What is it with this White House and publicly calling out conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh? If you recall, back in January 2009 President Barack Obama told Republican congressional leaders to quit listening to Limbaugh if they wanted to get things done. It’s happened once again. During the White House daily press briefing on July 29, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took another couple of jabs Limbaugh – this time over the auto manufacturer bailout. In responding…
Yippie : Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod announced Thursday that she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart for posting a misleading video of Sherrod that ended up costing her job. Sherrod made the announcement at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in San Diego. “I will definitely do it,” she said. Sherrod lost her job last week after Breitbart posted a clip of a video on one of his conservative sites that appeared to show Sherrod telling an NAACP conference that she did not lend her “full force” …
Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R., Minn.), a potential 2012 presidential candidate, introduces himself: There is no mention of a presidential run, but, at 2:18, there is a snapshot of the White House. Pawlenty will visit Iowa this weekend.
Roger Simon’s Wednesday morning column (“Journolist veers out of bounds”), an item Rush brought up on his show this afternoon, may be one of the most delusional items ever written by a journalist attempting to defend his profession. Rich Noyes at NewsBusters covered one aspect of Simon’s column on Wednesday, namely the deliciously hypocritical outrage of NBC/MSNBC reporter Chuck Todd over how the Journolist scandal “has been keeping him up nights, and he’s especially frustrated that ‘the right’ would use it as ‘a …
It’s been a bad stretch for the Democratic majority in Congress. Their polling numbers have been going from bad to worse. The White House press secretary has openly speculated that House Democrats could lose their majority in November. Nasty disputes between Democratic congressional leaders and the White House staff have broken out in the press . One of the most senior House Democrats is now under an ethics-investigation cloud. And, worst of all, the public now sees the Obama agenda clearly and recognizes that it is far too liberal, government-heavy, and anti-business to be compatible with a vibrant American economy. That spells near-certain doom for many House and Senate Democrats seeking reelection and who …
A Charlottesville, Va., resident who stood with President Obama would likely not have been asked to participate in a Rose Garden speech on unemployment if the White House had known she was convicted of prescription drug fraud charges in April 2009, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday.
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What would your reaction be if President George W. Bush, his father, or any president of the last 100 years had referred to African-Americans as a “mongrel people?” You’d be shocked at the tone-deafness, right? Maybe outraged, determined to vote for his next opponent, maybe even calling for his resignation? How about if President Obama said it? President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’ President Obama waded into the national race debate in an…
On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante praised President Obama taping an appearance on ABC’s ‘The View’ on Wednesday: “…the President is trying to reach people who may not normally pay attention to politics….It’s not the first time [he] has reached out to audiences beyond the Washington Beltway.” Plante went further, explaining: “…it is the beginning of the Democrats’ strategy to try to save their majority …
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On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante praised President Obama taping an appearance on ABC’s ‘The View’ on Wednesday: “…the President is trying to reach people who may not normally pay attention to politics….It’s not the first time [he] has reached out to audiences beyond the Washington Beltway.” Plante went further, explaining: “…it is the beginning of the Democrats’ strategy to try to save their majority in Congress.” He touted how Obama “blamed Republicans for holding up a bill with tax cuts for small business” while visiting a New Jersey sandwich shop. Plante then highlighted the President’s fundraising ability: “Two fund-raisers in Manhattan on behalf of congressional Democrats….it …
Obama said on The View yesterday that he didn’t know who Snookie is. But here ’s Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner: Of course, that’s not the only thing that we’ve been accused of socializing this year.? You might have heard we passed a health care bill and — (applause.)? Is that Roger Ailes applauding out there?? (Laughter.)? Some Republicans have suggested that the bill contains a few secret provisions.? That’s ridiculous.? There aren’t a few secret provisions in the health care plan — there are, like, hundreds.? (Laughter…
