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Greta Van Susteren Defends Ed Henry: White House Needs To ‘Give It A Rest’

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Count Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren among those upset at the way White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to the network’s new White House correspondent, Ed Henry. You’ll recall that, earlier this week, Henry asked Carney, rather bluntly, “What was the point of giving a prime-time address to the nation, without an Obama plan?” Carney, upset, accused Henry of bringing up a “Republican talking point.” The next day, Carney circled back to Henry’s question while responding to another reporter and told Henry that “I know you’re creating…you’re creating a thing here for Fox.

Now, Van Susteren is coming out in her colleague’s corner through her blog, even calling the White House’s treatment of Henry “pretty petty:”

Our newest correspondent, Ed Henry, was doing his job – trying to get a full answer from the President’s Press Secretary. And when Ed did not get an answer, he did what any strong journalist would do or should do – he continue to probe. So did the Press Secretary then answer the question? No… instead the Press Secretary went petty and exposed some (apparently) underlying resentment. He tried to insult Ed and suggest Ed’s questioning was somehow part of some Fox agenda or attempt to make a statement at Fox (“creating a thing for Fox.”)

I am actually surprised the White House Press Secretary acted that way to Ed. In his “former life” Jay Carney was a journalist and he knows the job is to get answers. This was a cheap shot.

It’ll be interesting to see how this back-and-forth plays out as far as the White House’s already fraught relationship to Fox News.

h/t Greta Wire

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  • Michelle

    The Whitehouse is absolutely embarrassing themselves.  I hope we have Round 3 today!!

  • Harry Flashman

    Of course it was a cheap shot. That’s all they have.

    The wheels aren’t quite falling off of the wagon that has been carrying the Obama Myth, but they certainly are wobbling. Obama elves like Carney are tightening bolts as fast as they can, and the media is trying to smooth the road ahead for them but It’s Obama himself that’s becoming too much of a load.

    You’re watching the beginning of the end for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    If we do have another round two things will happen: 1)  It will be to the benefit of Mr. Henry and the detriment of Carney the spokes-clown 2) Mediaite will have it up within seconds, because for some reason the comments section just explodes on this topic.

  • Anonymous

    If we do have another round two things will happen: 1)  It will be to the benefit of Mr. Henry and the detriment of Carney the spokes-clown 2) Mediaite will have it up within seconds, because for some reason the comments section just explodes on this topic.

  • TXarc

    Ed Henry needs to impress his new boss Roger Ailes so expect him to jump in line with the Fox anti-Obama agenda.

  • TXarc

    Ed Henry needs to impress his new boss Roger Ailes so expect him to jump in line with the Fox anti-Obama agenda.

  • Anonymous

    The WH can’t lay low on this….

    Someone needs to write a book and title it, “How NOT to DO it!”

    Just document the first 3 years of this White House occupants and staff.

    We must be a laughing stock of the world.

  • Anonymous

    The WH can’t lay low on this….

    Someone needs to write a book and title it, “How NOT to DO it!”

    Just document the first 3 years of this White House occupants and staff.

    We must be a laughing stock of the world.

  • Michelle

    Yes, asking a totally valid question, makes you anti-Obama in the minds of liberals. 

  • Anonymous

    NO they don’t. This is going to be Barack’s Waterloo by proxy.

    Every time that little snot nose wimp says ” FOX NEWS ” in a derogatory way on behalf of his boss, who by the way is upstairs hiding under his bed, his ratings drop another two points.

    At this rate, Barack will be negative 22 by mid August.

    ” BOOM ” goes the Obama regime dynamite……..again.

  • i420

    Deluded minds…they’ll just never get it.

    Susteren, by sheer bias alone, ought to stfu. As if FOX is positively famous for emulating Jerry Springer and starting shit just for effect.

  • Anonymous

    I wrote a book about it! Didn’t you hear my speech on the subject? I told reporters about it too!

    What? You want to actually see my book? So you can read it? Partisan attack dog! Fox News!

  • Anonymous

    I wrote a book about it! Didn’t you hear my speech on the subject? I told reporters about it too!

