Gene Healy Says the White House Press Secretary Is the Government’s Most Nonessential Job

Back in January 2011, the Obama administration
looked to its new press secretary to “smooth over
relations” with reporters. “With Jay Carney at the podium,
Obama hopes to reset press relationship,” The
Hill reported at the time. Gene Healy says that over
three years and 10,000 dodged questions later, it’s clear
that scheme worked out about as well as the “reset” with
Vladimir Putin’s Russia. 

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