Can You Translate What Jay Carney Just Said While Trying to Defend Obama on Solyndra?
- Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:33am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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It’s been a rough week for White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Last week he gave such a rambling answer to a question about Occupy Wall Street that it was comical (and awkward). This week he‘s back with an answer to a question comparing Obama’s green energy record to Mitt Romney, and it almost sounds like one of those TV reporters getting confused and tongue-tied on air.
Carney was essentially asked how Romney’s job at Bain is any different from Obama picking winners and losers in the green industry and gambling with taxpayer money. The obvious answer is probably something like, what the president did is worse. But that’s not even close to what Carney posited, which isn’t a complete surprise. But wait until you hear what he did say.
Here’s how Jim Treacher sets up the answer:
The job of the White House Press Secretary is simple: to answer questions from the press without actually answering them. To form aloud words that are assembled into sentences and then stacked up into paragraphs, giving the appearance of communication, but without communicating. When this job is done well, some listeners might even believe that a few real answers have been given.
This is how Hot Air describes it:
[...] 51 agonizing seconds of Carney trying to explain on the fly why Solyndra going bust is a normal win-some-lose-some result when you’re investing in new ventures whereas Bain’s investments going bust is proof that Mitt Romney’s a vampire who enjoys seeing people laid off. There are of course easy distinctions that can be made here, but unfortunately for JC they don’t favor his position. [...] If any of you manages to translate it into English, leave a note in the comments.
Here’s what Carney said:
Look, there, there, there is the, the difference in that your overall view of what, uh, your responsibilities are as president, and what your view of the economic future is. And, and the president believes, as he’s made clear, that a president’s responsibility is not just to, uh, those who win, but those who, in– for an example, in a company where, uh, there have been layoffs or a company that has gone bankrupt, that that, you know, we have to, uh, make sure that, uh, those folks have, uh, the means to find other employment, that they have, uh, the ability to train for, uh, other kinds of, uh, work, and that’s part of the overall responsibility the president has.
And here’s how he said it:
Got it?
You can see the reporter’s full exchange with Carney starting at 31:30 below (and notice how Carney takes a “those we don’t speak of“ approach to the name ”Solyndra”):
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Comments (199)
Rayblue
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:21amDur wee dur, uh, I’m, uh he’s, uh we’re, oh they’re, dur wee dur, uh, uh again.
Report Post »Let me be perfectly clear about this. Dur…..(Repeat forever).
OhSuzieQ
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:26amHahahahaha! Sho nuff!
Report Post »bellsheadboy56
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:49amBless his heart (as we say in the South) he just got his tang toungled up behind his eyeteeth and couldn‘t see what he was sayin’.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:57amNo, no, no. Carney said that’s what the President has made clear.
Go back and listen to every Obama speech and if you‘ll hear ’stutter, stutter, stutter, uh, stutter, uh, uh, stutter” in every one. ‘Uh, stutter‘ is what Obama made clear to him and that’s what Carney made clear as mud to us.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:12amBELLSHEADBOY56, LOL, I live in the south too, and thank you for that, I hadn’t heard it in decades.
Report Post »Jay is still so inept that he attempts to tap dance with sneakers.
JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:14amWe wuz on da mosac when habensak wen ta hodenragen
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:24amThe more I hear Jay Carney the more I‘m convinced he’s JZS.
Report Post »VinnieCCT
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:08amReminds me of the scene in “Spies Like Us” where Chevy Chase uses the same tactic to aviod questioning at a press conference…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLsDvGlIDh0
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:22amFirst you transmogrifate into Joe[gaffuss-a-minute-tus]Bieden….then into normal bull-s**, and finally into english.
Report Post »Hawki
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:29amWhat you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:59amCarney Marxist code..
