Over the weekend, Playboy Magazine’s White House correspondent Brian J. Karem tried to brand President Trump as lazy but got outed as pushing fake news. White House aide Hogan Gidley blasted Playboy’s Karem on Twitter after he said that Trump was not working during the shutdown.
I just looked into the Oval Office myself, and @POTUS was in fact sitting behind the Resolute Desk working. So, now I’m just waiting for you and the rest of your ilk to either stop jumping to false conclusions, correct the record, or, here’s a thought, call the press team to ask. https://t.co/uzIp0i7Dwo
— Hogan Gidley (@hogangidley45) December 31, 2018
Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley put Karem in his place in his tweeted reply.
“I just looked into the Oval Office myself, and @POTUS was, in fact, sitting behind the Resolute Desk working. So, now I’m just waiting for you and the rest of your ilk to either stop jumping to false conclusions, correct the record, or, here’s a thought, call the press team to ask.”
Not a single journalist tried to get an interview from Nancy Pelosi while she vacationed in a swanky resort in Hawaii.
I just looked into the Oval Office myself, and @POTUS was in fact sitting behind the Resolute Desk working. So, now I’m just waiting for you and the rest of your ilk to either stop jumping to false conclusions, correct the record, or, here’s a thought, call the press team to ask. https://t.co/uzIp0i7Dwo
— Hogan Gidley (@hogangidley45) December 31, 2018
It’s one thing to disagree with Donald Trump’s policies, but the guy works his butt off. And he was working. The Marines outside the Oval office are not there when the President works at night and/or some holidays.
Hogan Gidley is correct about no reporters talking to Pelosi who is relaxing in Hawaii during the shutdown.
Karem is not a fan of President Trump, in one Playboy column, he accused the administration of selling, “half-truths and lies like they’re day-old cookies at a bake sale.” Lies? Like saying the President isn’t working during the shutdown? I would suggest that even a liberal like Mr. Karem who is 15 years younger than the POTUS would have trouble keeping up with his routine.
Gidley wasn’t the only person to attack Karem on Twitter.
You wanna check his poops to see what he had for lunch while you're at it?
— Sean Ward (@seanward) January 1, 2019
Now this is some serious journalism! Run up ring the bell and run back to the bushes and see if anyone opens the door.
— cslimfu (@cslimfu) January 1, 2019
Hard hitting journalism there Brian!
— Mike Flerl (@mflerl) January 1, 2019
Desperate times call for desperate measures… pic.twitter.com/f2rp1J6qgx
— ✭ Tim ✭ (@Sporty_meteor) January 1, 2019
While you’re at it with such hard hitting journalism, would you find me the $2,500 reduction in my health care premiums promised by your messiah.
— Michael Hatch (@mjhatch74) January 1, 2019
One respondent suggested the reporter was hiding in the bushes:
— Johnny Looch???????? (@IMJohnnyLooch) January 1, 2019
This is some amazing investigative journalism, Brian! You can take off the gopher costume now.#liberalmediabias
— Gene Yaws (@GeneYaws) January 1, 2019
— Jason Miracle (@vol1977) January 1, 2019
— gone incognito (@Daddio_7) January 1, 2019
When I was in advertising and received free magazines as part of my job I always made sure to receive Playboy, only to see what competitive products were advertising in the book, to read the monthly interview, and the in-depth political stories. I looked at the pictorials also but hey were secondary to the articles.
Okay, my wife left the room, I can now tell you that the articles were a secondary reason to read the magazine. At times, however, the magazine articles and interviews were excellent. Apparently, the quality of those articles has collapsed in the years since I was a regular reader, along with the circulation (down 90% since 1996). With reporters like Brian J. Karem who puts his political agenda before the truth, it’s no wonder why the magazine circulation has collapsed.
