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Home Front: Politix
Biden admin: 'We're engaged with NASCAR and Country Music TV' to reach unvaccinated White people
2021-04-15
[WASHINGTONTIMES] White House press secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama...
said the Biden administration is currently "engaged with NASCAR and Country Music TV," among multiple other venues, in an effort to reach White conservatives who may be hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

During a press briefing Monday, Ms. Psaki was asked to address a New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

report that said rural states such as Mississippi, Ohio and Oklahoma are seeing a lackluster demand for the vaccine.

Ms. Psaki said the White House was addressing the problem primarily at the local level but that other measures had been taken to "get directly connected to White conservative communities" and meet them "where they are."

"An example is Dr. [Francis] Collins participated in ’The 700 Club,’" she said. "Dr. [Marcella] Nunez-Smith hosted a faith leaders roundtable. We’ve run PSAs on ’The Deadliest Catch.’ We’re engaged with NASCAR and Country Music TV."

Ms. Psaki touted the president’s newly launched Community Corps, which she said now includes more than 4,000 organizations across the country to promote COVID-19 vaccines in at-risk communities.

"We’re also investing $3 billion to states and community-based organizations to strengthen vaccine confidence in the highest-risk and hardest-hit communities," she said. "And often, people think of that as just Black and brown communities, and that is not. As you’ve noted, that is also conservative communities, White evangelicals. It’s a range of communities around the country.

"What we’ve found to be most effective is to work with these local organizations — so, faith-based organizations, community health organizations, civic leaders, and others who can really get this message deeply in communities," she said.

The White House’s apparent generalization of conservative White people sparked ridicule on social media.

Posted by:Fred

#20  
laughter heard...come join in the laughter!
Posted by: Lumpy Poodle3626   2021-04-15 23:40  

#19  ^^^ lol
Posted by: Chris   2021-04-15 16:19  

#18  Allow me a moment to get off my sister long enough to voice my outrage over the shallow, one-dimensional view of us'n "white conservative"!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2021-04-15 15:34  

#17  Their job would be easier if they had not spent the last year saying it was completely unpossible for Trump to come up with a vaccine in a year's time, and even if he did, there was no way they would take a vaccine Donald Trump developed - as if he was making the stuff with his Gilbert chem lab in the White House basement.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-04-15 15:17  

#16  Yet another proof of systemic racism. Last I looked, Covid vaccine resistance was higher among African-Americans than among those of a pale complexion, and yet the Harris-Biden administration is not talking about a special outreach to them — clearly neither VP Harris nor P Biden cares about the higher rate of illness and death among the Black population.

The same argument holds for the higher rate of abortions among Blacks as well, for those who are for it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-04-15 13:46  

#15  The hilarious thing here is Psaki, our national village idiot, speaking down to us po' rednecks. Could she pass a high school biology test?
Posted by: Matt   2021-04-15 13:37  

#14  CMTV? Nobody listens to Cardi Banjo except pre-teen girls who think having a stable of 20 horses is living country.

The ad campaign here is the slur that only Deliverance People would want to avoid the shot.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-15 12:27  

#13  Perhaps if they'd given Trump the credit he was due for getting the vaccine out so quickly the Trump fans would have jumped at getting the vaccine.

Instead the Biden folks tried some easily disproved lies to take credit while bashing Trump and called it unifying.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-04-15 10:55  

#12  N.Y state up to midnight closing in bars next week but..
Outdoor auto and horse races will also be permitted to open to fans at 20 percent capacity on April 23, he said.

Spectators will be required to wear a mask, and to provide proof of a negative test or completed vaccinations, Cuomo said.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756   2021-04-15 09:57  

#11  I thought that due to white supremacy, blacks were being denied the life saving vaccine. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2021-04-15 09:55  

#10  JAB tables at the Gun Show ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-04-15 09:45  

#9  Don't forget Autozone & Bass Pro Shops!
Posted by: Raj   2021-04-15 09:25  

#8  Not on BET?
Posted by: Frank G   2021-04-15 09:09  

#7  Why?
These people hate Biden and the loony left anyway.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-04-15 08:51  

#6  Steps for reaching deplorable/conservatives:

Step 1) Resign from your sinecure/government job.
Step 2) See step one.
Posted by: badanov   2021-04-15 06:55  

#5  These idiots are so besotted with identity politics, they've already Balkanized the country in their minds
Posted by: Snaith Ulinenter9637   2021-04-15 05:56  

#4  Go ahead speak up! Let's have some ideas on how we can reach these rubes?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-04-15 05:54  

#3  It's OK, whitey is done with NOOSECAR and trans country muzik.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2021-04-15 02:07  

#2  Truth is stranger than the Beeâ„¢, down already.
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-15 00:35  

#1  "Get the shot before you get shot!"
Ammoseek.com
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-04-15 00:16  

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