BUCK: I want to tell you about this story in Politico that I thought was really interesting. The Biden administration is in a freefall. That’s clear. I mean, the data supports this now. There was a Susquehanna Federalist poll just yesterday. GOP up plus 10 on the generic ballot. Biden approval 39, disapproval 54. Favorable-unfavorable, 43-52.

Seventy-five percent, according to this poll, think a recession is coming. Seventy percent support laws like Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law. Fifty-nine percent support the buyout of Twitter by Elon Musk. So we see a trend happening here, to be sure. Meanwhile, as they get prepared for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which I have been to, so I have some pro tips for life that I like to share with people for whatever it’s worth, things I’ve learned the hard way.

One of them is that banquets are almost never fun. (chuckles) So just remember that. I know it seems like it could be fun but really is it going to be fun? You know, the dinner with like 2,000 people and you’re gonna be eating rubber chicken. If you’re me, you’re gonna have to have 15 minutes of conversation about, “No, no, no, gluten is not dairy. I can’t have… I have celiac disease.” It’s always very tough.

All the good hors d’oeuvres I can’t eat them they always have flour in them so I’m not a big banquet person. But let me tell you being a conservative at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which I went to… Oh, gosh, now it’s like ten years ago. Yeah, yeah. It was so early on that they didn’t know what a right-wing lunatic I was, I guess, so I was able to go to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the time.

And it’s a little bit like you’re an escaped zoo animal when you’re there because all the other journalists say, “I think I’ve seen him before. Who is that? It’s one of those one of those Trump supporters in the media! Who let him in there? Have Jeeves, have the butler, escort him out,” masked, of course, because all the support staff and all the people that are working, they have to be masked.

Of course, not the fancy people who are going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and Fauci’s not going ’cause he’s too scared. He’s too scared of this one. When that ends, I just wonder. I wonder how much longer he can keep this going. But here’s what I think is so interesting. You would think that at this point in time, there would be a recognition that anyone who’s…

Wow, there are people in the West Wing, there are journos in the West Wing — I’m seeing it right now on — who are masked up. What are they do? What are they doing? Kamala Harris just came down with covid. What is it, the deputy or White House communications director, one or the other, Beding, Bedingfel, Bedingfield? She just came down with covid.

Quadruple vaxxed and already a double masker, I’m sure. But, remember, the lesson that the Fauciites take from all of this is: If you get covid, if you’re one of the — let’s call it — 250 million people in this country who got covid, the left believes it’s because you didn’t mask up hard enough. If you had only masked a little bit more, perhaps you would not have gotten covid – twice, like I have, by the way – and they can’t seem to come to grips with the reality of this White House.

And a part of that is, this piece, “The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter.” This is a whole piece in Politico which for those who live inside the Beltway — and I know a lot of you are saying, “I don’t care they work there,” but we’re gonna make fun of the journos so this will be fun. For those who live inside the D.C. Beltway, Politico is like the cool kid journal.

You know, it’s like, yeah, this is what the consensus, political opinion of people who live in Northeast Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia think about what’s going on in America. They don’t venture out very much like the rest of America, certainly red state America ever. This piece, “The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter,” is all about how they’re upset that this White House just doesn’t have more interesting stuff to cover.

What a loss it is that there’s just not more interesting stuff about this White House because it’s so professional. It’s such a well-oiled machine. Biden yesterday had a computer chip malfunction in the middle of a sentence that we all saw. The (sputtering) “kleptocracy” thing, remember that? He had a malfunction.

You’ve got a guy who does seem very much to be in the early stages of dementia and possible senility in only his second year now, in his first term in the White House. You have the highest inflation in 40 years; the biggest war in Europe since World War II; the worst, most lawless southern border in memory probably ever; the biggest rise in crime, and notably homicide, nationwide in 30 years, maybe 40 years.

Some say actually since we’ve been really collecting statistics on this starting in around the 1960s. So perhaps all-time high increase nationwide and the murder rate, a Biden administration that’s unable to get anything done or have any solutions. And the press corps is writing pieces about how, “Yeah, it’s just so hard to, like… like… What do we even say! Like, these guys are just pros. They’re just so good at this, the whole, like, being the White House thing.”

