Print Larry O'Connor Follow Read Full Bio Flashback: Carney Condescendingly Lectured Fox News Anchor Over Easter Egg Roll Last week White House Press Secretary Jay Carney appeared on Fox News with Jenna Lee and faced questions over the cancellations of the White House tours that had been blamed on sequestration cuts. When Lee asked why the Easter Egg Roll, which family members of congress attend, had not been cancelled, Carney snapped “Well, actually, Jenna, again, if you did a little reporting you’d know that the Easter Egg Roll is open for a lot of military families. It’s paid for by the sale of those eggs that come out as well as donations from the outside." 19 Mar 2013 Philly Mayor Thinks Magazine Article Not Protected Free Speech Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter didn't like an article in Philadelphia Magazine entitled: Being White in Philly: Whites, race, class, and the things that never get said. The mayor was so upset about reading an opinion that he didn't like, he sent a letter to something called the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission. The letter uses language that suggests Mayor Nutter doesn't think the article is protected under the first amendment. In fact, he even uses scare quotes around the word "speech" when referring to the offending article: 19 Mar 2013 GOP Rep: Obama Admin Allows Hundreds of Chinese Nationals To Access Sensitive NASA Facility On Tuesday's "Mornings on the Mall" on WMAL-FM in Washington DC, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) revealed that it was the Obama Administration that allowed hundreds of Chinese nationals to work in a sensitive area of NASA's Langley Research Center. One of the nationals was arrested Monday at Dulles airport as he was trying to leave the country when he failed to disclose all of the electronics he was taking with him. 19 Mar 2013 Former WaPo Editor Tapped As Columbia J-School Dean The New York Times reports that Steve Coll, a veteran of The Washington Post, will be the next dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the president of Columbia University announced on Monday. Coll was an editor at the Washington Post and he was an award winning reporter at New Yorker Magazine. 19 Mar 2013 HuffPo, Tell Your Readers Whole Truth About Crowder's Ashley Judd Joke The Huffington Post duplicitously linked comedian Steven Crowder with the third rail of GOP political discourse by telling its readers that he "made a questionable remark about actress and possible Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd. " HuffPo continued by offering a partial quote to support its claim: "What is this obsession with Ashley Judd and rape?" Crowder asked while joking about Judd and Apple products. "It's pretty unnerving." 18 Mar 2013 Tucker: 'I'm Not Clear What Sarah Palin Does' When asked about the exchange Carlson said that Rove's jab at Palin about not fulfilling her entire term as Governor of Alaska was "indisputably true." He also said, "Sarah Palin is a good speaker and all that.. but, I'm not clear what Sarah Palin does, actually." 18 Mar 2013 DiGenova: Obama Labor Pick Perez 'Single Most Radical' Choice "This guy is the worst of the worst," said DiGenova, citing the fact that Perez' open borders group Casa de Maryland had received over a million dollars from Hugo Chavez. DiGenova said, "this guy is anti-business, anti-right to work and there will be no end to it. I predict he will not be confirmed." 18 Mar 2013 Pew: Newsroom Jobs at 35 Year Low According to the latest Pew Research study on the state of the media, cutbacks and the ability to use the internet to bypass the media gatekeepers and deliver information directly to consumers is resulting in poorer journalism. 18 Mar 2013 Former Secret Service Agent On WH Tours: 'President Not Telling The Truth' Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino accused President Barack Obama of not being truthful in his interview with George Stephanopolis. On Good Morning America, Obama asserted that the decision to cancel White House tours due to sequestration cuts came from the Secret Service: 14 Mar 2013 Media Bully Five Guys Entrepreneur For Telling Truth About Obamacare When a business owner sticks his neck out and criticizes big government policies like Obamacare, you can count on the media to try to bully him into silence. Matt Yglesias at Slate.com called Ruffer a liar because, you know, Yglesias knows the hamburger business better than the North Carolina entrepreneur[.] 13 Mar 2013 Previous 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next
