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Jen Psaki should remind the gaggle that President Biden doesn't personally profit from his trips as The Former Guy did...shamelessly charging the Secret Service for accommodations at Trump owned properties.

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Thanks for linking the Mary Trump article. It is a must read if you're not yet convinced of the danger our democracy is in. She too points out the abrogation of the msm, and the dire effect it will have in the months and (few) years ahead.

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Thanks for sharing the Mary Trump article.

I have said it here before: The L word for the nontillionth of a cent streetwalkers who comprise the DC political media brothel and its branches across the country is not Liberal. It is Lazy. They want to become Woodward and Bernstein without actually doing the work.

I also recur to a Russell Baker review of Paul Krugman, and his comment in a related interview that today's reporters did not, as he did, grow up in a time of economic privation and end up covering people exponentially wealthier than they are. So today's reporters are more interested in the social issues that got their attention when they were starting out. Now it's become what I might call the Tony Gwynn principle.

What? Well, Gwynn was, for those not into baseball (and what's WRONG with you?), a great player. And he said too many younger players didn't work on fundamentals of the game because they realized they got more attention--ESPN and social media--for making or trying to make big plays and not making small plays. And that's the political media.

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They fixate on this, after four years of giving Trump a complete pass on not only spending more than a quarter of his presidency away from the WH but sending us the bill payable to his own business.

Proof, once again, that Both Sides does not mean both sides.

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So sad. Obama’s birthday party was another no news, hit the Dems story that ran for days. It’s a commentary on the shallowness of msm questions during these terrible times for the country. Regrettably the impression these ‘reporters’ leave is that they lack the preparedness and depth of knowledge to cover a president with heft, no drama, and important policy achievements these same people of the msm declared dead over and over and over again. 24/7 news coverage has not served them, nor us, well.

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Doing PR for the GOP means slagging every Democrat one can as often as possible. Been that way since Carter and here we are.

Thank you, mainstream media, for your fine service to the nation.

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I wish that Mary Trump could run for office, perhaps NY Governor.

Or become a regularly contributing journalist. She understands the importance of the media, she's smart, she can connect dots.

Mary Trump for Opinion Columnist! Where do we vote?

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Hahaha...I just saw this from Mark Knoller (former correspondent from CBS) and spewed (retweeted by deplorable Ashley Parker of the Wapo)...."Biden Weekend Scoreboard

-14 weekends at home in Wilmington, DE

-8 weekends at Camp David

-6 weekends at the WH

-1 overseas/Cornwall, England G7" The fall of Kabul is about to happen and THIS is what they are talking about??????

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This is Biden's reward for running a clean and competent government.

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The thing that bugs me is just how pervasive this wacky non-issue story manufacturing is. The AP, CBS, McClatchy, AP again, AP yet again, AP one more time, CNN, and of course, Faux News.

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At these press briefings Jen should say to the person who asked a stupid question, I have a question from a voter who wants to ask you something. Start asking them to respond to the American people have a group waiting on the phone. Questions asked by people never interviewed when their out on the street. Just a thought

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Reading about the press fixation on Biden's travels and the search for anything to fluff into a negative for drama/clicks/eyeballs, Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" starting playing in my mental soundtrack.

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Thanks Eric. I listened to the tail end of the presser the other day and who the hell was the reporter pressing Jen Psaki about Biden's GRANDCHILDREN? COME ON!!! They must be kidding....she put that one down promptly. They have nothing else.

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Seems like the press briefings are less and less about bringing the public up to speed about their representative's work product. MSM need to take some time off to clear some brush, as it were.

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Just a quibble Mr. Boehlert.

I object to you including McClatchy & Fox as 'Media". They both are part of the RW Media & their goal is to create a "scandal" for President Biden. Of course they're going to try to hammer President Biden on his travel.

I have to admit I haven't seen any articles on President Biden's travel "scandals".

If a question is asked at the Press Conference and it isn't reported, does it make a sound?

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