Jay Carney And Jon Karl Go At It Like Junkyard Dogs Over New ‘Benghazi’ Email

ABC News’ Jon Karl has made the effort to create a Benghazi scandal a personal hobby horse, even going so far as to falsely report that he had “obtained emails” that he, in fact, had not. At Wednesday’s White House Daily Briefing, Karl tried to resurrect the scandal again by confronting Press Secretary Jay Carney over a recently released White House email (this one was real). Things got heated over the course of the eight minutes, as Carney pushed back hard at Karl, even taking a veiled shot at Karl’s fabricated reporting.

At issue is an email obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch, and which conservatives (and Karl) assert proves that the White House directed then-Ambassador Susan Rice to blame the attack in Benghazi on the YouTube video of the film Innocence of Muslims. The email is a prep document for Amb. Rice’s Sunday talk show appearances, prepared by White House staffer Ben Rhodes.

Karl, adopting a prosecutorial manner, continually pressed Carney to admit that the White House had directed Amb. Rice to blame the video, but Carney, in between Karl’s ostentatious interruptions, explained that the email in question was not a prep document on the Benghazi attack, but on the entire range of subjects that the White House anticipated would be asked on those shows, based on those shows’ own promos.

Those promos are actually excerpted in the email, and over several more interruptions from Karl, Carney actually read from the promo for ABC’s own Sunday show…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.