CNN Analyst Claims Biden Dog Commander Having ‘Impact on Security’ As Network Goes All-In On Biting Coverage
CNN’s blanket coverage of First Dog Commander Biden’s ouster from the White House included a law enforcement analyst who claimed the pooch is “having a measurable impact on security” for President Joe Biden and others in the complex.
Amid a slew of newly-revealed biting incidents, Commander is now holding in a location that may or may not be a farm upstate. According to East Wing Comms Director Elizabeth Alexander:
The President and First Lady care deeply about the safety of those who work at the White House and those who protect them every day. They remain grateful for the patience and support of the U.S. Secret Service and all involved, as they continue to work through solutions.
Commander is not presently on the White House campus while next steps are evaluated.
The news comes after a series of high-profile biting incidents involving Commander and his predecessor Major Biden — whose potential execution was contemplated by at least one member of the White House press corps.
While the new Commander news barely made a ripple on Fox News and MSNBC, CNN went deep on the story with hourly updates and reports that included up-to-the-minute reporting on the pup from correspondent Betsy Klein and a warning about the potential “security risk” posed by the pup.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN News Central, anchor Sara Sidner hosted CNN law enforcement analyst and former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow, who told Sidner the Secret Service’s attempts to avoid the dog actually “has a measured impact on security.”
Wackrow backpedaled a bit when Sidner asked if he was saying Commander presents a “security risk” to the president:
SARA SIDNER: Jonathan, you said something I think is important here, because you said that the dog, that Commander, may be creating a security risk for potentially the president or those who work inside of the White House because people do not want to go, including Secret Service members, to certain areas of the House. Is that what you’re saying?
JONATHAN WACKROW: Well, you know, listen, it’s not, you know, in my experience has been when I was there, when the dogs would come down, the Secret Service would put out notification. Now, the foot pattern of uniformed division officers that are on the south grounds inside, what they’re doing is they’re not, they’re not giving up any of their protective methodologies or the overall protection of the White House. Let me be very clear on that.
What they are doing, though, is they’re altering their patterns to try to avoid Commander. Now, does that have a measured impact on the total operations? It may. I’m not saying it does.
But again, why do you actually have to be in in that environment? At the end of the day, what what has happened is that instead of being a family pet that’s beloved in what the Bidens wanted, Commander has become a workplace hazard and, quite frankly, a public relations distraction.
SARA SIDNER: All right, Jonathan Wackrow, thank you so much for all of that. I love dogs, but I get it. You don’t want a dog biting people as they’re trying to do their work.
So far, according to a search of Snapstream media monitoring, mentions of Commander on CNN have tripled the number of mentions on Fox News — and MSNBC has barely mentioned the story.
Watch above via CNN News Central.
