{"id":5257,"date":"2023-08-31T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:36:42","slug":"white-house-snaps-at-reporter-when-hurricane-idalia-response-is-compared-to-maui-your-question-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"White House snaps at reporter when Hurricane Idalia response is compared to Maui: \u2018Your question is wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5258\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163.png 931w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got testy with a reporter who compared the response to Hurricane Idalia with Biden&#8217;s &#8216;no comment&#8217; on the Maui wildfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\">White House<\/a>&nbsp;press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared annoyed with a reporter who compared the government\u2019s hurricane response to President Biden\u2019s heavily criticized response to the deadly wildfire in Maui.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Wednesday\u2019s press conference, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy noted the Biden administration\u2019s preparations for&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/weather\/hurricanes\">Hurricane Idalia<\/a>&nbsp;were \u201crobust\u201d whereas the president\u2019s initial response to Maui was to tell a reporter he had \u201cno comment\u201d on the then-rising death toll while on vacation in Delaware.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDid you guys realize that the initial Hawaii wildfire response was not that good?\u201d Doocy asked. \u201cOr is it just easier for people to get help from the White House when the president is not on vacation?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean-Pierre said she disagreed with Doocy\u2019s premise.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo the premise of your question in the way you pose your question, I disagree, just for the record,\u201d she replied from the podium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you talk to, if you were to do your reporting and speak to the governor of Hawaii, the senators of Hawaii, the folks on the ground, they would say that the president reacted in record time when it came to dealing with the wildfires, when it came to dealing and making sure that they got everything that they need on the federal level to deal with what was going on on the ground,\u201d she said, adding there were more than 600 federal employees on the ground to assist as wildfires raged in Maui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo your question is, is wrong, is flawed in many, many ways,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I would advise you to go speak to the governor and the local and state officials in Hawaii.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden has faced heavy criticism for his slow\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/hawaii-crews-near-end-search-victims-lahaina-wildfire\" target=\"_blank\">response to the wildfire<\/a>, and many Maui residents have said the federal government did little to support them after the blaze. More than 110 people died in the tragedy, and search efforts are still ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president and first lady Jill Biden did not visit the island until more than a week later on Aug. 21. There, he made another misstep by comparing the deadly wildfire&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-blasted-comparing-kitchen-fire-home-devastating-maui-blaze-absolutely-disgusting\"><u>to a kitchen fire<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,\u201d Biden said during his visit. \u201cYears ago, now 15 years, I was in Washington doing \u2018Meet the Press.\u2019 \u2026 Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home. Not a lake, a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the \u2026 air condition ducts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my \u201967 Corvette and my cat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents also complained of a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/fema-chief-calls-bidens-hawaii-fires-response-abject-failure-says-he-should-go-oahu-not-maui\"><u>lagging response<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;by FEMA, though the White House says it was working with Hawaii Gov. Josh Green throughout the crisis to provided anything needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Republicans on the Oversight Committee said they plan to investigate the administration\u2019s response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/weather\/hurricanes\"><u>Hurricane Idalia<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;made landfall over Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast as a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d Category 3 storm Wednesday at 7:45 a.m., leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without power, officials said. It has since been downgraded to a Category 1 storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Idalia produced&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/storm-surge-hurricane-what-are-they-how-can-you-prepare\"><u>storm surges<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;that reached several feet in some areas and brought damaging winds that howled up to 130 miles per hour at one point, according to the National Hurricane Center. It also caused flooding that has completely encompassed Floridian roadways when it passed the Apalachee Bay and made landfall over Florida\u2019s Big Bend region, where the peninsula merges into the Panhandle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least two people have died in vehicle accidents since the storm made landfall, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell spoke at Wednesday\u2019s press conference and gave an update on the federal hurricane response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Criswell said there are more than 1,000 FEMA personnel deployed in Florida and other states in the hurricane\u2019s path. She has been communicating with Gov. Ron DeSantis and will travel to Florida Wednesday afternoon to directly report to the president from the scene of ongoing recovery and response efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/white-house-snaps-at-reporter-when-hurricane-idalia-response-is-compared-to-maui-your-question-is-wrong\/\">https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/white-house-snaps-at-reporter-when-hurricane-idalia-response-is-compared-to-maui-your-question-is-wrong\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got testy with a reporter who compared the response to Hurricane Idalia with Biden&#8217;s &#8216;no comment&#8217; on the Maui wildfires. White House&nbsp;press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared annoyed with a reporter who compared the government\u2019s hurricane response to President Biden\u2019s heavily criticized response to the deadly wildfire in Maui.&nbsp; During Wednesday\u2019s press conference, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy noted the Biden administration\u2019s preparations for&nbsp;Hurricane Idalia&nbsp;were \u201crobust\u201d whereas the president\u2019s initial response to Maui [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}