High school student irritates Jay Carney
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By Rachel Weiner, July 17 2013
washingtonpost.com
A high school intern with the conservative Daily Caller Web site got into a testy exchange with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Wednesday after asking if the White House would intervene to protect George Zimmerman from death threats in the wake of his acquittal on murder and manslaughter charges.
“Because of the death threats being received by George Zimmerman and his parents, is the president going to take any action for their security or are they on their own?” Gabe Finger asked.
Carney responded that he wasn’t aware of the threats and that Florida authorities would be responsible for handling them, but that Obama opposes “any violence of any kind” in response to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case.
“So they’re on their own?” Finger asked again.
“You can editorialize all you want and I have no doubt that you will, but that is a ridiculous statement,” Carney replied.
Finger is a rising junior at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., where he plays football.
It’s not common for a teenager to get into the briefing room, much less to get a question answered. Carney did not appear to know who Finger was; he interrupted the intern part-way through his question to ask for his press affiliation.
jhtlag1
5:29 PM EST
I take it the press can ask a question and a follow up to that question, I don't see how these questions violate those rules of press decorum. Yes, it was edgy, challenging whether the President was impartially involved when supporting civil rights. No, you don't want to get into a p-------- contest with someone's who's set on evading the question, but that really didn't happen. I'll score Gabe for getting Jay to bail.
mben
5:23 PM EST
The kid showed interest & courage .
It Carney's job to take any questions, especially from young people.
4Runner05
5:29 PM EST
No, Carney does not routinely take much harder questions.
The media - and especially the White House media - are Obama pom pom girls.
They wouldn't know a hard question if they fell over it.
Now, put a Republican in the White House and they're all "tough" guys.
Carney may be the kind of punk who got locker stuffed in high school, but he's just serving his master.
BTW, a large number of the "journalists" look like the same kind of people.
mben
5:16 PM EST
his current life is full of death threats made by lots of Liberal thugs.
Zimmerman has the right to protect himself and the local law enforcement to protect him as well.
mben
5:07 PM EST
Eric Holder & the DOJ swooped into Florida to make sure that GZ pays a price , even though a Florida jury acquitted him .
Jay Carney now wants us to believe Obama & the Feds should stay away from anything related to GZ.
HYPOCRITES.
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Tom Freitas
5:03 PM EST
Carney doesn't editorialize.
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mben
5:24 PM EST
Carney's a front man for a con man.
Its a tough job.
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hinckleybuzzard
5:00 PM EST
Young Finger will learn soon enough not to expect any kind of responsive answer from the risible Carney. Nice try though.
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mben
5:06 PM EST
as someone said "Carney's a paid liar."
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cricket44
5:20 PM EST
Young finger has shown himself to be an idiot and got exactly the response he deserved.
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kenhouston2012
4:59 PM EST
Black People Responsible for Virtually All Crime in Atlanta -- Judge Marvin Arrington Confirms.
The tremendous task of compiling the COLOR OF CRIME for the city of Atlanta (looking at statistics from April 2011 to April 2012). The results:
In Atlanta, African-Americans are 54 percent of the population, but are responsible for 100 percent of homicide, 95 percent of rape, 94 percent of robbery, 84 percent of aggravated assault, and 93 percent of burglary.
Judge Arrington: Once kicked whites out of courtroom to tell Black people to behave.
But statistics and data are misleading, right? In the Black Mecca, that City too Busy to Hate - which is completely run an entrenched Black political establishment - there has to be some lasting vestige of institutional racism making it seem as if Black people are responsible for all the crime in Atlanta.
The Fulton County Superior Court judge said he was just fed up seeing a parade of young black defendants in his courtroom.
"I came out and saw the defendants, about 99.9 percent Afro-Americans, and some point time I excused some of the lawyers, most of them white, and said to the young people in here 'What in the world are you doing with your lives,'" he told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter JaQuitta Williams.
Sources:
Source: APD Uniform Crime Reports, Apr 2011 to Apr 2012
colorofcrime.com
atlantapd.org
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john_zee
4:58 PM EST
sounds like a little disrespectful jerk
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hinckleybuzzard
5:01 PM EST
Best description of the despicable Carney I have read recently.. Thank you.
