of treason. When Jefferson spoke of The Tree of Liberty needing to be refreshed from time to time with a blood of Tyrants and Patriots… he had exactly this type of situation in mind.

We can’t vote our way out of this.

I believe “ignorant of” is the proper designation. It’s not as though the MSM is letting them know what’s in it. You have to dig deep to find out.

That’s a rewording of the old “we’re stupid” excuse that people, mostly on the Left, use when their evilness peeks through the skinsuit.