TikTok and Instagram influencer Benny Drama (AKA Benito Skinner) prances through the White House pretending to be ‘Kooper, the White House intern’ for presidential press secretary Jen Psaki in hopes of inspiring COVID-19 vaccination holdouts to get the jab. Is this for real?
Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Zo Rachel (sitting in for Stephen Green), analyze the video. Right Angle is a production of our Members. Join us now.
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On Bill’s worries about this video being taken as a sign of vulnerability by potential enemies, I’m reminded of the infamous “King and Country” debate at the Oxford Union. The debating society passed the motion “This House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country,” by 275 votes to 153. The year was 1933.
In 1934 the Liberal MP Robert Bernays described a visit he made to Germany:
“I remember very vividly, a few months after the famous pacifist resolution at the Oxford Union visiting Germany and having a talk with a prominent leader of the young Nazis. He was asking about this pacifist motion and I tried to explain it to him. There was an ugly gleam in his eye when he said, “The fact is that you English are soft”. Then I realized that the world enemies of peace might be the pacifists.”
It is a cardinal error to assume that our enemies abroad do not monitor our internal cultural and political dialogues. It is just as big an error to assume that when they do they understand the messages from them as we do. I think Bill is right.
One of two possibilities
A) someone in the Press Office was already following this guy and was able to convince Psaki that the video would be usefull
B) this guy is friend or relative of someone in the Press Office. W/ that access, was able to convince Psaki he was the guy for the video.
THis is very very stupid, Scott.
I see the Fall of Rome in this video.
Rome had more dignity.
Skinner’s video makes me miss the manifestly toxic masculinity of Pyjama Boy
This jerk is an “influencer?” The country is doomed. Lord help us. A pox on the White House for promoting such drivel
This is sad for US. Very sad. Extremely sad. Unfrickingbelievably sad.
This is a fake government and the majority of Americans who uphold traditional American values are being subjected to the agenda of an anti-American minority. These democrats carry around with the same nonchalant everything’s fine what’s the big deal attitude they always have. This video is just an extension of how weak this phony administration is. Biden is pleading with the taliban not to destroy our embassy, he pleaded with Putin not to hack 16 things on a list, and whatever else. It is pathetic and dangerous and adds to the further weakening of our country to our enemies.
Compare and contrast:
Trump fans with the particular stylized hyper-redneck style
v.
Benny for Biden
Do either of them really represent the rest who voted for that candidate? If so–should we be worried about Benny? If not–should we be worried about Benny?
This video may serve to undo democrats in much the same way caricatures thwarted Trump among non-base voters.
They couldn’t get that creature who swims in a milk bath of Fruit Loops?
Jan Psaki is losing support if she ever had any, and this creature Benny Benzedrine is being used to shore up support among the homosexuals. WHY? This video is beyond bizarre. I am angry and ashamed about pedo-Joe sitting in the WH before this. Now I am just plain livid. They have really stepped in it now.
Looks like the Leftists are intent on creating enough chaos to start another Civil War.
Now I know I can’t take the vaccine …. I play banjo, and big white fingernails like Benito’s would prevent my playing…..
I’d check this kid’s subscription count before we wonder if the failing Biden administration would use him as an influencer.
I’ve seen similar “acts” garner upwards of 5 million subscribers (??).
It’s all about the down stream influence and its potential effect on voters over all.
And besides that…they’re all out of their minds. They’ll try anything.
Excellent, thought-provoking insight, Mr. Whittle. Whether intended from its birth in the lab, or merely capitalized on after its accidental release, the Chinese have committed an act of war. In that light, imagine the Japanese reaction on December 8, 1941, if President Roosevelt had telegraphed a response like this. On the domestic front, it’s impossible to imagine that White House employing an infantilizing message from a clown like this to mobilize our extraordinary war effort. The depth of this administration’s contempt for the public it purportedly “serves” revealed by this video is unfathomable. If the poor saps in its target audience hadn’t been so thoroughly brainwashed, they’d be really insulted.
Scary isn’t it…
Right on Zo!
Zo!
This is what you get when you have a White House guided by an unelected, unpublished committee rather than the vision and ideas of the man elected to reside there.
That can only happen when the man elected to reside there cedes his position to said committee. Worse yet, I find it highly doubtful that the man in the Oval Office picked the members of that committee.
Right you are!
Could someone ask Jen Psaki why she allowed herself to be portrayed as an admin assistant complete with armful of file folders?
Could someone ask the ol’ Benster if he factored reproductive risks into his decision to ‘jab the needle in his arm?’ Normally I wouldn’t presume to pry into so personal a matter, but since he agreed to influence young adults with medical advice representing official federal health policy, the public has a right to know.
Pretty sure, despite his apparent identification, that he wasn’t getting pregnant anyway. 😉
Good one!
Bill, you nailed two crucial points: 1) This approach does not take vaccination seriously, and 2) This is no way to present a world superpower. I thought with Biden’s election that the adults were supposed to be back in charge. This is not what serious people do.
Humor can be an extremely powerful weapon. Want to feminize the Russians or the Chinese? Go ahead–it shows that we are not afraid of them. But infantilizing the White House is not dealing from a position of strength.
Frivolity has its place in the world, this wasn’t it.
Last night, after reading an article showing how much of Afghanistan is now under Taliban control, I looked at a map for 30 seconds. I did this to confirm that between Pakistan and Tajikstan, there is a small border of Afghanistan with China. My first thought was if China was wanting to exercise their (rather large) army and is just waiting for the last American to leave before ginning up an excuse to roll through and annex some land. Then they would share a border with Iran. Wouldn’t that shake up some maps. who would stop them? Certainly not a US that puts out this type of tripe from the office of the “most powerful man on the planet”.
Nothing would please me more than to have China waddle into Afghanistan. They haven’t the logistical tail to pull it off.
And I’d rather have them choking to death in Afghanistan than proving Biden’s fealty when they invade Taiwan.
John Lambo will not help this time.
He retired.
Don’t need him. Just need the Chinese to try to supply an army outside of China. They’ve historically not done very well with that, and there is no indication that have any greater ability than they have ever demonstrated. Still, frankly, I hope they do invade. Then we can stop speculating about what we think their capabilities are, and have their shortcomings amply demonstrated for the world to see.
The Soviet Union collapsed after bankrupting themselves building a military and developing a doctrine that was employed (equipment and doctrine) by the Iraqis, and shown to be utterly ineffective against American equipment and doctrine. Gulf War I ended the Soviet Union.
China is a shadow tiger at this point. They look fierce, with the right light. They won’t invade Afghanistan because they know that, but, if they do forget and invade, then the whole world will know that.