Well, the Washington Post does.
“You’d rather be anyone but the @presssec today.” Ambassador Christopher Stevens could not be reached for comment. wapo.st/13vUsPZ
— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) May 15, 2013
Jay Carney’s tough day
White House press secretary Jay Carney insists that President Obama is committed to “unfettered” media scrutiny of his administration. For an hour Tuesday, at least, the White House got it. Big time.
On the trail of a pair of juicy stories of government overreach, the press corps let Carney have it during his daily briefing, pounding him with a barrage of more than 60 questions about reports that the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative groups and that the Justice Department secretly obtained private phone records of the Associated Press…
Toward the end of the hour-long session, Carney began to look frayed.
All together now: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
So now it’s considered news that the members of the White House Press Corps are actually doing their jobs. Well, I guess that is news, considering they’ve been slacking off since January 20, 2009. Which explains why they’re a little rusty. But maybe they’ll pick up the habit again, get back into the swing of things.
What Jay Carney is going through this week is what every White House Press Secretary should go through every week, regardless of whether his boss is a Democrat or a Republican. His job is to lie to the press, and their job is to pester, cajole, mock, harangue, and do whatever else they need to do to trip him up and trick him into occasionally letting loose a truth. Their relationship should be adversarial. When he lies to them, they should call him on it. They should laugh in his face. When he brings them donuts, they should bring him to tears. They should give him a wedgie and shove him into his locker. (Metaphorically speaking, of course.)
I’m not getting my hopes up that this week is a sea change. I’m not convinced that this is anything more than a lovers’ spat. But it’s nice to see that things are the way they ought to be, for however long it lasts.
P.S. Once again, Burge sums it up perfectly:
The media have spent less time investigating Obama than Obama has spent investigating the media.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 16, 2013
P.P.S. Of course, Carney isn’t the only victim in all this…
So is the GOP going to apologize to Susan Rice today? No? Oh.
— joshuafoust (@joshuafoust) May 16, 2013
P.P.P.S. This is an actual Politico headline:
![actualpoliticoheadline](https://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/actualpoliticoheadline.png)
If only he had tried to stop the bleeding in Benghazi, Libya on the evening of September 11, 2012.