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Carney Brings Down the White House
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who was expected to rely on his skills as a journalist to manage the press, is proving instead to not be up to the job, at least according to the Telegraph:
There is increasing concern in Washington that Jay Carney, the new White House Press Secretary, isn’t up to the job. Even when faced with an innocuous question that requires only that he trot out the official line, he looks completely stunned, as if the questioner is Bob Woodward asking him about Deep Throat. He gathers himself, embarks on a stuttering reply, pauses for what seems like an eternity, then starts gabbling, tripping over his words, rephrasing what he’s just said, then looking plaintively back at the questioner as if to say, “How did I do? Was that okay? Or would you like me to try again?”
“I think he’s doing very badly,” says a political contact based in Washington. “And I’ve heard others say that he’s really struggling.”
This was made more evident by the inability of the White House to get the story straight on the U.S. raid on Osama bid Laden’s compound last week that killed the 9/11 mastermind.
As the AP reported, the story kept changing, confusing the media and the public alike:
Killing Osama bin Laden was a big victory for the U.S., but how exactly the raid went down is another story — and another, and another.
Over two days, the White House has offered contradictory versions of events, including misidentifying which of bin Laden’s sons was killed and wrongly saying bin Laden’s wife died in gunfire, as it tries to sort through what the president’s press secretary called the “fog of combat” and produce an accurate account.
Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that officials were trying to get information out as quickly as possible about the complex event witnessed by just a handful of people, and the story line was being corrected.
The constant bumbling on this story and the deer-in-the-headlights moments that Carney has provided in just a few months was certainly far from what the Obama administration expected from its new press secretary, according to The Washington Post:
A Virginia native, he has earned a reputation in both journalism and politics for being smart and engaged – and, in his most recent capacity, for helping eliminate the image of Biden as simply a gaffe machine. While Carney has little experience with the press secretary’s job of standing on the podium to face a barrage of reporter questions, he has been on television as a journalist ample times. The White House hopes he may be able to navigate the press corps more easily having come from its ranks.
Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs initially won over the press corps with his folksy charm but that wore off as Obama’s popularity sank along with the economy. It had become clear that the President needed a new front man to deal with the press.
The White House thought they found the perfect person in Carney, but his journalistic experience has not been able to help him defend a stumbling presidency during a fast paced news cycle.
Carney’s performance to date is so bad that Obama is probably beginning to miss Robert Gibbs.
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12 Comments for Carney Brings Down the White House
And even though bin ladens dead but theres always someone to take his place you can bet on that
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One can tell only so many lies before they start tripping up on them. Maybe Carney has a conscience and can’t gallantly back up this administrations of liars.
This also sounds like Obama when asked certain questions he gathers himself, embarks on a stuttering reply, pauses for what seems like an eternity, then starts gabbling, tripping over his words, rephrasing what he’s just said, then looking plaintively back at the questioner as if to say, “How did I do? Was that okay? Or would you like me to try again?”
Seems as though no one can tell the truth as to what happen in the Assination of Osama Bin Laden for you know thats just what it was…..I dont really think GOD is proud of what is going on in this COUNTRY for it seems no one wants to STAND up to OBAMA and send him back to his own COUNTRY we do not need his kind of DICTATORING HERE………………………
Sh*t for brains. How appropriately named.
steven greer, the disclosure project guy, says it best in a youtube video. we have been without a free press for awhile now. they are controlled by the elite’s who no longer serve the people. i find this story interesting only, for the irony.
I miss Gibbs and Carney isn’t much better. You would think with all of the ACADAMIA people in the Administration that they would have SOMEONE with SOME KNOWLEDGE wouldn’t you????? But then Acadamia can not get our economy back on track…….. only BUSINESS MINDED PEOPLE who have had experience can and NONE OF THEM IN THIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE NO BUSINESS EXPERIENCE. And our president only knows how to be a professor and a community organizer so that should be no surprise why our country is going bankrupt. GOD HELP US……….. WHERE ARE THE JOBS that this inept President promised. We need someone who can get this economy on the upswing not keep tearing it down.
Carney doesn’t sound any more confused than the rest of the White House.
I’m not sure if this “bumbling, stammering and confusion” is NOT done on purpose to skirt around any and ALL issues, without really saying anything that is concrete. It’s like making NO committment, one way or another. In
that smirking, meandering-Gibbs style, it was another confusion tactic to stall for time(to be done and over with at the podium) Now, we have another doofus, who is actually following in Gibbs footsteps, and looking even dumber, so is it on purpose, for confusion or is it that he too, is just ‘eating up the scenery and killing time before the reporters’?
The Last intelligent, coherent and direct press secretary was Ari Fleicher,
and I do miss that for sure.
Obama Never wants too much information to get out(just what he wants to highlight) and I feel it’s done purposely so Obama can CONTROL ALL THE INFORMATION THAT AMERICANS GET. It’s just the same as ALL these secretive Whitehouse meetings behind the scenes and Obama’s Secretive Associates and
his corrupt friends.
To Dee #5,,,Great post,,I could not have said it better myself. I stammer & stutter ,,,until I get it going,,then it flows smoothly. I for one do NOT need,want or use a Tele-prompter. It seems out Tele-prompter-in-Chief has to have one,,or he will sputter like an engine out of fuel,,& lose his train of thought,,& then LIE,,,as he ALWAYS does ,,to cover himself. It is totally amazing that NO ONE CALLS him out on that. Then the Obamanistas will step foward & call you,,,,what else,,,a Racist (how did I know that).
I for one cannot wait to see if BHO will debate any opponent,,especially if the opponent is from within the Dem party ,,like Hillary or Kucinich.Then he cannot use TP’s ,,because the questions MAY be random & NOT set up ahead of time,,,like the Clintons used to do,,Remember? BHO will make Porky Pig look like a speech teacher by comparison. By now,those of us with common sense have figured out that BHO IS a Puppet & is always being TOLD what to say,,hence the TP’s. Why do you think he ALWAYS has to wait before he makes a decision? He is waiting for ORDERS from Higher-ups
Just like in the DR SESUS story YERTLE THE TURTLE Obama sits way too high on the backs of others and will eventuialy get dumped in the mud head first
OMG, this site has opened my eyes, now I know that everyone who isn’t a republican is actually a secret manchurian candidate programmed to rape children and raise taxes so they can pay for the government’s gay-gun (a ray gun that makes you gay and hate jesus).