Peter Doocy, 34, unintentionally stepped into the spotlight on Jan. 24 when President Joe Biden, 79, shockingly responded to a question he asked him about inflation by calling him a “stupid son of a b*tch.” It’s unknown if Joe knew his mic was on at the time of his response, but it got the attention of many people shortly after. “Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?” the Fox News reporter asked the politician at a White House event before he answered, “It’s a great asset—more inflation.
What a stupid son of a b*tch.” Find out more about Peter and his background in journalism below. Peter didn’t hear Biden call him a ‘SOB’ at the time he said it. He admitted that because of the loud volume in the White House at the time of the exchange, he didn’t hear Biden’s words at the time he said them.
When someone eventually told him in the briefing room, he didn’t take it personally and even joked about it in the interview above shortly after.
When a fellow Fox News journalist cheekily suggested that maybe he is “a stupid SOB,” Peter responded with, “Nobody has fact checked him yet and said it’s not true.” Related Gallery Biden reached out to him ‘within an hour’ of his comment. “He said ‘It’s nothing personal, pal,'” Peter told Hannity. “And we went back and forth, and we were talking about just kind of moving forward, and I made sure to tell him that I’m always gonna try to ask something different than what everybody else is asking.
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