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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...

President Obama’s meeting with certain House Republicans, Carney said, would not be a negotiation: “he’s not going to pay ransom to the Tea Party so that the government opens or the government doesn’t default.” Carney blamed divisions among Republicans for the government shutdown, particularly blaming the Tea Party: “The President invited all members of Congress because he believes all of them shoulder the responsibilities…When it comes specifically to the House of Representatives and the House Republican conference, I think the president extended the invitation to all members because we have seen that it is a very diverse and fractious conference…a...

This public service announcement has been brought to you by a h/t from golfmom3: “With the Just Move! stamp issuance the U.S. Postal Service hoped to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity in achieving a healthy lifestyle. However, according to Linns Stamp News, the USPS will be destroying the entire press run after receiving concerns from the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition over alleged “unsafe” acts depicted on three of the stamps. I don’t think these stamps are really dangerous to your health. I’m passing this information on for the benefit of the philatelists out there....

Evidence of testiness on the Democratic side of the 17% government shutdown continues to accumulate. Today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had a tense exchange with ABC's Jonathan Karl, who was apparently so taken aback by Carney's answer to another reporter that he interjected himself into the dialog — to correct Carney about what House Speaker John Boehner said earlier today about his openness to negotiating. Carney also announced that Americans won't have to wait to see how the nation's healthcare delivery system changes in 2014 to experience long times spent in waiting rooms (Patience, please; it will become...

How did the Republican Party become so splintered and so infused with hard-line conservatives? Don't blame redistricting. Don't chalk it up to anti-Obama fervor.Republicans have become an unruly bunch of scorched-earth conservatives because the Tea Party smashed the business lobby's monopoly on GOP fundraising.Here's a story of where the GOP used to be:Back in 2006, I asked a couple of conservative Republican congressmen to give blurbs for my book on corporate welfare. “My boss loves the book,” one of their top aides said, “but we’re not going to put his name on it." Why not, I asked. "Who do you...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney scolded reporter Ed Henry for asking why President Barack Obama is unwilling to sit down and talk with House Republicans — even if he thinks they are wrong. Henry noted that the president has welcomed diplomatic talks with the Iranian regime but not the GOP. “The president called the new president of Iran and sort of opened up diplomatic negotiations. So why not do the same with the House Republicans? You’re at loggerheads, call them,” Henry said. Carney then sarcastically thanked Henry for the “reassertion of GOP talking points.”

So there you have it, Jay-Jay has spoken on behalf of the Administration; Obamacare is like a fresh, delicious apple. Any worms you think you see are a figment of the Republicans’ imagination:Those are NOT worms! They’re features.And, as Nancy Pelosi told us, you’ve got to eat peel the apple,in order to find out what’s really in it:So fear not, my fellow Americans: Obamacare is here.This message was brought to you by the Committee to Keep Hope-Nosis Alive;Because remember: “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror

ED HENRY, FOX NEWS: You're talking about enrollment. Will Jay Carney enroll in this? Will the White House enroll in Obamacare? JAY CARNEY: Again, everybody -- you, if you have -- HENRY: Let's start with you. CARNEY: If I, in a future life don't have employer provided -- HENRY: Great. CARNEY: Ed -- does everybody here agree that we can ask questions and answer them, if you want -- you're not even letting me answer the question. HENRY: Go ahead and answer it. CARNEY: I'm not quite sure what you're HENRY: Would you enroll? CARNEY: Absolutely. HENRY: It's a simply...

A young Christian girl beheaded in Syria. The sign of extremism and fanatics, the long beards, is present in each and everyone of these subhuman Muslims who killed this small child, in their jihad to Allah – inspired by the Quran. This is Obama, Britain, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey funded and supported handiwork. Don’t put your support behind any of these people, whether for military action in Syria, asylum, immigration, another hate preaching mosque. This is what is moving into your town, your country, your society, your neighborhood: video... This video is written with false propaganda claiming...

"I'm not aware of any doubt," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters in response if there was a question if the Assad regime used chemical weapons last week in a heinous attack on Syrian civilians. "Suggestions that there is any doubt about who is responsible about this are as preposterous as suggestions that the attack itself didn't occur," Carney said.

