From our White House Photo Blog. Because, really, can we ever see enough puppy pictures?
Miscellany
White House To Release Visitor Logs
In a clear break from the George W. Bush White House, the Obama Administration has agreed to release its White House visitor logs, giving the American people a remarkably candid look at who is meeting with the President and top advisers. The logs will be released on a three to four month delay, and there will be exceptions that will …
Tom Ridge Did Not Backpedal (A Journey Inside The Media Simulacrum)
The headlines are all the rage in Washington, D.C., today: Tom Ridge, the first secretary of Homeland Security, is “backpedaling” on his claim that he was pressured to raise the terror alert. “Ridge backpedals on pressure to raise terror alert level,” announces a headline in USA Today, which was picked up by Politico’s Mike Allen with …
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Dog days of summer edition, by Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog:
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A few days old, but hey, I’ve been on vacation. Here’s an image from the White House Situation Room, via our White House Photo Blog:
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Our White House Photo Blog caught this one from President Obama’s town hall meeting in New Hampshire earlier this week (when I was in neighboring Vermont, and well outside the range of any kind of signal). So, Swampland commenters , what do you think that last question should have been? (I’m looking at you, commenter deconstructiva.)
Obama’s Mexican Press Conference
For a few minutes Monday, the cable news networks turned live to a presidential press conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, an event most American viewers experienced as a brief respite from the regularly-scheduled health care reform horror show–the looped videotapes of angry protesters screeching at town hall meetings, the attack ads …
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A photo by fellow Swamplander Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog. So what do you figure is in there, anyway?
YouTube Wars: The White House Vs. DrudgeReport
We live in a land where a person who goes by the name “NakedEmperor” with editing software and a laptop can rattle the President of the United States. On Monday, Matt Drudge began teasing this video on his website, a scattershot work of highly edited oppo.
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On Tuesday, …
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From our White House Photo Blog and fellow Swamplander Brooks Kraft:
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From our White House Photo Blog, this powerful photo by our new Swampland colleague Brooks Kraft, taken at an anniversary event for the Americans with Disabilities Act in the East Room:
Silly Summer News and Iran’s Slow Boil
The news tends to go small in the dog days of summer. At the White House today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fielded a half dozen questions (of various formulations) about the kind of beer President Obama would drink when he meets with Skip Gates and the embattled Cambridge Police Officer. (No clear answer. POTUS, who is not much of a …