White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is not only exceptionally good at her job, but she refuses to suffer fools gladly. NBC News Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor found this out the hard way, and it was glorious. On any given day, there are 50 or so correspondents in the briefing room clamoring to be called upon, so when Leavitt acknowledges you and says, “Go ahead,” your questions should be well-thought-through and on point. Thursday morning, Alcindor chose to pour milk on stupid and gobble it down.
During Thursday’s press briefing, Leavitt acknowledged Alcindor, who started to pose this question:
ALCINDOR: The president showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans, and he said they were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn’t showing that, so I wonder why did the…
