Jay Carney is floundering under pressure, say Washington insiders

The Telegraph ^ | 05 May 2011 | Toby Young

[Steel Wolf]

I saw the press conference with Jay Carney yesterday. While his bewildered, fumbling performance was an insult to the intellect of professional journalism, the real insult was the professional journalists inability to eviscerate him on the spot. They're so deep in the bag for Obama, they let Carney crawl out of there without laying a hand on him.

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.

[Hoodat]

My take from the article is that the Telegraph is supportive of Obama, but are criticizing Carney for making him look bad.

[Right Brother]

With this administration, even the White House Press Secretary needs a teleprompter.

[sjmjax]

I think he is perfect.

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.

[Hoodat]

Carney is bad, but it's the press that lets Obama get away with having these inarticulate buffoons as spokesmen.

Agreed.

[Carley]

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.

[dforest]

Well, he kind of looks like a flounder. Two eyes on one side, twitchy mouth. Bottom feeder.
Yep, he is a flounder.

[poobear]

LOL!

[ecomcon]

Obama’s Carney-val Barker.

[zavvone]

“Send in the Clowns”

[chiller]

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.

[lwd]

Carni reminds me of skinner from DU. I bet that’s were the WH recruited him from.

[NativeNewYorker]

He's the quintessential Yalie...pompous, inbred, metrosexual, "successful"...

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.

[thirst4truth]

Pauses, ahem's and stuttering are the symptoms of lying. When you tell the truth you can forget about it, when you tell lies you have to remember everyone in case someone asks again.

No truth for you America, cause you can't handle the truth or pictures.

[bert]

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

[Rudder]

the White House’s handling of the media in the aftermath of Sunday’s events has been breathtakingly amateurish, planting seeds of doubt about the legality of the operation and about Osama bin Laden’s 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 Laden’s death.

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.

[lwd]

obama’s the slick “step right up” pitchman. Bidens the freak of nature/cyclops. Mooshell is the bearded lady.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” There has been concern since Day One that Barack Obama isn’t up to the job. “

A better story....

[The Sons of Liberty]

Jay Carney is floundering under pressure, say Washington insiders

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.

[AU72]

The White House Press Office has come a very long way since Tony Snow.