Posted on 03/27/2017 7:25:18 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Trump describes Josh Earnest:.
“This foolish guy Josh Earnest, I don’t know if he’s talking to President Obama,” Trump said.
“You know, having the right press secretary is so important because he is so bad, the way he delivers a message. He can deliver a positive message and it sounds bad. He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen today we have defeated ISIS,’ and it wouldn’t sound good.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article126511339.html
the incest continues
They’re not political analysts, they’re political advocates. They don’t analyze anything. They spin and obfuscate for their party.
Revolving door. Been that way for years with both parties.
Drain the swamp.
Whaddya think, a cool $500K/yr to opine?
Quid pro quo.
Thank Goodness Josh Earnest Is Almost Out Of The White House
By Julie Kelly DECEMBER 15, 2016
http://thefederalist.com/2016/12/15/thank-goodness-josh-earnest-almost-white-house/
While President Obama is trying to keep a conciliatory tone about his successor, his spokesman is not. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest is emerging as the West Wing’s bad cop to Obama’s good cop. Except this bad cop is kind of like your peevish little brother who tattles about the kegger you had when your parents were out of town and tries to be funny in a cringe-worthy way.
White House press secretary is a tough job. Yet it’s one thing to flak for your boss and defend him against his political detractors; it’s another thing to directly insert yourself in the most contentious, divisive presidential election in modern history. Since Election Day, Earnest has waded into areas he should not, ginning up doubt about everything from Donald Trump’s win to his cabinet choices to his central role in the Russian hacking scandal.
On Monday, Earnest unleashed a lengthy monologue, laying out a series of alleged connections between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to buttress the idea that Russia influenced the election in Trump’s favor.
Furthermore, it was presented in a way to convince people Trump pulled the strings on the hacking, a really shameful tactic for anyone standing just steps from the Oval Office:
“You didn’t need a security clearance to figure out who benefitted from malicious cyber activity. The president-elect didn’t call it into question. He called on Russia to hack his opponent. He called on Russia to hack Secretary Clinton.”
Aside from the fact that is patently false (Trump said in July, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing” about the emails Clinton deleted from her private server), Earnest is attempting to build a case that Trump orchestrated the Russian email hacking:
“The last several weeks of the election were focused on a discussion of emails that had been hacked and leaked by the Russians. These were emails from the DNC and John Podesta. Not from the RNC and Steve Bannon.”
Earnest then continued the Clinton campaign propaganda that Trump has close ties to the Russians (reading from notes, presumably greenlighted by higher-ups). Here were a few of his examples:
“It was the president-elect who indicated he thought that President Putin was a strong leader. It was the president-elect who refused to disclose his financial connections to Russia. It was the president-elect who hired a campaign chairman with extensive, lucrative, personal financial ties to Russia.”
While this proves nothing, it’s Earnest’s attempt to fuel doubt not just about Trump, but the election itself.
On Wednesday, Earnest doubled down on those remarks. Without any sense of irony, following several tough questions about how the administration responded to the Russian-backed “genocide” in Aleppo (Earnest said—dispassionately—that the “president is deeply troubled by the innocent loss of life in Syria”), he launched into yet another conspiracy-story meme that Trump knew, orchestrated, and encouraged the Russians to hack his political opponents:
“There is ample evidence…about the Trump campaign and Russia. Everything from the Republican nominee himself calling on Russia to hack his opponent…it might be an indication he was obviously aware and concluded, based on whatever facts or sources he had available to him, that Russia was involved. And their involvement was having a negative impact on his opponent’s campaign, that’s why he was encouraging them to keep doing it.”
Unsurprisingly, no reporter pushed back on his outrageous insinuation that Trump had some kind of secret KGB source feeding him info about John Podesta’s emails. This crosses a line, and the media knows it. But it would be no fun to take the intrigue out of this fake news.
We’re Pretty Darned Sore Losers
Other comments since November 8 may help Earnest graduate as valedictorian from the Jay Carney School of Political Pettiness.
