White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had no time for a strange question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy about Vice President Kamala Harris’ “accent.”

During a White House press conference Tuesday afternoon, when Jean-Pierre called on Doocy to ask a question, he brought up a recent clip that had been circulating on social media in MAGA circles. During a campaign stop Monday in Detroit, Harris used what Fox News called a “new ‘accent'”.

“You better thank a union member for the five-day work week,” Harris said. “You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.”

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In an appearance the same day in Pittsburgh, Harris delivered a similar speech, but without the same intonation.

Doocy used his time at the White House to ask about Harris’ oratorical choices.

“Since when does the Vice President have what sounds like a Southern accent?” Doocy asked.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Jean-Pierre replied.

“Well, she was talking about unions in Detroit using one tone of voice. She used the same line in Pittsburgh, and it sounded like she at least had some kind of a southern drawl, what—” Doocy replied, before being cut off by the press secretary.

“Do you hear the question that you’re—I mean, do you think Americans seriously think that this is an important question? You know what they care about? They care about the economy. They care about lowering costs. They care about health care. That’s what Americans care about,” she said.

“So… okay, well this is something—” he replied.

“Your colleague just asked me about democracy. What basically we talked about, we went back and forth about democracy and freedom. That’s what they care about. I’m not even going to entertain some question—It’s just, it’s just hearing it sounds so
ridiculous,” she continued.

“Well, but hearing it—” Doocy interrupted.

“It’s the question I’m talking about. The question is just insane,” she said.

“Is that how she talks in meetings?” Doocy asked before Jean-Pierre again cut him off to move on, and took a question from a different reporter.

DOOCY: Since when does the vice president have what sounds like a southern accent?

KJP: I have no idea what you're talking about. Do you think Americans seriously think this is an important question? The question is insane. I'm moving on.

FOX NEWS: *cuts away* pic.twitter.com/6NaKok212h

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 3, 2024

Karine Jean-Pierre and Peter Doocy have sparred repeatedly during White House press conferences. There are many examples of Doocy asking a bizarre or irrelevant question with Jean-Pierre shutting him down. In one press conference in July 2022, Doocy asked about activists protesting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside a steakhouse. Jean-Pierre then explained the First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. In another, he insisted the Biden Administration was completing former President Donald Trump’s border wall—despite Jean-Pierre repeatedly telling him that wasn’t actually happening.

And it’s not just her—both President Joe Biden and White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby have mocked Doocy’s questions to his face. And so has Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki.

Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin refused to allow her colleague Pete Hegseth to malign the men and women who just flew the last U.S. plane out of Kabul, ending America’s longest war ever, and reminding him that they just evacuated 122,000 Afghans and Americans out of Afghanistan.

“A lot of people feel like the way that we left in the last couple of weeks was not honorable,” said Hegseth, who was on Trump’s short list to run the VA until veterans groups objected, “that it was a retreat, that it was at the behest of the Taliban.”

“We just saw the press conference from the Department of Defense, we will soon see a press conference for the Department of State. Do you feel like this is the moment with all our troops home that the finger pointing begins, because ultimately it was not a process handled properly,” Hegseth decreed.

“Do you get a sense that, from DoD and State, there’s going to be an attempt to rewrite the narrative of who’s to blame for what didn’t go right?” he added, feeding her a narrative she refused to accept.

“I think for the finger pointing to begin this soon is a, is a bit unseemly, frankly, and that is not the impression that I have from the people who’ve been working tirelessly since August 14,” replied Griffin, who has covered numerous military events since 2000 and who hosts The Wounded Warrior Experience for the American Veterans Center. “I’ve seen people here at the Pentagon, as well as at the Department of State, many of them will remain nameless over the years but they worked, and they were heroic in their efforts in the fact that they got 122,000 vulnerable Afghans and Americans out of that country when they had to, they had to fight their way back in basically the airport scenes you’ll remember them the 82nd airborne secured that airport in 24 hours, and there were for the most part, other than that tragic suicide bombing at Abbey Gate.”

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“It was an unbelievable effort you had military planes landing every 45 minutes lifting people off to safety, is it heartbreaking for the military commanders that they had to leave anyone behind. Obviously I just asked General McKenzie how he feels after 20 years of war, handing the country that they had seized from the Taliban after 9/11 back to the very same Taliban. I can’t imagine that anybody in this country, any American citizen is going to be unchanged by what we’ve just been through, not only from the last 20 years, but for the last two weeks.”

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Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin: ” I think for the finger-pointing to begin this soon is a bit unseemly.” pic.twitter.com/wDxYpN2BQU

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 30, 2021

“Fox & Friends” has joined the Governor Ron DeSantis movement of promoting Regeneron’s highly-experimental COVID-19 antibody therapy as a treatment option instead of the preventative coronavirus vaccine, and is falsely claiming that most people hospitalized with the coronavirus are treated with the drug.

“You know it’s interesting,” Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt said Wednesday, “Greg Abbott, he’s in our prayers this morning because he announced that he tested positive for COVID yesterday. He has been vaccinated and still got COVID,” she said, appearing to falsely imply the coronavirus vaccine does not work.

“But I think he’s doing okay, he’s planning on getting the Regeneron. No symptoms, he said,” she added. Regeneron’s drug is supposed to be prescribed only to patients who have symptoms, and is considered “investigational,” according to the FDA.

“What’s interesting though is if you don’t get vaccinated and you go to the hospital most of the time you’re going to get Regeneron,” Earhardt, who is not a medical professional, added falsely. “But Regeneron or the antibodies, [is] basically still getting vaccinated because they’re sticking you with an antibody.”

That’s false.

“The antibody cocktail is not a substitute for vaccination against COVID-19,” PharmTech reports. The FDA also states Regeneron’s antibody cocktail is not authorized for use by patients who are hospitalized because of COVID-19.

Anti-vaxxers often claim they are refusing to be vaccinated because the coronavirus vaccines are “experimental,” or have not been approved by the FDA. Neither claim is accurate. But Regeneron’s REGEN-COV antibody cocktail is not just experimental, it is “investigational.” It is, contrary to Earhardt’s claims, far less available. It is also far more expensive to the federal government, and most importantly, does not prevent COVID.

Also during the same segment co-host Brian Kilmeade noted fake coronavirus vaccine cards are very cheap, implying Americans might want to use those, during his rant about New York City requiring proof of vaccination to enter many businesses.

Ainsley Earhardt falsely claimed on Fox & Friends this morning that taking Regeneron after you get infected with Covid is “basically still getting vaccinated.” Do not take medical advice from Ainsley Earhardt. pic.twitter.com/YPjP3s1fpE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 18, 2021