President Joe Biden had an epic comeback to a question from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy during a contentious press conference on Thursday, and video of the exchange has gone viral on social media.
Referencing a report from Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, Doocy asked the president, “How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?”
Biden proceeded to take Doocy’s question and smack it out of the briefing room.
“My memory is so bad that I let you speak,” Biden responded.
Doocy: “How bad is your memory and can you continue as President?”
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) February 9, 2024
Doocy then asked, “Something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
The president replied, “I’m well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been president, and I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation.”
Commenters on Twitter/X, stood and cheered for Biden.
A panelist on Fox News wants American voters to know they should indeed cast their ballot for failed former president Donald Trump in November even though he’s been indicted on 91 felony counts and is facing decades behind bars if convicted.
According to HuffPost, that comment came Monday during a discussion of the disgraced ex-president’s legal troubles and the upcoming election.
“Outnumbered” co-host Kennedy mentioned that she wondered what would happen to Trump’s chances of winning if he’s “indicted at some point.” Of course, he’s already been indicted, so it’s unclear what in the hell Kennedy even knows about current events.
That’s when medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat chimed in.
“He can be president from jail if he has to,” she said.
During an appearance on Fox “News,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made some comments that may come back haunt her in a major way if the Justice Department decides to investigate her for endangering U.S. national security.
Greene was a guest on Laura Ingraham’s show, HuffPost reports, when she began talking about classified document she viewed regarding President Joe Biden.
Greene said she read a document inside a SCIF ― a sensitive compartmented information facility ― related to bribery allegations Republicans have made against President Joe Biden but have yet to provide evidence for.
So far so good for Greene, but she should have stopped talking right then. She didn’t. Instead, she began describing the document.
Greene: The FBI is stonewalling us and they would only let us see it in a scif. What I did after reading the document is made notes when I walked out and went to the table. I wrote down everything that I had just read. pic.twitter.com/NLYVM4Tn8z
Since the document was shown in a SCIF, that means the FBI considered it to be sensitive and not for public consumption.
Greene then made matters even worse with what she said and did next.
“This is a document that all of America should be able to see, but the FBI is stonewalling us and they would only let us see it in a SCIF,” she said. “Well what I did after reading the document is I made notes when I walked out and I went up to the table.”
Greene also held those notes up to the camera, where anyone could have gotten a screenshot of them.
“I wrote down everything that I had just read so that I could come out and tell the American people what I read,” she said.
If indeed the guilty almost always confess, it certainly seems that Marge did just that, and on national television, which raised more than a few eyebrows, beginning with Mark Zaid, an attorney who specializes in national security.
Hey @FBI, if this information was classified sounds to me like the Congresswoman is admitting to a crime.
And if it was not, @SpeakerMcCarthy should remove her privileges for violating the trust she was afforded as a Member of Congress to review sensitive information. https://t.co/96ul95DeO8
Others also suggested that Greene had just broken federal law, ironically for almost the same thing her lord and savior, Donald Trump, has been indicted for.
It appears that Marjorie Taylor Greene may have just admitted to committing a federal crime on live TV. https://t.co/CqsZRchf2E
Wait. So if I had Top Secret clearance and saw a doc that showed me the name and SSN of a spy, and I memorized it and then walked out and wrote it down on paper and waved it around on cable TV, my ass wouldn’t be headed to prison for some treason shit? Because it should be. https://t.co/ZD5bGMExKP
The GOP really needs to get people who are better at doing crimes, because this one was like, "HEY, EXCUSE ME, IS THERE A CAMERA I CAN DO THIS CRIME IN FRONT OF, PLEASE?" https://t.co/AMAmb0sFWT
A SCIF is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility: an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information types of classified information.
If given documents to be viewed in a SCIF, you CANNOT write the info down & bring it out. https://t.co/vStamTVF5B
— 𝕀𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕪 𝔹𝕠𝕤𝕤𝕪 (@ImpossiblyBossy) June 9, 2023
Any other crimes you wanna admit to while being recorded, @RepMTG?
Fox host Gillian Turner wasn’t about to let Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) tell one lie after another about President Joe Biden during an interview on the network today.
Langworthy began lying from the get-go, claiming that a recent deposition of convicted felon Devon Archer, a business associate of the president’s son, Hunter had been conducted under oath.
“I just want to flag that,” Turner corrected. “I want to clarify. He was not under oath when he gave his deposition to the House committee.”
Langworthy then said, “The evidence just continues to pile up. But it’s a web of lies and deceit as the president continues to deny this involvement or knowledge.”
That led Turner to remind the congressman that Republicans have spent two years on the Biden investigation and proven nothing:
“And while you have certainly unearthed a trove of evidence that the committee says proves the president’s association. There has not been produced a smoking gun. Clear cut, undeniable proof of the president’s involvement with his son’s foreign business deals.”
Langworthy: “We’ve never claimed we have direct money going to the president.”
Once again, Turner was quick to fact-check the Republican:
“You said we never claimed that any money was funneled directly to the president. That is precisely the claim that the chairman of your committee, James Comer, and also Jim Jordan have made many times on public record.”
Clearly nonplussed, Langworthy could only reply, “We are putting an investigation together, laying out the facts on the business dealings of this family.”
The Fox host concluded the discussion by again fact-checking Langworthy:
“I’ve got to clarify again that the chairman of your committee and multiple colleagues of yours have made that direct claim, that money has been funneled to the president.”
After he was fired from Fox in the wake of a massive $787.5 settlement to settle a lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, host Tucker Carlson announced that he would be doing weekly broadcasts on Twitter.
The first video from Carlson was a huge success, garnering 120 million views, which led some to suggest that “legacy media” was dying and totally irrelevant in the age of social media.
But subsequent episodes of Carlson’s Twitter broadcasts have not been nearly as successful, according to The Guardian, which reports that it appears Fox was exactly what made Carlson a star in the first place and continues to pursue legal actions against him for breach of the non-compete clause in his contract with them.
Fox has struggled to fill a hole in its primetime schedule as guest hosts try to replicate or replace Carlson’s blend of preppy ties and hard-right invective. But on Twitter, viewer numbers have fallen for Carlson too. Carlson’s most recent episode, on Hunter Biden’s plea deal on tax and gun charges, attracted fewer than 15m views.
From 120 million views to 15 million in a matter of weeks. That’s some major disinterest, and it suggests that Carlson and anyone else who tries to fight against the established news media model is facing a possibly intractable problem, according to Brian Stelter, the former host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Fox has all the leverage while Carlson has none.
“I think it’s very clear that Fox would like to keep him off the air … for as long as they contractually can. That is not always how these things go. There’s often a compromise between network and talent. Instead of being benched for two years, he might accept one year. But I think from the tea-leaf reading, Fox wants him benched for the entire rest of the contract.”
“There’s a long history in TV news of anchors being put on the proverbial bench,” Stelter added. “It’s called pay or play. A network [doesn’t] have to play you, it can choose to just pay. [In Carlson’s case], they are paying him but they don’t have to play him.”
So where does that leave Carlson? Simply put, in a no-win situation with diminishing returns that fail to even help him get another position with any other networks as long as he’s still tied to Fox.
In other words, Tucker Carlson is quickly becoming irrelevant, and for a person who gets paid to broadcast their opinions, that’s the worst fate imaginable, though it’s certainly the one he deserves.