Incoming White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described Fox News as a “racist” network in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mediaite reports.
On March 15, 2020, Jean-Pierre shared a clip from an appearance on AM Joy on her Twitter account. In it, she complained about Fox News alongside host Joy Reid and guests Jennifer Rubin and Michael Steele.
“Fox News was racist before #coronavirus, they are racist during coronavirus, and Fox News will be racist after the coronavirus,” she wrote.
In the clip, Jean-Pierre told MSNBC’s viewers:
[Fox News] was racist before coronavirus, they are racist during the coronavirus, Fox News will be racist after the coronavirus. So there is nothing new here. I think the difference is they are all-in on being state TV for Donald Trump, and so they will continue to give the misinformation.
The danger is, so yes, you have Asian Americans right now whose lives are seriously in danger. And, you have their own viewers who can now, the ones who are 60 and older who are watching, this is a health crisis that we’re in, this is a global pandemic, as the WHO have said, and they’re putting their lives in dangers.
“What they’re putting out there is going to hurt people, and not help them,” she concluded.
Mediaite reviewed a transcript from Reid’s March 15, 2020 show. Jean-Pierre lashed out at the network because some of its hosts referred to Covid as a Chinese coronavirus.
Prior to her comments about Fox News being “racist,” Jean-Pierre cautioned against placing a geographic label against an illness, such as Covid-19. She said she was worried ding so might lead to “xenophobia and racism.” She then proceeded to rip Fox as “racist.”
A number of Fox News personalities at the time also did the same.
Jean-Pierre will be dealing with Fox News reporters as part of her daily routine beginning next week, as Jen Psaki is slated to step down Friday.
The incoming press secretary will no doubt face questions about the comments, as well as others she has made.
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Very vile low person. Very bad character traits. I don’t like this person. Biden made a big mistake by appointing this person.
That ain’t no person.
@Nausous: Maskim. Absolutely mag’il. please remove the picture.
The new bimbo is dumber than the old one, and, as a black liberal, she knows only one accusatory word – racist!
If a black person is arrested for armed robbery, that is racist. If a black student gets a well-deserved C-, that’s racist too. If the prices are high, if the weather is nasty, if her toe gets infected ….. of that happens only because of institutional racism.
If this country is so bad, there is always Liberia – a place specifically created for former slaves and their descendants to escape discrimination, and come back to their roots. One way only, please.
A black kid asks his mother, “Mama, what’s a Democracy?”
“Well my child, that’s when white folks work every day so we can get all our benefits. You know, like rent subsidy, child allowance, free healthcare, electricity, water and sanitation subsidies and the list goes on and on, you know.”
“But Mama, do the white people not get pissed off about that?”
“Sure they do, that’s called racism!”
Garbage in garbage out.
Biden made a choice. He thinks we feel happy.
Biden should take his dogs for a walk. He really has drowned us in bad frank growling moods. This is what Democrats do. Alter a good care of human time.
“Jean-Pierre lashed out at the network because some of its hosts referred to Covid as a Chinese coronavirus … cautioned against placing a geographic label against an illness”
uh hem:
Spanish flu, West Nile virus, Congo Fever, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Lassa virus, Zika and Ebola, Lyme disease, Rift Valley Fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Guinea worm disease, Newcastle Disease – and so many more.
Besides for the fact that CNN and their ilk also initially all called it the Chinese / Wuhan virus themselves too.
Hunter Biden did nothing wrong.