Karoline Leavitt smacked the fake news media with a reality check they never saw coming
The White House press corps – like their allies in the Democrat Party – continues to struggle adapting to the new reality.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will keep reminding these left-wing activists to accept the political environment.
And Karoline Leavitt smacked the fake news media with a reality check they never saw coming.
The White House has no time for media lies
Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
The Associated Press still thinks it’s 2020 and tried to reprise its role as resistance media and continued referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its stories .
In response, the White House barred the Associated Press from covering an Oval Office event with the President.
CNN’s left-wing reporter Kaitlan Collins asked Leavitt if the administration was retaliating against media outlets whose coverage it didn’t like.
Leavitt set the record straight, telling Collins no one has a “right” to enter the Oval Office.
“First of all, let me just set the record straight. It is a privilege to cover this White House. It is a privilege to be the White House press secretary. And nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask a president of the United States questions, that is an invitation that is given,” Leavitt stated.
Leavitt explained that there were hundreds of credentialed media outlets that don’t receive an invitation to Oval Office events, and no one claims their First Amendment rights are violated.
“And there are hundreds of outlets on this campus, many of you in this room who don’t have the privilege of being part of that pool every single day and getting to ask the president questions. We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have credentials to be here including the Associated Press who is in this briefing room today,” Leavitt added.
Collins wouldn’t give up the point and kept pestering Leavitt about the Associated Press getting punished for refusing to use the phrase Gulf of America.
Leavitt reminded Collins that on her first day as Press Secretary, she said she would call out the media’s lies.
And the Associated Press was spreading misinformation by not using the proper name for the Gulf of America.
“I was upfront on day one if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable, and it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I am not sure why news outlets don’t want to call it that, but that is what it is,” Leavitt continued.
Google and Apple Maps both use the Gulf of America name.
If the Associated Press wanted to be accurate and honest, it would as well.
“The secretary of interior has made that the official designation, and geographical identification name server, and Apple has recognized that, Google has recognized that, pretty much every outlet in this room has recognized that body of water as the Gulf of America, and it’s very important to the said administration that we get that right, not just for people here at home but also for the rest of the world,” Leavitt concluded.
