live feed from press conference by white house spokes sexor jen psaki

 

Jen Psaki is on the podium speaking.

Something seems very strange.

For a moment I can't figure out what it is.

It's...

It's the air of civility.

When Trump was in power his various press secretaries were routinely shouted down, mocked, vilified and made the mawkish subjects of sledge hammer subtle parodies on late night TV.

Let's face it.

During Trump's time his various Press Secretaries couldn't get a word in edgeways at meetings with the press. What with CNN's Jim Acosta turning every conference into the Jim Acosta Show(boating) and the other gentlemen of the press corps clearly coordinating with each other in advance to hector the press secretary and prevent him or her from either making a point or moving on to the next point by continually deferring to each other as pre arranged.

They buried three of Trump's press secretaries, the hard man Sean Spicer in whom they all but induced a nervous breakdown, as well as the thoroughly efficient Sarah Saunders (a preacher's daughter) and Kayleigh McAneany (Satan's.)

Trump White House pressers were a free for all piranha feeding frenzy with the press corps ganging up on whoever held the podium for the Prez.

But this is different.

With President Joe Biden in office the journos seem to have changed tack.

Can it be.

Why.

This press conference is positively sedate.

It's like I'm watching tea with Queen Elizabeth The Second live from Windsor Castle.

Af Queen's tea conferences at Windsor were invariably sedate except for the one where her lackies discovered Prince Philip had been dead for three days.

But look at this.

Jen Psaki deftly turning aside the most vaguely implied criticisms with urbane ease.

Good heavens.

I think I hear cooing.

The journalists are actually cooing at President Joe Biden's White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

She makes me want to coo a bit too but for reasons entirely unrelated to politics.

The ghost of a musician who occasionally styles himself Prince appears and explains it to me in song.

Prince sings thusly:

"Dig if you will my picture

Of a conference in the White House press room

Animals strike curious poses

They can't figure out

They can't figure out

Why no one is shouting anybody else down.

Dream if you will a media circus

With oceans of journalists in bloom

Cameramen strike curious poses

They feel the heat

The heat from Jen Psaki too

How could they just leave President Trump standing

Alone in a world so cold

Maybe I'm just too demanding

Maybe I'm just like CNN

Too bold

Maybe I'm just like NBC

They're never satisfied

Why aren't they shouting at each other?

This is what it sounds like

When doves vote Demmycrat

Oh oh oh

Woh oh oh

Eee eeee eee

Dunk dunk dunk dunk

Dink dink dink dink

Dunk dunk dunk dunk

Dink dink dink dink

Wo oh oh

Oh oh oh ohhhhhh."

Trust Prince to sort it all out.