A CNN segment went off the rails when White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, pointed out that the Biden administration’s top spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, was a DEI disaster who only got her prestigious gig because she’s a black lesbian.
Things got heated on Tuesday’s edition of “The Lead” when political commentator Karen Finney suggested that it was unfair to brand Jean-Pierre as a DEI hire and not current White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as the same, only to be verbally slapped down by Miller in an uncomfortable moment that led to anchor Jake Tapper hastily going to a commercial break.
Jean-Pierre has been lambasted by both sides over her awkward media blitz to promote her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, and a disastrous interview with the New Yorker that sparked the exchange.
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Asked by Tapper for her reaction to the book, Miller said that she had seen Jean-Pierre’s New Yorker interview and that “she is quite incompetent to do the job.”
“This is what Republicans have been saying for years now, she is just another evidence that DEI doesn’t work, whether that’s in the White House in your press secretary role or whether that’s a, you know, an air traffic controller, an air pilot, whether that’s your doctor. You know, you want to hire the best for the role, not just based on skin color,” she continued.
“Why did she get the job over John Kirby?” Miller asked, drawing a prickly response from Finney, who worked as Hillary Clinton’s spokeswoman before she landed at CNN.
“Why are we assuming that she is a black LGBT, you know, a gay woman is DEI, but a white woman who is behind the podium right now, which DEI initially started as Affirmative Action, which was about affirmatively hiring women and minorities, why is one DEI and the other is not?” Finney asked.
“Why did she get the job over John Kirby?” Miller shot back, again asking why Jean-Pierre was tapped over the imminently more qualified spinmeister. “Because, as everyone has said this week, she is woefully incompetent.”
Tapper then jumped in to defend the embattled author, saying that when she worked for CNN and MSNBC as a commentator, “she was good at that,” and her appointment as White House press secretary “didn’t seem crazy” to him because he said “she was eloquent” in her cable television career.
Then Miller swooped down from the top rope, scoring the knockout blow.
“Why is she trained every four sentences to say she is a black, queer, LGBTQ woman?” Miller asked. “Because that’s how she’s been promoted her entire career.”
Tapper then wrapped the segment.
Miller got the last word because it was the indisputable truth; just take it straight from the horse’s mouth.
Host: “Do you have any regrets?”
Biden Press Secretary: “Look, I woke up as a black & queer woman every day… I tried my best.” pic.twitter.com/e9n1E2TXfe
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“I woke up every day, very proud to be the White House press secretary,” Jean-Pierre explained during a recent MSNBC appearance.
“I woke up every day as a black woman who is queer…no one had ever seen someone like me standing at that podium,” she added.
“This is a historic administration, I’m a historic figure, and I certainly walk in history every day,” Jean-Pierre boasted in a 2023 interview with black news and opinion website The Grio, oozing with pride over being a DEI hire.
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