Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre raised eyebrows this week when she suddenly announced that she was supposedly leaving the Democratic party to become an independent and was also releasing a book about her time in the ‘broken’ Biden White House.
Democrats and people in media, who up until now have been her most prominent defenders, are quickly throwing her under the bus.
From Axios:
Bidenworld goes scorched earth on Karine Jean-PierreFormer Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Tuesday that she’s written a book about a “broken” Biden White House and what she sees as the betrayal of the former president by the Democratic Party.
- Many of her former colleagues think Jean-Pierre — the face of the White House for more than two years — was part of the problem, according to interviews with more than two dozen former Biden administration officials.
Driving the news: Jean-Pierre’s announcement Wednesday led former Biden aides to tee off on her. Many quietly had fumed for years, believing she was incompetent at her job at the White House podium and more interested in promoting herself than Joe Biden…What they’re saying: One former White House official who worked closely with Jean-Pierre told Axios that she “was one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I’ve ever worked with. … She had meltdowns after any interview that asked about a topic not sent over by producers.”
- “She didn’t know how to manage a team, didn’t know how to shape or deliver a message, and often created more problems than she solved,” the official said.
- A former Biden communications official threw more wood on the fire: “The hubris of thinking you can position yourself as an outsider when you not only have enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power — which … bestows the name recognition needed to sell books off your name — but have actively wielded it from the biggest pulpit there is, is as breathtaking as it is desperate … It’s difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash grab.”
According to some reports, Jean-Pierre wanted to join The View after leaving the White House but they weren’t interested.
Critics are crawling out of the woodwork.
Who is this book for? Who is going to buy it?
Strangely enough, MSNBC is not interested in this story at all, despite the fact that Jean-Pierre used to be a network contributor.
Mediaite reports:
MSNBC Entirely Ignores News of Former Contributor Karine Jean-Pierre Leaving Democratic PartyAs press secretary for the Biden Administration, Karine Jean-Pierre spent two years representing not only President Joe Biden but also the Democratic Party. It is huge news when she officially left the party and promoted a book that portrayed her as an “independent,” while casting aspersions on the Biden White House as “broken.”…Cable news hasn’t been quite wall-to-wall with its coverage, but it’s been a big story on Fox News and CNN. One cable network, however, has deemed it not newsworthy and decided to ignore it entirely: MSNBC.According to transcript searches for her name (and its many iterations), MSNBC has not mentioned Jean-Pierre’s name once on air since news of her political conversion broke Wednesday. By comparison, Fox News has mentioned her name 72 times in that period, and CNN has cited her name 44 times. Again: MSNBC? Zero.
If you have time, I recommend watching this clip from the Megyn Kelly podcast. It’s a pretty brutal assessment.
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