Carney Derangement Syndrome Strikes Again: Ron Fournier Calls Jay Carney ‘Baghdad Bob’

Carney Derangement Syndrome has struck again, this time felling National Journal‘s Ron Fournier, who took to MSNBC’s Morning Joe to deliver a measured criticism of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney Friday morning. Carney is taking heat from reporters over his insistence that a recently-released email about then-Ambassador Susan Rice’s Sunday show prep was not about Benghazi, but about broader unrest in the Muslim world. Fournier’s way of calling the White House’s rationale thin was to equate Carney to “Baghdad Bob,” the Iraqi Minister of Information who kept insisting that the 2003 American invasion was but a scratch.

Fournier told Scarborough and company that although he “has admired Jay and worked with Jay, and wants my White House to succeed,” he thought it was “painful yesterday, watching that briefing and get Baghdad Bob flashbacks.”

Way Too Early host Thomas Roberts took a shot at injecting some reality into the proceedings, pointing out that the widespread protests in the region at the time were a huge story, and a cause for significant worry going into that weekend, but was quickly cut off by Joe Scarborough, because that’s how Morning Joe works…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.