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Jake Tapper And Jay Carney Get Into It Over Briefing Protocol, Bestiality Evoked Again

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After a streak that, I think, endured the whole of human history, the subject of bestiality has now come up twice during White House briefings this month. In a quasi-friendly exchange this afternoon, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper let out some annoyance at Press Secretary Jay Carney for skipping around the room (with the questions, not literally skipping. It’s really too cramped for that), and sarcastically told Carney “No, America wants to know about your position on bestiality,” a reference to a Les Kinsolving question from last week.

There has long been tension between the White House reporters in the first two rows, who typically take up a disproportionate amount of time during briefings, and the rest of us who struggle to get a question in. Robert Gibbs, Carney’s predecessor, would generally work his way from from left to right, front to back, usually finishing up at around the fourth row. Carney, at the beginning, would take care of the first two rows, and then start to jump around, but soon began to mix it up much earlier in the briefings.

He did so last week by calling on frequently-skipped WorldNetDaily correspondent Les Kinsolving early in the briefing, and was rewarded with a question about the President’s attitude toward bestiality. When Carney skipped from the front row back to National Journal’s George Condon at today’s briefing, Tapper protested.

“Jake, I’ve been doing this for months,” Carney said.

“It’s annoying,” Tapper said, with a smile.

Carney replied “Oh, I’m sorry. Tell it to your colleagues.”

Tapper shot back, “You just decide you’re going to break with decades of precedent and just going to…”

“I’m going to ensure that 49 people in these seats, and move back and forth…” Carney began.

“Okay, then take a question about bestiality, go for it,” Tapper interrupted. “No, America wants to know about your position on bestiality.”

“I’m absolutely going to take care of everyone in the front row.” Carney said.

For what it’s worth, Tapper’s annoyance isn’t simply a matter of entitlement. He’s probably one of the busiest, hardest-working reporters on the White House beat, and the longer he has to wait to get his questions in, the closer he’s pushed up against whatever deadline comes next. He’s also not a question-hog, typically keeping his exchanges with the press secretary relatively brief. Others in the front rows treat the briefings like a casual dinner chat.

Carney, a former reporter himself, has endeared himself to the back six rows with his more egalitarian approach, and his briefings tend to last significantly longer than Gibbs’. I can’t be sure that this means more people are getting questions in (ironically, Les Kinsolving would know; he keeps detailed charts on the subject), but that seems likely.

Incidentally, the bestiality question that started it all is now moot: the ban on bestiality will remain in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. For now.

Here’s the clip, from The White House:


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  • Moderate

    It is going to be tough getting sleep in the barracks with people sodomizing each other, 
    bestiality would have made it damn near impossible.

  • Moderate

    Tapper is saying don’t waste your time with people beyond the second row because they ask really stupid questions. Where do you sit Tommy?

  • Anonymous

    “Carney, a former reporter himself”, “egalitarian”

    Surprised to learn Carney was a former anything.  He is such a juvenile at this job I suspected it his first.  Figured his Dad was a campaign bundler.  Didn’t raise enough to get Jay an ambassadorship after he finished back packing Europe for the past 5 years?
    Still 1000% better than Goebbels… err I mean Gibbs.

  • Moderate

    Tony Snow did set a standard that no one has been able to match.

  • http://twitter.com/Decamped The Dude

    Questions by journalists from the more most widely read publications/news outfits should really be the priority.

  • Anonymous

    I wasted all that reading just to find out that bestiality is still banned under the U.C.M.J.?……..Dammit!
    Frankly I don’t care when or if Jake Tapper or Jack Tripper or whatever his name is ever gets called on again…..screw him and his 149,000 Twitter followers.

  • us995

    family guy robert gibbs his best answeruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • Anonymous

    Anything that makes the child-like Carney look bad, annoyed, incensed…I’m for. Especially if there’s video that gets widely distributed. I’m sure there’s a bottled-up rage that this small Leftist child takes home with him; the safety of his family & pets needs to be monitored.

  • us995

    this press secretary is like his boss Obama usuless as a bag of smashed assholes

  • Anonymous

    You sound like you have a bit of experience with both.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EVJ5HWCFCAQ3CCNRYPFC4KYDM4 L S

    @us995. Would you rather have eight more days of Bush? I think not. Having a shoe thrown at you is 100x’s worse than “a bag of smashed assholes”. Eight years was more than enough torture. Dumbya’s only achievement was ducking that@us995:disqus shoe.

    Those so-called journalists are “elite jackals”. That is why our smart, intelligent, handsome President
    invites local news reporters who actually ask worth while questions and appreicate intelligent answers.

