Carney: White House Doesn’t Spend ‘Any Time’ Thinking About Fox’s Keith Ablow

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks to reporters during a briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Former Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney said in an interview published Thursday he doubted anyone at the White House ever even thinks about Fox News psychiatrist Keith Ablow.

Carney’s comments in an article published by the Associated Press referred to Ablow’s criticism of President Obama and his incendiary reflections on Michelle Obama’s weight and figure.

“I’m confident that no one in the White House spends any time thinking about him,” Carney told the AP. “Fox is Fox. It doesn’t really matter who the salesman is. The product is always the same.”

h/t Yahoo News

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  1. “Fox is Fox. It doesn’t really matter who the salesman is. The product is always the same.” GREAT STATEMENT OF FACT!

    Unfortunately, all of Fox’s viewers went out to vote on Tuesday, and few others showed up.

  2. Or Sharyl Attkisson, or Dinesh D’souza either for that matter.

  3. The president himself called these people “carnival barkers.” It’s constant and unvarying noise, like a waterfall. No reason in the world to pay attention to it.

  4. I don’t watch FOX, not even the video clips available in various places. My apolitical cousin was talking about his dad who watches it constantly, and explained it’s like he lives in an “alternate reality from the rest of us.” I have no doubt it’s that bad, and I’m really happy I don’t have to spend much time around my uncle.

  5. Don’t you mean “Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza?”

    Can’t be said often enough.

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