Посмотрите, там, там, есть разница в том, что ваш общий обзор того, что, ну, ваш обязанности на посту президента, и то, что ваш взгляд на экономическое будущее. И, и, по мнению президента, поскольку он ясно дал понять, что ответственность президента является не просто, ну, те, кто победит, но тех, кто в обмен на, например, в компании, где, ну, не было увольнений или компании, которая обанкротилась, то, что вы знаете, мы должны, ну, чтобы убедиться, что, ну, тех людей, у, э, средства, чтобы найти другую работу, что у них есть, ну, возможность тренироваться, ну , другие виды, ну, работа, и это часть общей ответственности у президента.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:20pmUh,uh, uh I mean uh,,,, you have to admit that Robert Gibbs was a hard act to follow, but Jay Carney is doing a uh,, I mean,uh, bang up job!
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:37pmJay, sweetie, wouldn’t it be easier to just say the truth. Telling lies and covering takes too much energy! Just say it ! You’ll feel better!!
Report Post »You really hate your job and REGRET every day you’ve worked under King Barry.
Your boss is a complete sociopath hellbent on collapsing what’s left of the American economy. He‘s backstabber and a liar who doesn’t appreciate all the work you and anyone else has (wasted) put into making his time in office look legitimate. Solyndra was a complete sham and favor to the people who got your boss elected costing the taxpayers billions. Anyone with any kind of common sense and knowledge of at least three financial terms would be leagues ahead of your current boss.
Quit Jay. You can’t possible remember all the lies and schill!! It’s only natural. Quit now and you might get a job at Facebook like your predecessor, Robert Gibbs. That is if this company manages to stay afloat. I’m sure your boss will be happy to bail them out anyway, since FACEBOOK got Obama elected.
Mike N
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:46pmDur wee dur, uh, I’m, uh he’s, uh we’re, oh they’re, dur wee dur, uh, uh again.
Let me be perfectly clear about this. Dur…..(Repeat forever).
. . . Isn‘t he just repeating Obama’s words?
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:08pmWow!! Never thought I’d see “The Matrix” bullet dodging maneuver in real life! Wait a sec… the “bullet” hit him square in the head, guess that‘s why he’s stammering.
Report Post »Pacapapa
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:20pmHe made just as much sense to me this time as he has in every other press briefing.
Report Post »johnsnare
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:52pmIs Carney a parent.?
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:27pmSteve Carrol couldn’t have done it any better.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:57pmMakes one PINE for Robert Gibbs,return??
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:04pmCarneys’ name is appropos. He is ONE! Should be on the MIDWAY guessing weights! Poor ba$tard! I actually am starting to feel a little sorry for him. He does have a BRIGHT future though, as a PUNDIT on MSNBC!
Report Post »HoneyBager7x7
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:20pmDIK DIK DIK DIK
DERP DERP DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERP!!!!!
Duhh uhhh, yeha. Obama. Shoot yourself.
Report Post »kabenninger
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:04pmOMG – when you said “let me be perfectly clear . . . ” Have you ever watched some of Don Knott’s silly movies? He was up on a podium and made that statement so many times. And he would start off talking about one subject, and when he got tongue-tied, would say “Let me be perfectly clear . . . ” And now I know . . . carney just wanted to be an actor. (He’ll never make it)
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:06pmJay was channeling Chevy Chase in the press conference scene at the end of “Spies Like Us”….classic..
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:30pmI actually understood Chevy.
Report Post »cmi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:26amJay Carney cannot translate what Jay Carney is trying to say,….simply because he does not believe it himself!
Report Post »Ed_Kel
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:18amWhat a way to not answer a simple and direct question. It’s good, however, to see the media pressure the administration a bit; hats off to that lady.
Report Post »WEBWITHDEB
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:53pmI actually read what is transcribed of Carney, and I found an answer to the question there, albeit merry’go roundish:
Carney says that the over all performance of Obama’s presidential duties do not need to consider sound, or any other, economic principals. He says it is altogether in Obama’s providence to make sure the government is taking care of everyone. And so long as this almighty provider is there to take care of those losers — and all the collateral damage — he picks, then YOU SHALT ALL BE SILENCED HENCEFORTH! (Well, the emphasized portion was my not what I read, but how I imagined the barker is imagining this carnival).
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:45amYes, it does make sense when you get the red pencil out.
121 words went to 97 when the ums, ahs, and redundant words and phrases were taken out.
