Extraordinary. Alexis Simendinger uses her question to ask Spicer to call on New York Times pic.twitter.com/Fqk2mxCrbe
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) March 16, 2017
Revoke her credentials.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer declined a reporter’s request to give a New York Times correspondent an opportunity to ask a question during the daily briefing.
Alexis Simendinger, who reports on the White House for Real Clear Politics, was called on by Spicer at the often contentious briefing on Thursday.
“Sean, I’d like to ask you about two different topics but could you help us all by calling on Peter right now?”
Peter Baker is the White House reporter for the New York Times.
Spicer declined Simendinger’s request.
“No, I’m gonna— I understand,” Spicer said. “I actually call the questions. Alexis, if you don’t want to [ask] your question, I can call on somebody else.”
“Could you call on the New York Times, please?” Simendinger said.
But Spicer moved on to another reporter.