Thursday, March 17, 2011

Jay Carney - Obama's press secretary

Here's the transcript from yesterday (Mar 17)
Jay Carney, it was outraged Jacob Tapper at ABC wanting information what's going on in Japan. So you had Tapper say, "The European energy commissioner said today about Japan there's talk of an apocalypse, and I think the word's particularly well chosen." So Jake Tapper thinks: Yeah, I'm looking at Japan, I'm seeing apocalypse. "Practically everything seems to be out of control in Japan." This is Tapper. I don't believe that, by the way. This is Tapper. I don't believe "everything is out of control in Japan." I don't think we're anywhere near to everything being out of control in Japan. That's nonsensical to me to say everything's out of control in Japan.

But anyway, Tapper's question, "I cannot exclude the worst in the hours and days to come. What's going on over there right now? We've not heard the latest information from the NRC," that's the government agency, "or from the Japanese government. Apparently there's been something that happened over the last few hours. What is it, Jay?"

CARNEY: Well, there is clearly a crisis.

TAPPER: I know there's a crisis --

CARNEY: There is clearly --

TAPPER: -- and it's deteriorating --

CARNEY: -- and -- and -- and -- and --

TAPPER: -- but what is going on?

CARNEY: Well, again I'm standing here at the White House. I think you have reporters in Japan. You have reporters, duh, including ones here who could get the, uhh, technical, detailed information on what we know from the NRC, from the Department of Energy.

TAPPER: So we should rely on the media not the government?

CARNEY: Nuh, n-n-no! I just referred to government agencies who, uh, can provide technical information about what we know that's happening.


RUSH: Yeah, but don't ask me! I'm just here at the White House. What are we supposed to know? Jake Tapper was wanting to know what the government here thinks. The assumption is that our government's always gonna know more than we know from watching TV. Mr. Tapper, have you forgotten that Leon Panetta said he found out about what was going on in Egypt from watching CNN? And he's the head of the CIA.

I learned today that Jay Carney doesn't even meet with Obama. The press secretary doesn't meet with the president. He reports to Dan Pfeiffer. Dan Pfeiffer runs the communications shop in the White House, and that's who Carney reports to.

Now, Gibbs and Obama were buds. Gibbs was involved in the Oval Office meetings. He was there, Carney isn't, and that's the guy they send out as the spokesman! So he's in a real no-win situation, so he's gotta say, "Well, you've got reporters over there. Why don't you ask them."

And who is Jay Carney?
James "Jay" Carney (born May 22, 1965) is an American journalist and President Barack Obama's second White House Press Secretary. Prior to his appointment as Press Secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs, he was director of communications to Vice President of the United States Joe Biden. Carney previously served as Washington Bureau Chief for Time magazine, a post he held from September 2005 until December 2008, and as a regular contributor in the "roundtable" segment of ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Personal life and education
Carney was raised in Northern Virginia, attended high school at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey[3], and earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University in 1987. He and his wife Claire Shipman (a senior correspondent for ABC News) live in Washington, D.C., with their son and daughter.

Journalism career
After being hired as a reporter for The Miami Herald in 1987, Carney joined Time magazine as its Miami Bureau Chief in 1989. Carney worked as a correspondent in Time's Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the U.S.S.R.. He came to Washington in 1993 to report on the Bill Clinton White House.

He has written and reported about the presidency of George W. Bush, and was one of a handful of reporters who were aboard Air Force One with President Bush on September 11, 2001. Carney later won the 2003 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.

Carney was Time's Washington Bureau Deputy Chief from 2003 to 2005, and Chief from September 2005 until December 2008. He was assigned to the magazine’s Washington Bureau in that tenure while also being able to write about politics and national affairs. Carney has also worked for CNN (another TIME Warner division) as a special correspondent.

Carney was one of the early mainstream journalists to take up the medium of blogging.

[edit] Work in Obama administrationOn December 15, 2008, Carney went from the private sector to public service as Director of Communications to Vice President of the United States Joe Biden.

In January 2011 Carney was selected to become the Obama administration's second White House Press Secretary. He was named the successor to previous White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs by White House Chief of Staff, William Daley. Carney was one of fourteen White House appointees announced by Daley on January 27.

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