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No White House Press Briefing in Last 15 Days
The Weekly Standard ^ | October 9, 2012 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 10/09/2012 1:44:18 PM PDT by maggief

The White House has not held a press briefing in the last 15 days, according to records on the White House's website. The last one was held on September 24, 2012, by White House press secretary Jay Carney.

However, in that 15 day time period, and including today, there have been 11 press gaggles. Nine have been conducted by Carney, while 2 have been held by principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest. Campaign surrogates David Axelrod and traveling press secretary Jen Psaki have participated in the gaggles.

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To: maggief

Another verboten media subject is all the Dem candidates telling Obama to ‘stay away!”.

...despite Obama’s great popularity which they can report about as much as possible.


21 posted on 10/09/2012 2:28:55 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: maggief

Is this unprecedented?


22 posted on 10/09/2012 2:30:25 PM PDT by immadashell
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To: Sideshow Bob

ROTFLMAO...I might have come up with a better graphic if I had watched that. Brilliant.


23 posted on 10/09/2012 2:38:12 PM PDT by RetSignman (REMEMBER THE 2010 MOVEMENT)
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To: maggief

carney and carney junior:

“You go out there”

“I’m not going out there. Look at that crowd”

“You gotta go out there because I can’t do it”

“I will NOT do it... they don’t pay me enough for this crap”

LLS


24 posted on 10/09/2012 2:57:27 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: maggief

Figures, and is most fitting. A “gaggle” is a bunch of geese. And we all know what geese produce in quantity.


25 posted on 10/09/2012 3:05:22 PM PDT by ken5050 (Barack Obama: An empty suit sitting in an empty chair...)
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To: ken5050

I suggest tweets to Jake Tapper.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper

Related:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/09/tapper_obama_tries_to_regroup_after_debate_disaster.html


26 posted on 10/09/2012 3:13:15 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Hey, how come Jay Carney’s not holding televised press briefings anymore?

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/09/hey-how-come-jay-carneys-not-holding-televised-press-briefings-anymore/


27 posted on 10/09/2012 4:17:45 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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