MORE FROM THAT SMOOTH TALKING JAY CARNEY…

I suppose you could say that it’s been kind of a rough couple of weeks for our favorite White House Press Secretary, Jay "The Dim Bulb" Carney. It was just last week that he gave such a rambling, incoherent answer to a question about Occupy Wall Street the we nearly needed an interpreter just to decipher what it was, exactly, that he said. This week he‘s back with an encore performance, of sorts, in answering to a question comparing Barry’s green energy record to Mitt Romney, and it almost sounds like one of those occasions where a TV reporter gets a little confused and/or tongue-tied while he or she is actually on air. But in those situations there is never any malice intended. Such is never the case, however, when dealing with Carney.

This most recent little episode came when Carney was asked, what was essentially a pretty straight forward question, about how the job that Romney had at Bain is in any way different from what Barry has been doing as he goes about trying to pick winners and losers in the green industry on which he feels free to gamble hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. To me the very obvious answer would be that what Barry has done, and continues to do, should be considered as being far worse than anything Romney did at Bain. But as you can well imagine, that's not quite how our friend Jay sees things. And in choosing how to respond to the question, Jay was far from being anywhere near straight forward.

But you know, I suppose it's a tough position to be in of all the time having to come up with ever more inventive ways of either evading entirely, or by the outright discounting, of the facts when defending the actions of our current president. It's a very unenviable position to be in. So I'm not quite sure whether I should feel sorry for old Jay, or view him with the same level of contempt with which I view Barry. After all, he does seem to be perfectly comfortable going out there and saying whatever he feels needs to be said, whether or not it has any basis, whatsoever, in fact. Now I while recognize the fact that the job of anyone in Jay's position is to answer questions without actually answering them, we shouldn't expect to be lied to. Nor we shouldn't accept it.