For New WH Press Secretary, Herding Media Back Into Obama’s Lap is Job 1

By Doug Powers  •  January 29, 2011 05:32 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

Jay Carney, as you know, was **Time Magazine’s Washington bureau chief who is now charged with making President Obama look good in the press.

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Remember the re-set button Hillary gave to the Russians? Carney’s challenge is to give a similar one to the White House Press Corps. It seems that in the past couple of years, some in the media have strayed and actually started reporting what’s going on.

Time for a “come to Obama” meeting:

President Obama’s decision to tap Jay Carney as his new press secretary completes a series of White House personnel changes meant to mend dysfunctional relationships.

If new chief of staff Bill Daley was brought on to repair Obama’s relationship with business, then Carney’s appointment is designed to continue a charm offensive unleashed on the White House press corps shortly before the midterms.

The thinking inside the West Wing is that Carney, a longtime reporter and bureau chief for Time magazine who knows what it’s like to be a reporter, will smooth over relations with network executives and editorial page editors in addition to daily reporters at the White House.

Carney shouldn’t have much difficulty delivering the re-set button to anybody at ABC News. He’s married to Claire Shipman, ABC’s senior national correspondent on Good Morning America. Maybe another low-rated infomercial is in the works.

Carney’s “charm offensive” is expected to provide a stimulus to the Whitman’s Sampler company and save or create dozens of jobs delivering FTD Talk-Me-Up bouquets to media outlets all around the nation. Secretly distributing some of the same Hope & Change rufies that Chris Matthews slips himself on an almost nightly basis couldn’t hurt either.

**Written by Doug Powers

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  1. #1
    On January 29th, 2011 at 5:41 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah “WTF, WTF! Win The Future, Win The Future!!!

  2. #2
    On January 29th, 2011 at 6:26 pm, thejim said:

    It shouldn’t be that difficult for Carney. They so want to believe.

  3. #3
    On January 29th, 2011 at 6:38 pm, Cal City Conservative said:

    I don’t know of any of the media that have gotten away from him.

    Where I’m at they doesn’t say anything bad about him, which really bothers me.

    All the local news from what I see still think he is the best thing going. Mind you I’m in California so go figure.

    On the bright side I do see a LOT less Obama bumper stickers though!

  4. #4
    On January 29th, 2011 at 6:43 pm, rambler said:

    Oh, good! A border collie in a suit.

  5. #5
    On January 29th, 2011 at 6:57 pm, happy2behere said:

    Are you sure he’s not John Carney, the well-known Magician and Slight-of-Hand Master?

  6. #6
    On January 29th, 2011 at 7:04 pm, love2rumba said:

    It shouldn’t be that difficult for Carney. They so want to believe.

    That’s the problem-they’re nuts.

  7. #7
    On January 29th, 2011 at 7:18 pm, letget said:

    I do not give a flying flit who bho has doing the press business, it will be a major snow job! This guy COULD not be worse than gibbs, but we will get the same old, bho is better than sliced bread daily. Frankly, I like to slice my bread the thickness I want, not what bho, mo, or team thinks I should! And, I eat gobs and gobs of butter on my bread. I guess I am on mo’s ‘get this gal in some fed agency’ to get her right.
    L

  8. #8
    On January 29th, 2011 at 7:20 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    So it’s lap dancing in the White House? WTF!

  9. #9
    On January 29th, 2011 at 7:50 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    No one is going to ask him how Obama could be a natural born citizen and a British subject?

    He was born a Britsh subject.

    He cannot be a natural born citizen.

    The next President must be.

    The next President has to enforce the borders and laws.

    If we want to keep our country.

