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Jay Carney’s “Nastygrams” Strain White House Press Relations
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Some members of the White House Press Corps, who have largely given President Obama favorable coverage during his nearly three years in office, are bristling at the communications that press secretary Jay Carney and his staff are sending them.
According to The Washington Post some of the emails from the press office are dubbed “nastygrams” and show just how little tolerance the White House has for criticism from a press that they feel should roll over and play dead for the administration’s policies.
In one email White House press secretary Jay Carney called veteran reporter Julie Mason’s stories “partisan, inflammatory and tendentious.” She also received an email from National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, who reacted to comments that Mason made on television. The email insinuated that she was whining by including an animated picture of a crying mime.
Mason wasn’t the only target of the White House’s vitriol. CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson has repeatedly gotten under the administration’s skin with her reporting on the government’s “Operation Fast and Furious” gun-tracking program. In October Attkisson complained that she was yelled at by a Justice Department spokesperson while trying to get clarification on the case and later was “screamed” at and “cussed” out by White House spokesman Eric Schultz.
She only made things worse by going on the conservative Laura Ingraham Show and detailing the conversations to Ingraham’s millions of listeners.
Carney, for his part, dismisses the charges against his office by saying that their interactions with reporters are as “professional” and businesslike as those of his predecessors, and are often better than some of them, according to the Post.
He also said that profanity comes with the territory and that the criticism “is pretty thin.”
The only thing that is thin is the skin of Carney and his staff who are being forced to defend the administration’s increasing failures and have resorted to bullying and profanity laced emails in a failed attempt to cow the media into toeing the line.
Thanks to Carney the White House is starting to lose the media. If they can’t count on the media during the next election cycle like they were able to in 2008, they may be in for an even tougher fight next year than they thought.
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Profanity is never appropriate..NEVER.
And, Obama and his administration have shown only how childish they are..They don’t want to be scolded, questioned, reprimanded or disciplined..And when they are..this is what they do..whine, gripe and blame others.
They act worse than spoiled children..asking Americans to tattle on others, to turn over email addresses so they can spam those who don’t support them..I have never, ever seen such bizarre behavior in an American leader..
We desparately need a new President in the WH..a grown up..
jay carney the slimebag that just keeps on giving… Is there a lower form of life than him, oh yes, his boss!
A criminal enterprise hates bright light. Hence the Obama regime’s adverse reaction to press criticism.
The fourth best president ever, according to himself, has no clothes on and a thin skin to boot!
And yet these brainless fools will continue to carry obama’s water for him. Pathetic.
progressivism = totalitarianism
Welcome to the regime.
The use of profanity is extremely unprofessional and this is from the representative of the President’s office! Carney and his associates need to grow up. But what really disturbs me even more is the phrase “count on the media during the next election”.This is so unAmerican; more like banana republic, because it should be the American people who should count on the media to be objective but our Main stream media are 90% Democrats and lean leftward. They have been enablers of BHO and I believe have been traitorous to the American people, by reporting mostly favorably to BHO or by not reporting negative facts.
When the overwhelming majority of the media constantly sing your praises and spin your faults into virtues it must seem that any criticism however academic is just plain meanness. One doesn’t want one’s lovers to tell one that one’s nose is big or that one has a booger hanging from one’s nostril.
Question…how much screaming would there be if the press did their job on Obama’s background. Look what a researcher did re Ron Paul & his newsletters! Suppose someone had the gumption to do what that person did…start looking for articles that Obama may have written when he was editor of the Harvard Law Review (maybe he didn’t). Who paid for his education? What papers did he ever write for grade purposes? Did he belong to any fraternities? What did other classmates ever say about Obama? Where did Obama live…in a dorm…in an apartment? None of this kind of stuff is known…why?
To me this is how broken the left elite media are in the ‘stuff’ they write that’s supposed to pass for news. Ever since Walter Cronkite “reported” about what happened w/ the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam…that has shown the brokenness of the networks (except Fox) and the print media (w/ the exception of what’s on the internet & the emergence to prominence of National Review Online, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, World Net Daily, Newsmax, & most certainly The Drudge Report!
The above mentioned are putting the left to shame!
Wonderful. The Traitor and Chief has destroyed the lives of so many. Played Golf and taken more vacations then any President. Doubled the deficit while drinking wine and having endless parties. Been a lying POS for 3 years. And now the press are angry because their feelings are hurt. Awwwww the MSM needs a Binky. What a bunch of scum.
Hard to sympathize with the media here.
Lay down with dogs…
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