A Daily Caller study of first-week press interactions between Biden and Trump II drove MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell straight into delusional ranting. He claimed the White House press corps are now just polite stenographers of Trump’s lies, that they are uniquely polite to Trump. How insulting it was to NBC’s White House reporters!
The Daily Caller was boasting. “We did it. We triggered Lawrence O’Donnell with our fact-based reporting.” White House reporter Reagan Reese pointed out in Biden’s first week in office (Jan. 20-26, 2001), Biden took just six questions from the White House press corps, according to pool reports. “Some of these questions were answered with just one word.”
By contrast, the Caller found “Trump surpassed that number just several hours after being sworn in as he took 75 total questions and follow-ups over a 48-minute period in the…
