Karine Jean-Pierre must feel sometimes like a grade school teacher with an unruly class:

[tblue37]

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Who is that who won't shut up?

[tblue37]

2. Simon Ateba of Today News Africa.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. From the thread. Simon Ateba from Today News Africa

Apparently he is regularly disruptive — and whines on Tucker Carlson.

[onetexan]

9. bastard needs his press pass revoked

He should not be allowed to participate. This is not discriminatory. His behavior is disruptive and intolerable.

I will comment though - much as i love her, Karine does not have the same command of that press podium as Jen Psaki. Big shoes to fill.

[3catwoman3]

4. She needs a gavel.

Or pull up a tall chair and sit down with a raised eyebrow-annoyed parent facial expression and wait the toddler out until he tires of his temper tantrum.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Or a couple of really big guys on security.

[Phoenix61]

6. It's his publication so calling him their WH journalist is a bit of a reach.

I could create my own news publication but that doesn’t mean the WH has to give me access.
“[2] TODAY NEWS AFRICA was founded and registered in Washington D.C. on August 21, 2019, by investigative journalist Simon Ateba. [3] Ateba was born in Cameroon, studied journalism in Nigeria and worked as a reporter in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, before relocating to the United States in April 2017.”

[Deuxcents]

7. Call order. If they don't act respectful or professional, class dismissed n leave.

It has been going on for a long time..yelling over each other..asking the same questions just phrased differently. If they act like children, send em home.

[KS Toronado]

8. When they start acting like MAGAts

Karine should walk out without saying a word, eventually the polite ones will rein in the unruly ones.

[tblue37]

10. She did walk out once when he wouldn't stop shouting over another journalist's question.

[allegorical oracle]

11. Think she's adorable, but as someone who did PR, I'd say she's not quite as quick on her feet as

she needs to be sometimes. Too many umms and ers. She'll get better with practice.

[tblue37]

12. I read an article once that said she looks like she fell off a charm bracelet. I thought that

was a cute comparison, especially since the author qualified it by saying she's actually tough as nails.

[allegorical oracle]

13. Hope she's that tough. Surely needs to be in that hot seat. So far, haven't seen "tough" so much. nt