
He said that during his visit he will meet with partners who had been working on global health and development challenges with the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationĪhead of PM Modi's US visit, Commerce Minister Goyal, US Trade Representative Tai to hold virtual meet today Gates tweeted that he had landed in Beijing, his first visit since 2019. That's why I - and so damn many other people I grew up with - have cancer and why for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation."īill Gates to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday Referring to his childhood home in Delaware he said, “My mother drove us rather than us being able to walk and guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening? You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. It is during this discussion that he recounted a childhood anecdote to stress on the harms caused by emissions from oil refineries. During the visit he was discussing about new executive orders to fight climate change.

JOE BIDEN PRESS CONFERENCE STUMBLES SKIN
However, the White House quickly clarified that Biden was referring to his history of “non-melanoma” skin cancer removed before he assumed power last year.īiden was delivering a speech at a former coal mine plant in Somerset, Massachusetts. The remark set off much speculation over his health and medical status. Instead, it has devoted time and resources to suggesting the mere fact that the president isn’t in a rush to joust with the likes of Doocy is a scandal in itself.US president Joe Biden caused a furore on Wednesday when he during a speech mistakenly stated that he has cancer. Unpacking Biden’s comments about immigration or diplomacy with China involves nuance often missing on a network that created special graphics highlighting how many days the president had gone without holding a presser.

Biden acknowledged that conditions there are “totally unacceptable” and vowed to address it swiftly.įox News hasn’t positioned itself well to tackle these kinds of topics. On Thursday, a number of reporters did, in fact, press Biden on his handling of this situation. For instance, his response to a growing number of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border has resulted in some of them being held in overcrowded conditions some of that detention has been described as “jail-like.” There are matters Doocy might have pressed Biden on that don’t involve fearmongering about jobs or xenophobia. He indicated to anchors during a segment following Biden’s presser that he hoped to ask the president loaded questions about his “big idea to transform the economy, to make it all green” and about “the origins of Covid.” Peter Doocy has a binder of the questions he didn't get to ask /7O86qhu8S1- Aaron Rupar March 25, 2021ĭoocy has distinguished himself during press secretary Jen Psaki’s daily briefings by asking gotcha-style questions on topics ranging from the national anthem to the Olympics to energy policy to school reopenings. “Past White House press secretary Ari Fleischer noting the use of notes that the president used throughout that news conference, often referencing them, at times appearing to read directly from them,” Smith said.Īgain, Biden was damned if he came prepared, and damned if he didn’t.
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And so, in a remarkable flip-flop from Hannity’s line, anchor Sandra Smith’s immediate post-news conference spin was to read part of a tweet from Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for President George W. His responses to questions were largely coherent and thorough - undercutting claims Sean Hannity has been making on a nightly basis about Biden hiding because he’s in decline. These were largely a continuation of the way the network has been covering administration policy.īut the press conference will make it tougher for the network to insinuate that Biden is hiding something.
JOE BIDEN PRESS CONFERENCE STUMBLES SERIES
He’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.įox News carried Biden’s news conference live, but did so above a series of loaded chyrons that offered viewers alarmist language about policy concerns like Central American immigration. The sudden shift encapsulated the network’s bad-faith approach to covering Biden. NEW: wHy hAs BiDeN oNlY dOnE 1 nEwS CoNfErEnCe /GybARUGz8g- Aaron Rupar March 25, 2021 OLD: wHy wOn'T BiDeN dO a NeWs cOnFeReNcE
