Jon Karl Asks Jay Carney How Short White House Youtube Videos Are Possible During Shutdown

Mediaite ^ | October 12, 2013 | Tommy Christopher

[don-o]

While watching Friday’s White House Daily Briefing on WhiteHouse.gov, my eye was drawn to the thumbnail for this weeks’s West Wing Week video, and I thought to myself, in faux-outraged wingnut voice, “Oh, so I guess West Wing Week is ‘essential,’ but death benefits aren’t, huh? Huh?!?”

As if by psychokinesis, mere seconds later, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl made the exact same joke to Press Secretary Jay Carney. He was joking, right?

“With apologies to Josh, can you explain to me how it is that West Wing Week is still being produced?” Karl asked. ” I mean, is that really a central government service that is not shut down as part of the shutdown?”

Carney was not as amused as I was, replying “I would refer you to the Office of Management and Budget in terms of what…”

“They don’t mention the weekly video webcast,” Karl cut in.

[shove_it]

Scott McClellan always struck me as the personification of the Peter Principle.

[Bender2]

Re: Scott McClellan always struck me as the personification of the Peter Principle.

Wait just a minute! Peter Principle? We do not allow... that kind of obscene talk in the White House Press Room!

Yeah, shove, old Scott wasn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier... but he was miles above what the Democrats have offered up--

[shove_it]

Wait Bendy, you’ve incorrectly posed Scotty in the Baghdad Bob configuration. The Rat spokesliars all graduated from the Baghdad Bob School of Journalism. Scotty was not a liar, he was just struggling to do a job a click or two above his level of competence.

/Otter