Less than 12 hours after Trump won the election, Earnest started spinning Clinton’s defeat and diminishing Trump’s victory. Here’s what he said on November 9:
“The first is that Secretary Clinton won the popular vote. Now, winning the popular vote is not what gets you the keys to the Oval Office. You got to win the electoral vote. But it does underscore the depth of support and enthusiasm for her message and for her campaign.”
So before the country can even fully process one of the biggest electoral upsets in history, the White House spokesman is already trying to undermine the president-elect’s credibility with the old “popular vote” saw, a mantra that continues today and would be maddening except that it makes the losers’ pain even more searing. Ah, sweet schadenfreude.
Speaking of pain, the White House must’ve been sore about Trump’s deal with Carrier to keep nearly 1,000 jobs here instead of shipping them off to Mexico. In his November 30 press briefing, Earnest poked the deal in the eye: “I know that the president-elect has indicated that he deserves credit for that announcement. And I guess what I would observe is that if he is successful in doing that 804 more times, then he will meet the record of manufacturing jobs that were created in the United States while President Obama was in office.” I’m surprised he didn’t say nanny-nanny-boo-boo and stick out his tongue after that.
Earnest took childish jabs at the net worth of some of Trump’s cabinet appointees. In fairness, Earnest at times seems like a guy who really wants to be a comedian but isn’t and when he tries to tell a joke you realize why he isn’t. Here’s part of the exchange with a reporter on December 7:
Earnest: The kinds of people that President-elect Trump has chosen appear to have, in many cases, different priorities, different styles and, in some cases, starkly different bank accounts.
Reporter: Are you saying their bank account affects someone’s capability?
Earnest: Not at all. I think it — I don’t think it would actually have much of an impact at all on anybody’s ability to serve the country.
Reporter: Why did you say it then?
Earnest: Mostly to be funny. And it got a couple of chuckles. I guess that goes to that old adage, though, if you have to explain the joke, it wasn’t that funny. So maybe it wasn’t.
Um, no. With more than a month to go, Earnest should let others outside the White House do the political mud-slinging and conspiracy-theorizing.
Julie Kelly is a National Review Online contributor and food policy writer from Orland Park, Illinois. She’s also been published in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and The Hill.
So they finally got someone that is unbiased. LOL!
Josh Earnest Wants The New York Times To Give Obama Credit For Transparency
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/josh-earnest-transparency-obama_us_57c6f34ae4b078581f1067e7
Rice University is a good reference. Academically.
But he is working for 2 very crappy news sources. More like pure propaganda.
Does Josh “Earnest” leave an actual slime trail behind him or does it just seem like he should?
He’s a natural!!!
Josh Earnest: Ironic Trump Wants Clinton to Take a Drug Test When He’s the One Sniffling…
by Josh Feldman October 17th, 2016
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/josh-earnest-ironic-trump-wants-clinton-to-take-a-drug-test-when-hes-the-one-sniffling/
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest made a rather curious remark today when asked about Donald Trump‘s crazy declaration that Hillary Clinton needs a drug test before the next debate.
In response to that question, Earnest asked, “You’re telling me that the candidate who snorted his way through the first two debates is accusing the other candidate of taking drugs? That’s a curious development in the campaign.”
A reporter asked him if he believes the sniffling was drug-related.
Earnest said he was just joking guys, God, get a sense of humor already…
They also have Bekel, Williams and numerous other libs....same some conservatives on CNN and MSNBC?
He won’t even have to change desks
I despise the system on fox, msnbc, etc., where they put on a democrat political analyst/strategist or a republican political analyst/strategist.
They are paid, evidently, to toe the party line.
Who really wants to listen to someone who is going to regurgitate exactly what you expect them to regurgitate, republican or democrat.
I want to listen to those OUTSIDE those spheres of direct influence.
” ZThe Unimportance of Being Earnest”
Josh Earnest Named NBC News, MSNBC Political Analyst
More proof of the incestuous cesspool in the District of Corruption.
Lying weasel will fit right in at NBC
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