By Ray Cardello for October 10, 2024, Season 29 / Post 11

Karine Jean Pierre must have felt a surge of personal power and self-importance on Monday. Maybe it was the sportcoat she must have borrowed from a much larger colleague, or she was still elated over her promotion. President Biden has promoted White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to serve as a senior adviser during his final three months in office — despite internal concern about Jean-Pierre’s performance, which resulted in an unsuccessful attempt to coax her to step aside. This is how the Peter Principle works in the new age of DEI. You are hired for your gender, color, or sexual orientation, do a lousy job, be insulated from termination, and then get promoted. On Monday, she took her personal feud with Peter Doucy of FOX News to a new level.

Doucy typically asks tough questions of KJP, although I am usually disappointed that he does not push further with follow-up questions. But he definitely got under KJP’s skin on Monday. Doucy prefaced his question by reminding KJP that both Biden and DHS Secretary Mayorkas have indicated FEMA was out of funds. He then went on to ask why the President is pledging millions of dollars to Lebanon when we have people still unaccounted for and without water in North Carolina. KJP went on the attack immediately, claiming Doucy posed a tainted question. She told Doucy that his question was disinformation. That is a new one. We have all seen how responses and statements from this administration are ripe with lies and misdirecting information, but now the kettle is calling the questions misinformation. She was wrong in her attack and was equally wrong in her response.

First, the money is gone from FEMA. It was used for the illegal migrants that have come to our country during the Biden/Harris administration. This was explained by Mayorkas, and KJP addressed the funds going to illegals. Karine denies she ever said this, but that is the magic of technology-virtually everything said and seen in this world is achived somewhere. Karine can deny it, but YouTube can prove it.

Karine chastised Peter Doucy, grabbed her massive notebook, and stormed off the set and back into the safety of the West Wing. This is how KJP responds to difficult questions that have caught her, Biden, or Harris in a lie. To call the question misinformation is ripe but it is also classic projection. Karine believes that if you say something often and loud enough, then her version becomes what people will hear and believe.

Karine’s actions and response were offensive and misinformation. That statement is backed by videos of Jean-Pierre, statements of Mayorkas, and tweets by Kamala Harris. She owes Peter Doucy and all Americans an apology for her lies and her inadequate performance over the last few years. KJP and Kamala now have something in common. The Administration recognized them both as inadequately prepared for their jobs, tried to have them step aside, only to promote them both. This Administration makes The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight look like Special Forces.