{"id":50111,"date":"2021-07-19T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50111"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:07:49","slug":"fox-news-shill-asks-jen-psaki-an-idiotic-question-that-trump-already-answered-idiotically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50111","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Shill Asks Jen Psaki an Idiotic Question that Trump Already Answered Idiotically"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day, another humiliation for the Fox News White House correspondent, and nepotism poster boy, Peter Doocy. He appears to have been given the daily assignment of lobbing vacuous questions<\/a><\/strong> at Press Secretary Jen Psaki that she hit out of the park. It’s a dirty job, but someone at Fox has to do it. And they apparently found just the right patsy.<\/p>\n

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On Monday Doocy thought he had a real stumper when he was called on Psaki to wind up his pitiful pitch. Studying his notes carefully, he let loose this zinger (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> On vaccine hesitancy, as COVID-19 cases rise, if this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated and you guys are having a hard time getting a certain part of the population to go get the shot, would President Biden ever call former President Trump and say ‘I need your help. Let’s cut a PSA and tell people to go do it?’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s go to slo-mo for a closer look at what Doocy just threw down. He is plainly conceding that COVID cases are rising due to the resistance of glassy-eyed, fact-averse, Trump cultists to getting vaccinated. That’s the only reason he could have for regarding Trump’s participation in a vaccine outreach program to be beneficial. However, Doocy isn’t acknowledging the fact that Trump’s absence from this discussion for so many months already tells us where he stands. Psaki’s response to the question addresses that:<\/p>\n

Psaki:<\/strong> First I would say that what we’ve seen in our data is that the most trusted voices are local officials, doctors, medical experts, civic leaders, clergy from time to time, and that is really where we have invested our funding and our resources.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen almost every former president play a role in putting out a PSA making sure people understood in the country that the vaccine is safe and effective. We don’t believe that requires an embroidered invitation to be part of. But certainly any role of anyone who has a platform where they can provide information to the public that the vaccine is safe, it is effective, we don’t see this as a political issue. We certainly welcome that engagement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Psaki’s answer recognizes that Trump isn’t necessarily the best pitchman for the vaccine. Even his own disciples aren’t likely to take his word for anything. They already know that he got the shot back in January, but that hasn’t moved them. Perhaps because he did it privately and spent the next few months dismissing it. Meanwhile, his peeps are waiting on trusted sources in their community to convince them that they would benefit from the vaccine.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Psaki pointedly notes that Trump could have done a PSA at any time in the past six months but chose not to. Not only does he not need an “embroidered invitation”<\/em> from Biden, getting one would probably have a negative effect. Trump wouldn’t want to have anything to do with the guy who crushed him in the 2020 presidential election. He didn’t even bother to attend Biden’s inauguration.<\/p>\n

Trump also snubbed a prior vaccine promoting PSA<\/a><\/strong> that included every other living president. So why would he accept an invitation now? Given his narcissistic reluctance to not being the center of attention, if he cared at all about the welfare of the American people he could still have shot his own PSA starring himself, which would have gotten plenty of play on the right-wing media outlets where those who care about what he says are watching. However, Trump hasn’t even done that. What he did on Monday was to release this<\/a><\/strong> pitifully egomaniacal statement:<\/p>\n

“Joe Biden kept talking about how good of a job he’s doing on the distribution of the Vaccine that was developed by Operation Warp Speed or, quite simply, the Trump Administration. He’s not doing well at all. He’s way behind schedule, and people are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration, they don’t trust the Election results, & they certainly don’t trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Trump went out of his way to baselessly smear Biden, whose response to the pandemic has been effective and who has the broad approval<\/a><\/strong> (66%) of the public. Plus, Trump exalted himself with utterly delusional assertions that vaccine hesitancy is related to his “Big Lie”<\/em> that the election was “stolen”<\/em> from him. Seriously? Trump thinks that people will risk a slow and painful (and preventable) death from a virus because of his bald-faced, evidence-free lies about an election that he so decisively lost?<\/p>\n

What is obviously missing from Trump’s statement is any encouragement to his foolhardy flock to get vaccinated. This would have been an ideal time to make that pitch. But not for a self-absorbed cretin like Trump. And this is the guy who Doocy thinks it would be useful to invite to participate in a pro-vaccine PSA with Biden? Yeah, right! That’ll happen.<\/p>\n

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Peter Doocy asks Jen Psaki if Biden might reach out to Trump and ask for his help to get more people vaccinated pic.twitter.com\/VKelv3ReUx<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n