John Sexton

In response to Narrative, Narrative, Narrative: In June 2009, during the health reform battle, my co-blogger Morgen found video of Klein admitting that the public option was a “sneaky strategy” to get the country to single payer. When Klein saw

In response to Deb: Seen from the outside they are a remarkably insular group. There can’t be more than two dozen of them who constantly create their own conventional wisdom which is always, of course, amenable to progressive goals. I

Over the weekend, Bill Keller had the temerity to assign some blame for the sequester to President Obama. Within a day, the left’s commentariat had settled the issue in Obama’s favor, each linking to the other and repeating the claim

Bill Keller of the NY Times wrote an op-ed over the weekend which, while still taking some shots at the GOP, managed to lay some of the blame for “the large mess we are in” at the President’s feet. The

If you want to know the sort of nonsense Bob Woodward had to put up with, just imagine this delivered with more volume and for 30 minutes: Joel wrote about another Sperling appearance which happened this morning but I wanted

There’s a clip floating around which captures part of this but I think this extended version is better: Some context for this statement is helpful. On November 21, 2011 the bipartisan supercommittee–which had been created several months earlier in the

In 2009 Andrew was a featured speaker at a conference held here in California. I was one of a group of bloggers who were invited to a private chat with him. The video I shot that day–October 17, 2009–captured a

Bob Woodward appeared on Morning Joe today and defended his claim that the White House moved the goalposts on the sequestration deal: Axelrod claims the President has always had the same goals. That’s nice. It may even be true. But

During his sequestration press conference today, the President opined that he sometimes wishes House Republicans were more reasonable: You know, sometimes I reflect, is there something else I can do to make these guys — I am not talking about the

A buyer and a seller are haggling over the price of a new, more fuel efficient car. They can’t quite agree on a price or the ratio of cash to trade-in-value but they are both motivated to make a deal.

Secretary Duncan’s statement about sequester on Sunday’s Face the Nation is about as accurate as Susan Rice’s explanation of the cause of the 9/11 attack on our Benghazi consulate. In both cases, their superiors at the White House, who sent

Bob Woodward doesn’t seem to appreciate the response his reporting has received from the White House. Here he compares the Commander in Chief, unfavorably, to several of his predecessors and concludes the President is behaving with a kind of “madness.”

John Nolte has a follow up on yesterday’s story about ABC and their edit of the First Lady’s comments about a shooting in Chicago. ABC says the inaccurate comments the First Lady made were edited out “for time.” If this

Unemployment in France shot up by 43,000 in January. That brings the total number of unemployed to 3.16 million, just shy of the 3.19 million record set in 1997. After he was elected, the administration of socialist President Francois Hollande

In response to Huffpo: Ben Smith, BuzzFeed ‘Government-Subservient’ Stenographers: BuzzFeed definitely made some mistakes but Glenn Greenwald’s outrage seems a bit over the top (as usual). Even Huff Post is backing off the outrage a bit: UPDATE: BuzzFeed wrote a

Howard Kurtz just posted a new video about conservative’s strange new respect for Bob Woodward, something he finds amusing. The hook is that Woodward’s piece claiming Obama had moved the goalposts on sequester has made even Sean Hannity into a

Charlie Spiering at the Examiner finds ABC has edited an interview with Michelle Obama to remove a portion where she misspoke about a recent shooting in Chicago. Here’s what Mrs. Obama said on Good Morning America according to a story

The President is doing his best to convince the public that $85B in cuts this year will be the equivalent of the apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Democratic Senate plan he has endorsed contains $110B in deficit reduction split evenly between cuts

In response to Ben AFLACK at the Oscar’s: I’m sure Ben is a gushing liberal like nearly everyone else in Hollywood but it doesn’t come through in Argo, which is one of the reasons I hoped it would win. The

Having recently confessed that, yes, the sequester was a White House proposal, progressives are now trying to downplay that admission in any way possible. Ideally, they’d like us all to ignore the fact that the White House has been lying

In response to Ace: The media and government fused to present an award to a movie about government/media fusion. Pretty much, except in the film we’re in on the joke and last night we were expected to be thrilled.