White House press secretary Jen Psaki faces a relatively-friendly crew of correspondents at her briefings, but she repeatedly avoids questions by saying she’ll ‘circle back’ with reporters later. Does she actually do it?
An insider report indicates the Biden administration would like the questions in advance. Will the media fight this effort to make the Democratic president look good, or will they just roll over?
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61 replies on “‘Circle Back’ Psaki: Does White House Press Help Biden Mouthpiece Dodge Tough Questions?”
To be fair, that’s almost the parenthetical job description.
On the other hand, Kayleigh McEnany was an exception. She just came ready to kick ass and take names.
FYI…..the posting on Rumble works fine……I’ve been waiting for this, as I’ve cut ties with the ‘Tube, i.e., “de-Googled” my online experience. Oddly enough, declaring one’s independence from Big Tech ultimately means turning your back on “MAGA FT’, i.e., Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter. Almost there.
I think this is definitely indicative of how the Biden administration is run. I believe it shows that they really don’t know what they’re doing and they’ve got more people running it then Biden is running it. It’s a sad shame that we have to deal with an administration like this. Biden is definitely just there for show.
I once worked for a company, whose “Information Officer” was so uninformative, that we joking rename her title “Misinformation Officer”. I would say more, but I’ll have to circle back to you.
Was that MO from the Threes Stooges?
Video seemed to work quite well. I did have a couple of issues, but that was more likely to be my reception than the vid. It even stopped when it got to the end.
As for Jan Psaki, I did see a clip where she actually did ‘circle back’ and give an answer. She added, somewhat snarkily in my opinion, something along the lines of “this will annoy conservatives.” because apparently conservatives are ‘annoyed’ by people actually doing what they’re supposed to do.
Played the clip with no auto start or auto advance for me, in Firefox without a Rumble account (or presumably settings in cookies or anything else).
Jen “Psircleback” Psaki: Orange Woman Bad
I thought that was red!
HA! “The Red Woman” … Ala “Game of Thrones”. I like it.
Bill I think you got it….Biden is just along for the ride.
Scott you may be the only reason this site hasn’t been taken down by the fascist media.
On Rumble it took me right to another video.
Circle back.
Wasn’t that one of the problems with the early WW-II Mark-14 torpedoes?
It wouldn’t have been with today’s Press. Oh, the torpedoes would still be coming back to kill friendlies but no one would have known about it because the Press wouldn’t have told them. Democrat administration and all during WWII, can’t make them look bad you know.
I have been trying to find out which Admiral was responsible for the faulty torpedoes and kept blaming it on the submariners and flyboys using them. My theory is that it was Admiral McCain, John McCains father. John was especially good at torpedoing his own Republican party. It is my further belief that at Midway where all historians said the sacrificed torpedo bombers missed, they did not. It was the fault of faulty torpedoes
Jen Psaki is positive proof that the upper limits governing the Peter Principle can be breached.
Good point.
I clicked on your profile to see that fish better. Which didn’t work very well. Lake trout? Salmon? Nice fish.
13 lb. cutthroat trout caught on Pyramid Lake in Nevada a couple years ago. As you can see a very cold day, but worth it.
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop seeing Zukerburg”s face in a wig!
Answers are about the same.
I’ve always had a strange problem with “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted” as the press’s job. Let’s say they start out comfortable, and they end up afflicted. Now, as the afficted, they have to be comforted. Now as comfortable ….. See the issue? Same thing happens if starting out afflicted. It’s cliche, but “speaking the truth to power” also can be used. The press’s job is to report the news and investigate things. Afflict the comfortable with truth, difficult questions and calls to change and responsibility, among other things. Editorials are fine, if labeled as such.
You’re right, I never thought about that. Kudos. It’s sort of an Ouroboros kind of situation with the snake eating it’s own tail.
I have always hated that expression also their job is not to afflict anybody or to comfort anybody it’s just to tell us what happened.
Crashed on me at 4:56 just as Steve did his Monty Python imitation. Played thru the second time.
Only issue I have is that Rumble doesn’t play to my TV.
And that I can’t shut off autoplay so it just launches the next video it feels like playing.
Notice no discernable difference with the Rumble feed. However, upon ending, another video started to play. That may be something you need / want to turn off as it could be anything.
In the interest of Science, I reloaded the page, started this episode again and jumped to the end. The same video was the next in line and was one of the ones to show up as another video that I might be interest in watching. That it autoplays is not great.
When I first started using Rumble I think there was a setting I had to hit to disable autoplay. It’s an an annoying default setting that they chose to emulate from YouTube. And I can’t find the setting, else I’d share
Yeah, I noticed that too and commented on it above. Autoplay is a serious pet-peeve of mine.
Have you, or anyone else checked to see if you have a Rumble account, which I assume is similar to a Google account which YouTube also uses, are there playback controls on a person’s account profile maybe?
Someone who uses Rumble regularly may be able to answer that.
Let me circle back to you on that…
I did go over to Rumble and could not locate a don’t start the damn video until I tell you to do so setting.
My video’s aren’t autoplaying on Rumble so I think maybe when I set up my account maybe I hit a setting to disable it but poking around it now I can’t seem to find any setting to enable/disable it.
