
Biden White House effort to spin 'Where's Jackie' gaffe raises media eyebrows: 'People were taken aback'
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's poorly received effort to spin President Biden's
"I have no idea why senior communications officials tried to defend Biden's inexcusable comment but if you acknowledge one slip, it validates the rest of questionable moments this president has had," a White House reporter told Fox News Digital.
"I think people were taken aback because the gaffe was not the real egregious part," a second White House reporter said. "It was the subsequent insistence that he hadn't made a gaffe. And rather than just saying, ‘Hey, he made a mistake, like we all do,' I mean, they just seem to make it worse again and again… It certainly wasn't a high point. When you see that cascade effect, that shows reporters are onto something."