You would have to put a gun to my head to make me buy Ethics Villain Jake Tapper’s book about the Biden dementia cover-up, but at least Jake has a somewhat less despicable co-author and two-brain cells to rub together. What possible excuse is there for buying and reading the book Biden’s ex-paid liar, Karine Jean-Pierre announced yesterday: “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines”?
I can think of two: brain damage and excessive admiration of chutzpah.
In order to get some buzz yesterday, Jean-Pierre announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party to be an “independent.” “I think we need to stop thinking in boxes, and think outside of our boxes, and not be so partisan,”she said in an Instagram video. Her publisher risibly insists that Jean-Pierre’s book will offer “clear arguments and provocative evidence as an insider” about the importance of dismantling misinformation and will argue that it “can be worthwhile to carve a political space more loyal to personal beliefs than a party affiliation.”
Ethics estoppel doesn’t begin to describe how unethical it is for this fool to criticize “misinformation.” She was not only paid to lie for the apparently all-lies-all-the-time Biden administration, she was one of the most flagrant liars about Biden’s incapacity, including claiming that videos showing the President babbling, wandering off or freezing were all fake.
Every White House Press Secretary lies, but Karine was shockingly bad at it, and at talking, which would seem to be the minimum skill someone in that position should have mastered. How could she possibly offer “clear arguments and provocative evidence” about anything?
The woman was arguably the worst of the Biden DEI selections, even worse than Kamala Harris. About a week of her ill-prepared, bumbling and evasive press briefings should have been sufficient to mandate her firing, but Karine checked all the boxes (female, black, lesbian) to qualify her as “historic,” and Biden wouldn’t (or couldn’t) fire anybody. CNN’s Scott Jennings yesterday angrily reacted to Karine’s gall in peddling a book, and said she was the worst White House spokesperson in his lifetime. Yes, even worse than Sean Spicer and Ron Ziegler. Really, it’s not even close.
And she’s an idiot. Politico revealed from un-named sources that Karine expected to be recruited to be a regular on “The View,” and was disappointed that all she heard from that corner were metaphorical crickets. Imagine: Jean-Pierre is deemed too stupid and incompetent to be on “The View”!
I am reminded of the movie critic who wrote that Orson Welles was too fat to play Falstaff.
Another quote from the Politico article: “One Democratic operative who worked with Jean-Pierre prior to her White House tenure called the sudden turnabout “the most grift-y thing I’ve seen in a long time, and that’s saying something in Washington.” “SHE was the public face telling us all that this White House was on track and that Biden was amazing. And now she doesn’t even want to be a Democrat????” one of the former Biden White House officials said via text. “She’s making herself the middle ground here when Republicans hate her. She’s not in any position to be a connector of our two party system and assuming she could be is just ego.”
No, it’s not ego. It’s stupidity. The woman is stupid, and proved that almost every time she opened her mouth at the podium. Her best use now is be Exhibit A for just how indefensible diversity, equity and inclusion policies are. The book can only be aimed at the U.S. stupid market which, as we all know, is frighteningly large.
Here are some exit quotes. Conservative pundit Ed Morrissey tweeted that the book should be titled, “Independent: How I Helped Cover Up a Fraud on the American People and Want to Wash My Hands Of It With Your Money.” Mary Catherine Ham: “She writes: ‘Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,’ and wants to treat it like she touched base in game of accountability tag. Can’t get me now! I’m an independent! Absolute hack clown, the worst to do the job in my lifetime.” Victory Girls: “This will be her newest attempt at spinning her way out of the Broken Biden White House mess that she was front and center for. It will be a very fine tome of misinformation and disinformation…KJP is a lying liar who will lie her way through her new book. The arrogance, hubris, and outright grift from the Biden Administration continues to amaze.”
And remember, she’s not even good at lying. “Did you buy Karine Jean Pierre’s book?” should be a mandatory question on job applications.
UPDATE: On Fox News just now (it’s 10:15 am), Peter Doocy, who was Karine’s main adversary (and usually the only reporter with the integrity to inquire about Biden’s health and competence) opined that if Jean-Pierre was really convinced the White House was “broken” while her job forced her to insist otherwise, she had an ethical obligation to resign. He is correct, except that the woman, like so many in the last administration, doesn’t know an ethical principle from a Rubik’s Cube.
Ethics Alarms 
That may be true, since she may not know what a Rubik’s Cube is.
Is Harvard looking for a new president yet?
Maybe Earth needs a new President in the “Star Trek” universe.
I do not have high expectations about this book, and as I have many much better books that I still need to start or finish reading I will pass on this one; I think I have other priorities.
However I can imagine that a political junkie want to read this book, if only to satisfy some morbid curiosity, like watching an unfolding trainwreck. I do not understand however why buying and reading a book would be unethical; I would like to see some criteria for when spending money and time on a book (or movie, musical) is unethical. We are not talking about pornography here, just a book about matters of political and public interest…
Also should this book not be reviewed by the political press? I understand that reviewers typically get books for free, but they still have to spend time on it. And it is my understanding that Ethics Alarms position is that it is unethical to publish reviews of a book that the reviewer has not read. Given that, is it ethical to opine on a book that you refuse to read? I would rather have somebody review this book, and tell the public what is good or bad about it. My expectation about this book are low, but it may have some interesting and shocking new insights about the Biden administration. So even if 95% of the book is garbage the public may still benefit from the 5% that is not.
I hate censorship, and that includes self-censorship. People should be able to read what they please to read without any restrictions.
I am pretty excited about this book. I needed a short little ditty to prop up a wobbly table. Her book should just do the trick.
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I’m incessantly amused by the Democrat spin that the party simply has a “messaging” problem. No, boys and girls, you don’t have a messaging problem, you have a message problem. People simply aren’t buying what you’re selling. This woman didn’t fail to articulate anything (although she is the picture next to the dictionary definition of “inarticulate”), she simply was given nothing to talk about. The Dems have a substance problem. The messaging is just fine, the message stinks. On all fronts. Until they address this problem, the Dems are doomed to wander in the wilderness. Again, I’m not sure the party is going to survive. There’s no viable leadership. Pete Butegig? Kamala Harris. Pritzker? Gel head? Chuck Schumer? Nancy Pelosi? Bernie? They really are doomed.