Amy Sullivan: Not Even the Vatican Cares About Obama's Notre Dame Spee

May 1st, 2009 5:04 PM
Dear religious pro-life Catholics, get over yourselves. Signed, Amy Sullivan.Okay, I'm paraphrasing, but the Time magazine staffer practically expressed those sentiments in two April 30 Swampland blog posts wherein she suggests that even the pope wouldn't mind hanging out with Obama on stage at Notre Dame when he accepts his honorary doctorate later this month."The Vatican apparently needs to get…

CNN's Ed Henry Jabs President on FOCA, ‘Above My Pay Grade’ Answer

April 30th, 2009 2:30 PM
CNN's White House Correspondent Ed Henry broke the laudatory ranks of the mainstream media and even with those from his own network during Wednesday night's primetime White House press conference when he questioned President Barack Obama about his pledge to sign the Freedom of Choice Act. Henry challenged the President by bringing up the current controversy over Obama's scheduled commencement…

Media Hail Sebelius Confirmation, Downplay Her Late-Term Abortion Supp

April 29th, 2009 2:56 PM
As Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services on April 28, the media continued its biased coverage of her controversial appointment. News outlets ignored the reason GOP senators had delayed her confirmation - her pro-abortion extremism - and focused instead on the importance of having the Secretary in place to combat swine flu. But the media failed to note that since…

Dear Barack, Don't Get Mad, I Was Just Doing My Job -- Love, Ed Henry

March 26th, 2009 2:39 AM
There is a somewhat amusing article on CNN.com right now. It's not amusing for its wit but for the fact that CNN and Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry think they need to explain away the "tough exchange" that Henry and Obama engaged in during Tuesday's press conference. Also amusing is the fact that Henry seems to be apologizing to The One for simply doing his job. Finally, it's amusing…

Bill Bennett: Press Losing Their Loving Feeling For Obama

March 25th, 2009 10:33 AM
Are the press starting to lose their loving feeling for Barack Obama?According to CNN contributor Bill Bennett, given how the President was treated during his press conference, the news media weren't showing him much love Tuesday evening:There is a conservative strain of thinking that says the press is in love with Barack Obama. Not tonight. That was just the beginning. Bennett's complete comment…

WaPo 'Critic' Tom Shales Hails Obama Presser: 'Still Every Inch, Presi

March 25th, 2009 8:41 AM

Pile of National Media Stars Turn Up for Ted Kennedy's D.C. Birthday T

March 9th, 2009 4:45 PM
Many liberal media outlets have reported the Kennedy Center birthday party Sunday night for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Few have mentioned the media turnout. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, the former Executive Washington Editor of the Wall Street Journal, joined Caroline Kennedy in awarding Sen. Kennedy the Kennedy Library’s "Profile in Courage" Award. Frank Mankiewicz, the former president of National…

Weekend Captionfest: Visit to Obamada Edition

February 20th, 2009 4:29 PM

White House Press Briefing Live-blog [5 Feb

February 5th, 2009 2:16 PM
Update: The highlight thus far is the testy exchange between Gibbs and Tapper. Checking the tape again it appears he did answer Tapper's second question, albeit tersely muttering the response, before turning to Chuck Todd of NBC. Gibbs starting press conference about 10 minutes late, at 2:10. Says was late getting started due to news about Associate Justice Ginsburg's pancreatic cancer surgery.…

White House Press Briefing Live Blog [Feb

February 4th, 2009 2:42 PM

CNN's 'AC360' Highlights Obama Waffling on Jobs

February 3rd, 2009 4:39 PM
Conservatives, including the Business & Media Institute, have criticized President Barack Obama's mathematics and language regarding job creation. CNN's Ed Henry brought up that same criticism on Feb. 2 during "Anderson Cooper 360°.""[T]here are now questions about how many jobs Mr. Obama is promising to create," Ed Henry told viewers of the broadcast. Henry used three separate video clips of…

White House Press Briefing Live-blog [Jan

January 27th, 2009 3:54 PM

White House Briefing Live-blog [Jan

January 26th, 2009 1:44 PM

Actor Voight to CNN: 'It's Become a Partisan Press

October 9th, 2008 1:54 PM