I didn't see the specific press conference with Carney trying to clarify but I did see the President classifying these "phony scandals". It was outrageous for the President to refer to blatant misuse of government power and government negligence as "phony scandals." Americans are dead from the "phony scandal" in Benghazi and many American citizens have been disenfranchised from the IRS abuses. The president is so accustomed to saying what he wants and the media picking up the drumbeat, he never expected that folks would actually notice that he was insulting the American people.