Newly-installed White House press secretary Jen Psaki delivered the very first press briefing of the Biden/Harris administration yesterday afternoon and it was surprisingly, dare we say, normal. We might even go so far as to call it… boring. And we mean that in the best possible way.
The half hour briefing didn’t include any name calling, condescending lectures, lying, personal attacks against reporters, or bitchy powerpoint presentations.
Psaki, who previously served as the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State and held various senior press and communications positions in the Obama White House, spoke to reporters like adults, answering their questions honestly and respectfully. She even cracked a few jokes.
Psaki (pronounced SOCK-eee, for anyone who’s wondering) also promised to make Q&A sessions with reporters a regular weekday routine (“Not Saturday and Sunday,” she teased. “I’m not a monster!”), and said she’s committed to Biden’s mission of bringing “transparency and truth back to government.” What a concept!
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And just like that, everyone on Twitter was in love…
Jen Psaki is blowing me away.
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) January 21, 2021
What’s this? A functional WH press briefing? @PressSec taking questions respectfully? Journalists not selected based on favorable coverage? Pledged transparency? Daily updates? No lecturing? No crowd size boasting? (What the hell’s going on?! Where are we?!?) @jrpsaki Jen Psaki pic.twitter.com/F5AWm5GHWs
— Alex Skolnick (@AlexSkolnick) January 21, 2021
My new crush is Jen Psaki.
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) January 21, 2021
I have a drunk confession: I’m in love with Jen Psaki. ?? https://t.co/9RGlUtJkJ0
— Evan McKenzie (@fishandkangaroo) January 21, 2021
This press briefing tonight is precedented.
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) January 21, 2021
Incredible to watch. There are no words to describe my feelings of elation to see @jrpsaki behind that podium and the degenerate liars of the last four years relegated to the ash heap of history. It is nice to see integrity restored https://t.co/RmSeyq1x8p
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 21, 2021
My favorite part was “I’d love to take your questions.”
— 🍸 Blondish 🍸 (@iluvherbie) January 21, 2021
Everyone follow Jen Psaki, let’s help her get to ONE MILLION followers!!!
— Jo??????? (@Jo_IsABitch) January 21, 2021
This day was already good and then Jen Psaki ran a Press Conference like CJ Cregg and I am DONE. pic.twitter.com/dv2QKC0nrV
— treylyon (@treylyon) January 21, 2021
Jen Psaki's hair color is pure hypnosis.
— Lord Castleton (@LordCastleton) January 21, 2021
I may have a huge crush on Jen Psaki ??. Every press briefing! It’s on!!
— spartcusmaximus (@Spartcusmaximus) January 21, 2021
— Ian Silverman (@Silvy_76) January 21, 2021
And America has a crush on you! A press secretary who answers questions? What is this wizardry? Thank you for the bottom of our hearts!
— SuzieQ 🆘 (@smeckard67) January 21, 2021
.@jrpsaki absolutely nailing the Biden Administration's first WH briefing pic.twitter.com/ilMsnpKGU1
— Lauren Chou (@lauren_chou) January 21, 2021
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Cam
I love the fact that the conservative Forbes Magazine said if any company hires former Trump spokespeople like Spicer, Huckabee-Sanders, etc. that Forbes would assume whatever they heard from them would be a lie.
Nice to see a reasonable informative briefing.
Liquid Silver
It’s kind of sad that basic information is considered enchanting…but for the First Hundred Days, I’ll take it. After that, my standards escalate.
graphicjack
exactly my thoughts… the bar is so low now that speaking in complete sentences and not complete and utter lies is somehow groundbreaking and the media fawns all over it. Pathetic…. how about we actually concentrate on some policies that will actually make people’s lives better, instead of cults of personalities, identity politics and tokenism? Sure, we’ve got a mixed race woman VP, but she’s actually pro-police and as corporate and fake woke as they come. Is she going to be better than theocrat Pence? Yes, obviously, but let’s not pretend she’s a progressive messiah. The country has been saved from the brink of fascism, but to what exactly? The same neo-liberalism corruption that caused populist outrage in the first place. Bernie may have been the country’s last hope. Biden is going to need to be dragged to do even the slightest thing to make people’s lives better. I don’t think it will be enough. What ends up happening in the next ten years or so is going to make all the difference. I’m not sure the country as we know it will survive it.
WSnyder
The Biden Admin is going to have it tough and easy.
The tough part is dealing with COVID, the Economy, Foreign Relations, Trade, the Budget, Immigration and National Security [especially with domestic terrorists running amok].
The Easy Part is that by simply being normal in regards to the ‘Daily’ stuff [like this Press Briefing] they’re 10 levels better than the Dumpster Fire of the prior Admin. All the Dept’s and personnel won’t have to bend over backwards to cover a moron’s lies and incompetency, they won’t have to consistently make-up BS over some dumb-*ss tweets and worry about knife fighting everyone around them just to look good for an Orange idiot in the Oval.
radiooutmike
I’m all for it.
I’m sorry that the bar has been dropped so low. But you don’t know what you got until it’s gone. So, yes, I’ll will be enraptured by that boring and normalness for a bit.
I woke up yesterday, and I had a pleasant thought. It was of the federal government actually working. It’s always seemed crazy that the right is always about small government until they get to fill the tops post of this government they despise.