Twitter/@jearnest
Posted on 05/30/2014 11:49:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Josh Earnest is about to inherit the hardest media relations job on the planet.
Earnest, a long-time aide to President Obama, will be the next White House press secretary. He’ll succeed Jay Carney, whose resignation President Obama announced Friday, and be at the podium each day for the White House press briefing.
Here’s what you need to know about Earnest:
Twitter/@jearnest
Earnest is a trusted aide to Obama, and has worked for the President since Obama’s campaign in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, which Earnest joined in March 2007 as Iowa communications director.
In that role, he led Obama’s messaging in the Hawkeye State as the Illinois senator took Hillary Clinton by surprise and won the caucuses, launching his improbable run to the White House.
Earnest married Natalie Wyeth from Oakton, Virginia, in August 2012. The wedding took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in D.C. According to their New York Times wedding announcement, Wyeth is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Her grandfather, Nathanial Wyeth, was an engineer who invented the plastic bottle.
The pair met at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Wyeth was the press secretary for the convention whereas Earnest was the press man for the Obama campaign. She said about meeting him:
There was an immediate interest on both our parts. I thought he was attractive, interesting and had a good sense of humor — I wanted to know more about him and be introduced to him.
Wyeth told the New York Times, that from the couple’s second date, she knew that he “was the person I would spend the rest of my life with.”
According to her Facebook page, Wyeth now works for the Department of the Treasure. Among her “likes” on social media is the anti-hero, Omar Little, from the HBO series, The Wire.
Earnest had served as principal deputy press secretary to Carney, and had filled in numerous times at press briefings. He was also the chief of staff in the White House communications office and a special assistant to the President.
The video above features Earnest giving a press briefing last August. He opened the briefing by apologizing for keeping reporters waiting, adding that he made a “rookie mistake” and almost forgot his glass of water.
Earnest was born in Kansas City and played baseball and basketball at the Barstow School, according ton his Wikipedia page. He graduated from Rice University in Houston in 1997 with majors in political science and policy studies.
Earnest will be the third man to serve as press secretary under Obama, joining Robert Gibbs and Carney.
RE: What? Wasn’t Bagdad Bob available??
He is now living in the United Arab Emirates with his family (With the money he stashed away while he was working under Saddam Hussein ).
To clarify, aide to Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark. from 2002-2003.
Where is Baghdad Bob when the Obama adminisrtation needs him?
LOL! She is a tad odd looking, isn't she?
“Were there no African-Americans qualified for the job?”
Obungler has set back African Americans 50 years, no reason to pile on.
LOL! She is a tad odd looking, isn't she?
Cute as a button, which is what she just sewed on her blouse with that chin.
Anita Dunn helped Earnest early in his career.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/24/150096/josh-earnest-went-from-baseball.html#storylink=cpy
October 26, 2009
When President Barack Obama made the rounds of the network talk shows last month to pitch his health care plan to the American people, Fox News wasn’t on his dance card.
Asked by an ABC reporter to explain the snub, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Fox was “an ideological outlet” — in other words, not a real news organization. “We figured Fox would rather show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ than broadcast an honest discussion about health insurance reform,” he said.
(snip)
White House communications director Anita Dunn called Fox “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.”
(snip)
Hillary had a secret meeting with 0bama two days ago and VOILA, Jay Carney is gone. Getting him out of the way before the Benghazi hearings start is important.. It’s all about protecting Hillary for 2016. Wouldn’t want to subject Jay to any more questions on Benghazi!!!
His wife is somewhere in between ‘pretty’ and ‘shape shifting extraterrestrial’. Can’t decide. LOL
Good one.
He’s even dumber than Carney.
I hope the next whore will at least be an attractive woman.
I know politically wrong again. But I didn’t mention race, just attractive.
Maybe I should vote demo and not have to think again.
>>Oh please, why does it have to be another metrosexual?
Because, in this administration, the only way a white man is getting a job is if he is metrosexual or homosexual.
>>I can’t believe Obama cannot hire a Black person to be his ps. Whatever happened to good ole fashioned affirmative action.
He needs someone that white liberals will believe.
“Oh please, why does it have to be another metrosexual?”
Because they couldn’t find a h0m0sexual.
He looks like he has an IQ of about 60.
Maybe so, but he graduated from Rice so adding eighty to a hundred points to that should be in the ballpark.
“Josh Earnest is about to inherit the hardest media relations job on the planet. “
Only if you’re not a natural born liar.
Josh has got some big boots to fill.
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