{"id":49484,"date":"2021-05-24T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49484"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:14:10","slug":"jen-psaki-to-fox-news-i-think-youre-misunderstanding-how-this-process-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49484","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki to Fox News: ‘I Think You\u2019re Misunderstanding How This Process Actually Works’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday morning much of the press was reporting that the number of new cases of the coronavirus in the United States has dropped to levels not seen since the summer of 2020. Hospitalizations and deaths have similarly declined. And the Biden administration’s management of vaccination efforts has led to 50% of adults<\/a><\/strong> in half the country being fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

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However, as most of the media continues to report the positive aspects of the COVID pandemic trends, there is some downside focus in certain areas. Not surprisingly, the half of the country that has not reached that 50% milestone are mostly Southern and\/or Republican states. And the press that is downplaying this news, or not reporting it at all, is, of course, Fox News. At Fox they have more pressing matters to attend to. Like the fake international incident<\/a><\/strong> caused by Vice-President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

It is the objective of Fox News to either ignore any of the success of the Biden administration or to invent failures. For instance, recent Fox News fakeries included a “scandal”<\/em> over Biden wearing a face mask<\/a><\/strong>, and Sean Hannity posting a flagrantly deceptive video of Biden<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So while there is much to be grateful for as the nation gets closer to whatever it was we thought was normal before the pandemic, Fox News strives to increase the national anxiety level. That was evident in the daily White House press briefing on Monday as Fox’s Peter Doocy engaged in this exchange with press secretary Jen Psaki about the speculation over where the coronavirus originated (a “scandal”<\/em> that Fox News is foremost in hyping):<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> With 589,920 dead Americans, at what point does President Biden say, “We don’t want to wait for the WHO (World Health Organization). We don’t know what they’re doing. This needs to be an American led effort to get to the bottom of what happened.”
\nPsaki:<\/strong> Well, first of all, we need access to the underlying data and information in order to have that investigation.
\nDoocy:<\/strong> But he talks all the time about how he’s known President Xi for a long time. So why can’t he just call?
\nPsaki:<\/strong> I think you\u2019re misunderstanding how this process actually works. An international investigation led by the World Health Organization is something that we’ve actually been pressing for for several months, in coordination with a range of partners around the world. We need that data. We need that information from the Chinese government. What we can’t do, and I would caution anyone doing, is leaping ahead of an actual international process. We don’t have enough data and information to jump to a conclusion at this point in time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Psaki: I think you\u2019re misunderstanding how this process actually works pic.twitter.com\/CBH5A7obQw<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n