Hypocrisy, thy name is Jay Carney

Is Jay Carney the world’s biggest hypocrite? Here he is on September 24:

“There is a certain rather desperate attempt to grasp at words and phrases here to find political advantage and, in this case, that’s profoundly offensive.”

Oh, it’s desperate and offensive to grasp at words and phrases to find political advantage, is it?

September 18:

The White House slammed Mitt Romney Tuesday over a leaked video in which the Republican presidential nominee says 47 percent of the country’s population is “dependent upon government” and believes “they are victims.”

For Obama, we can’t hold him to his actual words (the attacks on our consulate and embassy are “bumps in the road”), but when it comes to Romney he’ll nitpick every word until his nitpicker gets sore.

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