Flashback: Carney Condescendingly Lectured Fox News Anchor Over Easter Egg Roll Last week White House Press Secretary Jay Carney appeared on Fox News with Jenna Lee and faced questions over the cancellations of the White House tours that had been blamed on sequestration cuts. When Lee asked why the Easter Egg Roll, which family members of congress attend, had not been cancelled, Carney snapped “Well, actually, Jenna, again, if you did a little reporting you’d know that the Easter Egg Roll is open for a lot of military families. It’s paid for by the sale of those eggs that come out as well as donations from the outside." 19 Mar 2013
Philly Mayor Thinks Magazine Article Not Protected Free Speech Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter didn't like an article in Philadelphia Magazine entitled: Being White in Philly: Whites, race, class, and the things that never get said. The mayor was so upset about reading an opinion that he didn't like, he sent a letter to something called the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission. The letter uses language that suggests Mayor Nutter doesn't think the article is protected under the first amendment. In fact, he even uses scare quotes around the word "speech" when referring to the offending article: 19 Mar 2013
GOP Rep: Obama Admin Allows Hundreds of Chinese Nationals To Access Sensitive NASA Facility On Tuesday's "Mornings on the Mall" on WMAL-FM in Washington DC, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) revealed that it was the Obama Administration that allowed hundreds of Chinese nationals to work in a sensitive area of NASA's Langley Research Center. One of the nationals was arrested Monday at Dulles airport as he was trying to leave the country when he failed to disclose all of the electronics he was taking with him. 19 Mar 2013
Former WaPo Editor Tapped As Columbia J-School Dean The New York Times reports that Steve Coll, a veteran of The Washington Post, will be the next dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the president of Columbia University announced on Monday. Coll was an editor at the Washington Post and he was an award winning reporter at New Yorker Magazine. 19 Mar 2013
HuffPo, Tell Your Readers Whole Truth About Crowder's Ashley Judd Joke The Huffington Post duplicitously linked comedian Steven Crowder with the third rail of GOP political discourse by telling its readers that he "made a questionable remark about actress and possible Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd. " HuffPo continued by offering a partial quote to support its claim: "What is this obsession with Ashley Judd and rape?" Crowder asked while joking about Judd and Apple products. "It's pretty unnerving." 18 Mar 2013
Tucker: 'I'm Not Clear What Sarah Palin Does' When asked about the exchange Carlson said that Rove's jab at Palin about not fulfilling her entire term as Governor of Alaska was "indisputably true." He also said, "Sarah Palin is a good speaker and all that.. but, I'm not clear what Sarah Palin does, actually." 18 Mar 2013
DiGenova: Obama Labor Pick Perez 'Single Most Radical' Choice "This guy is the worst of the worst," said DiGenova, citing the fact that Perez' open borders group Casa de Maryland had received over a million dollars from Hugo Chavez. DiGenova said, "this guy is anti-business, anti-right to work and there will be no end to it. I predict he will not be confirmed." 18 Mar 2013
Pew: Newsroom Jobs at 35 Year Low According to the latest Pew Research study on the state of the media, cutbacks and the ability to use the internet to bypass the media gatekeepers and deliver information directly to consumers is resulting in poorer journalism. 18 Mar 2013
Former Secret Service Agent On WH Tours: 'President Not Telling The Truth' Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino accused President Barack Obama of not being truthful in his interview with George Stephanopolis. On Good Morning America, Obama asserted that the decision to cancel White House tours due to sequestration cuts came from the Secret Service: 14 Mar 2013
Media Bully Five Guys Entrepreneur For Telling Truth About Obamacare When a business owner sticks his neck out and criticizes big government policies like Obamacare, you can count on the media to try to bully him into silence. Matt Yglesias at Slate.com called Ruffer a liar because, you know, Yglesias knows the hamburger business better than the North Carolina entrepreneur[.] 13 Mar 2013
Democratic Councilman Eric Garcetti builds growing lead as LA picks new mayor22 May 2013, 3:48 AM PDT
Democratic Councilman Eric Garcetti builds growing lead as LA picks new mayor22 May 2013, 3:48 AM PDT