You know this hasn't happened yet right?
She's still suplexing dummies in the press room, I don't think she has a network job.
VIDEO:
'You're Saying He Drove By There For A Few Minutes?' Psaki Grilled Over Biden's Past Border Visit Oct 22, 2021
Friday, a Fox News reporter grilled White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on whether or not President Biden has been to the border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jah0gz8kHk
VIDEO: 'The Five' blast Biden's behavior at the border Oct 23, 2021
'The Five' take stock of the shape of the country under Biden, from the southern border to infrastructure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7lgVZQ1Joc
DIRECT HEADLINE: Montana Has 6 Touchdown Passes; Rice Catches 5
Montana and Rice picked on cornerback Charles Dimry throughout the game. “My confidence level is not shaken,” Dimry said.
L.A. Times Archives Oct. 15, 1990 12 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-15-sp-1844-story.html
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Jen Psaki is like Charles Dimry. Left on an island and completely overmatched.
The best she could come up with, once Biden said he should visit the border in a Town Hall media op, is that he drove past it over a decade ago. That's it. That's all she had. When the situation is this indefensible, you don't hold a press conference day after day. But Susan Rice is sending her up there for two reasons. The first is to be a human punching bag for the failures of this administration. So Obama in his shadow third term can say all the questions were addressed. The second is to try to hold onto zealots, single issue voters and low information voters.
In effect, the media optics strategy now is triage. It's conceding the 2022 Mid Terms will be a total bloodbath. Most Democrats holding office right now up and down the ticket are not "name brand" politicians. They cannot enter the daily media cycle at will. No one cares what they think. They are reliant on their Party apparatus for financial support and campaign support. But they have to toe the Party line on major issues. Like Critical Race Theory and Defund The Police and Orange Man Bad and Black Lives Matter. But that's going to wipe them out at the voting booths.
The problem is that many people are ceasing to stay low information voters. When public policy impacts them like lockdowns and rioting and abandoning Americans to the hands of terrorists and the pandemic and the force feeding of identity politics, they are going to search out the truth. Yes, you will get some zealots, like the ones who try to hijack my top level posts by gaslighting and source policing, but moderates, independents, undecideds and traditional liberals want nothing to do with this current madness.
Psaki's strategy is calling someone a liar and hoping no one actually investigates the truth.
Bill Clinton did this. However he had one of the greatest Press Secretaries who ever walked up to the podium and he actually left her alone to do her job and he was fortunate enough to have great timing in terms of an economic boom period.
Psaki can't "suplex" anyone. You need to actually have some kind of possible defensible position to hold first.
You can choose to simply stagger out the press conferences to let the daily media cycle churn over to something else eventually. But it's been less than a full year and each successive crisis gets worse and worse. Each crisis creates more incentive for voters all across the spectrum to look into why their country is falling apart.
If all you have left are zealots who believe in you, then all you have left are those best suited to be actual fringe terrorists.
Zealots aren't force multipliers in the political spectrum. They are the pockets of old men and children handed weapons to defend the last bits of the Third Reich when the Russians were sweeping through Germany at the end of WW2.
You want to convince everyone here that Charles Dimry is actually a blend of the best parts of Rod Woodson, Deion Sanders and Darrelle Revis. If you can sell that, then great, because that's actually really hard to do with functional media optics.
The problem with that strategy, and why many with actual skill avoid it, is because if it backfires, it's essentially calling your audience stupid.
This is why so many moderates, undecideds, independents and traditional liberals will react so viscerally to Psaki's incompetence.
She's calling them too stupid to see plainly what Biden is saying on record doesn't line up with anything remote close to what he's actually doing. And even worse, what he's not doing but should be doing as POTUS.
Feel free to let us all know when you want to enshrine Charles Dimry into the NFL Hall Of Fame.