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Jay Carney Attacks Major Garrett's Question to Obama on Iran: ‘Pompous’ and ‘Offensive’

By Connor Williams | July 20, 2015, 3:39 PM EDT

Sunday on Reliable Sources, Brian Stelter brought Jay Carney and John King to the program to discuss CBS reporter Major Garrett’s controversial question to President Obama about Iran. Garrett asked the president whether he could be content with the Iran d ...

Jay Carney Admits Obama Acted Directly Against Previous Statements in Immigration Move

By Tom Blumer | November 21, 2014, 10:17 PM EST

At CNN on Thursday night, Anderson Cooper asked former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who is now a contributor at the network, to square President Barack Obama's Thursday night immigration announcement with past presidential statements that ...

Bozell & Graham Column: Jay Carney's Pinocchio Problem

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | September 27, 2014, 8:53 AM EDT

By now, everyone knows that there’s a revolving door between Democratic politics and the “objective” news media. But does it have to spin so fast? On September 10, CNN announced it hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as a commentator, citi ...

Tapper to Jay Carney: Be 'Frank' About Middle East; Carney Blames Bush on Iraq

By Matthew Balan | September 18, 2014, 6:48 PM EDT

On Wednesday's The Lead, CNN's Jake Tapper tried to pull former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney out of acting like an apologist for President Obama. Tapper turned to his guest, who had just spent an entire segment defending his former bos ...

Carney, McCain Engage in Epic Battle on CNN Over Obama's Handling of Iraq and ISIS

By Curtis Houck | September 11, 2014, 2:32 AM EDT

After President Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday night, CNN brought on its newly-minted senior political commenator and former Obama White House press secretary Jay Carney and Republican Senator John McCain (Ariz.) to comment on what the Presiden ...

CNN Hires Liberal Journalist, Former Obama Flack Jay Carney As A Commentator

By Matthew Balan | September 10, 2014, 1:09 PM EDT

CNN senior vice president Sam Feist announced on Wednesday that former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who left the Obama administration in June 2014, will be joining the liberal news network as a political commentator. Feist praised Carney's ...

MRC’s Notable Quotables: GOP Would Impeach Obama Just for Being Black

By Rich Noyes | April 25, 2015, 12:02 AM EDT

Now online: the August 4 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews sleazily blasts GOP voters who reacted with “dread” to Barack Obama — “that name and ...

Before Being Obama Flack, Jay Carney Claims He Was 'Old-Fashioned Journalist' Who 'Didn't Take Sides'

By Kyle Drennen | August 1, 2014, 8:43 AM EDT

Appearing on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday, former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney asserted that he had been a completely objective reporter for Time magazine before becoming a spin doctor for the Obama administration: &quo ...

In Round of Exit Interviews, Jay Carney Denies the Fact That Obama's More Secretive Than Bush

By Tim Graham | July 7, 2014, 9:13 PM EDT

Jay Carney is doing a round of interviews fresh out of the White House. In The New York Times Magazine, Jim Rutenberg threw briefing-room softballs like this: “Do people in the first row like to showboat?” Carney said yes: “If you look at the difference i ...

Bergdahl Deal: David Gregory Auditioning For WH Spox Spot?

By Mark Finkelstein | June 4, 2014, 8:54 AM EDT

Psst: David Gregory! You can stop auditioning to fill Jay Carney's White House spokesman spot. President Obama has already appointed someone else.  Given his rotten Meet The Press ratings, it's understandable that Gregory would be prospecting fo ...

Jay Carney Dodges Defending Rice's Statement Bergdahl 'Served with Honor'

By Jackie Seal | June 2, 2014, 5:32 PM EDT

This afternoon outgoing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney took questions from the press corps in his first daily press briefing since announcing his resignation. The questions dealt primarily with the controversy surrounding the release of five high- ...

NBC's Lauer Actually Grills Jay Carney: Has White House 'Endangered the Lives of All Americans?'

By Kyle Drennen | June 2, 2014, 11:29 AM EDT

On Monday, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer actually held outgoing White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's feet to the fire over the administration releasing five Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to secure the release Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl: ...

Jay Carney, Exhausted After All That Question-Dodging

By Tim Graham | June 3, 2014, 6:58 AM EDT

Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi reported on Jay Carney stepping down as White House spokesman and how exhausting the job is. It's "Washington's ultimate burnout job." Farhi found some of that was just dodging: Yahoo News reported l ...

The Day Before the Mass Exodus at White House, Jay Carney Got Grilled on VA Scandal

By Scott Whitlock | May 30, 2014, 4:16 PM EDT

On Thursday, the day before a double resignation at the White House, ABC's Jon Karl grilled Jay Carney over Barack Obama's confidence in Eric Shinseki. Less than 24 hours later, the press secretary and Veterans Administration head had both quit. ...

ABC's Jon Karl Grills WH Press Secretary, ABC World News Ignores It

By Jackie Seal | May 22, 2014, 12:59 PM EDT

Yesterday morning, President Obama made an overdue statement regarding the widening VA scandal. That afternoon, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney held his regularly scheduled Press Briefing. Understandably so, the briefing dealt primarily with the pr ...