If there areany lingering doubt about why the news media has no credibility with the American people and its influence is diminishing like an ice cube left of the sidewalk on a hot summer’s day, ponder these two questions at yesterday’s White House press briefing.

#1. TIME’s correspondent Brian Bennett asked the President’s incompetent paid liar, “President Trump has promised to launch the largest deportation in American history when he becomes president. Are there steps that President Biden is taking in the next 70 days to try to protect certain populations in the United States from deportation? Does he want to extend parole or take other steps that would protect people from that deportation?”

Good one, Brian. “What steps is the President taking to prevent President Trump from enforcing laws that his administration has refused to enforce?” To members of our woke journalistic cabal, this makes perfect sense.

#2. Bloomberg’s Skylar Woodhouse asked, “President-elect Trump — there’s reports that Elon Musk is having a lot of sway in terms of his decisions, in terms of who President-elect Trump is, you know, having come into his administration, sitting in on meetings with — with foreign leaders, and Elon Musk has said, you know, there’s parts that he wants to sort of reshape maybe the government. Is President Biden concerned at all over Elon Musk’s influence over President-elect Trump and potentially what that could look like for our country?”

Yikes. This is “The Great Stupid,” Unethical Journalism Division, in question form. “There’s reports”…is this question about rumors, gossip? “Having a lot of sway”—meaning what, about what? “About his decisions”—is getting advice sinister now? ” “There’s parts that he wants to sort of reshape maybe the government”—who doesn’t? (Talk much, Skylar?) “Is President Biden concerned at all over Elon Musk’s influence over President-elect Trump and potentially what that could look like for our country?”-—has Skylar raised equivalent alarms about Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Merrick Garland, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Hollywood moguls, or any other advisors and allies real or imagined who have had President Biden’s ear? The reporters on my Arlington High School newspaper asked better questions than this….and these mediocrities believe they have the acumen and expertise to practice “advocacy journalism.”

It takes some effort for such signature significance-radiating stupid questions at these briefing to pull focus from the reliably stupid answers Here’s poor, pathetic DEI Biden press secretary responding to Fox News’ Peter Doocy about whether there are any tensions between President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris since she, you know, took over his slot at the top of the Democratic national ticket and then fell flat on her cackling face:

Did you see them — did you see them together yesterday as well when they honored our veterans and were together — uh — uh — during the day, making sure that we didn’t forget the brave men and women that fought for this country? Did you see them together yesterday? Did you see the — the show of force together? This is — uh —I’m not even gonna
take the premise of this — the question. What I will say is the President and the Vice President had lunch today. They’ve had lunch many times. They have — um — they communicate with each other regularly. They had an opportunity to discuss the last 70 days or so of this administration, how important it is to get things done for the American people, and that’s their
focus. That is genuinely their focus.

Hmmm…well said. I wonder if anyone rending their garments over Trump’s victory has paused to think about how Saint-Pierre has been daily smoking gun evidence of 1) how irresponsible and costly to the economy, the government, and racial comity the Democrats’ DEI obsession has been, a hangover from the George Floyd Freakout, and 2) Biden’s atrocious personnel oversight, incompetence, as he has been unwilling or unable to fire appointees and others whose memberships in favored identity groups render them immune from accountability even as they demonstrate their incompetence in public.