Audio: White House Continues to Look Foolish with Hoffa Responses

Yesterday, it was DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and White House press secretary Jay Carney who looked completely and utterly foolish when it came to their refusal to denounce the words of Teamsters president James Hoffa, Jr. In the context of standards Democrats and the White House themselves set in the wake of the Giffords shooting, their refusal to denounce Hoffa's comments actually sets a new standard for hypocrisy. Here is White House communications director Daniel Pfeiffer giving it the old college try with WMAL radio in Washington, D.C.

Like Wasserman-Schultz and Carney, Pfeiffer falls flat on his face.



h/t RCP

Video: Jay Carney Asked about Hoffa's Comments, Looks Foolish

Perhaps nothing so demonstrably illustrates the disparity between Barack Obama's words in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting than his silence in response to the words of Teamsters president James Hoffa, Jr. at a Labor Day rally in Detroit. Not only did Obama have kind words for Hoffa on the same stage but in the hours and days after Hoffa exhorted the crowd to 'take these son of a bit***s out,' the president and the DNC Chair have both remained silent on the issue. This prompted ABC's Jake Tapper to ask White House press secretary Jay Carney about the double standard. As a result, Carney looks patently foolish and Tapper was obviously agitated.

Wow.



h/t Weasel Zippers