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<\/picture> <\/div>\nWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post after two years in order to spend more time with her young children. This is not a particularly surprising development: Press secretary appears to be a demanding job in any administration, and presidents are known to go through several of them. Former President Joe Biden had Jen Psaki and then Karine Jean-Pierre during his single term.<\/p>\n
The job of the press secretary is to communicate the president’s talking points while dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, and dodging (the five D’s!<\/a>) hostile lines of inquiry from the media. As such, it’s a hard role to compliment. Leavitt was certainly an adept interlocutor and didn’t seem to get tripped up nearly as frequently as Jean-Pierre, whose level of willful delusion<\/a> about Biden’s cognitive fitness reached staggering proportions.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Of course, Leavitt had her less-than-stellar moments, too. She once chewed out<\/a>\u00a0The Hill<\/em>‘s Niall Stanage, my occasional Rising<\/em> co-host, for giving his opinion on the shooting of Ren\u00e9e Good. This was intended as some great triumph over Stanage and the liberal media, and also proof of his bias, but Leavitt had asked\u00a0<\/em>him to give his opinion, so what was he supposed to do?<\/p>\n In fact, there are more opinions than ever before in the White House press briefing room. This is a positive aspect of the legacy Leavitt will leave behind: She opened up the press pool to nontraditional journalists from the alternate media and the world of podcasting by creating a designated “new media” seat<\/a>. It was a good move that reflected both the changing nature of the media and the rise of influencers as a source of news about and support for the administration.<\/p>\n