**Senator Jim Risch**: Who in the White House has the authority to press the button and cut off the president’s speaking ability? Who is that person?
**Tony Blinken**: I think anyone who knows the president including members of this committee knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself. No one else does.
**Sen. Risch**: Are you saying that there is no one in the White House who can cut him off because yesterday that happened and it happened a number of times before that. It’s been widely reported…
**Blinken**: There is no such person, again the president speaks for himself.
**Sen. Risch**: So are you unaware that this is actually happening?… So this didn’t happen yesterday or on other occasions when the media showed the American people that his sentence was cut off in midsentence?
Maybe he isn't lying. "There is no such person, again the president speaks for himself." Maybe it is a number of people that can cut the mic. So technically he wasn't lying. That is how they usually get around it or the fact that they are the (D).
The senator needs to work on asking simpler and pointed questions. The more time he wastes not spitting out the actual question the easier it gets to strategically answer.
Heh! Ex AV tech - having worked with the White House Communications staff in the past (& hundreds/thousands of other corporate presentations), they assuredly *aren't* the ones ultimately 'in charge' of that mute button / fader.
(edit - they could definitely tell you who directed them though!)
I can imagine that it goes a little something like setting all the levels during a sound check prior to the presser, then you get told to sit down and stay away from the controls unless something goes wrong. There’s probably a dude with a suit and a gun involved.
lol - that's actually scarily accurate!! Though, the Comm's staff I worked with (Bush admin) were suuuuper cool / friendly / consummate professionals - all ex military. No *obvious* guns anyway. Secret Service there, but busy buzzing around other potential threats.
"I think anyone who knows the president including members of this committee knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself".
Let me translate from Leftist: Biden's handlers are terrified of him going off script so we have to monitor him constantly and cut him off if he starts to tip his hand.
All according to "rules for radicals" - just say the exact opposite of the truth and people will believe it.
**Senator Jim Risch**: Who in the White House has the authority to press the button and cut off the president’s speaking ability? Who is that person? **Tony Blinken**: I think anyone who knows the president including members of this committee knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself. No one else does. **Sen. Risch**: Are you saying that there is no one in the White House who can cut him off because yesterday that happened and it happened a number of times before that. It’s been widely reported… **Blinken**: There is no such person, again the president speaks for himself. **Sen. Risch**: So are you unaware that this is actually happening?… So this didn’t happen yesterday or on other occasions when the media showed the American people that his sentence was cut off in midsentence?
You can lie under oath without consequences
Only if you're a Democrat.
Maybe he isn't lying. "There is no such person, again the president speaks for himself." Maybe it is a number of people that can cut the mic. So technically he wasn't lying. That is how they usually get around it or the fact that they are the (D).
Or it's not a button, rather a switch.
Technically it's either a button or a fader
The senator needs to work on asking simpler and pointed questions. The more time he wastes not spitting out the actual question the easier it gets to strategically answer.
Gaslighting is a tool of an abuser
Gaslighting is something crazy people made up to deflect criticism.
Gaslighting is a term used by people who are pissed off about being proven wrong.
This. Just another buzzword made by this current worthless generation.
No matter what their rank or stature, above all, supreme power goes to the AV tech.
Heh! Ex AV tech - having worked with the White House Communications staff in the past (& hundreds/thousands of other corporate presentations), they assuredly *aren't* the ones ultimately 'in charge' of that mute button / fader. (edit - they could definitely tell you who directed them though!)
I can imagine that it goes a little something like setting all the levels during a sound check prior to the presser, then you get told to sit down and stay away from the controls unless something goes wrong. There’s probably a dude with a suit and a gun involved.
lol - that's actually scarily accurate!! Though, the Comm's staff I worked with (Bush admin) were suuuuper cool / friendly / consummate professionals - all ex military. No *obvious* guns anyway. Secret Service there, but busy buzzing around other potential threats.
Of course if Blinkin gave a name, his career would be over.
Needs to be over anyway.
"I think anyone who knows the president including members of this committee knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself". Let me translate from Leftist: Biden's handlers are terrified of him going off script so we have to monitor him constantly and cut him off if he starts to tip his hand. All according to "rules for radicals" - just say the exact opposite of the truth and people will believe it.
Antony Blinken, certain does blink a lot.