White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is departing to spend time with her young children. Who is former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki to criticize Leavitt for how she has to please the president? And who is she to say the press corps is suddenly too "friendly"?

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck -- who watches every White House briefing -- and MRC Business Associate Editor Joseph Vazquez joined the show. 

Screenshot from Snapstream/MS NOW

New MS NOW host Peter Alexander insisted to his fellow host Jen Psaki that her first rule of press aide-ing was "Don't lie." So "did she do that?" Psaki answered, "No, because you have an audience of one. Donald Trump is her audience." Maybe in Biden's White House, she didn't have to worry about the president watching the briefing. 

Psaki also claimed "the room has massively changed since I was there. It's much more filled with people who are there to kind of applaud Donald Trump and people who are there to spit out the Republican talking points than the room that I was working in." As if Psaki didn't have a pile of "friendly" reporters from the "mainstream" media who repeated her talking points? Many conservative journalists in the White House press corps ask serious and challenging questions to the president and to Leavitt. 

Former CNN White House screamer Jim Acosta won our Worst Media Quote of the Week for poll for claiming Leavitt "is, I think, by far the biggest and most effective and most shameless liar that Donald Trump has ever had as White House press secretary."

Then there was the scandal at Forbes magazine. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane was fired after "the company discovered that he had received a payment of about $6 million from the founder of a firm that does business with the magazine." In 2021, Lane promised his outlet would "scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we'd approach a Trump tweet" any company that hires one of the forbidden Trumpsters in his arbitrary blacklist. But if you turned on Trump, all was forgiven.

The Elite Media turned into Explosive Ordnance Disposal with a narrative bomb on its hands after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last week that "Woke One is crazy." This week, several Sunday shows enabled Democrats as they tried to defuse that bomb and scurry away unscathed, with Democrats claiming "I don't know what that means." Aren't they supposed to be smart?

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