Carney wants to learn ‘The Jackal’

Carney welcomed Allison Janney — the actress who played White House press secretary C.J. Cregg — to Twitter on Tuesday by asking if she would teach him the move revered by her fellow White House colleagues on the show. 

Welcome to Twitter @AllisonBJanney! Can you teach me how to do the Jackal? http://t.co/ZcT9a14noc

— Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) August 13, 2013

The song by Ronny Jordan and Dana Bryant was lip-synced by Janney while doing a seductive dance in the first season of the popular show loosely based on former President Bill Clinton’s White House in the 1990s.

@PressSec Thank you for such a lovey welcome.   I Would be happy to give a #Jackal tutorial in the press briefing room!

— Allison Janney (@AllisonBJanney) August 14, 2013

Janney appeared to send out a series of tweets in March, but announced her emergence on Twitter earlier Tuesday. 

Thanks to @Larakate and the twitter help page I am finally up and tweeting…. Here we go…

— Allison Janney (@AllisonBJanney) August 13, 2013