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Carney: Obama would give more speeches if networks would let him
CNN ^ | September 10, 2014 | Peter Hamby, CNN National Political Reporter

Posted on 09/10/2014 10:04:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney -- a longtime journalist before he joined the Obama administration in its infancy -- is back in the media game as a political analyst for CNN.

We caught up with Carney on Wednesday, in the hours before President Obama addresses the nation to outline his plan for dismantling ISIS, the brutal terrorist group that's roiling Iraq and Syria.

A former White House insider, Carney had insight into how the President and his team are preparing for such a major address.

But he also riffed on the state of the news media, the "not ideal" state of the White House press briefing, Hillary Clinton's potential campaign and how Twitter has accelerated the political news cycle.

CNN: So pull back the curtain a little bit, if you can, before tonight's speech. What is happening today? Who is in the room with the president, and what is he doing in there?

Carney: When speeches are important like this one, the president is the primary writer of the speech. He will get a draft, a very good one, from his team. From Ben Rhodes and Cody Keenan. But he will spend a good amount of time making sure it's really what he wants to say. I am sure as we get closer to speech time he will be fine-tuning it, working with his team. And he is keenly aware of the unique opportunity to give a speech to the nation. They don't come that often. There aren't that many occasions, outside of a State of the Union address, where a president in this media age has an audience as big as he'll have tonight.....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: isil; isis; jaycarney; liberalagenda; obama; rop; waronterror
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Lord, I can't stand to even hear him talk.
1 posted on 09/10/2014 10:04:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quite a first: freepers thanking the MSM.


2 posted on 09/10/2014 10:06:40 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Baloney. The networks would give live coverage to Zero taking a dump and praising him as a visionary.


3 posted on 09/10/2014 10:08:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Thank goodness “smell-o-vision” doesn’t exist yet.


4 posted on 09/10/2014 10:09:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Carney—STFU, please!!!!!


5 posted on 09/10/2014 10:12:23 PM PDT by Fungi (Do not read this if you do not appreciate Harry James.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet I manage to smell the distinct odor of horse manure every time these clowns pop on my tv.


6 posted on 09/10/2014 10:12:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tell Princess Obama to get a YouTube account, for crying out loud.

Damn, I’ve never seen so much pathetic whining come out of any White House!


7 posted on 09/10/2014 10:15:13 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Narcissist definition, a person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish. See Barack H. Obama for picture and further description.

Addendum: Definition updated 2008, previous definition included picture and description of William J. Clinton

8 posted on 09/10/2014 10:20:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Tell Princess Obama to get a YouTube account, for crying out loud.


Excellent!

I wouldn’t be surprised if he did get one.


9 posted on 09/10/2014 10:21:22 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Carney, the guy who hangs Commie Propaganda Posters all over his house.


10 posted on 09/10/2014 10:26:33 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Cruz / Gowdy 2016, if you want to save America.)
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To: Yaelle

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh ... uh, uh .....


11 posted on 09/10/2014 10:26:50 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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“He is a different kind of person than the kind of person who usually takes this office.”
Carney on Obama

He’s right you know. Almost every one of our presidents tended to be fairly competent, heterosexual Americans who loved their country and liberty.
Obama has definitely deviated therefrom, set different precedents and proven to be none of the above. And Jay Carney, former administration toad; currently, impartial, unbiased member of the Fourth estate.


12 posted on 09/10/2014 10:30:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Thank goodness “smell-o-vision” doesn’t exist yet.

Actually it has been tried, just watch out for number 2:


13 posted on 09/10/2014 10:31:50 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a villageh)
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To: Windflier

Imagine if the Press treated Obama thee same way they treated Bush.

They would have to stop Obama from throwing his Press Secretary off the roof of the White House.

Well, he would probably make Biden do it knowing that a Jury would never convict a Mentally Handicapped Geezer.


14 posted on 09/10/2014 10:32:15 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Cruz / Gowdy 2016, if you want to save America.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slick Willie loved to gab on TV too.


15 posted on 09/10/2014 10:34:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

16 posted on 09/10/2014 10:34:18 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President (LIP) goes golfing)
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17 posted on 09/10/2014 10:38:20 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President (LIP) goes golfing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it’s interesting that CNN has removed their commenting ability.


18 posted on 09/10/2014 10:56:07 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Stand Watch Listen

“White Washing”


19 posted on 09/10/2014 11:05:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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