WFB: Senate Democrats abruptly canceled a hearing at which President Joe Biden’s new disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz was expected to testify, a decision made after embarrassing videos posted by the self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” sparked a political firestorm.
Senate Democrats planned to hold a May 10 hearing on “disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation,” just a couple of weeks after Biden tapped Jankowicz to head his administration’s newly created Disinformation Governance Board. Democratic leaders were reluctant to have Jankowicz face Republican questioning, however, prompting them to nix the hearing, three Senate offices told the Washington Free Beacon.
“They yanked it when the entire ‘disinformation board’ blew up,” one senior aide told the Free Beacon. “They realized there’s no way they could reschedule without Nina Jankowicz being called to testify.”
The Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee had the hearing scheduled since April, but the optics of the hearing in light of Jankowicz’s negative press led to its abrupt cancellation. Such hearings are normally sleepy events on Capitol Hill, but the controversy surrounding Jankowicz would have made the hearing a spectacle. The hearing would have been an opportunity for Republicans to question not only Jankowicz but also the creation of the board in the first place. The administration has refused to answer questions about its decision to give the disinformation post to Jankowicz, who has drawn criticism for falsely labeling Hunter Biden’s laptop a “Russian influence op” and for her flamboyant TikTok videos.
Canceling Senate hearings on such short notice is out of the ordinary and typically does not happen unless a witness or expert falls ill or has a last-minute scheduling conflict. The disinformation hearing, according to multiple Senate offices, had been scheduled since early April and was planned for May 10. more
Well that’s crazy. This may be crazier!
https://youtu.be/0e64XzTIz1k
the optics of the hearing in light of Jankowicz’s negative press led to its abrupt cancellation.
but the controversy surrounding Jankowicz would have made the hearing a spectacle.
THIS is the focus of the objection? Jankowicz negative press and controversy she might create? How about the larger problem of government censoring everything? Anybody got a problem with THAT?!?!?
former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said they were unfamiliar with Jankowicz’s past criticisms of conservatives and calls for censorship on social media.
How it THAT for incompetence? The bad part is, it is not. It is all planned.
I’m convinced the congress exists SOLELY for itself. It’s like Democrat-run cities. Seattle changed all its in-city speed limits to about 10 mph slower than they were — even on main arterials it’s now 25 mph (apparently so the bicyclists don’t feel the need to use the designated bike lanes that we narrowed all our arterials to accommodate!). But which drivers chronically speed now? Right. Metro buses, police (including parking enforcement), ALL other gov’t vehicles. And not just a little, either. They drive at least 5 mph OVER the OLD speed limit, which means they’re driving 20 mph over the new one. And that’s just one area of them “taking care of their own”. The newest, most expensive buildings in Seattle are at least 80% owned/occupied by city/state/county gov’t workers. Even the metro transit drivers no longer call out the names of the streets in some sections of town. No, it’s the name of the gubmint building in which one can obtain health care, food stamps, and other tax-paid charity.
Gov’t exists for itself and its people.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer (nicer inset pronoun here).
How about a rule that everyone in every hearing gets a dose of truth serum beforehand?
And hooked up to a lie detector while we’re at it.
Publicly televised, of course.
This entire administration is a clusterf*ck of incompetence.
The terms like “misinformation” or “malinformation” are beyond stupid. Just call it what it really is, LIES, LYING or FUCKING LIES. See how much easier it rolls off of your tongue? I never thought that our world would come to such a sad pass. Mark Steyn said it best just before the 2020 elections. I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like “if Biden is elected, things are going to get really bad, really quick”. Absolutely prophetic. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills at this point.
The truth of that matter is the bogus and laughable ‘disinfo’ board was/is created to hide the ‘REAL SEGREGATIONIST(S)’ Joe Biden’s longtime vile racism and past and current criminal actions, particularly against the US and her citizenry.