Former Biden Staffer: We Bullied the Weakling Press Into Only Reporting What We Allowed Them To Report. It's "So Weird" That the Press "Never Pushed Back."

Is it though? Is it really?

Via Instapundit.

Tim Graham, Newsbusters: Biden bullied the weakling GayOp press into acting as his propaganda agents.

My words, not his.

Here are his words:

Michael LaRosa was Jill Biden's press secretary for the first 18 months of Biden's presidency, and in recent weeks he's loosened his lips about how Team Joe mistreated a pliant press corps.

In an interview with Cenk Uygur on "The Young Turks" show, LaRosa admitted: "They did bully a lot of journalists, and I think they would tell you that now. They wouldn't have told you at the time."

LaRosa didn't want to say the reporters were "co-conspirators," but it's impossible to see all of their obsequious cooperation with Team Biden and think that word is inappropriate.

Uygur asked how they bullied the press, and LaRosa said Joe's handlers insisted they had to pre-approve the quotes used in stories. That's helping shape the story, not something an "independent journalist" would accept.

LaRosa added "you saw them get caught trying to script questions to radio reporters" last summer. They didn't just "try." The radio hosts the Bidenites selected were happy to use the pre-scripted questions. LaRosa added: "It was very reminiscent to me of being on the campaign in 2020, where these young press staffers in these states like New Hampshire, or Iowa, or Nevada, they were sort of like dog trained to make the questions conditional for interviews." Questions had to be submitted for approval.

So, all of the "interviews" they granted were pre-conditioned on the promise that the "reporter" would only use the quotes that the Biden staff approved. The "reporter" would run his story by the Biden staff, and the staff would veto any quotes they didn't like, stuff where Biden went off-message or was simply incoherent.

As Jim Acosta said to President Trump: "We are real news, Mr. President."

On "Doctor" Jill Biden's team, LaRosa said, he told staffers it was "unethical" to require questions before granting access, but they replied it's what Team Joe (or "the boys team") required. "These young kids are really taught to make that a part of their sort of pre-pre-screening for interviews."

"Yeah, it's amazing to me that no one in the press complained about it," mused Uygur.

Is it?

Is it actually?

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Uygur wondered: "Did the press ever push back? We couldn't see the press pushing back at all, until the debate [fiasco]."

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LaRosa thought maybe the local reporters would be less intimidated by a national campaign. "Like why didn't any of these reporters even in New Hampshire, and some of these small town papers or local news, like why didn't anybody ever say anything [about the pre-screening]? I thought it was so weird at the time."

So obviously, Trump or Katherine Leavitt should ban every reporter who asked a "pre-screened" question of Biden -- thus perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and showing that they are nothing but Democrat propaganda officers -- from ever setting foot in the press room again.

Make them argue in favor of "pre-clearing" staged questions for a mentally-incompetent archliberal incompetent.

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