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Jay Carney reveals himself, and it's utterly pathetic. Freedom is the natural state of mankind.Freedom is that to which all enslaved peoples aspire.Freedom is the driving force behind the founding of our nation, and remains its highest ideal.Freedom is a concept for which generations of Americans have fought and died.Unless, of course, you're Jay Carney.  If you're the spokesman for the most underwhelming administration in U.S. history, freedom is a "certain buzzword" which you laughingly use as a one-liner in support of your failed policies.During a disastrous press conference Tuesday, Carney was defending ObamaCare from claims that it was lessening...

I hope you took advantage of yesterday’s West Wing #BigBlockOfCheeseDay. Everyone around here sure did. Cheesehead Czars and staff hard at work answering Twitter questions on #BigBlockOfCheeseDay We got lots of good questions tweeted to us: So I guess if you pay a guy$10.10/hr to drop fries at McDonalds he’ll make those fries cook faster. Yep, those look golden, brown and delicious to me! Serve ‘em up Jose! How funny is it that? Secretary Foxx  is working on paths for wolves to cross the road? There’s a fox-in-the-hen-house joke in there somewhere. Or at least a quip about “sheep in...

Doesn't Carney, the LMSM and most Democrats say that ("he [Obama] was in the dark") in defense of Obama when some scandal (NSA, IRS, etc) pops up? I don't care much for Chris Christie...but I am saying that if and when any Republican gets into trouble I wonder if they can have someone say for them "he/she was in the dark" about this.

Dec 16 (Reuters) - White House spokesman Jay Carney dismissed the suggestion on Monday that the United States could grant amnesty to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden if he were to turn over the documents in his possession.

This is a week The Really Big Brains™ are anxious to put away in the circular file. First, amidst allegations that Big Guy’s “most transparent administration ever” has consistently provided less access to the press than the Bush (“Miss Me Yet?”) administration, Jay-Jay initially just yucked it up, hoping the baying wolves would go away. The truth will set you free. Or as my boss says, “What does that mean?” Ultimately though, he was forced into implementing a default tactic he learned at the Alinsky School of Propaganda and Prevarication: blame the victims. He accused the new media for the...

White House press secretary Jay Carney admitted today that President Barack Obama’s aides deceived the public when they said the president had never met his illegal immigrant uncle in Boston. “Thank you for the question,” Carney told Fox News’ Ed Henry, before admitting that staffers misled journalists at the Boston Globe who asked in 2010 if Obama had ever met his uncle, the illegal immigrant. “Back when this arose, [White House staff] looked at the record, including the president’s [autobiographical] book, and there was no evidence that they had met… and that was what was conveyed” to the public, Carney...

White House press secretary Jay Carney said that they’re leaving the investigation of an American teacher shot in Benghazi up to the Libyans. The Libya Herald reported that chemistry teacher Ronnie Smith, 33, was running on Dubai Street in Benghazi’s Digadosta district when he was shot multiple times. According to witnesses, Smith was approached by a black SUV that “drove up to him and retreated several times before shots were fired from the vehicle.” Smith had lived in Benghazi for 13 months with his wife and their 2-year old while teaching at Benghazi International School. His wife had flown back

A bombshell report published in the New York Post alleges that census data relating to new jobs created during the month of September, 2012, was “faked.” The fabricated data, the report indicates, resulted in the sharp reduction in the nation’s unemployment rate in October, 2012, from 8.1 to 7.8 percent. On Tuesday, White House Press Sec. Jay Carney said that there was nothing to this report. “That story is obviously misleading,” Carney told ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl. “I think a lot of people shed a lot of credibility engaging in conspiracy theories last fall about, you know, rigged jobs...

Communication breakdown:Jay Carney has trouble in the press pool ---snip-- At a WH press conference, ABC’s Jon Karl posed questions about the Presidents statement that you could still enroll in Obamacare through the phone lines or by snail mail. As it turns out both of those options have to go through the website in order to complete enrollment. And when Jon Karl called Carney out on the fact that both he and the President said that you would only have to be on the phone for 25 mins to enroll a single person, Carney attempted to deflect by making fun...

Well, here are the results from my election day wish list:Cuccinelli lost, thanks to the “Libertarian” (made by an Obama bundler) running against him (and being outspent 10:1 by the McAuliffe, i.e. Democratic, fund raising machine).Fausta lost, thanks to the Democrats’ war on Republican women.And in Detroit, as Dewey pointed out yesterday: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” (For the record, the white guy won, in what was undoubtedly the first case of electoral black guilt.)Don’t worry, I’ll just pick up the pieces and soldier on.CGI Image (“computer generated image” - not Healthcare.gov contractor)Butt that’s all ancient history:...