After correcting the grammar it came to 55 words.
It should read:
“The difference is in what your view of the president’s responsibilities are, and what your view of the economic future is. A president’s responsibility is not just to consider those [people] who win, but those who have been laid off. We have to make sure that those folks have the means to find other employment.”
Unhappily, he did not answer the question, and the statement is wrong in itself.
The president gambled with TAXPAYER’S money with no mandate to do so, and in the event of the failure of Solyndra, and others, made no attempt (that has been published, anyway) to assist the employees to find other employment.
He is fully aware of this, hence the sputtering answer.
If the Blaze needs any further translations of political doublespeak, I will be happy to assist.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 6:49am@ Webwithdeb
I enjoyed the bit that you put in parentheses. Nice.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:55amCarney is a bumbling apologist for the most FAILED administration in American history.
When our president takes taxpayers money to try to prop up already FAILING “Green” enterprises, with the hope that if they have more money to to blow the outcome will be different, he is abrogating his real responsibility and chasing pipe dreams. This whole administration is built on some socialist pipe dream. Obama is truly suffering from a serious case of ego driven daydreams, thinking that HE is the one and only person to save the world.
We, the voting public and TAXPAYING Americans need to, in November, show Obama that we will no longer allow our hard earned tax dollars to be wasted on his ECO-GARBAGE!
America will NOT follow the path of the failed European Union and their slide toward self destruction by commiting socialist suicide. WERE CLOSE BUT THE VOTERS CAN REVERSE THE TREND!
As for poor Jay, he will have a wonderful career in Hollywood aftre Obama is defeated. He can become the bumbling foil for straight man in most any comedy movie. He fits the part perfectly and is getting LOTS of practice answering for Obama.
Report Post »tonkaslim
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:17amThank you, Miss South Carolina.
Report Post »justanamerican
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:46amBest post of the thread,…. Thanks for the laugh
Report Post »DenisWTexas
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:16amEven their own team’s brains are starting to fry from all the B.S.
Poor little guy probably has to throw a bag of ice on his head before each briefing just to keep it from burning up from all the lies they tell him to spin.
No wonder he’s starting to sound like broken Speak-N-Read…
Report Post »tzion
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:19amI honestly feel like my degree intelligence just fell after being overwhelmed by sheer stupidity.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:12amHe sounds like a little kid who just got caught stealing, and the lie on the fly is not working…..
JC has spent to much time in the Oval office being Obamas practice dummy!!!!!….
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:25am…but on who‘s knee doth O’dummie sit on?? (hinnt: Geo.Soros)
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 3:29pmWhat makes you think he is “practicing?”
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:10amUh ah uh ah responsibility ahhh uh ahh president uh uh uh economy uh uh
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:29amPlease take down that pic of Charles Barkley in drag. I just had to put my capn crunch down.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:06amThat would be liberal language, “speaks a lot and says nothing.” since liberals don‘t know what planet their on it doesn’t matter much to them.
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 5:26pmThat could be his Indian name…Speaks Alot Says Nothing. Sorry Native American.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:06amDid he have a stroke? I hope he gets some help.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:04amAs coherent as obama’s foreign policy….. Ask him about alinsky !
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:03amI don’t know who is worse, him or Gibbs. Were do they find these idiots?
Report Post »Markusmo
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:38amJust what I thought Alrunner lol !
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:57amAt the bottom of the heap of bull crap.
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:24amALRUNNER 58aid— I don’t know who is worse, him or Gibbs. Were do they find these idiots?
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they both were picked up outside the doors of their high school prom desperately trying to get last minute dates. Their first duty given to them by Obama was to take all of the tape off of their glasses.
