Right wing media is assisting Conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin
in expressing just how much his feelings were hurt by Pesky Joe Biden and
all that badgering,
that he engaged in just to get Mansion to support his build back better agenda.
Now, of course, I'm being sarcastic when I mentioned the badgering because
Biden barely did any fighting for his own agenda,
barely applied any pressure to the likes of Joe Manchin to get him to vote in
favor of the build back better social spending bill.
But Fox News reporter Jackie Heinrich asked Jen Psaki if
there might be some retaliation among those within Biden's
administration who hurt poor Joe Manchin's feelings.
Let's watch, >> We now know that he ultimately pulled
the plug in that interview on Sunday because he was upset with White House
staff naming him singularly in the Thursday statement from the President and
we've been told about some of his objections to that,
that was shared with the White House.
Has the staffer who is supposed responsible for putting his name in there,
have they faced any retribution for this or been spoken to about it?
>> You know, Jackie,
I haven't seen all of the comments that Senator Manchin has made on this.
I know that there's been reporting on this, but
I haven't seen him speak in depth about the specifics of what has upset him.
I can dig further if that exists out there, beyond the reporting.
But what I would tell you is that we have been working with Senator Manchin for
months now.
The president has known him for years.
Many of the White House senior staff have known him for years as well.
It doesn't mean that there aren't moments of disagreement or frustration.
Of course there are, this is legislating.
That's the nature of sometimes how it gets done.
>> Poor Joe Manchin.
Won't anyone think about Joe Manchin's feelings please?
I mean, yes, they're starving Americans out there,
people dying on sidewalks because they don't have housing.
But poor Joe Manchin's feelings Jink.
>> Yeah, look, there's two elements of the story.
One is the gives you an insight into how Washington thinks,
who cares about the voters?
>> Yeah.
>> Right of the powerful Elites had his feelings hurt for a second by a staffer.
So in retribution to that, Manchin killed the entire bill.
So you can't get the child tax credit or paid family leave or
anything else that might actually help your family and
everybody in Washington finds out perfectly normal.
Well, of course, if you hurt the feelings of a someone who's an elite,
millions will have to suffer because he was offended.
That is not normal.
That's sick.
That's depraved.
But everyone in the room treats it as perfectly normal.
Question.
Yeah.
Has the staff had been fired for offending one of the elites?
It's absurd.
And the second part of it is the response, she's walking on eggshells.
>> 100%, you know what an actual sake bomb would be.
I'm not even gonna humor you with that ridiculous question next?
>> Here I got an answer, I would say, have we punished our own staffer for
pointing out that Senator Manchin says the bill is dead?
No, we have not punished the staffer for being accurate.
And by the way, I mean his feelings got hurt on a tiny passage.
I had to read it three times to understand what he took offense at.
It was just the fact that his name was mentioned in the context of negotiations.
By the way, you know what guys, his feelings weren't hurt.
It's a stupid excuse >> 100%
>> Why are we having this dumb
conversation?
The reality is he did it for his donors, but no one in media is honest.
So they're having this insane conversation about did his staff or hurt his feelings.
Should we fire the staffer for hurting the feelings of the elites?
That is, his name was mentioned.
That's not a thing you get offended by.
It's a lie.
Joe Manchin is a liar here.
I just did more news than all the media combined.
>> Now, it's rare for corporate media to ever ask follow up questions.
But I commend this Fox News reporter for asking a follow up question in this
context because this is a very important issue.
The fragile ego of Joe Manchin is important here.
So here's the follow up, >> They're going to be a softer approach
in dealing with Senator Manchin and some of the other democrats in the party
who have been very vocal about being disappointed in him.
Is there sort of a shift in strategy since this all blew up over bullying?
>> Well, again, I wouldn't characterize it that way, Jackie, but
I would tell you that Senator Manchin is somebody who has won many tough thoughts
fights in West Virginia.
He has comes proudly from a coal mining family.
He's a pretty outspoken advocate for the things he believes in and
the things he doesn't.
And I would doubt he's a withering flower on the side of the road,
>> But he's being bullied ladies and
gentlemen, one of the most powerful men in the world is being bullied.
>> Yeah, no guys, it's Alison Wonderland, man.
It's absolutely upside down.
So Manchin bullied Biden and said I'm the president.
And if I don't want a bill named after your entire agenda build back better.
That's what you ran your campaign on.
If I don't want it to pass, it's not gonna pass.
And then he backhands him across the face and
all Washington is talking about was Joe Biden to mean to Joe Manchin and
should Joe Biden, I swear to God, this is a real conversation.
The reason why it's being asked is because several articles have been
written about it.
It's had a bunch of segments on television about it.
Should Joe Biden apologized to Joe Manchin for
killing Biden's agenda, Manchin killed Biden such and what?
Why the hell would Biden apologized to Manchin?
But in Washington, they're like,
now remember you asked something that the donors did not agree to?
They disagree 1%,
apologize because they're not asking him to apologize the Manchin.
They're asking Biden to apologize to the corporate donors.
>> Yeah and look, I think that this is so
indicative of everything that's wrong in America today, right?
Because as you see from this interaction and Jake is absolutely right.
This isn't just about one Fox News reporter asking this line of questioning.
This is something that's been regurgitated by various members of corporate media,
both in broadcast and in print all week long.
Okay, this is just the narrative that they're going with, What could Manchin do?
He was bullied.
So as a result, he decided to screw over his own constituents and
the American people in general by robbing them of an opportunity to pay far less for
pharmaceutical drugs to have access to universal pre K to have access to child
care so mothers can go back to work like what can he do?
His feelings were hurt.
The fact that they ate and a bet that garbage is exactly
why conspiracy theories prevail in this country.
Because who are the ones who are supposed to be fact
checking the conspiracy theories?
Corporate media that has lost the trust of the American people?
People don't trust the media for a reason because they don't represent ordinary
Americans, they represent the elite.
They represent the powerful, the fact that they're concerned about the alleged hurt
feelings of one of the most powerful people on the planet right now shows you
just how little they take even a second to think about the pain and
suffering that ordinary Americans are experiencing today.
So look, I get the frustration when it comes to like Cunanan and all of that.
But can you really begrudge people for not trusting the fact checkers for
not trusting the media for not trusting in our institutions.
They have failed us and this is the chickens coming home to roost.
>> Yeah, I'm gonna say one more thing guys, I'm now on the war path,
we gotta get a white house reporter.
So if you can help out TYT.com/change become a member, do whatever else you can.
All right because imagine if the question was from a TYT report and
the question was Joe Manchin says that his feelings were hurt because his name was
mentioned in a press release and that's why he's denied the child tax credit and
now 30% of kids in America are gonna go back into poverty.
Isn't that the actions of a monster?
>> Yes >> That it would endanger the lives of
millions of kids cuz his feelings were hurt?
I don't know how Jen Psaki would answer that question, but
I guarantee you that they've never gotten a question like that in their lives.
They probably, I mean,
I don't know that they've ever gotten a single question at the White House for
a Republican or Democratic president from a progressive perspective.
If, I mean, you want to talk about a sake bomb,
that whole place might explain how dare you.
My God, this is a reporter challenging the powerful escorted from the building.
Okay, all the reporters are supposed to kiss the ass of the powerful and
protect their feelings.
This report is not protecting the feelings of the powerful TYT.com/change.
We've got to make that happen.
I want to see them humiliate themselves by saying you shouldn't do reporting and
hold the powerful accountable cuz they will say it.