Carney didn’t have much patience for answering questions about Hoffa’s Tea Party comments yesterday, but that didn’t stop Jake Tapper from pressing him on whether the President meant what he said about incivility earlier this year. As Carney tried to distance the president from those comments, Tapper then asked if he was setting a new standard for the 2012 campaign that candidates should only be held to account for what they say. Carney tried to dodge it but it was clear Tapper had him backed into a corner and Carney just wanted to move on.
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