{"id":50119,"date":"2021-07-20T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50119"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:50:51","slug":"fox-news-hacks-gotcha-question-proves-he-doesnt-know-what-super-spreader-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50119","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Hack’s ‘Gotcha’ Question Proves He Doesn’t Know What ‘Super-Spreader’ Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is anyone keeping track of how many consecutive days Fox News White House correspondent, Peter Doocy, has asked a stupid question at the daily press briefing<\/a><\/strong>, only get humiliated by Press Secretary Jen Psaki? Doocy is nothing if not determined to make a name for himself in this competition and, to his credit, he has commanding lead.<\/p>\n

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At Tuesday’s press briefing Doocy sought to revisit an issue that he has been clinging to for several days. It concerns the Texas Democrats who left the state to prevent Republicans from passing a draconian voter suppression bill. While in Washington, D.C. a few of them tested positive for the coronavirus (which sicko Donnie Jr thought was hilarious<\/a><\/strong>). Doocy, along with other Fox News shills, have been trying desperately to turn that into a scandal, despite the fact that these “breakthrough”<\/em> are known to occur, and for people who are vaccinated the symptoms will likely be minimal. The facts not withstanding, Doocy entered into this exchange with Psaki (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> More than 10% of the traveling party with these Texas Democrats now claim to have a breakthrough case. Is there any concern that this trip that was intended to advocate for voting rights is now a super-spreader event in Washington?
\nPsaki:<\/strong> Well, I would say that’s not a characterization we’re making from here. We certainly understand there will be breakthrough cases. Even vaccines that are incredibly effective are not foolproof. They’re not 100% effective. We’ve seen that. Here’s the good news, though. We know that these vaccines, that these individuals have been vaccinated. It means it protects from death. It protects from serious illness. It protects, for the most part, from hospitalization, so that is a good sign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s pretty sad that Psaki has to give Doocy answers as if he were a child. But she wants him to understand, so it’s necessary to politely condescend. After all, in his question he demonstrates that he doesn’t even understand the words he’s using. You can hardly call a half dozen viral infections among a fully vaccinated group of people a “super-spreader”<\/em> event. Does anyone recall Doocy referring to Donald Trump’s cult rallies, with thousands of unvaccinated, maskless attendees, during the peak of the pandemic, super-spreader events? Those mass encounters resulted in significant spikes in infections and hospitalizations in the locales where they took place.<\/p>\n

The only reason that Doocy is raising this non-issue now is that he’s hoping to use it to deflect from the larger issue about voting rights that the Democrats from Texas are making. He explicitly sought to divert attention from that with his follow up question to Psaki. But Psaki would not be distracted:<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> Now that COVID-19, after contact with those Democrats, has reached the White House, what is your message to these Texas Democrats?
\nPsaki:<\/strong> Our message continues to be, thanks for standing up for voting rights, and the rights for Americans to have their voices heard at the voting booth, and we appreciate their efforts in that regard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Trump himself continues to support the voter suppression bills in Texas and elsewhere. He released a statement<\/a><\/strong> Tuesday morning linking to an op-ed asserting that “Republicans Are Making It easier to Vote and Harder to Cheat.”<\/em> But you really have to wonder who would believe that a pathological cheater like Trump cares about making it harder to cheat. This is a guy who has publicly cheated on his three wives, his charities, his golf score, his \u201cuniversity\u201d<\/em> students, his veterans fund, his election and reelection campaigns, his taxes, and most recently his own donors<\/a><\/strong>. So he’s real paragon of virtue who’s commitment to honesty can be trusted. Right?<\/p>\n

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Despite growing number of linked cases, Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki refuses to call Texas Democrat trip a superspreader pic.twitter.com\/suFJFfrQXt<\/a><\/p>\n

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n