Post by unlawflcombatnt on May 31, 2014 8:45:23 GMT -6
from newsmax:
www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/jay-carney-resign-ari-flesicher-press-secretary/2014/05/30/id/574364/?ns_mail_uid=80659729&ns_mail_job=1571399_05312014&promo_code=lnkogpvq
Carney's Departure Comes as
Press Grows More Wary of Obama
Fri, May 30, 2014
by Todd Beamon
"White House press secretary Jay Carney's resignation capped a tenure that saw the media grow increasingly restless toward President Barack Obama amid of a bevy of scandals, including the controversy that led to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki's departure on Friday, experts told Newsmax....
Democratic analyst and pollster Doug Schoen likened Carney's performance to that of the inept sergeant of the television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
"Press secretaries have a natural life of only about 1 term, so I am frankly surprised he has stayed as long as he has," he said in a statement. "That being said, he played the 'Sergeant Schultz' role well.
"He spouted the party line, avoided difficult questions, and maintained he knew very little about most subjects beyond what he had already said.
"A job well done, from the president's point of view."
And Tobe Berkovitz, an associate professor of advertising at Boston University, was even more caustic.
"Despite the fact that the press knows that he lied to them repeatedly, that he was part of the cover-up of a whole bunch of administration scandals, he will still get a job for probably several million dollars a year," he told Newsmax in an interview. "The irony would be if he goes into a healthcare provider."
In a surprise announcement, Obama said Friday that Carney would step down next month after more than 3 years in the job.
Carney, 49, succeeded Robert Gibbs in February 2011 after working for Vice President Joe Biden. He had been a journalist, once covering Russia and the White House for Time magazine, for 21 years. He also worked for The Miami Herald....
Carney has been press secretary for longer than usual for such a high-pressure job. Many occupants stay for only a couple of years.
His departure had been rumored for months, and Carney has sparred publicly in the last year with the media over a bevy of scandals.
They include new revelations surrounding the administration's response to the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, the singling out of conservative groups for special scrutiny by the IRS, the widespread outrage over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs — even over whether Obama had still supported the embattled Shinseki as the VA controversy spiraled out of control.
"It is an exceptionally mentally demanding job," said Fleischer, 53, who served Bush from January 2001 to July 2003. "The hardest part is not the hours.
"The hardest part is that your mind never rests. You're constantly thinking, planning, war-gaming, engaging in intellectual chess — worrying and wondering about what the next question is, and do you have the answer, and do you have it in time to show up for a briefing that is scheduled on live TV....
Fleischer noted how the press has grown tougher in its coverage of Obama in the last year.
"It took the White House press corps many years to get aggressive and tough with President Obama and his staff, but they've been doing it recently.
"What was regular in all eight years of George Bush has now become the regular pounding and briefing inside the Obama White House," he said.
But it's still not enough, Berkovitz said.
"They still don't really scrutinize Obama," he said. "The press has continued to do the 'gloves-off' coddling of Obama. The amount of actual, hard-hitting coverage of Obama is minimal."
www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/jay-carney-resign-ari-flesicher-press-secretary/2014/05/30/id/574364/?ns_mail_uid=80659729&ns_mail_job=1571399_05312014&promo_code=lnkogpvq
Carney's Departure Comes as
Press Grows More Wary of Obama
Fri, May 30, 2014
by Todd Beamon
"White House press secretary Jay Carney's resignation capped a tenure that saw the media grow increasingly restless toward President Barack Obama amid of a bevy of scandals, including the controversy that led to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki's departure on Friday, experts told Newsmax....
Democratic analyst and pollster Doug Schoen likened Carney's performance to that of the inept sergeant of the television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
"Press secretaries have a natural life of only about 1 term, so I am frankly surprised he has stayed as long as he has," he said in a statement. "That being said, he played the 'Sergeant Schultz' role well.
"He spouted the party line, avoided difficult questions, and maintained he knew very little about most subjects beyond what he had already said.
"A job well done, from the president's point of view."
And Tobe Berkovitz, an associate professor of advertising at Boston University, was even more caustic.
"Despite the fact that the press knows that he lied to them repeatedly, that he was part of the cover-up of a whole bunch of administration scandals, he will still get a job for probably several million dollars a year," he told Newsmax in an interview. "The irony would be if he goes into a healthcare provider."
In a surprise announcement, Obama said Friday that Carney would step down next month after more than 3 years in the job.
Carney, 49, succeeded Robert Gibbs in February 2011 after working for Vice President Joe Biden. He had been a journalist, once covering Russia and the White House for Time magazine, for 21 years. He also worked for The Miami Herald....
Carney has been press secretary for longer than usual for such a high-pressure job. Many occupants stay for only a couple of years.
His departure had been rumored for months, and Carney has sparred publicly in the last year with the media over a bevy of scandals.
They include new revelations surrounding the administration's response to the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, the singling out of conservative groups for special scrutiny by the IRS, the widespread outrage over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs — even over whether Obama had still supported the embattled Shinseki as the VA controversy spiraled out of control.
"It is an exceptionally mentally demanding job," said Fleischer, 53, who served Bush from January 2001 to July 2003. "The hardest part is not the hours.
"The hardest part is that your mind never rests. You're constantly thinking, planning, war-gaming, engaging in intellectual chess — worrying and wondering about what the next question is, and do you have the answer, and do you have it in time to show up for a briefing that is scheduled on live TV....
Fleischer noted how the press has grown tougher in its coverage of Obama in the last year.
"It took the White House press corps many years to get aggressive and tough with President Obama and his staff, but they've been doing it recently.
"What was regular in all eight years of George Bush has now become the regular pounding and briefing inside the Obama White House," he said.
But it's still not enough, Berkovitz said.
"They still don't really scrutinize Obama," he said. "The press has continued to do the 'gloves-off' coddling of Obama. The amount of actual, hard-hitting coverage of Obama is minimal."