The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller
Politics

Obama picks former Time reporter Jay Carney to replace Robert Gibbs

4:34 PM 01/27/2011
Jon Ward

President Obama has chosen Jay Carney, the current spokesman for Vice President Joe Biden and a former Washington bureau chief for Time Magazine, to be his new press secretary, replacing Robert Gibbs.

A White House official confirmed the choice to The Daily Caller.

Carney, 45, beat out several other candidates to the job based in part on the input from Biden, according to ABC’s Jake Tapper. The candidate that many thought would be chosen was deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton, who is the only person to have filled in for Gibbs at White House press briefings.

Carney is reported to have impressed the president during an audition. His extensive contacts with journalists was one of the key factors to his hiring. He will take over the role in mid-February.

Gibbs is leaving to start his own consulting company and has said he will work with Obama’s reelection campaign in an advisory role.

Email Jon Ward and follow him on Twitter

Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Burton, Joe Biden, Jon Ward, Robert Gibbs, Time Magazine
  • Tess_Comments

    Let us hope that Jay Carney is better than Gibbs.

  • retsam369

    Am I the only person that believes gibbs is “a special needs” person? He just has that look about him! Also, at times he sounded like he had a lisp. Oh well, i’ll miss him like i’ll miss that extremely hard turd I had a problem expelling last month!

  • Maudie in Mandeville

    It’s says a lot about the outreach of the Obama administration that they selected another WHITE GUY to be the face of this regime. Out of 39 million Afro-/Americans, not ONE was qualified; not even with a couple of affirmitive action points thrown in? Whassup?

  • JettRink

    Well, at least there won’t be any liberal media bias from this guy.

  • Ryan.Iowa

    Wasn’t Carney part of JournoList? So the Obama administration is basically just in-sourcing Pravda.

  • blueridge

    The lack of integrity, corruption, and loss of principle by some in the modern day press is not good for the country.

  • johnk144

    We haven’t seen a really great Press Secretary since Tony Snow. It’s a pity we lost him.

    But I can’t imagine what it would be like to have to defend this “president’s” lies on a daily basis. I suppose it could be a lot harder if there were any actual JOURNALISTS asking them hard questions.

  • Indy82

    How appropriate that a member of the media is, at last, OFFICIALLY speaking on behalf of this White House instead of doing so in an indirect manner.