In case you were worried, former Time magazine staffer Jay Carney has "had very little trouble adapting" to his job as Vice President Biden's director of communications. From a recent interview with Washington Post's Mary Ann Akers published in the March 12 paper:
[Akers]: You left journalism after 20 years with Time. How is life on the other side?
Carney: It's great. I have had very little trouble adapting to this new role, which is completely different from what I was doing before.
Carney also insisted that while he was just sort of swept into the Obama administration during the post-election transition period, he never was a leg-thrilling puddle of drool like others in the media:
Story Continues Below Ad ↓[Akers]: During the campaign, were you ever swept up in Obamamania?
Carney: I wasn't personally, I was impressed by and believed in what then-Senator Obama was saying during the campaign and what his program was, and also have long admired Joe Biden. It was something I never expected to happen, but it kind of happened very quickly after the election. And here I am.
Without getting into specifics -- such as his boss recently forgetting the Web site "number" for Recovery.gov -- Akers mentioned Biden's "having a little bit of foot-in-mouth syndrome" before asking how it was for going for Carney working to "keep his [Biden's] foot out of his mouth[?]"
Carney dutifully answered that his boss's problem was that "most of what people attribute to him as being gaffes are really examples of his candor. Vice President Biden is not capable of not telling you how he feels."
Oh, it gets better.
Akers asked Carney if he felt fully accepted among the "veteran Democratic loyalists" in the corridors of power in the Obama administration, yet posed no similar corresponding question about journalists who might disapprove of him moving through the revolving door from covering the White House as a journalist to joining a White House as a partisan.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters




















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ROFLMAO! This is really
March 12, 2009 - 14:36 ET by bigtimerROFLMAO!
This is really hilarious....Carney and his wife were/are both in the bag for O, big-time...it was OBVIOUS...and of course his transitition wasn't difficult...
Duh!
Carney: It's great. I have
March 12, 2009 - 14:46 ET by motherbeltCarney: It's great. I have had very little trouble adapting to this new
role, which is completely different from what I was doing before
Did he actually say that with a straight face?
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Exactly mb... That is why
March 12, 2009 - 14:59 ET by bigtimerExactly mb...
That is why I was laughing so hard...still am.
The leftists truly believe we are all so simple as to not know the truth when it comes to their total BS...after-all, they have 'Smart-Power' now...just ask any of them.
Shrillster using that term yesterday cracked me up laughing so hard it really wasn't funny...then came the other smartest gal in the world behind her...Michelle.
I tell you, if they weren't destroying this country with all their might I really would take them all as comedic...and nothing more.
From the pit...
March 12, 2009 - 18:13 ET by jdlybrandI hear Biden is going to give Netanyahu some coupons for Sonny's Bar-be-Que as a gift.
jdly... LOL...now that is
March 12, 2009 - 18:31 ET by bigtimerjdly...
LOL...now that is rich.
bt
March 12, 2009 - 18:49 ET by jdlybrandSometimes I just can't help myself. Looking for humor anywhere I can find it. Joe's such a rich source of material.
"Stand up Chuck... oooh. God love you pal."