He’s so smart he uses phrases nobody even knew existed.
(WaPo) — Press Secretary Jay Carney had been known to turn a phrase or two during his day as a White House correspondent at Time magazine. So perhaps it should not have come as a surprise to his former brethren when Carney spiced up an otherwise predictable attack against President Obama’s Republican rivals with a rhetorical flourish.
“Pick your metaphor,” Carney said at his daily briefing Thursday while dismissing a GOP proposal for a payroll tax cut as a showy, but ultimately shallow alternative to Obama’s plan. “Window dressing or gorilla dust.”
Gorilla dust? Say what?
No one stopped Carney to ask what he meant, but afterward several of the seasoned wordsmiths in the press room agreed they had never before heard the evocative phrase.