Psaki Says Fox’s Peter Doocy Sounds Like a Stupid SOB

BUCK: You know how they don’t want Twitter to be an open platform? And Clay and I try to be — for all of you who aren’t even on it, we’re going to be — cognizant of the fact that this is so central to the media story right now and making it more about the political narrative and why is the Biden regime mobilizing the DOJ already on that? They don’t want — and this is the fundamental issue. They don’t want there to be alternative points of view. They don’t want people to be able to say, “Hey, you know how all this crime stuff has gotten really bad in cities? It’s the result of pandering to BLM and progressive prosecutors and all this left-wing social justice, criminal justice nonsense, and there needs to be a real cleanup in these cities and real change in practices,” right?

They don’t want to hear that. They don’t want you asking questions about it. They want you to just shut up. They say they’ve got it under control, and you see this even in the West Wing and you see this with Jen Psaki. Here she is on a progressive podcast, and this is what she says about one of the only reporters who gets to ask — or is willing to ask — real questions on a day-to-day basis, Peter Doocy of Fox News. Watch. Listen.

BUCK: I think that’s a little personal, actually. I think you could try to couch that, but I think she’s taking a shot at a journalist who does try to ask questions to challenge the official narrative of the White House. What would we have if we did not have Fox News journalists — and there’s some others who occasionally ask real questions. You called one out yesterday; I didn’t know who it was. You said that actually was a good question.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: You’ve got a people sitting there taking dictation from Psaki bomb. It’s absurd.

CLAY: Well, there’s a couple of things here. One, Psaki has already, to my knowledge, accepted a job for MSNBC, and she’s continuing to represent the White House, and also do these gallivant interviews with people who are obviously providing a very positive forum. You could hear by the question, that venue that they were doing…

I think that was a live podcast show that they were taping, that was designed to get a positive reaction. This thing that I would say is, Jen Psaki works for an administration with a 33% approval rating right now. And as a part of that 33% approval rating, she’s also insulting the network that actually has more Democrats watch than MSNBC and more Democrats watch than CNN.

I’m not a politician. But if I were a politician, I might be looking at Fox News and saying, “Hey, they speak to a huge swath of the American public which trusts them, and they employ a journalist that’s actually speaking truth to power. Maybe — just maybe — these guys, the Murdochs, know what they’re doing. And, by the way, you could also add our show, Buck. We got the biggest radio show in the country. We’re speaking to the biggest possible audiences.

BUCK: Shouldn’t it be okay? I mean, they go actually to why they hate the Elon Twitter plan so much on the left. Can half the country have one cable news channel that represents its ideas? Fox, by the way, has not had to have… Fox didn’t suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.

CLAY: Right.

BUCK: Fox didn’t go with the Russia collusion lie for years.

CLAY: Right.

BUCK: And Fox’s prime time hosts — and you’re an employee of Fox, I go on sometimes as a guest, the primetime hosts — say that they are opinion, they’re giving their view. No. When Sean goes on, when Tucker goes on to, like, “Guys here’s what I think. I’m a conservative. Here’s what I think.” You compare that to CNN — and this has really turned into kind of an intelligence test ’cause the CNN audience is, “No, that’s just journalism!”

No, the CNN hosts are doing opinion, they’re editorializing in favor of the Democrat Party, but they have this false veneer, this propaganda line of, “Oh, no we’re just journalists, man. We’re just giving you the truth.” It’s absurd, right? But this is all crumbling, and it’s crumbling, in large part, that lie, I think, Clay, because of Twitter and social, because for years now we’ve seen people who it’s all “like, like, share, share” everything that’s anti-Trump and then at night it’s like, “Here I am just presenting you the facts.” No. They are not.

CLAY: Yes. That’s right. And also I would argue that the real reason — I really believe this — why the Democrats are gonna get shellacked in ’22 and in ’24 is because they’ve allowed Twitter to become their version of what the real world is like. They are trying to make people on Twitter happy, and when you do that, you alienate people. Charles Barkley…

This a great quote, Buck. It’s good for everybody out there. One of the best quotes ever. I was out with Charles Barkley, legendary basketball player, we were at dinner and he said, “Clay, if you worry about the opinions of people who don’t like you, then the people who do like you won’t like you anymore.” Again, if you just heard that, it’s so profound, I think it applies everywhere. Own yourself; be honest; be normal. Democrats can’t do it anymore.

BUCK: That is an awesome quote.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: I will say, Charles Barkley’s commentary in general is often full of particularly insightful moments.

CLAY: Yes. It’s an amazing quote. I don’t know where he got that quote from or if he just came up with it. It’s a hundred percent right. If you worry about the people who don’t like you — in all your lives out there, think about this as we roll into Easter weekend — then the people who do like you won’t like you anymore. In other words, you can’t make the haters happy, so why worry about them?

BUCK: It’s a great point. I’ll remember that the next time I’m getting a Twitter pile on for saying, “I love America,” and all these blue check libs, “Go kill yourself, Sexton. You’re the worst!”

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: “I just thought we could all be friends. I thought we were all Americans in the trust tree, in the nest.” “Never!” They want to destroy, ’cause here’s the secret, folks: Clay and I and all of you, we’re happy. The left, they’re so unhappy.