A couple of Psaki Bombs if you missed the press briefing today:

[demmiblue]

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[lagomorph777]

1. Doochy schooled!

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Too bad he's too dim to realize it.

[rampartc]

27. why call on an idiot that dumb?

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Apparently he wasn't schooled or else he wouldn't be this stupid, even with the bad DNA dealt him.

[Budi]

2. That's signature Psaki shade there

[empedocles]

7. Very sharp

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. She gives that asshole too much time.

Fake news reps should only get to ask their stupid questions AFTER all of the legitimate reporters have finished.

[underpants]

8. She seems to relish twisting Douchey Jr around in the wind.

That hairdo looks like it was forged from years of self face palms.

[FoxNewsSucks]

9. True, and the imbecile never learns.

His hair makes me wonder if he's really Trey Gowdy's love child.

[Budi]

13. Bet Psaki & her staff have a betting pool on how badly he'll get skewerd

[underpants]

14. 😆

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[malaise]

18. And he really is an asshole

[PatSeg]

24. Oh, I think it is very effective

Gives her ample opportunity to counter all the right-wing BS and makes Fox look really bad.

Psaki is incredible. What a star!

[comradebillyboy]

28. Yes, that's the best explanation. Doocy gets called on

every day just so Jen can give clear detailed explanations of reality. And Doocy is flattered by all the attention. He's the perfect foil for Psaki.

[PatSeg]

30. Kind of a win-win,

though I think it is far better for Psaki than it is for Doocy. He probably loves the spotlight anyway.

[underpants]

5. Douchey Jr. seemed to get crossed up by his own nonsense

She kept the issues separate as they should be. Nice try Douchey Jr.

[dalton99a]

6. The idiot doesn't fall far from the tree

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. You'd think Daddy Douchey

would at least be smart enough to tell his kid she's toying with him and to stop with the stupid shit.

[rustbeltvoice]

11. Psaki is competent, polite, and knowledgeable.

Douchebag Junior from Faux gets far too much attention. There is no reason for her to entertain him at all, and that goes for the other Repukican propagandists. They will not be competent, polite, and knowledgeable. They should not be in the room.

[underpants]

16. I'm guessing the talking point this came from is:

Well if they can fill up the holding areas with illegals why can’t they fill up the classrooms?

And then proceed to agree with themselves over and over and over

[GopherGal]

32. Yeah, that's the best I could decipher

I couldn't quite figure out what he was getting at, but it was a "gotcha" (probably recognizable to the Faux Faithful) built upon some sort of false equivalency between crowding kids together in classrooms vs holding areas for "illegals".

Never mind two huge differences between the situations:
1) the alternative situations for the two groups are very different. Remote instruction from mostly safe, comfortable homes vs classroom instruction is a very different choice than "humane holding areas" vs. "holding pen with a cement floor to sleep on with a mylar blanket"
2) The level of federal control over its own immigration facilities vs CDC advice to state and local boards of education.

Psaki was right to say they were two very different issues and to reject the false equivalency.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Fox pays him to get owned and humiliated...

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he's pretty good at it, too.

[taxi]

17. She just breezes through it,

goes back as far as needed in the conversation, and makes sure that she is clearly understood. (This while thinking about something else and finding it amusing to see how long it will take for this one to catch up)

[spanone]

19. this guy is a piece of shit.

[Lars39]

20. Saw that! it was golden!

[Leith]

21. Doocy is an idiot

The CDC gave guidelines for immigration and guidelines for schools.

The border situation is under direct federal control. Schools are under local control - no feds involved beyond CDC guidelines for safety.

Yet, he is dragging in comparing unions and wondering why Biden is not taking more control of school openings around the country.

So sick of imbeciles.

[Biophilic]

22. You know it does seem like a waste of time to let him ask the stupid questions, but

she always comes off as both knowledgeable and very, very competent. Personally I think using him to increase her standing is just fine.

[Paladin]

23. Blow it out your ass, Fox Boy! (nt)

[Treefrog]

25. She is great.

K and r.

[gratuitous]

26. Fillet-o-Fox

I like how she stopped the back-and-forth to say "This is important," and that it matters to have the situation properly defined. Pulls the teeth right out of the "She didn't take me seriously!" whine that you know Fox would use later.

It put me in mind of my freshman Statistics class many years ago. The professor was going through an explanation of something or other, and one of the students had a very subtle question about the process. The professor wasn't quite grasping what the question was about, but I could tell that the subject wasn't germane to the lesson, and didn't make a difference anyway (sample sizes or standard deviations or whatever). They went back and forth a few times, and the student was getting a little peeved that his genius wasn't being recognized. Finally, the professor had had enough as well, pointed to the board and said, "There's my answer. What's your question?"

[uponit7771]

29. So he looked stupid on the first line of questioning so he went to another line because ...

... he had not done his research on Psaki pattern of retort.

He should have known she asks for specifics to counter the nebulous example (such as "people say" or "they are ... &quot bullshit that comes out of the M$M.

Looks like she's prepared for FAUX News talking point, that's a good thing