Obama Selects former TIME Reporter Jay Carney as New White House Press Secretary

President Obama has chosen his new Press Secretary to replace outgoing Robert Gibbs. The winner is former TIME reporter Jay Carney, who has been serving as communications director for Vice-President Joe Biden:

THE FIX: President Obama has chosen former journalist Jay Carney to replace press secretary Robert Gibbs, a longtime loyalist, when he leaves the post in mid-February — one of a number of staff changes announced today by White House chief of staff Bill Daley. . . .

Carney, now the communications director for Vice President Biden, is the marquee move as he will assume perhaps the most high profile staff job in the White House.

He came to the Administration in 2008 after a long career in journalism that included serving as Washington bureau chief of Time magazine. Carney is married to ABC News’ correspondent Claire Shipman. . . . . . . . . . Read More

Gibbsy will be a tough act to follow as far as being able to top his level of sheer idiocy. But Michelle Malkin has the goods on Carney, and his resume of attacking conservatives.