Saturday, June 22, 2013

Jay Carney Appreciates Your Questions.........Really

Kudos to the folks over at Yahoo News for providing a rigorous breakdown of the information black hole that is the White House Briefing Room:

"A Yahoo News analysis of the 444 briefings through June 18 that Carney has held since becoming White House press secretary has identified 13 distinct strains in the way he dodges reporters' question. Since Carney held his first daily briefing with reporters in the White House Brady Press Briefing Room on Feb. 16, 2011, for example, he’s used some variation of "I don’t have the answer" more than 1,900 times. In 1,383 cases he referred a question to someone else. But will he at least speculate on hypotheticals? No. In fact, he has refused to do so 525 times."

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