They really believe this. This Politico piece. “For years covering the White House was a kind of golden ticket in the media. Then came the Biden administration.” These are quotes from the piece. “‘Jen [Psaki] is very good at her job, which is unfortunate,’ one reporter who has covered the past two administrations from the room said. ‘And the work is a lot less rewarding, because you’re no longer saving democracy from Sean Spicer and his Men’s Wearhouse suit.

“’Jawing with Jen just makes you look like an [bleep].'” I can’t even say it here on the radio. They’re really… This is a whole piece written by what is the cool kids’ table at the White House association dinner, Politico, right, with all these different journos who cover the White House for ABC and CNN and whatever. Their complaint is, “Man, it’s just so hard to find something interesting to say about the functions of this White House!”

Think about this. The Biden White House is a dumpster fire with discarded nuclear rod thrown on top of it with old napkins from the burger joint thrown beneath it. This thing is a mess beyond words, and the thing that they come up with is (summarize), “Man, they’re just so smooth. They know exactly what they’re doing. Nothing to say. Nothing to say.”

Oh, here’s another quote from the piece. I just want you to understand the disconnect that you and I have from what the people that write about politics all day in D.C. actually see here. This is another quote from the piece: “‘It’s a boring and difficult job. It’s tough to be a White House correspondent if you want to break news, they’re so airtight,’ another reporter who covered both the Trump and Biden White Houses from the briefing room.

“‘There’s no Maggie [Haberman]. Who’s the Maggie of the Biden administration? It doesn’t exist.’” Notice the way that this is all self-justifying for the fact that they won’t actually do their jobs, which is try to find information that the White House does not want to be public, to find out what is really going on, to speak truth to power, to confront power.

To be willing to call out the federal government – the White House, in this case, under Biden – for what they’re doing wrong, for what they’re misleading the public on. No. They want you to believe that everything is just going so well, and this White House is just so slick, that there’s not much for them to say or do. They are telling you — they are saying out loud, in effect — they are state media.

They view themselves as being the praetorians, as being the inner circle defenders of the Biden regime. That’s what this is. We don’t have to make it up. They’re telling you this. “Like, oh, man, it’s so hard!” Joe Biden walks around muttering nonsense, looks confused — gets lost, it seems, on the long walk from Marine One to the White House — and sure enough, they want to tell you, “There’s nothing to see here, nothing to see.

“It’s just, you know, man, the adults are in charge.” Nothing but losses, catastrophe, bad decision-making, absurdity, Green New Deal nonsense talking points whenever you bring up energy. Just go down the list. The admission that, yeah, invasion of Ukraine probably wouldn’t have had under Trump, and then they say, “Oh, because Putin was getting so much of what he wanted from Trump,” which is just laughable, but he didn’t invade under Trump, he didn’t invade under Biden.

Why? Oh, I don’t know. They want you to know ’cause Biden’s so good on foreign policy. See, it’s the opposite of the truth all the time. It’s not just that they get it wrong. It’s that whatever the truth is, they go in the opposite direction and try to convince you of that. Including the people whose livelihoods, whose jobs — whose reasons for getting up in the morning — is supposed to be to speak truth to power.

Anybody buy that about this White House? “There’s just nothing interesting.” It was remarkable reading this. “Oh, there’s no star repoerter!” You know the star reporter covering this White House? Doocy for Fox. Jacqui Heinrich for Fox. You know why? ‘Cause they actually ask real questions. It’s amazing. You would think that if people thought they could get away with doing their jobs as journos for the other networks out there, you would think that they would take this as an opportunity.

I don’t know. Ask some real questions. But no. You ask some real questions of Jen Psaki? You push back? You are not at the cool kids’ table at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, and you will not be eating that reheated mediocre rubber chicken and taking photos with C-list celebrities. So who cares the republic is in peril! There’s fancy events to attend in northwest D.C.