Vice President Joe Biden’s communications director Jay Carney is expected to be named the new White House Press Secretary, likely on Friday when a series of other big staff moves will be announced by President Obama, according to a senior Democratic source familiar with the process.
A carney? What a political CIRCUS. Har har har har. [CNN]
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Damn I was hoping it would be that pretty, mocha-coloured girl , Karen Finney or ,even better, Tamron Hall.
I was hoping for Gary Busey.
I hear his teeth are in the shop for at least a week. Align and balance, I think.
To the extent such an action would reduce Tamron's television exposure, even below the current wholly inadequate MSNBC level, I would not support it, and would have to remonstrate w/the Veep severely.
But I sure couldn't blame him for wanting to see Tamron in his office every morning.
I'm guessin' that wouldn't please FLOTUS so much, though.
♪♫ Step right up, and don't be shy… ♪♫
I was hoping for an old reel to reel tape player that would simply keep saying "Is that the best question you can ask," over and over and over.
Clearly a token appointment pandering to the meth-and-molestation demographic. Your move, Tea Party Patriots.
This game was rigged anyway — might as well be honest about it.
The last night of the fair, and the grease in the hair of the speedway operator is all a tremulous heart requires
Art Carney (and Jackie Gleason) would probably be better.
To the moon! Alice.
I was really hoping it was Art Carney. Every time he was announced, someone would yell "Art Carney!" and little fireworks would go off. "Hey, Ralphie boy!"
Does this mean for a dollar I can spray water in Chuck Todd's mouth until his head explodes?
For ten dollars you can spray anything into Chuck Todd's mouth.
"Vice President Joe Biden's communications director" – think about that one for a minute.
Being Joe Biden's communications director is a fucking big deal.
What? Steve Doocy wasn't available?
Who better to capture the grifter vote?
& they just renovated the Press Room. That place is going to Hell, already — smells like cabbage.
Carney reported from Havana, Panama, Moscow and Washington. He was one of a handful of reporters who travelled with President George W. Bush on Air Force One after Sept. 11. Politico reporter Mike Allen called Carney “a middle-of-the-road, well-connected journalist with establishment instincts.”
Everything you need to know about this cobag.
President Hopey is trying really, really hard to get me to stay home on election day 2012.
(And I did vote on November 02, 2010. Didn't do a bit of good, all my major candidates lost, because Barry McCorporate didn't do enough during his two years in office to get enough of the other people here in Ohio who voted for him in 2008 to come out again.)
Sorry to get all serious, but I think this guy is going to spend the next two years trying to piss me off even more than he already has.
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Firedoglake is thattaway –>
Yes, this country would be much better off with President Romney, Huckabee or Palin instead of Obama. How dare Obama respond to the people (even if they are dolts).
But, really, if you are going to make your voting decision based upon the press secretary, there is nothing I will say that will change your mind.
I smell a Fiji mermaid in da House!
This way to the Egress.
Okay, you can post a dumb story like this, and yet there's nothing about Gilbert Arenas' pet sharks?!
Do they have frickin' lasers on their heads?
I wanted the two-headed boy or the bearded lady, but whatever.
Gobble, gobble, one of us, one of us.
"Keep eatin' that chicken, geek!"
- White House Press Secretary Carney
"Keep fucking that chicken!"
–Vice President Joe Biden (prove he didn't say it!)
Nuclear war, Carney's ….and those cataract wraparound sunglasses the Olds wear.
Carnie people are the bestest people in the world… and have access to the best meth.
What!???!?! Not that kind of Carnie?
I was hoping for one of those guys that tries to lure you into strip clubs, but this will do.
A carney? What a political CIRCUS. Har har har har.
Jack, how long have you been saving that one up for?
Oh yes, let the carny jokes fly. Betcha can't knock this wooden milk bottle off my head. Come on, impress the little lady, try to knock the wooden milk bottle off my head. Come on.
I prefer the 'former vice presidential spokesperson' angle myself, ahem:
Gets to sit at the BIG TABLE and use REAL SILVERWARE now!
Thankyew, thankyew…
Careful Repubicans, Obama is going after your Big Tent. And he'll find room inside for a log cabin or two.
And we're the clowns that will vote for him next time.
It says he worked on the Time's Moscow bureau covering the fall of the Soviet Union. That should have prepared him for the continuous firedrills as Joe Biden's gaff-regulator. Seems ballsy enough, I guess.
Hey, ease off.
Carney's a big Guided By Voices fan, so he's can't be that bad: http://www.slate.com/id/1686/
Women in the press corps used to call him "Handsome Jay Carney."
Fuck Carney, when is Gibbs going to tell us who gave him the "cold sore" on his upper lip? I hear Jessica Yellin is walking funny…Just sayin.
"according to a senior Democratic source familiar with the process." They are just "familiar" with the process? I wouldn't want a surgeon who said, "yeah, I've heard of that" Let's start adapting to stronger verbiage, "yes" "absolutely" "without a doubt" and "couldn't you just scream, she IS a half-witted Alaskunt"
Should have named Jay Cutler, what, with the Chicago ties & moral weakness.
I've seen Carney on television, and I'm not impressed. In fact, my rule for picking a PS is that if he or she can be talked over by Chris Matthews/if he or she can't shout down Christ Matthews, they aren't worthy of the job.
To be completely serious, for a moment, I'd like someone with some actual gravitas. The last PS I had any respect for in terms of style was Tony Snow, to be completely honest, and I hate Fox News and everything it stands for with the heat of a million suns.
"Obama hiring a Carney…"
You call that Art?
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