  • Anonymous

    >> Tommy Christopher (quote): “Tapper’s annoyance isn’t simply a matter of entitlement. He’s probably one of the busiest, hardest-working reporters on the White House beat, and the longer he has to wait to get his questions in, the closer he’s pushed up against whatever deadline comes next.”

    The total CROCK of this being that with ABC finally wising up and removing Christine Amanpour from the center seat on “This Week” — oops, I meant with her “choosing” to pursue other ventures closer to her international heart — instead of putting Tapper back in place, who did a great job previously (and even got the ratings up) and who actually does grill guests in a FAIR way, no matter who they are or what side of the aisle they come from…

    …ABC decided to put good little trained monkey Georgie Stephanopoulos back in center seat. Basically, because during an election year where the Leftist media knows it’s gonna have to pull out all the stops to get Obama’s worthless butt reelected, they had to make sure a 100% proven DNC mouthpiece was in place!

  • http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    Now, now,  I always heard the barracks wasn’t a place for horseplay.

  • edisciple

    It’s apparently obvious, the WH press pool’s annoyance with the stooge, Carney & dare I say it…worst than Gibbs! That’s a miracle!

  • Anonymous

    Carney’s position on beasiality is, from behind.

  • Anonymous

    No odumbo goes local because he will have more control over the Q & A.

  • Anonymous

    Fun fact: Jake Tapper dated Monica Lewinsky. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/patton-oswalt-gets-philosophical-but-hes-still-funny/2011/12/14/gIQASNztwO_story.html

  • Michael T.

    Regardless of your politics I cannot for the life of me figure out why Jake Tapper would have any friends.

    Is there a more dour, petty, confrontational and humorless media figure on the national stage?

  • Anonymous

    Bet you got blisters on your knees from being on them in front of Obambi, with your hands on his pants zipper, huh LS?

    I never voted for Bush, never liked most of his policies, but I would rather still have his leadership than the nonleadership of the total failure called Obama.  I have been a lifelong Democrat, until 2008, but I do not support anyone who has No Record, No Past, No Accomplishments, Nothing, and that was Obambi.  I voted for Carter and I voted to get rid of him.  Worthless is worthlesss.  I just pray more Democrats have the intelligence to see the same reality, but doesn’t seem like it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Despite what the article writer states, it’s hard not to interpret Tappers statements and attitude as a sense of entitlement.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Snow was a political hack and phony who sold out his alleged “journalism” to be a Bush flack.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Says who?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I’ve been following Carney since his days on the McClauglin Group.

    He’s great. A much welcome improvement over Robert Gibbs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    takes one to know one…he’s rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off him and sticks on you…sticks and stones will break his bones but your words don’t make sense

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Sounds like you’ve got a future in producing and directing adult videos

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    “worse” than Gibbs.

    You need to be sent to a re-education camp.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    you caught my interest but the actual story Tapper tells is pretty droll and amounts to nothing

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    tuned into the Foreign Owned Xtremist network recently? They’ve got a whole lineup that fits that bill.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, and you say that with a straight face?   I guess its not all your fault,  you come from a philosophy that believes its ok to trash those that dont follow your political thinking, regardless of the truth.   Snow was and probable always will be one of the good guys, he best that ever set foot inside the hell hole knows as the beltway.  And you sir, are nothing but trailer trash for  your comment.  Look around at the whores and pimps for your Liberal party before you make stupid comments like that.  You liberals start learning that BS from childhood.  Knock it off.

  • Anonymous

    Yea, I think I agree with you on this one.

  • Anonymous

    And that’s why it’s called a fun fact.

  • Anonymous

    Snow was the most condescending and arrogant press secretary ever.

  • david r

    Go clean yourself up.

  • david r

    Bingo.  Obama’s “above the fray” apporach is an excuse for no leadership.  He stole the nomination from Hillary, and when he got elected was clueless.  He shot his wad on a half-baked health care plan that nobody likes and is doomed because it is too expensive.  Now he has lost control of the House and is powerless to do anything but blame those Republican meanies.  When Obama is gone, I’ll come back to the party.  I guess that makes me a racist to all the Obama supporters.  Just like Hillary and Ferraro.

  • Anonymous

    Of course he was if you are a flaming liberal and the guy dont stand up all day espousing the liberal line, the liberal mantra, the hourly claims as to how great the Liberals are.  Snow never lied and he was far from Arrogant,  Look to yourself bud and you will face Arrogance face on.

  • Anonymous

     Redundancy squared. You said liberal three times.

  • Anonymous

    Im no math major but I thought that would be cubed.

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