The new White House press secretary has a high mountain to climb

It will be difficult for the ironically named Josh Earnest, the new White House press secretary, to reach the pinnacles of prevarication scaled by his predecessor, Jay Carney, who resigned yesterday. Jay, after all, is a lyin' fool, better at it than Baghdad Bob.

As you might expect, somebody compiled Carney's top nine lies. Must have been a tough list, with so many to choose from, but here is a small sampling:

2) In mid-May 2014, Carney announced that the American Legion had praised the Department of Veterans Affairs for the "resignation" of top VA health official Dr. Robert Petzel. Carney was only off by 100%. The actual American Legion statement was, "the move by VA is not a corrective action, but a continuation of business as usual. Dr. Petzel was already scheduled to retire this year, so his resignation now really won’t make that much of a difference.”
3) Carney told reporters at the White House press briefing on November 28, 2012: “Those [Benghazi] talking points originated from the intelligence community. They reflect the IC’s best assessments of what they thought had happened. The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two institutions were changing the word ‘consulate’ to ‘diplomatic facility’ because ‘consulate’ was inaccurate.” But six months later, in May 2013, ABC News reported the edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted, as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.
4) In April 2012, Carney said the President had never argued the so-called Buffett Rule would solve the country’s deficit problems. Perhaps he didn't remember when the Buffett Rule was first introduced in September 2011: President Obama claimed the tax would “stabilize our debt and deficits for the next decade.”

By all means, go to the link and read them all. Frankly, they could have done a Billboard Hot 100 of Carney lies and never run out of material or had to move into mere spin. That boy wouldn't tell the truth to his mother. As for Jay's future, he has not yet announced his next career move, but I think he has aspirations to be the ambassador to Russia. But only if Vladimir Putin is actually able to resurrect the Soviet Union. In that case, Jay already has the artwork for his Moscow embassy office:

I still don't believe he's just a collector.