**SNIP** Several reporters asked Carney about Obama’s attempted revision, and why the president won’t admit that he “misspoke” by telling Americans “you can keep it.” “Thank you for the question. I just want to be clear. The president was referring to the law and to the fact that the law was written in a way,” Carney initially responded. When pressed to explain why the president won’t say he “misspoke” in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Carney declared that “it’s a little bit more complicated than that.” As he tried to deny the contradiction between Obama’s “you can keep it” statements...

Fresh questions about whether the White House deceived Americans with claims they could bypass the broken HealthCare.gov website by using the phone or mailing in an application provoked an exasperated response Monday from White House press secretary Jay Carney. "I give up," Carney told ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, accusing the White House reporter of speaking "in tones of dramatic revelation" to inflate a story. The exchange centered around documents released by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Monday. Meeting notes from the administration "war room" handling the rollout of ObamaCare showed that consumers who called the ObamaCare...

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday said the Obama administration had made “extraordinary efforts” to work with congressional committees probing the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. “When it comes to oversight and Benghazi, as you know, the administration has made extraordinary efforts to work with seven -- seven, rather, different congressional committees investigating what happened before, during and after the Benghazi attacks,” Carney told reporters. “That includes testifying at 13 congressional hearings, participating in 40 staff briefings and providing over 25,000 pages of documents.” His comments came in response to a question about

(snip) JAY CARNEY: Well, Jon (JON KARL, ABC NEWS), I think if you’re asking me do we wish that there had been a better and more effective website on October 1st -- absolutely. If you’re asking me, as was asked earlier, do we think it’s right and appropriate to ask Americans with preexisting conditions to wait longer for affordable health insurance, the answer is no. KARL: No, I was asking if you wanted more time to get it right. CARNEY: Here’s another fact that I understand is not often reported: People are enrolling every day, and they’ve been enrolling every...

A little highlight package I put together showing off some of Jay Carney's best work. He can refer reporters to others with the best of 'em.

At the White House Press Conference Tuesday, spokesman Jay Carney attempted to deflect criticism of the botched launch of Healthcare.gov. Under pressure from Fox News reporter Ed Henry, Carney pivoted to cheap one-liners aimed at Republicans and sought to downplay the problems currently being frantically addressed by the Obama Administration and a “tech surge” of outside contractors.

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday made an apparent dig at Republicans, demanding that more administration officials testify about Obamacare’s woes on Capitol Hill. “We cooperate with all legitimate congressional oversight,” Carney said, seeming to brush aside many of the current inquiries coming from Republican lawmakers. However, Carney insisted that he wasn’t dismissing GOP-backed hearings on Obamacare as illegitimate. “I think everybody here who wasn’t born yesterday has seen questionable congressional oversight in the past,” Carney said. Contractors responsible for implementing the Obamacare website, which Carney insisted Tuesday was “improving,” will testify Thursday before the House Energy and...

October 22, 2013 NPR Reporter Probes Jay Carney: Will WH Provide Obamacare Updates Like They Would Natural Disasters? Noah Rothman On Tuesday, the White House announced that it was tapping former acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jeff Zients to head the team overseeing the repairs on the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange website. NPR Reporter Mara Liasson probed White House Press Sec. Jay Carney about whether he would be providing regular updates on those repairs as they did for disasters like the Deep Horizon oil spill in 2010. “In the past when you had a natural...

NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd dug into White House Press Sec. Jay Carney on Monday following President Barack Obama’s Rose Garden address where he discussed the problems associated with implementing the Affordable Care Act. Todd repeatedly asked Carney who “misled” Obama and what advisors “let him down” ahead of the implementation of the ACA. “Five days before the launch, the president said it’s a website where you can compare and purchase affordable health care plans the same way you shop for a plane ticket on Kayak,” Todd recalled. “Who misled him? Who misled the president on this?”...

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that President Obama was seeking "accountability" from federal employees working to fix glitches with the ObamaCare website designed to let uninsured Americans purchase coverage. Carney sidestepped questions about whether the administration would seek to recover any of the millions of dollars paid to contractors responsible for building the healthcare.gov website, which has been plagued by technical errors since its launch earlier this month. The press secretary said that Obama's focus was squarely on getting the problems fixed, adding the president was "not happy" with how the rollout had gone. "The accountability the...