White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has dodged reporter questions 9,486 times in the 444 briefings he has given since taking the job in early 2011, according to an analysis by Yahoo News.
The analysis, which scoured the transcripts of Carney’s briefings since February 2011, discovered that the press secretary has developed 13 favorite tactics to shut down or defer an unwanted inquiry.
His favorite? ‘I don’t have the answer.’ He’s used a variation of that one more than 1,900 times.