On Tuesday, the White House was dominated with a going back and forth over about whether a journalist called White Home press secretary Kayleigh McEnany a “lying bitch.”
Kimberly Halkett of Al Jazeera denies saying that, and said she told McEnany, “OK, you don’t want to engage.”
I’ve listened to it, and I hear “lying bitch.” I even listened multiple times with the intentions of wanting to hear, “OK, you don’t want to engage,” but I just don’t hear it.
However, journalists and political aides replayed the tape repeatedly Tuesday, straining to hear what Halkett groaned after the heated exchange.
A reporter for The New York Post, who was sitting in front of Halkett, heard her say that McEnany didn’t want to engage and heard no profanity.
But other journalists lamented that a mask covering Halkett’s face made it impossible to see her lips during the essential moment, or determine which way the comment went.
Halkett, who quickly left the White House press area, chimed in to defend herself from a growing social media firestorm.
“There’s a lot of misreporting out there about that briefing,” Halkett wrote on Twitter. “I DID NOT. What I said was, ‘OKAY, YOU DON’T WANT TO ENGAGE.’” Even that would still be a smart aleck statement, because the reporter already got in two questions and was rudely trying for a third.
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF:
Here’s the moment repeated numerous times.
I would say there’s a lot of misreporting by Halkett and other Fake News outlets every day about this administration, which is why so many people could believe their lying ears when they heard her call the press secretary a lying bitch. I’m just giddy about being allowed to say lying bitch. It’s like a free pass for a day. Like, I couldn’t get away with saying the word b*tch for any other reason. See?
Halkett had gotten into it with McEnany during the briefing over whether or not President Donald Trump was doing enough to discourage “external sabotage” to the November election. It’s funny how Fake News reporters didn’t then and still don’t give a damn about the Obama administration interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton internally.
McEnany defended Trump and his focus on the security of mail-in ballots.
“There are legitimate questions about mass mail-in voting. And I know you don’t want to hear them, which is why you talk over me,” McEnany said.
Halkett then said, “On the China vaccine research, this is very important…,” but McEnany shot her down, saying, “You’ve gotten two questions, which is more than some of your colleagues.”
Halkett then made the disputed declaration.
All audio from the briefing — both for TV broadcasts and the White House’s YouTube livestream — comes through the identical feed, seemingly ruling out the possibility that different microphone locations caused clashing perceptions.
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She said OK you dont want to engage real fast and snippy. I know everyone’s heated about to 2020 election and how News media treats the White House staff; MAGA2020 baby, but I will not just follow the people who are losing their shit over this. I’ve listened and I even know some women who talk snippy like that real fast and bitchy.
She didn’t call her a “lying bitch.” The last word out of her mouth was two syllables and not one.
The words ”lying bitch” are what I heard! I tried hard but did not hear anything else there. So, who is the list?
No matter what she said that reporter was being rude and arrogant, an ongoing problem within the white house press corps. The supposed group of professional interviewers who can not control their emotions long enough to do their jobs in a respectful manner .
Seriously folks show some respect for the office of the President.
The White House cameras in the press room never should show the alleged reporters, it should be fixed to the podium so Jim Acosta and the liberal propaganda media “reporters” don’t get exposure as the show actors and actresses.
The headlines are wrong… what this noslen hioker calls KM is “You fucking dumb lying bitch.” Not just lying bitch. Listen better.
Children, and if she called her a lying bitch I think she got that turned around lol
Theres no doubt of what she said. She just dosen’t want to admit it. Such a disrespectful
attitude. The MSM still at their old tricks. Its Disgusting.
So the second video “plays” but no sound or picture. ?
Sounded like to me she said a “F Lying Bitch”.