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Gandalf
4:57 PM EST
Seems to me it's a valid question no matter who's asking it. The DOJ is investigating Zimmerman to see if he can be charged with a race hate crime. But refuses to investigate 100's or thousands of death threats that are racially motivated?
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Peter110
4:53 PM EST
If Zimmerman wanted to avoid the publicity .... and subsequently protect his family from harm ..... he should have pled guilty to manslaughter when he had the opportunity.
He may be 'not guilty' according to the law ..... but he is certainly not innocent.
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deacon rod
5:00 PM EST
""He may be 'not guilty' according to the law ..... but..."
No buts. He did not violate the law. The evidence at trial was overwhelming that Trayvon confronted and sucker-punched Zimmerman, then tried to kill him.
Trayvon was the only one doing anything illegal, and he was committing a very serious felony.
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Peter110
5:04 PM EST
You have no proof that Trayvon Martin committed any crime.
The only "proof" that you have ...... is Zimmerman's testimony. Everything else is conflicting.
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jhtlag1
5:12 PM EST
That's exactly correct, Pete there is no proof one way or the other, you need proof "beyond a shadow of doubt." Yes, GZ was acquitted.
I absolutely could see a scenario where GZ get beats up Trayvon so that Trayvon's the defendant in a trial... and pretty much the same thing could have happened, not enough evidence to convict him. (although you would the testimony of both parties now, you'd still have a "he said/he said" stalemate.)
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roteki
4:53 PM EST
Sums up the Daily Caller as a whole, a bunch of swarmy little jerks who act like teenagers.
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jhtlag1
5:12 PM EST
Gotta start somewhere.
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mben
4:44 PM EST
Jay Carney's the bully here. The govt. is suppose to be working for us, not the other way around. The kid deserves an answer offered with respect.
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Peter110
4:48 PM EST
He got a respectful answer .... and the brat wanted to try his hand at spin.
Teenage wingnuts should be sitting at home being miserable with their parents.
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va2009
4:48 PM EST
He answered the question respectfully, and then the teen came back with a stupid question. Perhaps the teenager also should demonstrate respect?
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WorkatHomeGuy
4:52 PM EST
Carney answered the question properly according to the article.
"Carney responded that he wasn’t aware of the threats and that Florida authorities would be responsible for handling them, but that Obama opposes “any violence of any kind” in response to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case."
And then when the little jerk from the incredibly disreputable Daily Caller tried to goad him, Carney answered quite appropriately with this response:
“You can editorialize all you want and I have no doubt that you will, but that is a ridiculous statement,”
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jhtlag1
5:15 PM EST
I think you gotta play the game here, he got his first question in which was good, agree with Carney afterwards that anything else is spin. You'll see that in any professional interview, the first question which might be pointed, then perhaps a follow-up question... but then they move on because the alternative would just be a p******g contest if the interviewing doesn't want to answer the question in its original meaning.
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WorkatHomeGuy
4:43 PM EST
Seems like Carney gave the appropriate answer to the Daily Caller Intern Jerk's question.
If a citizen is receiving death threats, the appropriate authorities would be either the local or state authorities and not the federal authorities. It is not the responsibility of the President to provide protection in such cases.
Federal officials only become involved with protection if the person is a federal official or is a diplomat or if the person is under a witness protection order in federal cases (note - Zimmerman was charged under state law).
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mben
4:46 PM EST
it's funny that Obama and Holder poked their noses into Florida law when they wanted to go after George Zimmerman but in this instance, the Feds are suppose to have a hands off approach .
Carney,Obama & Holder are hypocrites.
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amaikovich
4:48 PM EST
Their role is to determine whether federal civil rights laws were violated. It is not to provide protection for every defendant to a crime. I thought Republicans were for less federal government...speaking of hypocrites.
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jhtlag1
5:17 PM EST
Well, the real question is whether Obama and Holder would protect Zimmerman's civil rights like they purport to do for Martin. But yes, the question is asked from such an oblique angle that it was easy to fend off for Mr Carney.
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map529
4:35 PM EST
Seems to me like these Daily Caller types are action from a little more than plain vanilla "conservative" dislike for Obama. Perhaps they have 'birther' credentials as well?
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