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Kayleigh McEnany Flips Out and Accuses WH Reporters of ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ for Not Asking About ‘Obamagate’

Kayleigh McEnany continues to display a highly concerning pattern that is increasing in severity and anger toward anyone questioning anything about Trump. Her clear lack of care regarding her continued condescension, pettiness, and passive-aggressiveness makes her a hero in the MAGA-head world and her audience of “one.”

The childish behavior obviously upset the media covering her briefings and also comes at a time when Trump is viciously attacking media personality, Joe Scarborough, for doing nothing more than being critical of the Trump administration. The need to lash out and punish reporters is definitely an unapologetic trait that is getting worse.

Today Kayleigh let the media know that the reporters who criticized her characterization that they “wanted to keep churches closed” needed a good scolding from their boss. Note the condescension:

“Many of our journalists are great men and women of faith — and differing faiths whether it be the Jewish faith, Christian faith, the Muslim faith,” McEnany said. “What I was saying is I was asked 11 questions as to why churches would be allowed to reopen. It was a bit peculiar to be asked these 11 questions in a row. And for the onus and the focus to be solely to be on why churches are essential, I’ve never been asked why a liquor store was essential. So I was merely pointing that out.”

And:

Journalists are not above being questioned themselves,” McEnany said. “Journalism is a great and noble profession. But there has been a death of journalists asking the real questions for president Obama, the criminal leak of Michael Flynn’s identity. Who leaked that identity? The dossier which was used to launch a campaign. Why aren’t those questions being asked?”

As a matter of fact, a White House press briefing is not a place where the White House gets to question reporters. It has never happened in the past and Kayleigh seems quite comfortable breaking all norms due to her position as the gateway to information.

She still wasn’t finished:

“It’s journalistic malpractice not to ask those questions. And I can count on one hand the journalists who are — like [Fox Business host] Maria Bartiromo and [CBS reporter] Catherine Herridge. But where is … the curiosity from the press corps? There’s an extreme lack of curiosity at play.

The arrogance is breathtaking. This is a White House press secretary new to her job, while also being much younger and inexperienced compared to many in the White House press corps. Yet apparently she has no qualms chastising them. Her conclusion that there is a “lack of curiosity” is nothing more than a self-serving petty statement more befitting of a campaign spokesman and not a public employee.

Ironically this comes two days after Fox’s own Chris Wallace slammed her statements and general behavior as the press secretary over the weekend on Fox News Sunday, stating that having served in the White House press corps for years in the past, he has never seen a press secretary speak so condescendingly to reporters or tell reporters what they need to cover or question.

Her pattern is getting more severe. She has an audience of one and we know that audience loves it.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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