Today\’s quote comes to us from the re-doubtable* Jay Carney, President Obama\’s Press Secretary, during a discusson, yesterday, at George Washington University:
“Iremember we had some discussion during 2012 about well, is itappropriate for the president, the sitting president and candidate,to give interviews with Jon Stewart and others. And the answer wasyes, again because the young voters we were trying to reach are morelikely to watch The Daily Show than some other news shows. Butalso, I think if you look back at 2012 and the series of interviewsthe sitting president of the United States gave, probably thetoughest interview he had was with Jon Stewart. Probably the mostsubstantive, challenging interview Barack Obama had in the electionyear was with the anchor of The Daily Show.”
In that one statement, Carney – not meaning to, I assure you – indicted mainstream media as directly as any Obama critic could.
The toughest interview Barack Obama got was from one of his supporters, who does a comedy show? What does that tell you about the treatment he was afforded by mainstream media?
I award Quote Of The Day honors to Jay Carney for making the egregious mistake of telling the truth by exposing how valuable President Obama\’s Accomplice Media was to his re-election campaign. The fact that Carney certainly did not mean for it to come out that way? Think of it as an extra bonus.
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*I have the hyphen in there because the actual word, “redoubtable”, means formidable/impressive/worthy of respect – which does not fit here.
I created re-doubtable to mean something that you would do well to doubt, and then doubt again – which, based on five years of experience, would include just about everything that emanates from anyone in this administration.
