Holder and the White House Try to Make the Case for Media Surveillance
Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried, in near-simultaneo
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President Obama and Jay Carney have now more or less officially shifted their public energy to dealing with the IRS targeting of "tea party" and "patriot" keywords, and more or less ignoring Benghazi and the AP investigation. After all, people are getting in actual trouble with the IRS affair.
Attorney General Eric Holder and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried, in near-simultaneo
White House press secretary Jay Carney reaffirmed his previous statement that the only edits the White House made to the Benghazi talking points was "a matter of non-substantive factual correction."
At his daily briefing, the ever-serious White House press corps asked Press Secretary Jay Carney to comment on what is, apparently, one of the most important issues of our time: Did Beyoncé lip-sync at the inauguration? And does the President know?
Press Secretary Jay Carney is a hero among the (too?) many passionate media members in love with the fringe plan of minting a $1-trillion coin to avert a debt-ceiling hostage situation after he somehow refused to completely rule out the plan.
Jay Carney's previous existence as Washington bureau chief for Time magazine hasn't been much of a problem for him as White House press secretary, but he did get tripped up today by an April 2008 column he wrote about "Barack Obama’s poorly-chosen words about small-town Americans."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had a silly response to the "really silly reporting" he identified in the White House pool report that noted that Red Sox fans booed President Obama at a fundraiser Monday night
On Monday we got a preview of what could be one of the must-watch face-offs of the summer: Romney spokesman Rick Gorka versus Obama spokesman Jay Carney in a contest of "sounding like you're saying something when you're saying nothing over and over again."
The White House Press Secretary has taken a beating the last couple days, facing more than 50 questions on the gay marriage issue and they are questions the press is not about to stop asking.
In a briefly interesting moment in an otherwise ho-hum press briefing, the Obama administration was called out on its double standard of praising journalists who take down other governments, while simultaneously stifling them here at home.
White House press secretary Jay Carney reaffirmed Tuesday that President Obama has not changed his position on the release of Osama bin Laden's postmortem photographs.
The White House press office has apparently taken a cranky turn this year, and despite using words like "tendentious" to complain about stories, it sounds pretty juvenile.
Yesterday, White House fact checkers sought to disprove the falsehoods put forward by ... the White House.
Jay Carney wears cool glasses: now fight about it
Were White House officials personally involved in giving Solyndra $535 million?
The newly-minted Fox News reporter has become a suspected right-winger
It's a really important date and these analysts say it's about a week early
Did the anti-tax crusader really open the door to letting the Bush tax cuts expire?
The sound bites from the debt ceiling debates just get stranger
On Twitter, analysts urge the administration to get its facts straight
America's head-shot double standard
Bin Laden was not, in fact, armed, Jay Carney says
White House spokesman Jay Carney says that the president regrets his earlier vote
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