    What? You want to actually see my book? So you can read it? Partisan attack dog! Fox News!

  • Anonymous

    Ha ha!  The pot-head is sneering at other people’s “deluded minds!”  Way to start a credible argument.  

  • HawkCW4

    And that clown Carney is supposed to represent the President of the USA and the American People.  To publicly pick a fight with a news Organization that many times opposes current policy from the Left and yes even the Right is certainly in keeping with the arrogance of the Left.  Its ok when the Left does it and expected,  but do not dare to comment from The Right. 

  • HawkCW4

    Boy are you ever wrong.   I have watched her for a long time and I have to tell you,  if she has a bias, it tends to lean a bit left.  I do honestly think she tries to be fair, but many times it does seem she is left of center.

  • Anonymous

    White House spokesman Jay Carney stirred the partisan pot today, telling a roomful of openly skeptical reporters that a debt-ceiling compromise is easy to reach, that Republicans are partisan time-wasters, and that post-Aug. 2 spending decisions would be similar to life-or-death decisions in a Nazi concentration camp.Without ready cash to pay for every government program, he said at the White House’s daily press conference, “It’s a Sophie’s Choice. Who do you save? Who do you pay?”
    ‘Sophie’s Choice’ refers to a 1982 movie that depicts a Jewish mother being forced to choose which one of her two children should be saved from one of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist death-camps.
    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/27/wh-spokesman-calls-debt-decisions-sophies-choice-rejects-questions-on-wh-plan/#ixzz1TQGmhPR1

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bonnie-McGuinness/100002588403595 Bonnie McGuinness

    Greta must have taken her booster shot of loyalty to FOX news.  She has become such a good little robotic follower.  I don’t know, G, you can get pretty sarcastic when you want to be and you do tolerate your compadre the little frog’s explosive personality.  Be fair to all the media, like you used to be back in the day.

  • Anonymous

    Henry is clearly the only member of the WH “press” corps (aka, the obozo cheer-leading squad) whose lips aren’t surgically attached to obozo’s butt – and that’s driving chief propagandist carney nuts !

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RSLEVQBMJKCHPALYRG4FM2LFPQ Chuck

    Like calling other network’s anchors stupid and whatever vile crap came out of BS Bashirs pie hole last?   The delusion is yours I think…   Fox has some of the best hard news there is, and has good opinion shows too if you don’t mind conservative talking points (as opposed to liberal ones).  On the whole, Fox is a heck of a lot more honest that than MSNBC.  MSNBC’s version of truth telling is liek Grayson telling the house floor the Republican plan for sick people is to ‘just die’. If you want to see patients ‘just die’ try looking at a country with socialized medicine.

  • John

    Just show us your plan on paper, Mr. President. Is that too much to ask? Aren’t you the adult in the room full of kids. Aren’t you supposed to be the leader on this issue,or are in way over your head. I believe it is the latter. Its the American people watching and you are getting a big F, F for failure. Why don’t you just go back to playing golf.

  • Anonymous

    calling you dumbasses on your clear hyprocacy doesnt seem to work out very well…you clowns need to booted the hell out of washington, and you will be….we’re getting a lil tired of you racist shitheads that keep telling yourselves that you run this country…you run nothing but your mouths…if you hobbits think youre gonna be allowed to repeal the 20th century you better think again

  • Anonymous

    lol…it was ed shultz that called the FIXED NOISE anchors stupid…and youve said nothing to disprove that, and youre right there in the stupid catagory with them, by the way hobbit, Grayson said the republican healthcare plan was “Don’t Get Sick” and if you do get sick “Die Quickly”…youre to dumb to even quote properly

  • Anonymous

    greta a leftist????……lololololololololololol….a leftist married to a Sarah Palin Employee????…..lolololololol……hobbits are so damn funny to me

  • Anonymous

    where’s major garrett when you need him???….FOX has become completly unhinged…i think they are worried about their future….murdoch goes down and FOX is a goner….they are trying to get their last shots in

  • Anonymous

    She is fair.  She called it as she saw it.  Suddenly you don’t like her “calling it as she sees it?”  Hmmm wonder why?

