--- title: Obama ISIS Speech: Watch John McCain and Jay Carney Face Off description: Former White House Press Secretary and newly minted CNN Contributor Jay Carney had a rough welcome to the cable network Wednesday after President Barack Obama's address to the nation. canonical: https://time.com/3321450/isis-obama-speech-john-mccain-jay-carney/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-11T02:46:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:07:19.396Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama ISIS Speech: Watch John McCain and Jay Carney Face Off og:description: Former White House Press Secretary and newly minted CNN Contributor Jay Carney had a rough welcome to the cable network Wednesday after President Barack Obama's address to the nation. og:url: https://time.com/3321450/isis-obama-speech-john-mccain-jay-carney/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd0fa3fe5fd91d6/6986a2be810bbb067ac935c4/int_carney_mccain_0911.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1131 og:image:alt: INT_carney_mccain_0911 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama ISIS Speech: Watch John McCain and Jay Carney Face Off twitter:description: Former White House Press Secretary and newly minted CNN Contributor Jay Carney had a rough welcome to the cable network Wednesday after President Barack Obama's address to the nation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd0fa3fe5fd91d6/6986a2be810bbb067ac935c4/int_carney_mccain_0911.jpg?branch=production ---  # Watch John McCain and Jay Carney Face Off Over Obama's ISIS Plan by [Zeke Miller](/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 11, 2014 2:46 AM CUT by [Zeke Miller](/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Sep 11, 2014 2:46 AM CUT Former White House Press Secretary and newly minted CNN Contributor Jay Carney had a rough welcome to the cable network Wednesday after [President Barack Obama’s address to the nation about his strategy for confronting ISIS](http://time.com/3319658/obama-isis-speech-iraq-syria/ "undefined"). Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who ran unsuccessfully for president against Obama in 2008, appeared on CNN to respond to the President’s speech and laid into Carney’s comments in support of his former boss. Watch the exchange in the video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3321450/isis-obama-speech-john-mccain-jay-carney/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3321450/isis-obama-speech-john-mccain-jay-carney/"},"headline":"Watch John McCain and Jay Carney Face Off Over Obama's ISIS Plan","datePublished":"2014-09-11T02:46:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:07:19.396Z","description":"The Former White House Press Secretary and the Senator spoke about Obama's announcement on ISIS","url":"https://time.com/3321450/isis-obama-speech-john-mccain-jay-carney/","keywords":["Foreign Policy","politics","Media"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd0fa3fe5fd91d6/6986a2be810bbb067ac935c4/int_carney_mccain_0911.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbd0fa3fe5fd91d6/6986a2be810bbb067ac935c4/int_carney_mccain_0911.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"INT_carney_mccain_0911","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3321450/isis-obama-speech-john-mccain-jay-carney/","name":"Watch John McCain and Jay Carney Face Off Over Obama's ISIS Plan"}}]}] ```