White House Press Secretary Hasn't Known

Jay Carney — former Time reporter, current White House Press Secretary, and  — has spoken for President Obama and his staff during the most fraught period of Obama's presidency. He was installed in February 2011, less than a month aftersettled into office, and stayed on through the following summer's ; thein Benghazi, Libya; the overheated 2012 election; thefor increased gun control; and, most recently a spate of scandals involving , , and . That might explain why, in the 444 press briefings Carney had held since, he has so often deflected questions from reporters. To place one number on his frequent prevarications,that Carney indicated he "did not have the answer" to journalists' questions exactly 1,900 times since he began flacking for the President, a subset of nearly 10,000 instances when Carney declined to answer, passed off the question to a subordinate, or claimed ignorance about the subject matter. The entire reportof Carney's tenure.

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The compilation certainly delivers to sting, in part because Carney is sui generis among his contemporary predecessors. Unlike, say, Robert Gibbs (who ) or Ari Fleischer (now ), or even George Stephanopoulos (who became ), Carney  for twenty years before becoming the mouthpiece of powerful politicians. (He served as spokesman for  during the 2008 election before Obama tapped him to deal with reporters.) The only recent predecessor who followed a similar career track, Tony Snow,before joining the first Bush White House as a speech writer, and later the second Bush White House as a press secretary in 2006. Unlike Snow, Carney was perpetually concerned with seeking out the factual truth, especially from those in power. It must at least slightly pain him, then, to inform his former cohort, over and over and over again — literally thousands of times — that he, and by extension the President himself, doesn't know the answer to this or that question. At the same time, he must know how it feels to be told the same.

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