We are past, for the moment, the White House “war” on Fox, such as it was. (Obama did an interview with Fox News’ Major Garrett a few weeks back, and General Petraeus is on Fox News Sunday today, with close Obama ally Dick Durbin.) Summer is gone too, and with it the “wee weed up” “silly season” of political coverage that Obama and his …
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Jon Stewart Tears Down That Fox News Wall (With Some Jabs At The White House)
“Fraudulent Press Activity”: The Fake U.S. Chamber Press Conference
It would have been hard to script this better. Eric Wohlschlegel, who actually works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had to break up a fake chamber press conference today, organized by a group that was not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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The National Press Club was not …
CORRECTED, UPDATED — Cable News Irony Alert: CNN, Fox and The Disappearing General Audience
CORRECTION: Ahh, the pitfalls of technology. In the post below, I wrote about an ad that kept running Sunday morning on CNN, which I watched in the background as I scribbled away at my office. Several times, I heard an ad for Anderson Cooper’s show that included a woman’s voice talking about being a “lifelong Democrat” and watching …
Barack Obama On David Letterman: The Top Ten Funny Parts
It took more than an hour. And since you don’t want to spend an hour reading a blog post, here are the Top Ten Funny Things That Happened When The President Of The United States Did Letterman.
10. During the opening monologue, Dave praised the diligence of the Secret Service. “They even checked under my hairpiece. Security is tighter …
Obama’s “Jackass” Remark: The President Gets No Slack
TMZ.com has acquired audio of President Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass” before an interview with CNBC. Though the exchange was off the record, it was reported via Twitter by ABC News, which later apologized. It’s actually a fun listen, in part because as soon as Obama utters the word “jackass,” he knows he has opened himself up, and …
A Story And A Photo: The Death Of One Marine In Afghanistan
Three journalists for the Associated Press present when grenade explosion took off the leg of a Marine, Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard, in Afghanistan on August 14, in the middle of the deadliest month in that country for U.S. forces since 2001. They wrote a story about it, and published a photo of it. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska
So, Sarah Palin, as planned, is no longer a public official. She went out with a few fireworks yesterday:
And first, some straight talk for some, just some in the media because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press, and you all have such important jobs reporting facts and informing the electorate, and exerting
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