Another one bites the dust
Jay Carney steps down as Obama’s press secretary.
I can’t believe he lasted as long as he did. What an awful, awful job.
His successor is named Josh Earnest, which sounds like a joke name but is not.
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So now my assumption is that Carney’s going to be Press Secretary until the heat death of the universe.
Good riddance. Maybe Josh Earnest will get his first question from Joe King.
So the Carney Show is moving and now their going be Earnest, are you Joshing me?
Issa said it best when he said “Paid Liar”
so now they ll just summon up another PL
Maybe the Psychic Dissonance finally became too much.
Carney is a great little lapdog, always eager for petting and maybe even a belly rub by his master.
You never saw a lapdog write a book? Just wait.
I can only imagine what sweet job Carney has lined up – will it be back to the media, or maybe some comfy post a Center for American Progress?
Actually found Jay Carney to be much more likable than Robert Gibbs, who always had an air of snarkiness about him.
However Gibbs himself is a bit more tolerable now that he’s merely a talking head.
Carney always seemed to me to be slightly uncomfortable with much of what he had to say as press secretary. Perhaps he actually has some core principles, and finally had enough.
Carney gave a good imitation of Baghdad Bob.
Earnest joshing. Perfect spokesmodel for the Supreme Spokesmodel.
It must be both wearing and wearYing for even a person of the committed left ideological persuasion (like Mr. Carney) to have to come out daily and consciously spew such unmitigated garbage.
‘Bye, Mr. Carney. Nothing more to say [my mother always told me, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all].
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(NOTE — I know that I do not always follow my mother’s instruction. Neither does she, for that matter.)
Carney and his family should move to Russia so they can buy more soviet propaganda crap for their walls and live the commie life they pine for.
So long, it (hasn’t) been good to know ‘ya.
John Wayne reportedly said “life is hard; it is even harder when you’re stupid”.
Well, “that job is hard, it is even harder when you are obviously lying day after day”.
This actually might be the first ever indication of prudence by BO.
Carney has become a symbol of regime implausibility.
Sacking him gives them a fresh start symbolically.
Just a little thing, but an indication of a tiny break in the epistemic closure.
As Krauthammer always says, they don’t pay that guy enough for what he has to do.
Josh Earnest’s replacement: Biggus Dickus.
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Having someone named “Ernest” be this White House’s spokesman reminds me of the cold war days when all the communist countries always called themselves “Democratic.”
Just because it is called so doesn’t mean it is.
Don’t forget the new White House Lying Spokeshole’s first name: Josh.
Josh Earnest: The perfect replacement for the Carney Barker.
@rickl,
Iowahawk’s riffs remind me of that one episode of MST3K where they kept renaming the action hero of the movie. “Biff Rockjaw,” “Slab Meatsteak,” and such.
Too bad that our Kenyan president (father a Kenyan) doesn’t also submit his resignation to Joe Biden. If the country is to collapse we might as well have a buffoon at the top making it amusing.
Yes, it’s an awful job, but imagine how much harder it would have been if Carney worked for a Republican president? Hard to pity Carney or Earnest.
Also remember that it is the WH press office that has made a habit of bullying and intimidating reporters behind the scenes. Bob Woodward was yelled at for 30 minutes for daring to remind people that it was Obama who came up with Sequestration – and this behavior is apparently quite common.
Lizzy:
It all depends what you consider more awful.
Personally, I’d rather be questioned by hostile liberals than have to lie through my teeth over and over in public. But I agree that both situations are bad.
However, (and I may be imagining this, because of his choirboy looks) I always thought I saw a smidgeon of shame and suffering behind Carney’s eyes. Unlike the more pugnacious Gibbs, he never seemed to enjoy his job at all. Plus, there’s this, which I featured in a previous post but which I may as well repeat here:
I agree, I would be worse to have to lie.
And Tony Snow demonstrated the best way of dealing with this by insisting that GWB include him in a lot of meetings specifically so that he wouldn’t be inadvertently lying/misleading reporters or having to constantly say “I don’t know, I’ll have to get back to you” or “You’ll have to ask – .”
But thenSnow had class and integrity, and a desire to do the job well if he was going to do it at all.
Tony Snow was a human. He also died in 2008, so can’t be corrupted by the Left’s DC any more.
Which is perhaps the only guarantee against corruption. They can’t control you from DC if Death is already equalizing matters.