(Headline USA) In another display of why his White House handlers are loathe to let their angry, aged patient speak off-script, President Joe Biden on Monday cursed out Fox News reporter Peter Doocy for having the temerity to ask a question about inflation.
In what some are calling a hot-mic moment, Biden lashed out at Doocy and called him a “stupid son of a b***h.”
But Biden, in one of his rare moments of lucidity, appeared to know full well that he was being recorded, glaring around the conference table with a twisted smile plastered across his face.
WATCH: Biden caught on hot mic calling Fox News’ Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” for question on inflation pic.twitter.com/KCQfi9lrwh
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 24, 2022
The comment from Biden came after the official White House video feed on YouTube had been cut, but not before C-SPAN’s feed ended, reported TownHall.
As reporters were being escorted from the White House Competition Council meeting, Doocy shouted: “Will you take questions on inflation? Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?”
Instead of answering the valid question, Biden sneered, “That’s a great asset. More inflation? What a stupid son of a bitch.”
It was yet another instance of Biden’s hypocrisy and trampled his own comments made nearly a year ago as the newly self-proclaimed national healer-in-chief.
Joe Biden in January of 2021: “But I’m not joking when I say this, if you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot.” pic.twitter.com/XXH5GoRORn
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 24, 2022
Moments after Biden’s outburst, Fox’s Dana Perino said White House mouthpiece Jen Psaki should “call him and say you’re sorry or you have the President call him” and, though unlikely, offer him “an interview in the Oval Office tomorrow,” noted NewsBusters.
Biden, after what was surely a harsh lashing from his handlers, did eventually offer Doocy an apology, although one laced with smugness.
“He said it’s nothing personal, pal,” Doocy said.
Peter Doocy says he received a phonecall from Biden after the President called him a “stupid son of a b*tch.” pic.twitter.com/hP5lP1Wgxx
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 25, 2022
Perino’s initial advice, more importantly, was in direct contrast to CNN leftist stooge Brian Stelter, who instead of criticizing Biden for verbally abusing the media shrugged it off as no big deal, retweeting, “Of course this will probably be the lead story on Fox News for the next two days, turning it into a thing when it should really be a blip.”
Stelter was rightly ripped for showcasing his own hypocrisy and double-standard schilling for Democrats, with a flashback to when he lambasted former President Donald Trump for cursing a reporter, lamenting that “these jabs expose journalists to threats and intimidation.”
Calling a journalist a "son of a bitch?" It was wrong when Trump was just a candidate, and it's even worse now that he's POTUS… https://t.co/lbWudjumJh pic.twitter.com/LugJKLMvp8
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 12, 2018
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh nicely exposed the leftist media’s bent for peddling the Democrat line and carrying their water.
If Trump said this to a CNN reporter they’d be holding candle light vigils to commemorate the tragedy for the next 50 years https://t.co/pAU7yghHCD
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 24, 2022
