[AmericanExceptionalist]

I understand that it is the job or every press secretary to spout the administration's talking points, and to deflect uncomfortable questions to the greatest extent possible. This is true, regardless of whether it is a Democratic or a Republican administration.

Still, Jay Carney has long struck me as the quintessential lackey--far more so than his predecessors. (Compare him, for instance, with Marlin Fitzwater, of the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations; or with Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan, or Dana Perino of the George W. Bush administration. Or even Dee Dee Myers or Mike McCurry, for Bill Clinton.)

And I once thought that Robert Gibbs (who immediately preceeded Carney) was bad...

[GRRRRR]

Carney was a great liar. He was, after all trained by the media.