White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news that House Speaker John Boehner had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress, calling it a “departure from protocol.”
The Obama White House, before the president’s State of the Union, distributed a lengthy more-than-6,800-word fact sheet supposedly backing up Obama’s various initiatives. But notably, Obama’s White House never cited any sources for any of the facts it laid claim to.
Working at the White House isn’t always formal. Sometimes even flannel is in fashion, as this weekend when official photographer Pete Souza released a photo of a casually dressed President Obama, working on his State of the Union speech with speechwriter Cody Keenan.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest starred in a video released by the White House featuring the former stars of “The West Wing” television show. Martin Sheen, Bradley Whitford and Allison Janney all helped Earnest try to comically announce on
The White House is getting ready for another “big block of cheese day,” which is a curious hat-tip to the ’90’s TV show “The West Wing.”
Although Ava Duvernay’s civil rights era drama Selma garnered only two Oscar nominations Thursday, President Obama has deemed the film worthy of showing, and will screen it Friday night at the White House for a special event.
On a call with reporters this afternoon, a White House aide warned that President Obama’s security might be in jeopardy if Republicans failed to pass a full funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. “Until a full funding bill has passed, the DHS and the Secret Service is not able to move forward with the recent recommendations from the report on White House complex security,” Andrew Mayock from the Office of Management and Budget explained during the call.
Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said accuracy is the reason the administration refuses to use the term “radical Islam.” When pushed by NPR’s Mara Liasson for the specific reason they won’t use the term,
Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended President Obama and White House officials for refusing to describe the terrorist attacks in Paris as a consequence of radical Islamic terrorism. Earnest explained to White House reporters during the press briefing that this is a question of “accuracy.”
Sunday’s massive march in Paris against terrorism drew dozens of world leaders in a show of unity — except from the United States, which was represented by its ambassador.
On Sunday, as world leaders gathered for an anti-terror rally in Paris, France, the Obama administration announced that it would convene a global “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism” on Feb. 18. The White House released a statement describing the summit agenda, which failed to mention Islam, radical Islam, or anything related to the actual ideology motivating the Paris attacks.
After being told for the past six years that there is no threat from Islamism, Americans are slowly waking up to the the fact that radical Islam does indeed pose a serious threat to the West. It is becoming difficult for most to deny that the carnage we witnessed in Paris, as well as Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, our own shores on 9/11, and in countless other countries for the past 1,400 years, is a product of Islam.
Several times during Tuesday’s White House daily briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama would veto legislation that approves construction of the Keystone XL pipeline if it lands on his desk, as was promised to happen later this
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest couldn’t resist drawing attention to Republicans for allowing Rep. Steve Scalise to stay as House Majority Whip, after reports that he addressed a group of people at a white supremacist group convention. Earnest explained that Republicans know that they needed to “broaden their appeal” to minorities, gays, women, and young people, but that it was eventually up to the party to decide.
It has long been suspected that the hackers who worked Sony Pictures over, ostensibly to punish it for insulting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in a satirical film called “The Interview,” involved some assistance from insiders. The self-identified primary
I don’t know.
Though we hear it very often, it’s an infuriating turn of phrase, and a choice one in political circles, recently made wildly popular by our president (see President Obama’s ‘I don’t know’ strategy — and its limits, by Chris Cillizza.)
While vacationing in Hawaii, President Obama phoned New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton this morning to express condolences for the killing of two New York City Police officers, according to White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz. “In their
Obama’s national security team is weighing a range of options in response to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said. Earnest told reporters on Dec. 18 that the White House is considering a “proportional
On September 4th at Sen Harry Reid’s “annual energy conference, where green-tech-industry players, environmentalists, and politicians” meet to discuss their agenda, ongoing or preferred, Center for American Progress founder and White House insider John Podesta blandly presented what may be the
Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry criticized some of his fellow members of the White House Press Corps for some of their “unmemorable” questioning during the president’s year-end press conference on Friday saying “frankly, I think some of
Friday at his year-end news conference before leaving for his annual holiday vacation in Hawaii, President Barack Obama said Sony Corporation “made a mistake” when they gave in to the North Korean hackers’ demands and pulled “The Interview’s,” Christmas premier
Ahead of President Obama’s press conference on Friday, Dan Pfeiffer, his senior political adviser, mocked Republicans for failing to repeal Obamacare. “We just finished a debate on how funding the government for next year and the Republicans didn’t even have
On Thursday, US Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new interpretation of the Civil Rights Act meant to prevent employers from discriminating against people who claim the status of a transgendered person. Holder announced in a memo that Title VII
The Department of Homeland Security released an executive summary of its report on the Secret Service moments ago. The report recommends that the U.S. government replace the entire fence surrounding the perimeter of the White House. The report was drafted
Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest got into a heated exchange with Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry over recent reports that President Barack Obama has been issuing “presidential memorandum” to avoid
