Mark Belling Podcast #168: It's all an act. For the left, everything is performance. Mark dissects using the White House briefing room fiasco as an example of the feigned outrage the media and left show on everything. The media blamed hurricanes on global warming; so guess what they're blaming this year's quiet hurricane season on? And guess which company just announced it is hiring 700 new local employees? (The answer may surprise you)

Caroline Leavitt, of course, used to be the White House press secretary.

She recently retired or resigned, spent more time with her kids, etc.

But anyway, she appeared on one of Sean Hannity's programs.

He's got like three.

He's got the radio show, he's got the regular TV show, and then he's got the other one.

And she talked about the general attitude and behavior of of many members of the press corps in the White House briefing room.

And she said that there were several occasions in which reporters apologized to her after the briefing for the way they behaved, saying their bosses or their editors either wanted them to ask a specific question or ask it in a certain way.

Carolina was just, of course, brilliant.

She acknowledged there's some performance on the other side as well.

She was great at her job.

And when she gave it back as hard as they were dishing it out, she acknowledged that, yes, I'm playing a role there too.

President Trump doesn't want his people to just roll over and take this crap.

Let me quote briefly from some reporting on Caroline's interviews.

Former White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says reporters have privately apologized to her for asking unfair questions, calling the press briefings performative.

On a Tuesday episode of Fox News anchor Sean Hannity's podcast, Hangout with Sean Hannity, Levitt said Hannity was correct in guessing that reporters were often totally different people when the cameras stopped rolling.

Quote, there's a performative aspect to the briefing room.

In fairness, I think on both sides, right? But definitely with the press.

And they have to do that because their bosses are demanding it.

They know it's an unfair question, but they're not in control of their own livelihood.

They are dictated by the editors and the execs at some of these companies.

I want to dive into this for a minute.

The White House press briefings used to be not like this.

They all changed when the cable television network started showing them live every day.

I mean, even when CNN started, I don't recall the White House daily press briefing always being on TV.

I don't know when it started, but in the past, you'd see like clips.