In case you missed this one. The White House held a closed-door, off-the-record briefing with carefully selected unidentified members of the so-called “media”. This took place several hours prior to today’s regularly scheduled White House briefing (which was delayed by several hours because of it).
We may or may not ever know what was said and to whom in that briefing, but it’s not hard to guess.
Anyway, there were some normally compliant media at the regular briefing who were probably not invited to the private briefing, and probably weren’t happy about that. As a result, some follow-up questions about Benghazi occurred that were at least a little stronger than the usual softballs.
I didn’t see the briefing, but read the posts on this thread. Here’s what I gathered about what Jay Carney had to say:
The talking points came from the CIA
Gen Patraeus wrote the talking points
Congress and the Republicans are creating a distraction
It’s Mitt Romney’s fault
And.....”what video? “
: )
NOW....word has it that Petreus was upset about them scrubbing the Talking points!
NOW...NOW...PETREUS?????
why the hellllll didn’t you speak up like a man at the time???