Why can't Karine Jean-Pierre pronounce Nobel Prize?

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the reporters at her daily press briefing on Monday that President Biden met with three Nobel Prize winners. There was one little problem with her sharing the news – she doesn’t know how to pronounce the word ‘Nobel.’ She didn’t just mispronounce the word once and correct herself, no, she repeated the mispronunciation a total of four times.

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She said that Biden spoke with the people who were awarded the 2022 Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and economic sciences. I’m quite sure that Joe Biden is no smarter for the conversations but I would be willing to bet that he can pronounce Nobel Prize correctly. Good Lord. This White House is full of epic fail every day. Is Alfred Nobel rolling in his grave? KJP speaks for the White House, the president, and it’s just embarrassing how inept she is. Every day.

Cringey.

KJP is a perfect example of someone who has a prestigious job simply because she checks off several identity boxes in a Democrat administration. In her case, she’s a Black woman, gay, and an immigrant. It’s the trifecta in the Democrat Party. She may have been clever when she was a guest on MSNBC panels but as a press secretary, she’s just not up to the job. If someone took her briefing notebook away from her, she would not be able to answer any questions. She has to look everything up, regardless of the subject, and then she reads statements right out of her notebook. When she tries to wing it with an answer, well, it’s all word salad and hand gestures.

It’s too bad she’s so worthy of criticizing. Her appearances in the press briefing room are not just seen by an American audience. People around the world can see it. She is not our country’s best and brightest. As much as I didn’t care for Jen Psaki, at least it was possible to get the impression she was prepared and able to do her job. And, she was articulate, whether I liked what she was saying or not. With KJP I am usually pondering what in the world she just said.

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Joe Biden has brayed several times that “America’s back”, yet he hired a press secretary who can’t pronounce an international award. You can’t make this stuff up. Oh well.

Jen Psaki had a frequent response to reporters when she didn’t have an answer. She said she’d circle back. KJP simply says, “I don’t have anything.” She says it a lot.

There is an interesting story in the news today that concerns a Nobel Peace Laureate who is the head of one of this year’s prizewinning organizations. She called for weapons to help Ukraine defend itself and stop the atrocities.

“When somebody asks me how to stop these long-lasting crimes in occupied territories, I can only answer: ‘Provide Ukraine with weapons to liberate these territories’,” Ukrainian Oleksandra Matviichuk, a human rights lawyer who heads the Kyiv-based Center for Civil Liberties, told AFP in Stockholm.

“It’s a weird situation for me, and a clear sign (that) something (is) wrong with the whole international system when a human rights lawyer asks (for) air defence systems.”

But, she said, “we need to prevent new damage to critical civil infrastructure”.

“We need air defense systems. We need other kinds of military facilities which would help us to protect our sky.”

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NATO is meeting today and tomorrow in Romania and member countries are likely to announce they will provide new supplies of military equipment for Ukraine. Most likely this will be air defense systems that are desperately needed, as Matviichuk said. It’s a little like shades of peace through strength and the Reagan Doctrine.

When international law is no longer enough, as Matviichuk says it is not now, then it’s only logical to turn to a stronger response. Given what she is living through, she understands that, even as a Nobel Prize Laureate.

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Jazz Shaw 7:20 PM | March 18, 2024
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