Jake Tapper Calls Out RNC Chairman For Comparing Obama To Italian Ship Captain
Jake Tapper took RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to task for comparing President Obama to Captain Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of the Costa Concordia. "Help me out here," Tapper tweeted. "It's ok to make light of horrific ship crashes if the people who died weren't Americans?" He added the hashtag, "#stayclassy"
Jake Tapper Calls Out RNC Chairman For Comparing Obama To Italian Ship Captain
Jake Tapper took RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to task for comparing President Obama to Captain Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of the Costa Concordia. "Help me out here," Tapper tweeted. "It's ok to make light of horrific ship crashes if the people who died weren't Americans?" He added the hashtag, "#stayclassy"
Ron Paul Angrily Rebuts Jake Tapper Over Question About 9/11 Conspiracies
Ron Paul rebuffed ABC News's Jake Tapper on Sunday's This Week, when he had brought up a quote by former senior campaign aide Eric Dondero, saying the Republican presidential candidate had engaged in 9/11 conspiracy theories. "About the conspiracy of Bush -- of Bush knowing about this?" Paul responded incredulously. "No, no,...
Jake Tapper And Jay Carney Get Into It Over Briefing Protocol, Bestiality Evoked Again
After a streak that, I think, endured the whole of human history, the subject of bestiality has now come up twice during White House briefings this month. In a quasi-friendly exchange this afternoon, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper let out some annoyance at Press Secretary Jay Carney for skipping around the...
PETA Accuses Jay Carney Of ‘Making Light of Bestiality’ For Laughing At Les Kinsolving Question
At Monday's White House briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to show a little Christmas generosity by calling on WorldNetDaily correspondent Les Kinsolving near the top of the briefing. For his trouble, Carney is now under fire from PETA for supposedly "making light of bestiality" because he laughed at, and waved off, Kinsolving's less-than-seriously-phrased...
Obama Ribs Fox’s Ed Henry: ‘Didn’t Know You Were The Spokesperson For Romney’
Since becoming Fox News' Senior White House Correspondent in July, beat veteran Ed Henry has endured several barbs from Press Secretary Jay Carney, but today, it was President Obama needling Henry. At a joint press conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Henry asked the President to respond to...
Things to know when pondering the ABC News/Yahoo! partnership
So far most of the reporting on the ABC News/Yahoo! partnership hasn’t gone beyond very far beyond the press release. But it’s a hugely ambitious move on the part of both parties. Though Yahoo! has suffered an onslaught of criticism in recent years as it’s ceded the search market and spread itself thin in the...
White House Refutes Confidence Men Book, Suggests Portion Lifted From Wikipedia
The pushback against Ron Suskind's upcoming (but leaked) book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President continued today, as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney fielded questions about some of the book's tales of intrigue. Geithner flatly denied that he disregarded an order from the...
Jon Huntsman Rips Rick Perry ‘Treason’ Talk By Citing Texas Gov’s Secession Talk
On Sunday morning, Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman continued his quest to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee on Opposite Day, swinging hard at frontrunner Rick Perry (R-TX) and the rest of the GOP field. In an interview with This Week fill-in Jake Tapper, Huntsman derided his fellow candidates' lack of leadership, opposition...
