Par for the course, Obama gets away with stuff a Republican wouldn’t dream of.

Via BuzzFeed:

At Thursday’s White House press briefing, Fox News reporter Ed Henry asked Press Secretary Jay Carney if President Obama’s remarks about Republicans “holding a gun to the head of the American people” by threatening a government shutdown were wise given September’s mass shooting at the Naval Yard in Washington D.C.

Carney defended the rhetoric that Henry himself had jokingly said during a press conference earlier this week of Republicans, “Let them shoot each other.”