Daily Mail – by DAVID MARTOSKO
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is denying a television news reporter’s claim that reporters often ‘provide the questions to him in advance,’ before his daily briefings, and that he sometimes provides answers on paper before taking the podium.
‘If only this were true,’ Carney told MailOnline Thursday morning.
He was responding to a claim from KPHO-TV5 anchor Catherine Anaya, who reported Wednesday night on what she called an ‘off the record’ meeting yesterday morning between Carney and a handful of local TV reporters hand-picked to interview President Barack Obama.
KPHO-TV anchor Catherine Anaya went to Washington to participate in a carefully managed television journalism cattle-call at the White House, and reported that Press Secretary Jay Carney’s daily briefings are often just for show
Carney denied getting a heads-up about daily briefing questions: ‘If only this were true’
‘We started here shortly after 8 o’clock with a coffee with Press Secretary Jay Carney inside his office in the West Wing,’ Anaya said on the air, before making a stunning breach of journalistic protocol by reporting on an ‘off the record’ meeting and airing a photo of it.
‘And this was off-the-record,’ she reported, ‘so we were able to ask him all about some of the preparation that he does on a regular basis for talking to the press in his daily press briefings. He showed us a very long list of items that he has to be well-versed on every single day.’
‘And then he also mentioned that a lot of times,’ Anaya added, ‘unless it’s something breaking, the questions that the reporters actually ask – or the correspondents – they are provided to him in advance.’
‘So then he knows what he’s going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they’re producing their reports for later on.’
Anaya did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A KPHO assignment editor told MailOnline that she was on a plane and unavailable.
But the White House was quick to dismiss her account of what Carney said.
KPHO has published her four-minute interview with Obama on its website.
Anaya’s recounting of her day at the White House aired last night in at least two separate on-air reports. One was uploaded to a YouTube account that was created Wednesday, and then reported by The Weekly Standard.
It’s unknown who published that video online.
Anaya published this photo of what she said was an ‘off the record’ meeting Wednesday morning with Carney, during which — she claims — he said he often receives daily briefing questions in advance
Obama conducted his interviews Wednesday with several local news anchors standing up, Anaya said, so the brief Q&A sessions could be kept to a 4-minute limit
A longer broadcast segment, in which Anaya makes the same claim about Carney’s advance knowledge of daily briefing questions, appears on KPHO’s website.
‘They provide the questions to him in advance,’ she said in that report. ‘And so he is already preparing for the answer. And sometimes – in some cases, I should say – he actually prepares that answer for them, so that they can have that to work on their reports later on.’
Anaya also told viewers that she was limited to four minutes for her brief encounter with the president, but ‘stretched it to six.’ At the beginning of KPHO’s video, she’s seen glancing off-camera to see if her time has started.
The interview was conducted with both parties standing up in the White House Diplomatic Room.
‘The reason why we’re standing, I was told by one of his staffers, is because he likes to get comfortable when he’s sitting, and he tends to get very chatty,’ she said.
‘And so this was another way to keep him – and us – at the four minutes that they were suggesting that we not go over.’
‘Yeah,’ responded anchor Adam Longo, ‘and it sounds like the pressure is on when some guy is standing behind him with a countdown clock. That’s a little ridiculous.’
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It’s easy to know when Carney is lying (or any politicon for that matter). When his lips move, you know it’s a lie.
It’s all a stage play folks and they are “actors” reading a script drawn up by their handlers. And we all know who the “handlers” are.
Why is it that it seems that when ever a politicion or govt. worker is asked a serious question that they always seem to get that instant constipated look on their face??
It happens most every time 😉
lol that is so true dig! Curtain is getting pulled back a little further everyday. They can feel it.
lol 🙂 True
My Fellow Patriots:
Side-show Carney, while responding to accusations of “pre-screening” what are suppose to be spontaneous questions was seen to reply by doing the following:
Reporter: “Side-show Carney,… do you ever “pre-screen” questions before these press conferences?”
Side-show Carney: (Pulling some cards from his suit jacket and reading them…) – “Why no,…. I never answer prescreen or scripted questions at these press conferences,… oh,.. by the way (as Carney reads one of the cards he’s holding),… you were suppose to ask me,…. “HAVE,.. I ever “pre-screen” questions before these press conferences?”
Side-show Carney: Ok,.. thank you, as I see there are no other prescreened, or scripted questions on my cards here,… that ends this completely open and honest Press Q&A. (As he turns to walk away,.. he throws his cards in the nearby trash, scolding his assistant, “WHO THE HELL do these press types think they are!!”)
JD – US Marines – Anything that comes out of Washington, especially the White House is so scripted,… it makes a Shakespear play look like an impromtu performance,
😉
It’s sad when you have a public speaking person who can’t debate or is not allowed to. It means he can’t or doesn’t know how to think for himself. So he needs to be held by the hand like a child. It’s like having a teacher who is not allowed to teach, which is also called Communist Core education.
So wouldn’t that just make him a puppet? Oh yea, it would!
Can anyone tell me why Carney always looks like he is either drunk or trying to take a shit during press conferences?
He probably has drinks with Boehner at lunch every day so they can laugh at how they have duped the Americans into believing that there is a difference between republicans and democrats.