UPDATE: Democrat Lanny Davis agrees that Sperling’s email threatend Woodward: Did Gene Sperling effectively handle his interactions with Bob Woodward? Hardly, says friend and former colleague Lanny Davis. “He should know better,” Davis told POLITICO. “Did Bob Woodward get a single fact
NOTE: This post will be continually updated… Also, I’m not including open partisans in this list, like Josh Marshal of Talking Points Memo. Those listed below pose as “objective” journalists. The media stands by its own, at least until one
With less than two days before the March 1st sequestration deadline, Senate Republicans are drafting a bill that would cancel the $85 billion in discretionary spending cuts and instead cede authority to President Obama to make the same level of
Wednesday night on CNN, legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward stated that a “very senior person” in the Obama administration had told him in an email that Woodward would “regret” it if he continued to press the point that President
On Wednesday afternoon, Club for Growth, the conservative group that has challenged moderate Republicans in past primaries, launched a new website that targets nine current Republican members of the House of Representatives who represent conservative districts but have moderate to
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will agree to expand the state’s Medicaid program under Obamacare on Tuesday. According to the Newark, NJ-based Star-Ledger, Christie will announce the expansion when he unveils the governor’s new budget in a 3 p.m. speech to a
In the first installment of this series, we asked about the prospects for a third party in the US, noting that the voters are mad as hell at everyone in Washington. Some 73 percent of Americans, for example, trust the federal government
Appearing on “America Live” with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, Breitbart News’ Ben Shapiro pointed out that any organization that dares to speak unfavorably of the administration, like Bob Woodward did when he exposed the sequester was the administration’s idea, is
It was announced today that Evan McMorris-Santoro, the national politics reporter for Talking Points Memo, will replace Zeke Miller as BuzzFeed’s White House reporter. News of Miller’s departure didn’t come as a surprise. It’s been rumored for some time. The
To aid the confirmation of counterterrorism chief John Brennan as the next director of the CIA, the White House will release more emails and documents related to the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. According to Politico,
When President Barack Obama banished the White House Press Corps from his golf outing with Tiger Woods at the exclusive Floridian golf course last week, White House reporters threw a fit not because they were unable to ask him the
President Obama has launched a campaign to push his tax hikes by granting interviews to local TV news programs in eight states whose viewers will likely be affected by budget cuts as a result of sequestration. The goal of Obama’s
In January of this year alone, the NRA’s political action committee (PAC) raised $1.1 million, nearly double the approximately $600,000 a month they raised in 2011 and 2012. Because of this, at the end of January the NRA’s PAC had $2.4
LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC HOST: Welcome back, Joel. Are they the footstool? Is he the puppet master? Why is that Politico, which is the heart of the media establishment, all of a sudden complaining? What’s going on here? JOEL POLLAK, BREITBART
Ashley Judd’s attempts to become America’s next Meg Ryan didn’t turn out as expected. The starlet’s next move could take her away from the silver screen and deposit her inside the Beltway. Actress Ashley Judd privately met with officials at
Politico’s Ken Vogel is obsessed with what private citizens do with their own money, especially those private citizens who don’t do what Politico tells them to do — support Obama. You would think that a “real” reporter would be more
In a lecture to conservatives at the Las Vegas Country Club, Frank Fahrenkopf, co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, admitted that the selection of CNN’s Candy Crowley to moderate the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney
On Tuesday, a day before the start of the Match Play Championship in Arizona, Tiger Woods spoke to golf reporters about his weekend golfing outing with President Barack Obama. White House reporters did not have the opportunity to ask Obama
In response to Nice Scoop Politico: I have so much admiration for John Sexton and John Hayward for wading through that BS. I got through maybe two paragraphs, earlier today, and had to stop because it was making my head
In response to Nice Scoop Politico: I love the refrain scattered throughout Politico’s apologetic that Team Obama has somehow dazzled them with fabulous new technologies. Too bad there was no way for George Bush’s White House to create photo and
In response to The media doth protest too much: That Politico story on White House media manipulation is incredibly galling. There is nothing in it which bloggers (myself included) were not saying almost 4 years ago. Here’s one of Politico’s
Within minutes of President Obama’s statement today demagoguing the upcoming sequestration, both Politico and NBC News’s First Read were up with reports. And like the good, little sycophant stenographers they are, both news outlets headlined Obama’s dire warnings about the effect looming
The media really is freaking out over Golf-gate… at least, to the extent they’re willing to get truly upset with Barack Obama about anything. Yesterday brought a really remarkable Politico article about “Obama the Puppet Master.” I picked it apart
Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (VandeAllen) must have recently woke up feeling a little dirty about themselves and their chosen profession. Maybe it was due to Obama not leaving any money on the dresser this weekend. Whatever the motivation,
Politico has a new piece insinuating that there are four GOP senators who are frustrated that they haven’t had a phone call from the White House so they can work together. Rob Portman of Ohio said this: I view this
