‘Come on The View!’ MSNBC Biden Flack Defends Him Refus­ing Pressers

You can take the press sec­re­tary out of the White House, but you can’t take the White House out of the press sec­re­tary. Despite now being a mem­ber of the press (after her eth­i­cal­ly dubi­ous hir­ing by NBC/MSNBC), for­mer Biden Press Sec­re­tary Jen Psa­ki appeared on Monday’s edi­tion of The View and defend­ed Pres­i­dent Biden’s refusal to do press con­fer­ences and his desire to only grant sit down inter­views to friend­ly media out­lets that give him a tongue bath.
Psa­ki was teed up by faux-con­ser­v­a­tive co-host Alyssa Farah Grif­fin, who framed her ques­tion about Biden’s lack of “press avail­abil­i­ties” as her pro­vid­ing free cam­paign advice:

So Jen, you have been on both sides as work­ing as a press sec­re­tary, but also now being in the media. And there’s been a lot of crit­i­cism of Biden, most recent­ly from The New York Times that he’s held the fewest inter­views and …