The Daily Caller notes that Biden’s post-midterm election presser was no exception. The article notes that Today News Africa’s correspondent Simon Ateba was so incensed at the “rigged” nature of the press conference that he devoted an entire op-ed in his newspaper on the subject.
November 13, 2022
“Many things at the White House are rigged, especially press briefings or press conferences. Questions are often sent in advance by the same reporters who get called on all the time. The President, the Press Secretary, then reads prepared answers from a binder or a notebook with talking points.
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November 13, 2022
“For the people watching at home, it all appears normal, reporters asking questions and getting answers. In reality, it’s a show, a sham, the appearance of normality.
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“In a way, that’s how the White House operates. It’s not about reality, but the appearance of reality. It’s not about transparency, but the appearance of transparency. It’s also not about press freedom, but the appearance of press freedom. Appearance at the White House is reality.”
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Ateba then delved into the post-midterm election press conference and expressed his frustrations about the event.
“On Wednesday, President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is turning 80 years old this month, held such a sham press conference at the State Dining Room in the White House, the day after his party showed surprising strength at the polls despite rising inflation, skyrocketing crime and widening divisions across the nation.
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“’I’ve been given a list of 10 people that I’m supposed to call on. And you’re all supposed to ask me one question, but I’m sure you’ll ask me more,’ President Biden told a room full of local and international journalists.”
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Ateba was not among the reporters who were allowed to ask Biden questions. The journalist from Africa had some interesting observations about what he perceives as racism in America.
“When I first arrived in the United States, having watched CNN for years, I came to believe that the racists and the bad guys in the United States were the Republicans, the old white guys with no college degrees who live in the Midwest.
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But in the Biden White House, as I have struggled to get access, ask questions, and be treated with the same dignity as others, I realized that the Republicans were not the racists and the horrible, awful people I was told they were.
“The racist is not the Republican or the Democrat. The racist is not the Conservative or the Liberal. The racist is the person who believes that you are not worth it, that you do not deserve to be treated with the same dignity as others because of where you come from, what you look like, what your gender is, what your beliefs are or what you sound like. And the racist is not also white or black or brown. I have faced racism from at least one female black reporter in the briefing room at the White House.”
The perspective is exciting and illuminating, something more people should be exposed to in the Black Lives Matter era.
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