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Carney: I never told a lie (Yeah, Right!)
The Hill ^ | June 19,2014 | Justin Sink

Posted on 06/19/2014 1:30:32 PM PDT by BradtotheBone

White House press secretary Jay Carney says he never lied to the press corps during his three and a half years as the top presidential spokesman.

“Honestly, it's not because I’m a paragon of virtue, it’s because that would be a terrible way to do the job,” Carney told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

The press secretary admitted that he sometimes could not or did not want to answer questions posed by reporters.

“What you do when you can’t say is you don’t,” Carney said. “You take the question or you explain what you can.”

Carney will leave his post as press secretary on Friday. His deputy, Josh Earnest, is slated to take over his position.

Opponents of the administration have accused the longtime press secretary of occasionally playing fast and loose with the truth. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) blasted him last summer as a “paid liar” for his explanation of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative political groups.

“The administration is still, their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind, he’s still making up things about what happened and calling this local rogue,” Issa told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: carney; carneylies; jaycarney; sideshocarney; sideshowcarney
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1 posted on 06/19/2014 1:30:32 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone
Depends on the meaning of the word "lie."
2 posted on 06/19/2014 1:31:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: BradtotheBone

Did he ever tell the truth?


3 posted on 06/19/2014 1:31:49 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: BradtotheBone

Parsing. He didn’t ‘lie’. He simply did his job reading a script. As a spokesman, his words are not ‘his’. Ergo ‘he’ did mot lie.


4 posted on 06/19/2014 1:32:11 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: BradtotheBone

A lie. No. Millions of lies, yes.


5 posted on 06/19/2014 1:32:41 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: BradtotheBone

He just spoke the truth as he was told was the truth which had nothing to do with the truth.


6 posted on 06/19/2014 1:32:58 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: lonestar

Exactly. that is how they think. Ergo it is not a lie.

Yes, they really do rationalize that way. The problem is that we refuse to believe it.


7 posted on 06/19/2014 1:34:29 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: BradtotheBone

More accurate... “I never gave a straight answer.”

You ask Carney what time it is and you get a dissertation on the various kinds of watches and locations of clocks.


8 posted on 06/19/2014 1:35:15 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Old Yeller
A lie. No. Millions of lies, yes.

Exactly

9 posted on 06/19/2014 1:35:22 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: BradtotheBone

“The Benghazi consulate was attacked because of an anti-Mohammed video.”


10 posted on 06/19/2014 1:35:25 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Just think, he’s quitting because there’s something he wouldn’t do that his replacement is willing to do.


11 posted on 06/19/2014 1:36:54 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TigersEye

But he was merely repeating the truth as he knew it. That he was in on it is not the thing. The thing is that “Carney” was like a car speaker relaying the sounds from the admin. “HE’ did not lie.

The proper question to carney is “Did you knowingly repeat things you personally knew to be false.”

Now of course, a sane person knows that carney lied daily. But that is our world. In their world he did not. Thats the difference.


12 posted on 06/19/2014 1:38:53 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: BradtotheBone
I think Carney is leaving because he knows he will have to defend himself in the upcoming Benghazi hearings. He may have to find a lawyer.

He willfully lied about the WH talking points; he himself was one of the recipients listed in the memo written by Ben Rhodes. Yet he said the WH had no role in the talking points.

13 posted on 06/19/2014 1:40:52 PM PDT by what's up
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To: BradtotheBone

I can not tell a lie, Bush did it!!!

14 posted on 06/19/2014 1:41:35 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He never told a lie; he always told multiple lies.


15 posted on 06/19/2014 1:43:16 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Sorry, Norm, that’s just too nuanced for me. Carney is a liar AFAIC. ;-)


16 posted on 06/19/2014 1:43:36 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: BradtotheBone

One final Lie to cover all his previous ones...


17 posted on 06/19/2014 1:43:43 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: BradtotheBone

This ‘Carney’ belongs on the County Fair Circuit. HOW DO THESE PEOPLE SLEEP AT NIGHT?? They obviously don’t believe in God or they wouldn’t be so cavalier with their blatant lies. They don’t ever expect to be held accountable for their behavior on Earth.


18 posted on 06/19/2014 1:45:43 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: TigersEye

Of course! ;) But the nuance BS is WHY he can stand there, all the libs can stand there and defend it. Because it is all a big word game most people don’t even know is being played.

Orwell was a prophet. Or the unwitting father of the modern left. Because he wrote the literal book on it. Believe that.


19 posted on 06/19/2014 1:46:12 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Norm Lenhart
I think he'd just aggressively mock people who asked him questions he didn't want to answer.

Do that long enough and often enough and you can get out of answering questions without technically having to lie.

You see that with the new guy, too: "You've never heard of a computer crashing before?"

I suppose they actually do lie a lot, but it's those zingers that convey false ideas without technically being lies that get people's attention, and allow press secretaries to maintain that they don't literally lie.

20 posted on 06/19/2014 1:46:57 PM PDT by x
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