Oh, what an absolutely delightful!
She bakes cookies for the reporters! Oh, what a sweetie!
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a new book out and, unfortunately for her, it is already in need of a correction. Ironically, Psaki chose a story about Joe Biden looking at this watch during a ceremony for US soldiers killed in Afghanistan as an example of media misinformation. But it turns out her book is the actual misinformation and it will need to be corrected.
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The backstory here is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan which resulted in 13 dead soldiers. In August of 2021, Biden attended a "dignified transfer" ceremony at Dover Air Force Base where the bodies of the soldiers were taken off a plane in coffins draped in the American flag. But for some reason, President Biden kept checking his watch during the ceremony, making it look like he had more important places to be. Now, Psaki is claiming that never happened.
Driving the news: In her new book "Say More," Psaki writes that "the president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car."Psaki, now a star anchor at MSNBC who has described herself as a journalist, writes that Biden's critics were engaged in "misinformation" and used the image to make "him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed."
There were indeed claims that Biden had only checked his watch after the ceremony but fact-checks at the time found that wasn't true.
Associated Press photos taken 10 minutes apart show Biden checking his watch during the ceremony. Another photo from the Agence France-Presse, distributed by Getty Images, also shows Biden glancing at his watch, although it's unclear what time the image was taken...Biden did check his watch at least three times, according to photos and video reviewed by USA TODAY. Several family members of fallen service members who attended the ceremony have criticized Biden for checking his watch.
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Mark Schmitz, whose son Jared was one of the 13 American service members killed in Afghanistan on August 26th, 2021, told Townhall that Psaki "will be hearing from our attorney, [and] so will her publisher...to the fullest extent of the law," adding that "what she wrote was absolutely disgusting and clearly only for political and financial gain at the expense of grieving Gold Star families."
According to Axios's Alex Thompson, who had the misfortune of reading at least parts of her book, Psaki falsely claimed that it was "misinformation" for the Gold Star families and their supporters to claim that Biden checked his watch as their loved ones' remains returned to American soil.
"The president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car," Psaki falsely claimed. She, of course, was not on the tarmac -- and the Gold Star families who were held nothing back in the aftermath of her book release.
"Her useless a** wasn't even there. We were," Schmitz added of the incident when Biden had "half the families rushing across the tarmac to pound the s**t out of him." It's particularly cruel for Psaki "to publish this right before Mother's Day," Schmitz said.
Without confessing her error, Psaki says the book's next printing will delete any mention of how many times Biden checked his watch.
The Gold Star Families say: That's not enough. You'll be hearing from our attorneys.
Following Thompson's story, Psaki caved to reality and said that the "detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook." Importantly, however, she knew prior to the article's publication that she lied -- and presumably had no plans to correct the record -- until she was lit up for it. Congressman Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), himself a former Navy SEAL, called her "Madam Goebbels" for her shameless lying.
For Darin Hoover, the Gold Star father of Taylor Hoover, those changes are insufficient. "In the age of cancel culture, she needs to be canceled," he told Townhall. "She's trying to rewrite history and make money off of our kids' backs and their legacy and we will not stand for it. I'm calling on NBC, MSNBC, and Simon and Schuster, the publishers, to terminate Psaki for those lies."
Remember, lefties claim the right peddles "disinformation" while the left, when it makes a rare "error," immediately corrects that error.
Do you Psaki correcting her "error" here? No. She's merely going to "compromise" and not keep on repeating the lie.
At least, until the pressure's off, then she will repeat the lie again.
This is the same thing the left did with the "hands up, don't shoot" lie. They peddled that lie for months. Then Obama's own partisan DOJ admitted this was all a lie, and without retracting their previous lies, the leftwing media simply stopped repeating "hands up, don't shoot."
For a while.
And then, when the cooling-off period was over, they began saying "hands up, don't shoot" as part of their anti-civilizational revolutionary rhetoric again.
It's the same thing they do with all of their lies. When the lies are proven, they briefly put the lie into a cool-off period.
And then, a year later: They just start repeating the lie all over again.