Posted BY: Thomas Lifson
I can’t think of a presidential press secretary remotely as embarrassing as Karine Jean-Pierre. Her inability to deal with questions for which she has no prepared answer makes me squirm with empathy over her embarrassment. Watching her frantically scroll through her briefing book, looking for a rescue, something to read in response to an unanticipated topic generates sympathy that lasts only until she mouths some inane and yet self-righteous response with a smug look on her face.
The role of a presidential press secretary inherently requires visibility, personifying the administration being represented. I can only assume that some of Joe Biden’s puppet masters decided that a black, lesbian, immigrant press secretary was the perfect diversity hire, signaling their commitment to advancing those groups through appointment to roles for which they may be dubiously at best qualified.
Matt Margolis at PJ Media has assembled a series of tweets from RNC Research documenting the fact that KJP regularly mispronounces words that are familiar to the vast majority of adults and even most junior high school students.
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Seems like the Biden Administration strategy to promote diversity in this case might could do the opposite. Promoting someone that can’t do the job and looks ridiculous might tend to make some people think that those with traits like KJP may indeed be idiots. The only criteria should be how well the person can do the job. In this case though her appointment could be an advantage for Conservatives. As more people look at this example and realize that giving someone a job based on equity is a very bad idea.