  10. #10
    On January 29th, 2011 at 8:07 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    No problemo–the American Pravda Media continues to flood their propaganda outlets with lots of Sarah Palin is (unqualified, dumb, evil, racist, vile, etc.) “news” at all opportunities. And they keep glossing over any bad economic or international news that does not help the good Comrade and his regime.
    ***
    But their work will fall on the deaf ears of the unemployed / underemployed / overtaxed electorate as President Obama’s bad economic and energy policies continue to raise prices and trash our economy.
    ***
    Even the dumbest burro notices when 4 years of continued hits build up. And we won’t have any Egyptian style Internet / Cell phone / Radio kill switch to stop the real news from getting out. Jimmy Carter gas and oil shortages are already coming over the horizon.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  11. #11
    On January 29th, 2011 at 8:19 pm, AmericaFirst said:

    Incest runs rampant throughout Democrat politics and liberal media. One big lump of irregular colon cells. Their family tree would look like a cactus. Instead of Ancestry.com, they would have to create a new family lineage website called Incestry.com

  12. #12
    On January 29th, 2011 at 8:24 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Carney shouldn’t have much difficulty delivering the re-set button to anybody at ABC News. He’s married to Claire Shipman, ABC’s senior national correspondent on Good Morning America.

    I wonder if they’ve already done it in the Lincoln Bedroom, you know, keep the home fires burning.

  13. #13
    On January 29th, 2011 at 8:55 pm, Republicanvet said:

    If new chief of staff Bill Daley was brought on to repair Obama’s relationship with business, then Carney’s appointment is designed to continue a charm offensive unleashed on the White House press corps shortly before the midterms.

    Awww, the poor schmucks in the media want to be pampered more, and have no problem with the idea the White House can charm them.

    …so much for supposedly being objective.

    I could imagine the headlines if a Republican in the WH tried suggesting there were going to charm the snakes in the media.

  14. #14
    On January 29th, 2011 at 9:18 pm, rambler said:

    With WTF as the new campaign slogan, what could be better for this new effort to go down in flames. An administration build on lies and deception run by an immature idiot is not an easy sell.

  15. #15
    On January 29th, 2011 at 9:45 pm, beenthere said:

    I hate this mush:

    a longtime reporter and bureau chief for Time magazine who knows what it’s like to be a reporter

    Win The Future! If he is a “longtime reporter” wouldn’t he by definition “know what it’s like to be a reporter.” Why feel the need to labor it? All that is being said is that a reporter is a reporter. That’s a tautology, media dweebs, and thus adds nothing. I’m sick of this junk writing from our media overlords.

  16. #16
    On January 29th, 2011 at 9:53 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On January 29th, 2011 at 9:45 pm, beenthere said:

    I hate this mush:

    a longtime reporter and bureau chief for Time magazine who knows what it’s like to be a reporter

    Win The Future! If he is a “longtime reporter” wouldn’t he by definition “know what it’s like to be a reporter.” Why feel the need to labor it? All that is being said is that a reporter is a reporter. That’s a tautology, media dweebs, and thus adds nothing. I’m sick of this junk writing from our media overlords.

    …not to mention it sounded like being a reporter is one of the toughest jobs in America, when it’s obvious to many they have essentially become stenographers for the left.

  17. #17
    On January 29th, 2011 at 10:32 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Remember the re-set button Hillary gave to the Russians?

    Here is a better look at Hillary’s Epic Fail with the Russian Reset Button. It’s from Oleg Atbashian, keeper of The People’s Cube. It’s quite a funny read, too. Oleg actually suggested that Hillary should have given Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov one of his cubes. Guaranteed equality of results.

  18. #18
    On January 29th, 2011 at 11:11 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    Rambler wrote:

    With WTF as the new campaign slogan, what could be better for this new effort to go down in flames. An administration build on lies and deception run by an immature idiot is not an easy sell.

    Don’t under-estimate, them, rambler. The DNC has long been buying its support via unions, special interests and the protected classes. A lot of these Americans don’t care as long as the $$$$$ from Uncle Sam keep flowing.

    Count on the lame stream media to keep dousing the flames of the Administration and Senate’s maneuvers while keeping the TEA PARTY House under a microscope.

    Remember, no matter how bad they are, Democrats never hold their own accountable, unlike Republicans.

  19. #19
    On January 30th, 2011 at 1:43 am, Member-VRWC said:

    The thinking inside the West Wing is that Carney, a longtime reporter and bureau chief for Time magazine who knows what it’s like to be a reporter

    Ooooooh! We have a problem here:

    First, show me evidence that anyone who worked for Time magazine knows what it’s like to be a reporter. That’s OK because nobody in the WH press corp does either. None of them have done any actual reporting in decades.

    Second, show me evidence that anyone is capable of thinking, let alone doing any of it, inside the West Wing.