  • Anonymous

    lol….this coming from a member of the party that put Dubya in office and put Dana Perino out there to speak for him……..lololololololololololol…..hobbit

  • Anonymous

    Honest to goodness – since when is Greta’s Husband a Palin employee?  When you filed for your 5th divorce,  is the lawyer now on permanent payroll along with the other 4?

    What a dumb comment.  

    Greta and her husband are both democrats doofus.  She stands up for a journalist who happens to work for Fox and you all go bat shit crazy.  Go figure. 

  • Anonymous

    Look up their credentials and then get back to us about stupid – starting with Chris and ending with Shultz and all the riff raff in between.  

  • i420

    Cannabis has no negative effect on one’s faculties. Get yourself educated before tasting anymore of that foot of yours.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    ..”I am actually surprised the White House Press Secretary acted that way…”

    Ms Susteren I’m sure there are a great many things that surprise you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    ..”I am actually surprised the White House Press Secretary acted that way…”

    Ms Susteren I’m sure there are a great many things that surprise you.

  • BR

    *yawn*  Poor liberal

  • adler56

    Greta spent $30,000 or more on teeth and who knows how much on plastic surgery- isn’t she still ugly?

  • adler56

    I hope you need medical care- serious medical care- then get back to us on whether you got it- how much it cost- things like that that don’t matter when universal care is in effect. 37 countries are more advanced that the US just in medical care- We are no longer #1 at anything but lying, cheating and stealing- led by
    big banks and Goldman Sachs.

  • Anonymous

    Quite a sweeping statement; followed by an ignorant assumption; followed by an arrogant, condescending command.  No worries – you can blame it on the cannabis.  

  • Anonymous

    Carney IS complete political carney for the biggest huckster ever to be installed in the White House.  President Snow Job is going down despite his “followers” in the Red Queen Media who insist on propagandizing his entire presidency. 

    What I find most hilarious about all of this pablum spewing out of the Press Secretary’s yammering orifice is that it is transparently resemblant to a PTA Secretary defending the “leader” against a group of unruly parents who want her thrown out on her ass.  Instead of defusing the sitch, Carney Boy makes an accusation which only stimulates a real journalist to “probe” as GS so aptly observed.  Carney and President Snow Jobs are not even convincingly amateurish in their “roles”.  

    If conservatives and Republicans are going to be accused of “repealing the 20th century” by bootlicking Soetoro voters, then perhaps they should take pause and realize that they elected a 19th century colonialist as President.  Soetoro has more in common with the crowned heads of Europe than he does with any living American of today.  Look at his pomposity and his borderline dictatorial posturing with Congress, the 14th ammendment threats, the random usurpation of the Constitution, on and on.  Of course, the Lefties here will say “Well Bush did it too.”  Bush did what Bush did.  When will the Left OWN anything President Snow Job has done?  For example— the Bush tax cuts….Little Barry caves to Jeffrey Immelt and extends them.  But they remain Bush’s tax cuts.

    Pure Carney….fat little stubby fingers and all. 

  • david r

    I love Greta.  She reminds me of the neighborhood girl who beat the boys shooting free throws in the driveway. 

  • nancillarypeloslinton

    If anybody doubted Greta’s resolve when she told GWB “Go Invade Iraq” this should change everybody’s mind.

  • Anonymous

    She must look better than you, since your so jealous!  Remember the drug commercial witht the egg frying in the pan, that has changed from the “drug mind” to the “Leftist mind”.

  • Anonymous

    She must look better than you, since your so jealous!  Remember the drug commercial witht the egg frying in the pan, that has changed from the “drug mind” to the “Leftist mind”.

  • Anonymous

    Carney is just like the rest of this worthless administration – cheap and clueless!

  • Celisary45

    Greta is Murdoch idea of a LIBERAL.  He almost always cite her name when asked about Fox’s News Conservative bias…..Greta must be sucking someone at Fox she may be the worst host of all and that’s saying something…..

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