WASHINGTON – So that’s why he doesn’t have time for our questions!
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took a break from her job as President Biden’s top spokeswoman to model three outfits for a fake profile in the latest issue of Vogue — drawing sharp criticism from reporters in the nation’s capital.
Dressed in a power suit in the red of a discordant Republican and clutching a binder, Jean-Pierre, 49, posed with a serious look outside the West Wing.
Hailed by Vogue as “quite disciplined about work, where he allows few distractions,” Jean-Pierre was also pictured lounging in his office in a rainbow-striped Victor Glemaud dress.
In another glamorous photo, she posed on the balcony of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, looking off into the distance in a maroon Tove dress and gold Khiry earrings.
The high-fashion shot was accompanied by a profile declaring that Jean-Pierre had “sharpened his own technique: disarming with a smile, then presenting the facts at hand.”
“I represent the president, so piecing is not on the menu,” he was quoted as saying.
But that “disarming smile” is nowhere to be seen in the glamorous picture.
Instead, his expression was more like a scowl – an expression often seen by the White House press corps.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, 49, took a break from her duties as President Biden’s top spokeswoman to model three outfits for a glamorous shoot in the latest issue of Vogue.Getty Images
“It is sad that a magazine that claims to practice journalism is profiling a press secretary who has gone to great lengths to deliberately silence members of the press corps,” said a veteran White House reporter.
“We should not reward those who actively obscure the facts and seek to undermine the freedom of the press, which Karine Jean-Pierre and her press office have done on many occasions and which the press corps has rejected.”
“God bless you!” exclaimed another briefing room veteran.
“That’s the kind of story you’d see during the Kennedy administration about Jackie O — not something you’d see about a press secretary dealing with serious issues facing the country.”
A second reporter told The Post he was surprised by “the lack of substance in the piece about issues that concern the press and most Americans.”
Hailed by Vogue as “quite disciplined about work, where he allows few distractions,” Jean-Pierre was also pictured lounging in his office in a rainbow-striped Victor Glemaud dress.REUTERS
The single most unaddressed issue, lamented the reporter, is, “Why is this administration so dismissive of tough questions from the press?”
A third journalist who regularly attended the briefing quipped, referring to Jean-Pierre’s often non-answering answer: “I understand the question. I appreciate the question. I got a question. I will only refer you to the White House legal team for all questions about the content of KJP Vogue’s profile.”
A fourth White House correspondent added, “This profile is supposed to offer a realistic picture, but even Shonda Rhimes’ fiction feels more grounded in reality than this article.”
In the profile, Vogue quoted first lady Jill Biden, White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and former press secretary Jen Psaki as praising Jean-Pierre.
“It is sad that a magazine that claims to practice journalism is profiling a press secretary who has gone to great lengths to deliberately silence members of the press corps,” said a veteran White House reporter.AP
Zients hailed her as “humble” and the first lady praised her “grace, integrity and insight” as the first “pioneering” gay and non-white press secretary.
The compilation does not mention Jean-Pierre’s feuds with reporters, the fact that he often skips reporters who don’t share their questions ahead of time, or that his office presides over a softened press screening initiative that blocks mainstream outlets from the presidency. event.
Jean-Pierre did not answer
Between Jan. 1 and June 30, Jean-Pierre received 252 questions about the Biden administration’s scandals — including the House investigation into Biden’s role in his brothers’ foreign business dealings — but gave “definitive answers” to only six, according to a review by the conservative Media Research Center.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the September issue of Vogue. This seems like a good time to point out that Melania Trump never appeared in Vogue while she was in the White House. pic.twitter.com/UO6kb7rqai
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) September 7, 2023
The report comes after Jean-Pierre blasted The Post reporter at a July 7 briefing as “irresponsible” for asking if the cocaine found on the White House grounds belonged to the Biden family, inaccurately claiming the family was not on the premises on Friday previously. Sunday discovery.
He was criticized by Fox News for his “loss” in his response, insisting that it had the opposite effect of what he meant by the brazen deflection.
Jean-Pierre has not contacted The Post at a briefing since then, even though America’s oldest daily newspaper is the fourth-most-read online news source in the US, excluding aggregator MSN, and has the fourth-largest print circulation of a US newspaper.
Also not mentioned in the Vogue report: Jean-Pierre’s office presides over a mysterious pre-screening process for journalists allowed into large closed events for the president that under previous presidents were open to all.
He claimed last year that he was unfamiliar with the selection criteria and in May claimed to The Post that there were “no restrictions” on events – despite journalists routinely being told there was no room for them to attend events with so many empty seats.
The pre-screening process is widely understood as a way to shape the range of questions put to Biden and has gradually eased in recent months following continued pushback from reporters and leaders of the White House Correspondents Association.
However, this week at least one journalist from a shop with a briefing room seat was denied access to an event in the huge East Room – even though there was plenty of room to accommodate him.
Between January 1 and June 30, Jean-Pierre received 252 questions about the Biden administration’s scandal but gave “definitive answers” to only six, according to a review by the conservative Center for Media Research.REUTERS
The profile also does not mention the order of questions in the briefing room itself.
Journalists from the middle to the back of the briefing room are often called only if they tell Jean-Pierre’s aide what they want to ask.
He proceeded to give the game away by tilting his face down and reading prepared statements at length that often missed the core of the investigation.
Discontent crosses party lines
Vogue’s puzzling profile gives brief treatment to the fact that Democratic officials themselves are often left shaking their heads at his briefings at an inability to “sell” the administration’s message.
The report comes after Jean-Pierre blasted The Post reporter at a July 7 briefing as “irresponsible” for asking if the cocaine found on the White House grounds belonged to the Biden family.REUTERS
Capitol Hill Democrats were shocked last month when Jean-Pierre name-dropped both the Hawaii senator and misogynistic Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono when discussing the Maui wildfires that killed at least 115 people.
A White House reporter, who works for a liberal-leaning outlet, questioned whether Jean-Pierre was sending the wrong message about the Biden administration by modeling the expensive clothes.
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“It’s the kind of magazine that epitomizes everything the KJP Democratic Party stands for right now: conspicuous wealth concentrated and controlled by a very small minority of Americans,” the reporter told The Post.
“The sheer cost of KJP’s clothes is a model of how out of touch the party is with the pain people are feeling right now trying to make ends meet.”
While Vogue made little mention of the tension with the press, it noted a shift this year when NPR reporter Tamara Keith, president of the White House Correspondents Association, called out the White House’s failure to acknowledge that classified documents had been found at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home in an earlier statement about discovery of records in his vice president’s office in DC.
“Are you upset that you got up to this podium…with incomplete and inaccurate information?” Keith asked.
“And are you worried it affects your credibility here?”
When he is involved in a difficult question, Jean-Pierre usually refers the reporter to another office or agency.
Former Pentagon spokesman John Kirby was brought to the White House last year to supplement Jean-Pierre on the subject of national security, leading to an awkward briefing room exchange in which a reporter asked if Kirby was effectively a second press secretary.
Washington figures have often speculated about how long he will last in the role after taking office in May 2022.
But Jean-Pierre told outlet Blavity in May that “I will continue to be in this job as long as I can, as long as I can, as long as the president wants me and needs me.”
Psaki, Biden’s first press secretary, also received a Vogue profile but The Post was unable to locate the same spread for the four Republican women who have served in the post — including former President Donald Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders, Stephanie Grisham and Kayleigh McEnany.
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