Which is perhaps the only guarantee against corruption. They can’t control you from DC if Death is already equalizing matters.

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.

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:

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.

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.

Charles Says:

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.”

Don’t forget the new White House Lying Spokeshole’s first name: Josh.

Josh Earnest: The perfect replacement for the Carney Barker.

Just because it is called so doesn’t mean it is.

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