Last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki tastelessly scoffed over commentary from Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro on the consequences of soft-on-crime policies, asking laughingly, “What does that even mean?” This from westernjournal.com.
As it happens, this might have been the wrong hypothetical question when it comes to the consequences of soft-on-crime policies—one highly doubts Psaki hoped she’d get an answer, but boy did she.
In addition to being scorched on Twitter for the tone-deaf comments, which came just days after a 22-year-old NYPD officer was shot and killed and days before his outraged widow blasted city leadership for dangerous and deadly city policies, Pirro weighed in herself to answer Paski’s question on Monday.
For some context, on Jan. 25, Psaki was talking to “Pod Save America” host and fellow Obama administration alum Jon Favreau about the differences between how top cable news channels confronted the news.
Psaki explained she was looking at a TV which, typical for sets in D.C. government buildings, was split between four networks and was broadcasting their coverage all at once.
“And then on Fox is Jeanine Pirro talking about ‘soft-on-crime consequences,’” she said, laughing.
Click HERE for short clip of Psaki being interviewed.
“So, there’s an alternate universe on some coverage,” she added authoritatively, as though she wasn’t the press secretary to a sitting U.S. president who happens to get her toughest questions from Fox News’ own White House correspondent.
“What’s scary about it is a lot of people watch that,” she added with unveiled contempt for the dirty, unwashed masses of Fox News viewers who dare to tune in to the one network that routinely criticizes The Regime.
Well, given the opportunity to respond to this absurd question on Fox News’ “The Five” on Monday, Pirro explained exactly what “soft-on-crime consequences” means and how Psaki is the one living in an alternate universe, or rather, as she put it, an ivory tower.
Click HERE to view Judge Pirro speaking soft-on-crime.
“Well, I’m talking about the consequences of the Democrat/liberal/progressive/leftist soft-on-crime, criminal-loving, victim-hating group that has made a decision that no bail, no jail, and that criminals should be privileged and that social justice and rogue prosecutors should not be a part of the criminal justice system,” Pirro explained.
What Americans are concerned about, as Pirro continued, is the “killing of innocents who didn’t deserve it, they didn’t ask for it, they did nothing but get in the way of a murderer,” who is often only out on the streets thanks to progressive bail reform policies when a “murderer and not God decides that they should die.”
This scorching delivery was far from over, however.
She noted that as homicide spiked 44 percent in major American cities, a likely reference to NYC’s homicide data between 2019 and 2020, President Joe Biden “ignored the looting, the burning, the rioting, and he ignored the burning of a federal courthouse and police precincts” but that only now he’s expressed an interest in going to New York, where he plans to tour NYPD’s headquarters, as the New York Post reported.
“Why didn’t he do that when they were defunding, demoralizing, and denigrating cops,” Pirro asked. “Why now? Could it be because this is an election year, a midterm year?”
“And why not increase funding when cops really needed it?” she continued. “You people don’t stand up for law and order, we do.”
“Here’s the bottom line,” Pirro concluded. “We quadruple them because we talk about things that Americans care about, and maybe you and your friends ought to take a temperature of what Americans care about and talk about it.”
I’m sure she would have dropped a mic if it wouldn’t have involved awkwardly detaching hers from her outfit, since she was, of course, still on the set of “The Five,” but the effect of her words was most certainly as though she had.
Psaki likely took her own advice that evening as quickly as she retreated home. A lot of margaritas and kickboxing classes would have been required to enable her to emotionally get beyond that verbal ass chewing she endured. That is if in fact this destructive-to-America, ethically challenged ginger wench even cares.