This is just the obvious indicator of complete confusion, because she has no idea what she is doing.
Actually, she does. It’s just her way of saying, “I don’t have to give you an answer because f*** you, that’s why.”
Yeah, that’s pretty much my view of the situation too but it could easily be a combination of what David said and what you said … Both appalling ignorance in someone who ought to have those answers and a convenient way to say “kiss off”. One does not rule out the other.
I hate this kind of “buzz phrase”. “Circle back”, “reach out to”, etc. We’re not conestoga wagons under indian attack nor drowning in a pit of quicksand.
I guess it’s too much to ask someone to say “I don’t know so I’ll have to find out and get back to you on that.” Must burn up too much Tweet character allotment or is too hard to type out on a tiny little phone keyboard.
At one point in my career I had quite a few engineers reporting to me. I told them all not to BS me on answers and that “I don’t know but I will find out” is an acceptable answer. But then you have to find out.
That was before management had to be real touch feely and I didn’t need to edit BS.
I’ve worked in IT for a quite a while running my own business in sort of a “jack of all trades” capacity supporting business operations for small (500 nodes and less) businesses. The goal of my company was to give smaller operators “all the stuff the big guys have but scaled to your operations.”
In that capacity I’ve become well aware of how much I don’t know. Frankly I don’t think anyone does know everything there is to know. So …
What I would tell clients when they asked me about something I didn’t know was that I would find out and get back to them. Sometimes they’d look at me a little sideways when I revealed that. I said that the thing that made me worth my paycheck is not that I know every damn thing there is to know but that I knew where to find the answers. It was rare that I had to do that because I did/do know enough to make things work but I don’t know everything.
My point is that I’m OK with someone not knowing something once in a while. The White House Press Secretary/Spokesman included. What I’m not OK with is the most informed people on the planet, who have information and intelligence services that none of us out here could ever hope to access … Being seemingly addicted to the phrase “circle back” to the point where after only a few weeks in operation a composite of them saying that like we see in the above video is even possible.
This makes me think we’re dealing with people who lack and would greatly benefit by adult supervision. Or they’re flat out lying.
I’m going to come right out and say this, hoping I’m wrong. I think we’re seeing a coup in action. Putting lipstick on a pig might fool the other pigs but it’s still just a pig wearing lipstick.
That goes without saying regarding the current White House and Congressional majorities.
I think it’s worse than that. I am leaning to the notion that Glenn Beck is correct that all of this is the continued efforts to establish an oligarchy in the United States and then the entire western world.
Agreed. It feels more and more each day like we’re living in a Kurt Schlichter novel
I guess that would be the “bigger picture” if true and it just may well be true. And if so then that would be the object of the coup.
I haven’t seen Glen Beck’s take on this, I just don’t have enough time to follow closely every political pundit I’d like to. Can you give me a link?
Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/tGIOVWI_C8Y
Thank you very much!
I’m not as forgiving. You never heard that phrase from Trump’s Press Secretaries – There’s no way that even a simpleton like Psaki can’t answer these softball questions
That’s true but part of the reason you never heard that from Trump’s press people is that they already knew before mounting the podium what kind of stupid, malicious “questions” they would be facing. At least most of the time.
If reporters were asking genuine reporter-style question it’s not beyond the scope of probability that one of those questions might occasionally require more information than the spokesgoat had at it’s fingertips.
So even more pathetic and suspiciouis is the fact that when facing mostly softball questions little Raggedy Jen can’t even field those which are barely rolling across the diamond of their own power.
I know Whataboutism is pointless in today’s media environment. But I remember the beginning of the Trump tenure, when every day was a story about the “chaos in the White House” and “Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing and neither does anyone in his administration!” The hysterics were unending. The new Biden administration is also chaos and the press secretary has no idea how to answer press questions, but “Nothing to see here – move along” is the media attitude. *sigh*
“Whataboutism” is just Leftspeak for “How dare you point out my hypocrisy!”
I might give her the benefit of the doubt of she didn’t have a hideous prior history of lying and BS.
What’s her prior history? She is so inept I didn’t think she had one!
Worked just fine, audio seemed a bit worse than youtube, but not bad!
As David Burge said of the press whenever Democrats do wrong: “It’s the job of the press to cover every scandal. With a pillow. Until it stops moving.”
BTW – glad this in on Rumble vs. youtube. I avoid youtube out of principle.
This is an extremely common punt cliche in the corporate world. Circling back almost never happens. Circle back = see if it dies.
Yep, one of those polite ways to say shut up and move on. Let’s take this offline is another good one.
I’ll be the first to make the obvious joke: After 4 years we’re back to White House pressers being a massive circle jerk
Here you go
Heh – I’ve been expecting someone to respond with a clip from these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_aeSJlVDdQ
Works just fine*, thank you, gentlemen.
The woman is as disgusting as are most of Biden’s handlers picks.
*Edit: When I gave a rating on the clip, the page refreshed and did not continue playing. JavaScript can be your friend or your enemy.
I did the rating thing and no problem. It could be something in your browser setup, something that doesn’t play well with other stuff, or some script or ad blocker settings. But …
You’re right, JavaScript can be an issue or an asset.
Either they don’t know, or they know the answer is embarrassing.