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An alert reporter caught Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel off guard with a question about the new official pronoun policy. In the Biden regime, your emails must include them, whether the system has you labeled correctly or not. He’ll have to check into that and he will, Patel promises, clearly rattled by the question.
Pronoun usage not an option
Journalist Matt Lee, who covers State Department happenings for Associated Press, managed to sneak a loaded question about email pronoun policy into the news conference. Vedant Patel did his best to hide behind the podium but wasn’t able to avoid the verbal assault completely.
The attack happened on Thursday, May 18 at an otherwise ordinary press briefing from our diplomatic branch. At least Lee wasn’t quizzing him about Antony Blinken’s connections to the notorious “spies who lied” letter used to rig the 2020 election.
Taking advantage of a lull in the routine presser to ambush the spokesunit, Lee raised his hand and innocuously asked “Have you gotten any emails from any of your colleagues before you came out here… since about noon or so? ” That was an odd question which took Patel by surprise. Ignoring the question, Patel quizzed back asking what his question was. Maybe he did get an email, maybe he didn’t but he sidestepped the question.
WATCH: AP’s Matt Lee asks Biden State Department why they’ve added mandatory pronouns onto the from line on State Department emails.
"This is not an optional thing. … But the problem is that a lot of them or at least some of them so far, as I’ve been able to tell, are wrong!… pic.twitter.com/KVnbnICrUT
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 18, 2023
Lee confused Patel even further by quizzing “if he had noticed anything different in the ‘from‘ line of the emails.” He “appeared to get frustrated and said that he was not aware of any changes.” Everyone’s email is “new and improved” with trendy liberal pronoun features. They’re mandatory and wrong more than right, at least by the default settings.
“Within the last hour and a half,” New York Post reports, “the State Department’s internal email system — and I tested this, so I know that it’s true —has added pronouns to people’s … not their signature … but to where it says from. Why?”
If you’re going to force someone to list a pronoun shouldn’t it be the correct one? As of the initial roll out, they apparently aren’t real accurate.
You don’t have a choice
As Lee explained at the press conference, “this is not something that anybody has a choice about, and so I’m wondering why and who made this decision.”
Patel was clearly “blindsided” by the pronoun scandal and quickly claimed no knowledge of the “phenomenon.” It is, indeed, “a knowable thing or event.” He just doesn’t know anything about it.
Since Lee had his opponent on the ropes, he kept pummeling. He knew “a number of people” who had “received emails with the wrong pronoun.” What gives with that? “I’d like to know why this would not be an optional thing … the problem is that a lot of them or at least some of them so far, as I’ve been able to tell, are wrong. They’re giving the wrong pronouns.”
'IT'S RIDICULOUS': State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel was confronted during a heated exchange over the department's policy that reportedly mandates the use of pronouns in all State Department emails. https://t.co/c5eXav3ZOa pic.twitter.com/BUYbcqS9LC
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 19, 2023
Patel cowered behind the podium and quivered. “So men are being identified as women and women as men … and this has nothing to do with whatever transgender or anything like that … but it’s ridiculous.”
The spokesunit went scrambling for his comfort zone, seizing on the buzzword like a drowning man tossed an anchor. “All individuals have a right to use their own pronouns…” before Lee interrupted. “I don’t have a problem with doing it and if people want their pronouns attached to it, it’s fine! But it should be a choice. Not something the State Department imposes on people, especially if it’s wrong.”
That specific pronoun problem wasn’t listed on the rebuttal sheet the State Department gave him. He fell back on the standard “I’ll look into it” before storming out of the room.
