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Liberal Media Looks Away As Biden’s Deputy Press Secretary Threatens A Reporter

Liberal Media Looks Away As Biden’s Deputy Press Secretary Threatens A Reporter

Barack Obama spied on and jailed journalists and the liberal media called him an open and honest president. Donald Trump called the press “fake news” when they published false stories and the liberal media said he was threatening the free press and destroying the pillars of democracy. Joe Biden’s deputy press secretary was just busted for threatening a reporter and the liberal media is back to agreeing that democrats in the White House are transparent allies of the free press.

Joe Biden’s deputy press secretary is involved in a romantic relationship with a reporter from Axios, which is the perfect metaphor for the liberal media being in bed with the Biden administration. That was ignored by the press and then came this thing that they also don’t have a problem, form Vanity Fair:

White House official tried to quash a story about his relationship with a reporter by issuing threats and using derogatory language to another reporter pursuing it, according to two sources familiar with the incident. In a sympathetic profile Monday, People revealed that White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo is dating Axios political reporter Alexi McCammond, who covered the Joe Biden campaign. But behind the scenes, Ducklo had previously lashed out at Politico reporter Tara Palmeri, who was reporting the story, exhibiting behavior that led to tense meetings between the Washington news outlet’s editors and senior White House officials.

The confrontation began on Inauguration Day, January 20, after Palmeri, a coauthor of Politico’s Playbook, contacted McCammond for comment while one of her male colleagues left a message for Ducklo, according to the sources. Ducklo subsequently called a Playbook editor to object to the story, but was told to call the Playbook reporters with his concerns. But instead of calling the male reporter who initially contacted him, Ducklo tried to intimidate Palmeri by phone in an effort to kill the story. “I will destroy you,” Ducklo told her, according to the sources, adding that he would ruin her reputation if she published it.

During the off-the-record call, Ducklo made derogatory and misogynistic comments, accusing Palmeri of only reporting on his relationship—which, due to the ethics questions that factor into the relationship between a journalist and White House official, falls under the purview of her reporting beat—because she was “jealous” that an unidentified man in the past had “wanted to fuck” McCammond “and not you.” Ducklo also accused Palmeri of being “jealous” of his relationship with McCammond. (Palmeri had no prior relationship or communication with McCammond before calling her to report on the Playbook item, which was a story that she was assigned and had not independently pursued.)

When Biden was welcoming his staff, he said in no uncertain terms that if any of them treated others with disrespect or talked down to people they would be fired immediately:

Threatening to destroy a reporter certainly seems like disrespect, but apparently this is another one of those things that liberals have an alternative definition for. Here’s Biden’s head press secretary not firing Ducklo like Biden promised:

Joe Biden just keeps finding new ways to be a liar, doesn’t he?

And while if something like this happened under the Trump administration it would be a Constitutional crisis, the liberal media is fine with Biden’s press office banging reporters and threatening other reporters. In fact, CNN’s Jim Acosta actually thinks this is all Trump’s fault:

Boy, does the liberal media miss Trump or what? With Biden, they have to pretend like everything’s okay, kiss his ass, and ask him what kind of ice cream he likes. At least with Trump they could make up fake stories and feign outrage at his every word.