Posted on 05/05/2011 6:53:00 AM PDT by Hoodat
There is increasing concern in Washington that Jay Carney, the new White House Press Secretary, isnt 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 hes 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 hes doing very badly, says a political contact based in Washington. And Ive heard others say that hes really struggling.
This is a pivotal moment in Barack Obamas presidency, a moment when the eyes of the world are locked on Washington. In the global battle for hearts and minds, it is essential that the leader of the free world exudes an air of calm authority at this time. Yet the White Houses handling of the media in the aftermath of Sundays events has been breathtakingly amateurish, planting seeds of doubt about the legality of the operation and about Osama bin Ladens death that would not otherwise be there. The constantly changing narrative or fact pattern, as one White House official described it suggests that the president and his advisers have been caught on the hop and have no clear strategy for dealing with the fallout from bin Ladens death. This is epitomised by the halting, timid delivery of Jay Howm I doin? Carney, who must bear some of the responsibility for this communications failure. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
It was like watching the Steelers play a clumsy Pittsburg high school football team, and lose unconvincingly. It was a joke and a travestly. A real press corp would have put Jay Carney in the woodchipper and fed the remains to the dogs. Carney is bad, but it's the press that lets Obama get away with having these inarticulate buffoons as spokesmen.
With this administration, even the White House Press Secretary needs a teleprompter.
What could be more appropriate than a "Carney" representing the Three Ring Circus that is the Obama Administration?
Let's give him a tatered, top hat, tux and whip to complete the picture.
Agreed.
Carney is not the problem. He is sent out to lie, misrepresent, and obfuscate.
Obamao thinks he’s still in the senate where he can revise and extend his remarks and no one will notice.
Blaming Carney is simply wagging the dog.
Well, he kind of looks like a flounder. Two eyes on one side, twitchy mouth. Bottom feeder.
Yep, he is a flounder.
LOL!
Obama’s Carney-val Barker.
“Send in the Clowns”
All reports indicate he’s a likeable sort, but he accepted the job, blinded by his adoration of the One, but blind none-the-less. I have no sympathy.
Carni reminds me of skinner from DU. I bet that’s were the WH recruited him from.
Oh, the freshmen up at Yale get no tail, get no tail,
Oh, the freshmen up at Yale get no tail, get no tail,
So to satisfy their yen, they go out with Harvard men,
Oh, the freshmen up at Yale get no tail.
No truth for you America, cause you can't handle the truth or pictures.
Back around 1999, he came to a FReeper rally on the Capitol grounds and interviewed numerous FReepers. He was working for Newsweak I think.
He has been around the block a time or two
It ain't about Carney, it's about Obama's ineptitude. Carney's tale of woe is just a literary device for jabbing the One...jolly good for the British press on this one.
obama’s the slick “step right up” pitchman. Bidens the freak of nature/cyclops. Mooshell is the bearded lady.
” There has been concern since Day One that Barack Obama isn’t up to the job. “
A better story....
As a fool, I would compare him to the great comedian and Jackie Gleason sidekick - Art Carney, but that does a grave injustice to Art and jay is not even funny.
Jay Carney is probably the only person in 0bama's Amerika that could make the deposed Propaganda Minister Gibbs look good.
The White House Press Office has come a very long way since Tony Snow.
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