UPDATED BELOW: With a White House fact check of the apparent Alito fact check. Late last night, I wrote about Justice Alito’s apparent fact check of President Obama’s speech. During Obama’s description of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision, Alito shook his and appeared to mouth the words “not true.” This morning, it appears that [...]
The following excerpts of Obama’s speech tonight were released by the White House. (Jon Ward over at the Daily Caller has excerpts from Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s response.)
Pop quiz: Name a candidate who has run for federal office in the last half century who did not promise voters either a tax cut or more government funding for services. (To make it harder: Name a winning candidate.) I can’t think of one, because everyone I have ever covered or read about promises either [...]
In December of 2007, ABC News’ Brian Ross came out with big scoop: A “leader of the CIA team that captured the first major Al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah,” appeared on camera to announce that the waterboarding of Zubaydah had worked. The story was quickly picked up by conservative pundits and other reporters, adding what [...]
UPDATE: O’Keefe announced on January 29 that he was not trying to wiretap the phones, just test them. See his statement here. Remember James O’Keefe, the skinny white kid, who dressed as a cartoon pimp and exposed ACORN as a mess of an organization, rocketing himself to Fox News fame? Well he was just arrested [...]
Really. According to Public Policy Polling, via Taegan Goddard: Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News. Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than [...]
Does the White House have to pay Steve Jobs royalties for this?
