Something miraculous happened at the White House yesterday. It involves our cognitively challenged, almost-octogenarian, brain-damaged "president" Joe Biden.
No, really, he’s had a couple of brain surgeries after multiple aneurysms… his brain is literally damaged.
At a White House event on food insecurity, the late congresswoman Jackie Walorski was honored, The Indiana congresswoman tragically died in a car crash a couple of months ago, and food insecurity was one of her pet projects.
While Biden was on stage making a presentation, he looked out into the crowd and asked where the late Indiana representative was so she could be acknowledged.
Joe Biden asks around the audience to point out "Jackie" during a conference on hunger, nutrition, and health.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 28, 2022
Is he referring to Republican Representative Jackie Walorski, who passed away in a car accident in early August? pic.twitter.com/pSRkQLQJYU
Of course, she wasn’t there. She’s dead and all.
Something Biden and everyone in the audience would have known since they had just played a tribute video to the late congresswoman honoring her service to our nation… she really was a great person and did tireless work on the Veterans’ Affairs committee… she deserved a better tribute than this.
Sadly, Joe Biden not knowing where he is or where anyone else is or where he’s supposed to go or what he’s supposed to say or what someone’s name is or whether a dead person is there or is even alive or not — none of that is really a remarkable thing… And I promised you that something miraculous happened at the White House.
What was the miracle?
This… this was the miracle:
"She was at top of mind..."
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 28, 2022
That's how the Biden White House is attempting to explain away Joe Biden's inquiry about the whereabouts of Republican Representative Jackie Walorski who passed away in early August. pic.twitter.com/kL6pswJfGC
What you just witnessed was a White House reporter asking Karine Jean-Pierre a tough question about President Biden not realizing that Rep. Walorski was dead and, therefore, unable to be in the audience for the event yesterday.
Furthermore, that reporter was from ABC News, not Fox News. Also miraculous: the reporter asked a follow-up question.
Q What happened in the hunger event today? The President appeared to look around the room for an audience member, a member of Congress who passed away last month. He seemed to indicate she might be in the room. What happened there?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So the President was, as you all know — you guys were watching today’s event, a very important event on food insecurity. The President was naming the congressional champions on this issue and was acknowledging her incredible work. He had — he had already planned to welcome the congresswoman’s family to the White House on Friday. There will be a bill signing in her honor this coming Friday.
So, of course, she was on his mind. She was of top of mind for the President. He looks — very much looks forward to discussing her remarkable legacy of public service with them when he sees her family this coming Friday.
Q He said, “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here.”
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No, I totally understand. I just — I just explained she was on top of mind. You know, this wasn’t — what we were able to witness today and what the President was able to lift up in this — at this conference at this event was how her — her focus on wanting to deal with, combat food — food insecurity in America. And this is something that he was lifting up and honoring.
And, again, he knows that he’s going to see her family this coming Friday. There’s a bill signing that’s going to happen in renaming a VA clinic in Indiana after the late congresswoman. He knows that he is going to see her family, and she was at top of mind.
And then, the miracles kept coming because another reporter, from CNN no less, picked up the story and asked again about Biden's terrifying mental state... well, sort of.
Q And just one more quick follow-up, because I’m trying to get my head around the response. If the late congresswoman was top of mind for the President and her family was expected to be here and that’s what he was thinking about, what — why was he looking for her? I’m not trying to be snarky here. But I —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No, I mean — and I’m —
Q I don’t understand the connection between what you’re saying and what he said there.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: And, again, I think people can understand, I think the American people out there who, you know, watch the briefing from time to time, maybe at this moment, will understand when someone is at top of mind. And — and this was such an important — such an important event, when we’re talking about hunger, when we’re talking about food insecurity, when we’re talking about these champions, these congressional champions who were in the room, who have worked in a bipartisan way.
You know, we don’t talk much about bipartisan actions that we see in Congress at this time. And as he was naming folks, he — she was on top of mind, and he understands and knew that she was — he was going to see her family on Friday for this bill signing.
Again, I don’t think it’s all that unusual to have someone top of mind, especially as there’s a big event — two big events — today and also Friday — that is going to occur. And so he’s going to see her family. They’re going to honor her. They’re going to celebrate her. And he will do a bill signing for this really critical — let’s not forget — this critical, important issue for millions and millions of Americans across the country.
Are you ready for another miracle?
Along came the reporter from the Washington Post. Check out this exchange:
Q I’m sorry to have to do this, but I’m compelled to ask you to go one more time back to the question about Congresswoman Walorski.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m not sure why. Why? Why one more time?
Q Well, because I think — frankly, honestly, I think the memory of the congresswoman in history requires some clarity here.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hmmm —
Q Can you explain where the mistake was made? Did the Pres- — was the President confused? Was something written in the teleprompter that he didn’t recognize? Can you just help us understand what happened?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I mean, you’re jumping to a lot of conclusions.
Q No, I’m simply seeing — seeking to find —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No, but you’re — but I —
Q — out what happened here.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No, I hear you, Steven. I’m — I’m answering the question, that you’re jumping to a lot of conclusions.
I just answered the question. If I had said — if that had been the case, I would have stated that. Right? I clearly have stated what you just laid out.
What I had said is that she was on top of mind and that he is going to see her family in just two days’ time, on Friday, to honor her, to honor her work, to honor — to honor her legacy, if you will. I just mentioned this. It’s going to be a renaming of a VA clinic in Indiana in her name. And, you know, that is — that is what he was thinking of.
He was thinking about her as he was — as he was naming out and calling out the congressional champions on this issue — on this really critical issue that’s going to help millions of Americans. And that is — that is — that is what the President was focused on.
Q Would you be prepared to release the prepared remarks that the President had in the teleprompter just so we could understand?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m not understanding why — why that would be — would be necessary. We always share the remarks that the President had — even, you know, delivered. That’s probably going to be up on the website. Not really sure what that has to do with anything.
I just answered the question about her being on top of mind. I don’t think that’s any — that’s unusual. I feel like many of us have gone through that particular, you know, time where someone is on top of mind and you call them out and you mention them. Especially in this — this type of context, if you think about how he’s going to the see the family in two days; if you think about how, when he sees them in two days, it’s going to be for such an important moment, assigning — signing a piece of legislation that’s going to rename a VA clinic in her state — that’s important — if you think about this issue and how important this issue is.
And he was, again, calling out congressional champions for this particular issue.
Then the feeding frenzy was on. Reporters started shouting questions about the embarrassing incident. Our favorite came from James Rosen of Newsmax.
"I have John Lennon top of mind just about every day, but I’m not looking around for him anywhere," Rosen snarked.
Brilliant.
This was a tag-team, dogpile press conference where all the reporters teamed up on the same issue and badgered the press secretary relentlessly. You know, like we saw them do every single day during the Trump presidency.
It's about time. We're certainly glad they remembered how to do this.
Now, if they could just huddle together and maybe figure out some questions about that laptop from hell...