During a press briefing Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeatedly contradicted himself when asked about the threat al Qaeda poses to the United States and Americans overseas. Questions about specific al Qaeda threats came from reporters in light of the Obama administration's decision to close 19 U.S. Embassies around the world for an additional week. During the 2012 presidential election, President Obama claimed al Qaeda had been decimated and that the terror group was "on the run." Today, Carney argued that the core of al Qaeda had been substantially decreased in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region while affiliate groups in...

Should the White House do away with the regular televised briefing with reporters? In a word, no. Sure, press secretary Jay Carney’s daily sparring sessions with the press can be infuriating. He and other White House spokespeople famously don’t offer answers so much as replies. Reporters too often ask slight variations on the same question, as though arbitrarily adding an adverb will be the thing that breaks down the wall of focus-group-tested talking points. (The TV folks ask the same questions because they won’t want to use footage of a competitor asking the Question Of The Day.) We sometimes ask...

Yet again, the Obama White House finds a way to spit in the eyes of honest Americans. As we all know, Obama has spent the last few weeks giving speeches around the country bleating about all the so-called "phony" scandals that conservatives are shredding him over. As Obama is a progressive liberal, I'm certain that in his mind, all the recent scandals (Fast and Furious, NSA, Benghazi, IRS) are phony as that consequences and individual responsibility are alien concepts to him. While he spoke in general terms, today the White House came out and flatly said that Benghazi was a...

White House press secretary Jay Carney insisted Wednesday that it was President Obama's job to focus on the economy and not brewing municipal scandals as he fielded multiple questions about sexually improper behavior by San Diego Mayor Bob Filner and New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. "I understand the allure of issues like this in the media … and I'm not being critical of it, but I'm saying that the president believes his job is not to comment on those issue, but to focus on what he can do to get this economy growing faster and creating more jobs," Carney...

VIDEO: Obama’s paid liar, Jay Carney, is expanding upon his reputation as a national joke, incapable of telling the truth. Today’s press conference was a perfect example, as even the Obama sycophantic press corps couldn’t contain their laughter...

Today’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the IRS scandal focused on new revelations involving the problematic guidelines for reviewing of tea party cases that came from chief counsel’s office for the Internal Revenue Service, headed by Obama appointee, William Wilkins. In his opening statement, Chairman Issa made clear that they could now debunk the theory Cincinnati was the source of the IRS targeting.(SNIP) Rep Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) blasted the White House for continuing to discredit pubic servants in Cincinnati.(SNIP) Trey Gowdy reviewed and dispelled the evolving excuses that have been made in defense of the IRS targeting...

Since Jay Carney has become the White House press secretary he has held over 500 press briefings. During that time, according to a Yahoo News analysis, he has also brushed off more than 9,486 questions from white house correspondents. (‘RIDICULOUS’: Carney dismisses question about safety of Zimmerman family [VIDEO]) The White House press secretary serves as the mouthpiece for the White House. Every little thing he says during a press conference is recorded, with hundreds of hungry political reporters waiting to lift a piece of a quote to use in a story. Carney must tread lightly. In order to avoid...

high school intern with the conservative Daily Caller Web site got into a testy exchange with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Wednesday after asking if the White House would intervene to protect George Zimmerman from death threats in the wake of his acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges. Gabe Finger @GabeemtheFinger Just angered Obama's press secretary. Word. 11:21 AM - 17 Jul 2013

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday dismissed reports that some employers were hiring more part-time employees because of the president's signature healthcare law. "The data reflects that there is not support for the proposition that businesses are not hiring full-time employees because of the Affordable Care Act," Carney told reporters.

“White House Propaganda Minister Jay Carney Calls Critics Of Obamacare’s Delays ‘Willfully Ignorant’…” And if anyone knows what it’s like to be “willfully ignorant” it’s Jay Carney. “People who suggest that there’s anything unusual about the delaying of a deadline in the implementation of a complex and comprehensive law are deliberately sticking their heads in the sand or are just willfully ignorant about past precedent. It’s not serious.” Goodness, what did Jay-Jay ever do the Zip to warrant such dismissive, even derisive, ridicule? What he didn’t mention though, was that later in the briefing Jay-Jay went on to chastise a...