{"id":50347,"date":"2023-05-10T08:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50347"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:43:52","slug":"dont-let-free-speech-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50347","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Free Speech Get In The Way Of A Good Photo Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 8, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/08\/why-are-white-house-staff-afraid-to-let-a-post-reporter-question-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Not content with limiting President Joe Biden to a modern-record low of full press conferences, the White House staff on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/08\/white-house-bans-new-york-post-from-biden-event-as-hunter-indictment-looms\/\">banned The Post\u2019s Steven Nelson<\/a> from the prez\u2019s only daytime public event \u2014 leaving around 20 of the venue\u2019s 50 or so seats empty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden stomped out of a February presser on China in same room, griping \u201cgive me a break\u201d about journalists\u2019 failure to be \u201cpolite\u201d after the Post reporter asked, \u201cIs your ability to deal with China compromised by your family\u2019s business relationships in China?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Last Friday, the prez refused to take press questions while <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/05\/biden-confuses-major-press-conference-with-msnbc-interview\/\">claiming he had a \u201cmajor press conference\u201d<\/a> that night; in fact it was a one-on-one interview on ultraliberal MSNBC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The same day, the Press Office <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/05\/white-house-unveils-new-press-badge-restrictions-rules-for-access\/\">announced new rules<\/a> requiring every member of the White House press corps to re-apply for credentials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Monday, the White House didn\u2019t even give Nelson a reason for excluding him, just a bland, plainly <em>false<\/em> note that \u201cWe are unable to accommodate your credential request.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of our Presidents have had difficulty with the press. Back when The New York Times actually reported some of the news, I believe John F. Kennedy was critical of the paper numerous times. However, I believe that blocking a major news source from attending a public event is another step toward censorship by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 8, The New York Post reported the following: Not content with limiting President Joe Biden to a modern-record low of full press conferences, the White House staff on Monday banned The Post\u2019s Steven Nelson from the prez\u2019s only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13372,8321],"class_list":["post-50347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-president-biden","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50348,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50347\/revisions\/50348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}