  20. #20
    On January 30th, 2011 at 4:59 am, scrubjay said:

    The thinking inside the West Wing is that Carney, a longtime reporter and bureau chief for Time magazine who knows what it’s like to be a reporter, will smooth over relations with network executives and editorial page editors in addition to daily reporters at the White House.

    Carney shouldn’t have much difficulty delivering the re-set button to anybody at ABC News. He’s married to Claire Shipman, ABC’s senior national correspondent on Good Morning America.

    Proving one again the Limbaugh thesis that the media, the Democrat Party and academia are all one. The facility with which they move from one venue to the next shows the corruption of all these institutions.

  21. #21
    On January 30th, 2011 at 9:33 am, Flyoverman said:

    Remember the MSM died in 2008. They are now the pom pom squad
    for the Progressive Movemment. If Obama, Pelosi, or Reid, threw a paralyzed woman out of her wheelchair and choaked her to death in public, the MSM would find some excuse to cover for them.

    It is “whatever it takes to win” in their view. Just ask the Palin family. Just ask the people of Arizona. Just ask any Tea Party member. Just ask any law abiding, tax paying small business person. Just ask a former GM bond holder. Just ask anyone who has asked for information on Obama’s personal history. Just ask anyone like Joe the Plumber.

    Anyone who opposes the Regime is expendable.

    Know your enemy.

  22. #22
    On January 30th, 2011 at 9:50 am, Cogs said:

    The Lefty MSM is not Obama’s problem. His problem is the general public who are on to his GAME (Great American Marxist Experiment); and they don’t like it.

  23. #23
    On January 30th, 2011 at 9:53 am, thejim said:

    It is becoming more of a challenge selling the idea that OBambi is brilliant. Every time he gets off-prompter he displays his ignorance, on every subject. I think they are about done with the sales job on lots of citizens, most of whom are no longer buying.

  24. #24
    On January 30th, 2011 at 10:12 am, stillontheroad said:

    The Sock Puppet, his water carriers and assorted minions, including the LSM, comprise roughly 30 odd percent of this country. The other 70 odd percent are on to this and have been wising up more every day.

  25. #25
    On January 30th, 2011 at 10:55 am, sbw999 said:

    Our free and unbiased press would make Joseph Stalin proud.

  26. #26
    On January 30th, 2011 at 11:47 am, rambler said:

    This begins the fight of their lives for many groups. Survival mode will make it more difficult to unify. The political elites have used the divide and conquer method against us for decades. The old way of doing things has been exposed for the corrupt machine it has always been. The dems are split between the libs and progressives. The GOP is split between the old guard and the conservatives. The unions have become totally unreasonable. These groups can’t demand prosperity. Their chickens are coming home and they won’t like the sh!t that will bury them. They will all have to be accountable. We have to keep out thinking straight. We have to keep them divided against themselves until we cause the next tipping point toward smaller gov. All will have to give up something. The corrupt should have to give up all! The elites had to power to direct the country towards prosperity, but chose to line their own pockets instead. Our gov has become a giant ENRON.

  27. #27
    On January 30th, 2011 at 3:22 pm, TigerLady said:

    It takes someone like Obowmao to use WTF as a campaign slogan. Real class. So Reagan-like. /sarc off.

    And I thought the Clintons were the epitome of white trash.

  28. #28
    On January 30th, 2011 at 10:40 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    I love the photo analogy here!

    baa baa

  29. #29
    On January 31st, 2011 at 1:14 am, Tuesday said:

    Chris Muir’s DaybyDay cartoon is having a field day with hits on the media’s obeisance to BHO. It complements this column perfectly!

  30. #30
    On January 31st, 2011 at 9:34 am, stevevvs said:

    Yep, the job of ALL Press Secretaries is to get the press on their side.

  31. #31
    On January 31st, 2011 at 4:17 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    It is once again time for all of the major networks, all large newspapers that still have subscribers, and all liberal blogs, especially those with Soros support money to begin the second MAJOR assault against the American people to ensure this worthless non-President gets a second term. They know they need to sell his b.s. once again to the millions of voting Americans who aren’t paying attention to vote once again for their guy. Free press…not so much.

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