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-Short Attention Span Theater-

‘Indefensible And Grotesque': Jonah Goldberg Slams Kayleigh McEnany, And Chris Wallace Joins In

2020-05-26

[Daily Caller] The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg slammed White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, saying Sunday that her behavior was "indefensible and grotesque."
Couch: "Jonah? That's a mirror?"
She assigned the WH correspondents homework. And it's a long weekend!
Anchor Chris Wallace was also critical of McEnany as he and Goldberg discussed her most recent press briefings on "Fox News Sunday."
"Bad."
"Yep. Bad."
"Disgraceful."
"Indefensible."
"Grotesque."
[adjective]
[another adjective]
Wallace was actually first to take a shot at the new press secretary, referencing a Friday briefing during which McEnany had laid out the questions she believed the press should be asking. "I have to say that if Kayleigh McEnany had told Sam Donaldson and me what questions we should ask, that would not have gone well, Jonah," Wallace said.
[Insert comment about boring new bungholes]
"I think her behavior is indefensible and grotesque," Goldberg replied.
Ummm... Why?
"I think that what she has done is — there’s this cliche in Washington that President Trump wants Roy Cohn as DOJ, as attorney general. What Donald Trump wants in a press secretary is a Twitter troll who goes on attack, doesn’t actually care about doing the job they have and instead wants to impress really an audience of one and make another part of official Washington another one of these essentially cable news and Twitter laboratory arenas."
Uhuh. So now hark back to the Good Old Days® of Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders. What'd you guys have to say then?
Josh Holmes, who previously served as chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, argued that the press actually put McEnany — and all Trump spokespeople — in a position where they were constantly being forced to defend themselves.
No! But that cannot be?
"The confrontational nature by which journos pose the questioning is not really to obtain much information so much as to try to back them into a corner and I think she said, ’I’m not going to play that game,’ so yeah, it is completely different," Holmes explained.
But... but... she can’t do that!
Wallace took one last shot as the segment ended, saying, "Let me just say, Sam Donaldson and me and the Reagan White House, we were pretty tough on the White House press secretaries and we never had our religious beliefs questioned or were lectured on what we should ask."
Dude, it isn't just an audience of one.

Video at link.

Posted by:Abu Uluque

#9 Ms McEnany’s impressive Wikipedia page. How many Trump people have earnt the praise of Van Jones for their ability?

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-26 13:55

#8 Notional Review, The Atlantic, etc. are all vanity funded by people who could instead easily put orphans thru school or just donate to St. Jude's Childrens' Hospital. But they need to talk to the people who run your life...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-26 09:47

#7 If they wanted civility, they should have self-regulated the outliers.

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-05-26 09:39

#6 I was surprised to read that she has a Harvard Law degree. I would have guessed Ranger School.

Posted by: Matt 2020-05-26 09:39

#5 So are they admitting that they would also not report on such an obvious story for political reasons because that is what Kayleigh is saying without saying it and everyone in that room was smart enough to know that but danced around the elephant.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-05-26 09:08

#4 They just can't take being called out on their utter hypocrisy.

Posted by: Clem 2020-05-26 08:59

#3 She's beating them at their own game. They hate it but can't stop themselves.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-26 07:59

#2 McEnany is very sharp. I've watched her flip through that binder full of 'gotcha questions' and prepared responses. I'll bet she updates it daily. She does her homework. I believe the Orange Man has found a winner.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-26 07:34

#1 They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-26 06:57

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