The position of White House Press Secretary can’t be a heck of a lot of fun. You’re dealing with uncomfortable questions from people who would love to see you stumble and fail – unless you’re in a Democrat administration. But a good Press Secretary has to be bright, well-informed, and able to think on their feet. I’ve seen a few of these people in operation, beginning with Ron Ziegler. I’ve seen some good ones and some bad ones. Tony Snow was a good one. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a good one. Jen Psaki was a bad one, even when you factor in that she was in the position of having to defend the indefensible.
Karine Jean-Pierre is worse. She’s not suited for the job; she’s dishonest, not particularly articulate, and is prone to fits of pique when she’s expected to answer difficult questions, which is her job. But on January 20th, she’ll be unemployed. What will she do then?
A piece in the Daily Caller presents some ideas.
The consensus seemed to be that KJP, despite being considered by many to have performed poorly at her White House gig, will likely find safe harbor as a contributor on a cable news program, just like her predecessor Jen Psaki.
“She’ll go where all the other failed Hollywood actors go when they’re useless to the deep state: a cable chat show that exclusively exists to sell weird books and products to lonely women,” Daily Caller alum and media veteran Kay Hill said.
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck concurred, adding “I fully anticipate someone will hire her as a contributor, whether it be a return to MSNBC or even CNN.”
Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, jumped ship in 2022, leaving the Biden White House to host her own show “Inside with Jen Psaki” on MSNBC.
MSNBC? That’s an interesting notion. As I mentioned, she’s not really qualified to be press secretary; she’s dishonest, inarticulate, and thin-skinned. But MSNBC? Heck, she’s overqualified, if their current talent pool is any indication.
A few media types of note bring up another interesting point:
“KJP was so dumb, so dishonest, and so bad at her job that I can only assume she’ll have a show on CBS News next year,” Mollie Hemingway, a best-selling author and editor-in-chief of The Federalist, told the Caller.
But a cushy MSNBC gig for KJP isn’t a foregone conclusion, Emily Jashinsky, D.C. Correspondent for UnHerd and co-host of “Breaking Points,” told the Daily Caller.
KJP will likely have less leverage than past press secretaries, Jashinsky observed, because of how bad the Biden presidency has been during her tenure.
Color me skeptical. The Biden brand stinks like a dead woodchuck under the porch, sure. But in the legacy media? It’s hard to imagine a Democrat administration failing so utterly, so miserably, and so obviously that the legacy media won’t run cover for it. And if that means finding a comfy sinecure for someone like Karine Jean-Pierre, that’s likely what will happen. Someone will hire her and let her drop into a late-night or weekend show every now and then to blather out an uninformed opinion. That’s how these things work.
Maybe Jen Psaki will let Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP) sit in for her next time she takes a vacation.
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We all know why KJP is in the position she is. She checked off a couple of “diversity” checkboxes; there certainly aren’t any positives that recommend her. But we all know how these things work, I doubt KJP is losing any sleep worrying about where her next paycheck is coming from. Someone, somewhere, will pick her up to do something. It may be make-work, it may be an invented position that is pure horse squeeze, but the Swamp takes care of its own.
