White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs certainly isn’t shy when it comes to calling out his critics in the press — and now he’s using Twitter to do so too. Most White House Twitter accounts usually stick pretty closely to White House talking points and rarely engage with critics, but Gibbs today engaged in...
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The journalists assigned to cover President Obama on a daily basis often have less access to him than the columnists, television personalities and feature writers who cover the president less frequently.
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At a White House event in support of extending unemployment benefits for those who have lost their jobs recently, President Obama was joined by several Americans who would potentially benefit from the measure after recently losing their jobs. Among them was Leslie Macko, a woman who had lost her job as an aesthetician in...
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Earlier tonight, ABC released a much-anticipated appearance of President Barack Obama on The View, to air in full tomorrow. From the clip, where the President talks about a family dinnertime tradition, it doesn't seem the ladies roughed him up too badly.
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During today's White House press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the latest release of 90,000 secret documents by the website Wikileaks. Gibbs pointed out that, in addition to breaking federal law, the leaked documents pose a real threat to be harmful to both US military and those cooperating with...
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The Shirley Sherrod media fiasco is, by its nature, a sensitive and unusual case, with plenty of racial semantics pitfalls for even the most careful TV personality. When Pat Buchanan was asked for his take on this issue on MSNBC this morning, he tried to evade those pitfalls by evoking legendary civil...
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A vacationing Keith Olbermann took a breather from his breather to deliver a "Special Comment" on Shirley Sherrod, and, boy, this one is a classic. To his supporters, it is the wake-up call that the White House needed to get them to realize, in Olbermann's words, that it is "a freaking war out...
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Andrew Breitbart continued his media tour, explaining the Shirley Sherrod tape that he published earlier this week, with an appearance on the politically friendly Hannity. According to Breitbart, this controversy is "not about Shirley Sherrod." Rather, the tape exists because the NAACP has alleged racism within the Tea Party movement, and...
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The Shirley Sherrod saga continues, with this round being fought on the unlikely ground of CNN. Andrew Breitbart was a guest on an unusually spirited episode of John King, USA tonight, standing his ground that the story is the NAACP and not Sherrod, and that he did not want to see Sherrod fired.
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Well, this is about the fastest a story can possibly evolve through a news cycle. USDA official Shirley Sherrod resigned today after Andrew Breitbart released a video of a speech at an NAACP event that he claimed was proof of the NAACP's racism. Sherrod claimed the White House pressured her out. Breitbart...
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