Jay Carney finally surpasses Baghdad Bob as the world's most brazen liar

More than a year after Congressional committees and Freedom of Information requests from various organizations and individuals sought the information, the White House has finally released some emails and other documents regarding the Islamist attack on our Libyan consulate that resulted in the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya. You know, the attack that the White House called a spontaneous demonstration against a You Tube video that was actually a planned terrorist attack that had nothing to do with any video. The email and other documents are part of the effort to spin the attack as unexpected, unpredictable, spontaneous and really just nobody's fault but some independent video maker.

Well, yesterday, White House spokesman Jay Carney got into it with a journalist over said emails, and, let's just say Jay did not cover himself with glory. Although he did achieve historic status, of a sort.

I'm sure all of us old enough to remember 2003 remember Baghdad Bob, the Iraqi government spokesman who nightly denied that American troops invading Iraq were doing anything but dying. I'll grant you, he was good. Even as American troops were entering Baghdad, good old Bob was denying away:

"They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this."

Yeah, good times. Well, Baghdad Bob has been knocked from the top spot as the spokesman most willing to tell any lie to protect his regime. Jay Carney, Communist extraordinaire, has moved into the top slot.

How, say you? As Ace points out, he simply denies that the nose on his face is, in fact, his nose:

The White House's claim has been (for eighteen long months of lies) that whatever misrepresentations entered the talking points, and whatever truths departed from them (such as evidence that this was an Al Qaeda attack, that there had been previous attacks, that there had been previous warnings, etc.), it had nothing to do with the White House, asother people, not anyone in the White House, constructed the talking points.
Now comes this email from Ben Rhodes telling Ambassador Rice to go out there and sell the Internet Video cover story and so what does Jay Carney do?
He claims the talking points weren't about Benghazi.
Exit Quote: "If you look at the document in question, it is not about Benghazi."
Second Exit Quote: "The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the US Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the US consulate and subsequently its annex."

Jay's problem, of course, is that the email that isn't about Benghazi states pretty explicitly that it is about Benghazi:

Yeah, click on the image to enlarge, and you will see the ":Benghazi" portion of the email instructing Susan Rice, the then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a total non-participant in any of the events on which she was being sent to appear on five, count 'em five Sunday morning talks shows. (There are only five such shows, and appearing on all of them on the same Sunday is rare and requires serious scheduling coordination.) Why send Susan Rice? Probably because she was the highest-ranking foreign-policy-related official in the administration not involved in any way in the Benghazi fiasco. With no first-hand knowledge, she could tell any lie she was handed and, if caught in the lie later, simply claim she was repeating what she was told. And that's what she did.

I'm not suprised Jay Carney is lying. That's his job. I just find it increasingly difficult to believe how much he will lie to cover up malfeasance and sstill attempt to maintain a straight face. No pride, and no shame.