White House on Easter: The silence was deafening

  • Via Medi­aite:

    I think I may have just dis­lo­cated my shoul­der from cring­ing too hard. In what is one of the most awk­ward White House press brief­ings I’ve yet seen, White House Press Sec­re­tary Jay Car­ney some­how man­ages to say both not enough and entirely too much.

    White House Press Sec­re­tary Jay Car­ney was asked why the White House had not sent out a procla­ma­tion for Easter. (To put the ques­tion in con­text, keep in mind that the White House has sent out procla­ma­tions for the “150th Anniver­sary of the Uni­fi­ca­tion of Italy” and “Wright Broth­ers Day.”) Carney’s response was to scoff.

    First, he was asked why the White House had not sent out a procla­ma­tion for Easter. (To put the ques­tion in con­text, keep in mind that the White House has sent out procla­ma­tions for the “150th Anniver­sary of the Uni­fi­ca­tion of Italy” and “Wright Broth­ers Day.”)

    Carney’s response was to scoff (And, you guys, this was a scoff. It wasn’t a laugh or a chor­tle or a gig­gle or a twit­ter or a chuckle. It was a straight-up scoff.) and relay the following:

    “You know, the Pres­i­dent when to church yes­ter­day; it was widely cov­ered. I’m not sure if we put out a state­ment or not.

    But he obvi­ously per­son­ally cel­e­brated Easter with his fam­ily and went to church to cel­e­brate that.”

    I mean, hon­estly, why would the White House’s Press Sec­re­tary know what the White House did or did not send out? Can’t jour­nal­ists ever do any­thing for them­selves? Calm down, peo­ple! It’s just a hol­i­day that’s cel­e­brated by some­thing like, what? Seventy-eight per­cent of Amer­i­cans, includ­ing the First Fam­ily? It’s no “Wright Broth­ers Day.”

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    April 26th, 2011 | Grace | No Comments |

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