G-WHIZ
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:28amMakes me [ALMOST] want to have Gibbs back………….,……………Naaaa! :-)
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:03amAnd on top of it all he does not get hard questions from the press. If he did he would fold like an aluminum lawn chair that was weighed down by Michelle Obamas butt…
Liars thieves and tritors…They need to be tried for treason, robbery, misappropriations, lying and just pure stupidity….But we have NOT ONE MAN in Washington that will stand up. They are all gutless whimps!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:11amYES!!! (msl)
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:21amYo Baddoggy:
Check out the story on the Illinois State Rep. …. their out there , but I bet it‘s hard playin tug of war when it’s 10 to 1 …
Report Post »BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:02amHow would you like to be chosen as the dope who has to stand up and try to defend the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States? When you start to get questioned the only thing you can say is UHHH…..UHHHH……UMMM……UHHHH.
It’s only going to get worse for Mr. Carney as the truth becomes more evident and the questions get tougher.
“But we should learn something else, that when you stand for the truth, when you don’t let anger force you into stupidity, eventually the ship will right itself. You just have to remain standing. The people attacking you with lies will be buried under their own weight. I believe in this. It has been true for all of eternity in the past and all eternity in the future.” – Glenn Beck
Report Post »pmacres
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:01amLean Forward,,,there not done yet
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:00amThe Carney barker is at a loss for words because he’s trying to defend the indefensible.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 2:14pmJay, I will help you on what to say if asked this again, Bain Capitol used private money. And Obama uses tax payer money. How in the hell can a government that is broke talk about any form of investment.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:59amBasically, he said “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need..”
Report Post »He was paraphrasing somebody.
jackact
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:55amWhat intelligent voter requires an explanation from Carney about the path of economic destruction Obama has caused?
Report Post »Especially the alleged ‘green industry’.
As a fiscally centered conservative I am glad that Obama has inadvertently destroyed the green machine.
Second to social security this was the biggest extortion scheme ever perpetrated on the American people.
Yes, Obama threw away billions of our money to make a handful of crony ‘friends’ very wealthy but now ‘We the People’ have true transparency.
LET’S VOTE !!!
gunslingerpatriot
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:50amI speak and translate military, southern, dude, valley girl, ‘jive and ebonics pretty well, and I just couldn’t translate what this guy was saying at all.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:57amI dont translate dumba@@ either…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:34amBADDOGGY, That’s near impossible. There are just too many dialects of dumb@$$.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:39am…and suddenly…..J.Carney staerted babbelling in “tounges”….the commie/progressives couldn/t understand him at all…. MittRomney leaned over and listenned, carefully….and Mitt said…”No-wonder they can’t understand him, IT’S the TRUTH!!
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:48amAnd none of the reporters asked him “Can you repeat that so we can understand it?”
Report Post »HKS
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:08amMostly their dumber than he is, they just nod.
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:48amHow long before Jay get tired of not having the answers and quits?He looks like a fool every time he tries to defend the POS I mean The POTUS.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:36amGibbs at least had the sense enough to jump ship.
Report Post »Exiled
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:44amHow about the fact that with Bain, it was private money, with Obama, it was tax-payer money, for starters?
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:00amHow about the fact that Solyndra is the tip of the ice berg for Obama waste and theft of U.S. TAX DOLLARS.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:42amThis is word salad.
Wow. How does this Jay Carney dude stand up there are spew incomprehensible drivel day after day?
Jay Carney certainly is NOT defending the Constitution or my Bill of Rights. And if he is not doing that, one wonders exactly what Jay Carney IS defending.
Jay Carney – communist.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:49amHe did study Russian and Eastern European history so the communist thing is fitting.
Report Post »texasoysterman
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:33amF*rt-catcher.
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:42amUm… er…. uh…. bullsh*t……I am glad I am not a member of the press attempting to get something newsworthy from this puppet. It must be very frustrating indeed.
Report Post »80mesh
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:42amthanx jay …that was clear as mud
Report Post »sb36695
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:42amThe prezzy is your daddy! And he MUST coddle you after he lets you go!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:41am“Because my boss consistently lies, I am left trying to appease anyone who gives a flip what the b* says and here I stand looking like the fool my mother always said I was. Why did I ever fall for those lies? The money isn’t enough for the headaches I have to endure as the token white boy in this administration. Isn’t this conference over yet? Where are my drugs?”
Report Post »jackact
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:58amHa ha ha
Report Post »:)