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Surfer rescued after 16 hours adrift in ocean off Oz ...

Caitlyn Jenner to attend Trump inauguration

18 House Democrats to skip Trump inauguration

Obama White House refuses to call Trump 'legitimate' president ...

Iran will not renegotiate nuclear deal ...

Homeless using Hawaii war memorial as open latrine ... piles of feces

Minnesota health official hid case of active TB in high school for six weeks

Red state Democrats turn against Sessions for AG

Layoffs begin at Clinton Foundation ...

Report: Talk radio's Laura Ingraham eyes [VA] Senate bid ...

Charles Koch makes massive donations to historically black colleges ...

White House floats drug testing for Press Corps

Carny

At old-time carnivals there was always a spiel mister who, waving his bamboo cane, huckstered rubes into the various sideshows full of geeks, freaks and flabby female ecdysiasts … or one who offered you a chance to beat an unbeatable tent game. Such was called a “carny” … short for carnival worker. Yesterday was Jay Carney’s last day as the White House Press Secretary … kinda like the modern-day equivalent of a carny … the head spinner of administration misdirections. This Carney carny however did not wave a cane nor stand in front of a sucker’s game. But then again?

Jay Carney … or the “common streetwalker” as I liked to call him … grew into this job … learning to lie with aplomb. He benefited from a complacent and lackluster press corps (corpse?) who were led around by the nose … even asked to submit questions in advance … see: Pantomime. The most recent whopper this carny ask us to believe was that that IRS tyrant, Lois Lerner, had never contacted the White House by e-mail … see: Michelle Malkin Squib. This is despite the fact that there were 155 White House meetings between Lois Lerner’s boss and Obama’s henchmen … see: Daily Caller Story. Pleeease …

One Fox News wag opined that Carney was not paid enough to do all these tap dances around Obama’s malfeasances … but I think he was being overpaid. Now we can expect to see Carney slip back into the media in some fashion or another … moving between news-making and news-faking.