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<\/p>\nThe daily White House press briefing is intended to provide a platform for the administration to outline its agenda and for the press to pose questions to the administration. Ordinarily the press would compose questions that would elicit information of interest to their readers and viewers, the American people.<\/p>\n
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Unfortunately, that is almost never the case with ultra-partisan right-wing outfits like Fox News. Their correspondents routinely craft inquiries whose only purpose is to malign the President or advance their pre-chewed conservative doctrine. And there is no better example of this media malfeasance than Fox’s Peter Doocy. Every time he is called upon by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Doocy scrapes the barrel bottom of pseudo-journalism and opens himself up to well deserved ridicule.<\/p>\n
On Monday Doocy sought to trap Psaki by asserting that President Biden had broken a promise not to interfere with how the Justice Department operates. Earlier this week Biden was asked about whether the House Select Committee on January 6th should enforce its subpoenas against witnesses who refuse to cooperate. Biden replied<\/a><\/strong> that he hopes “that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable.”<\/em> When asked whether he believed the Justice Department should prosecute them, Biden told reporters, “I do, yes.”<\/em><\/p>\n That was a somewhat imprecise phrasing of the administration’s position. A Justice Department spokesperson quickly clarified that the DOJ “will make its own independent decisions in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law.”<\/em> But unlike Donald Trump, at no time did Biden direct the DOJ to take any particular action. He was merely expressing his “hope”<\/em> that the law be upheld.<\/p>\n Doocy demonstrated his inquisitory impotence by falsely asserting in a blatantly leading question that Biden broke a promise regarding the administration of the Justice Department. Psaki asked him how Biden had broken any promise. But all that Doocy could come up with was a rewording of the same assertion that Psaki had already answered. That went on for another couple of rounds before leading up to this exchange:<\/p>\n Doocy:<\/strong> What’s changed since last year when [Biden] said ‘I will not do what former president Trump does and use the Justice Department as my vehicle to insist that something happen?’ When will Peter Doocy get tired of being dunked on by Jen Psaki? pic.twitter.com\/q0SVFmtIq2<\/a><\/p>\n — Edward Hardy (@EdwardTHardy) October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nPsaki:<\/strong> Since you\u2019ve given me the opportunity here, former president Trump used his department to incite an insurrection. He put political pressure on senior DOJ officials to propagate lies about the election to the point where they threatened to resign en mass. I think there is hardly a comparison there.
\nDoocy:<\/strong> President Biden said, ‘the Justice Department and my administration will be totally independent of me,’ and he said he would not enter into any decisions about what cases the agency will bring and not…
\nPsaki:<\/strong> And he has not, and he will not .And criminal prosecutions are the sole purview of the Department of Justice. That is the President’s position. That is what he nominated the Attorney General to operate under.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n