Victoria Toensing, Republican Counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, says her client, a State Department official now considered a whistle-blower in the investigation of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, has been “threatened” by Obama administration officials. According to
The 2013 Summer movie lineup brings to mind one of Yogi Berra’s finest witticisms–“it’s like deja vu all over again.” Hollywood is reduced to a “better safe than sorry mode,” meaning sequels and reboots are now the prime vehicles for
Tuesday morning, the White House announced that President Obama would hold a snap press conference at 10:15am EDT. The ambiguous nature of the presser raised expectations that important news was about to break. When the presser was delayed by almost
On Monday’s “Outside the Lines” on ESPN, NBA reporter Chris Broussard (pictured) questioned Jason Collins’s assessment that he is a Christian in addition to being the first openly male gay athlete in any of the major American sports. Openly gay
CBS This Morning admitted Republicans “have a point” that the sequester’s cuts could be smarter and more flexible. They went on to say that the White House was hoping Americans would protest from the pain inflicted by the cuts and
(AP) – The White House is commending NBA veteran Jason Collins for becoming the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay. White House spokesman Jay Carney called that decision courageous and
(AP) Economic gains may not help Democrats much in 2014By TOM RAUMAssociated PressWASHINGTONPresidents like to take credit for economic recoveries, just as President Barack Obama is angling to do now. He and his allies in Congress have “walked the economy
Newly released Federal Election Commission (FEC) figures reveal that $18 million of the $43 million President Barack Obama raised for his second inauguration came from corporations, unions, and interest groups. In 2009, Obama banned corporate donations to his first inauguration. After reversing his position
Just throwing this out there. Photo: According to armchair body-language expert Ezra Dulis, either MSNBC host Chris Matthews or MSNBC host Al Sharpton is fall-down drunk before entering the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) Saturday evening. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, comedian Conan O’Brien poked fun at CNN’s ratings woes as the cable network struggles to reclaim its identity as the leader in breaking news coverage. O’Brien said conservatives watch Fox News, liberals watch
Black voters “outperformed” their potential share of the electorate in 2012, while every other minority group and whites “underperformed.” According to an analysis by the Associated Press, if the racial and ethnic composition of the electorate were the same it
Vice President Joe Biden suggested Friday that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) may have won the 2008 presidential election if the economy had not “collapsed.” “The truth of the matter is, Barack knows it, I know, had the economy not collapsed
In some of its reports on Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the Associated Press failed to include one of President Obama’s own gags. AP strangely left out the word “Muslim” in one of Obama’s self-referential jokes. Early in his
By FRANCES D’EMILIOAssociated PressROMEAn unemployed bricklayer shot two Italian policemen in a crowded square outside the premier’s office Sunday just as Italy’s new government was being sworn in, investigators said. The gunman’s intended target was politicians but none were in
DAVID GREGORY: As you know, the White House said this week after this intelligence estimate came out about the use of chemical weapons that the case that Syria actually did that is not airtight. What do you say?SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN:
Last Friday evening CBS announced that Psy, the anti-American Korean one-hit wonder (“Gangham Style”), would be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Even though Psy apologized for a song where he said that American troops and families should be killed
Before the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, some of Washington’s most prominent media figures defended the weekend’s lavish festivities as a testament to how much the rest of the country is interested in them. Even though veteran newsman
The White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) has been a mainstay Washington to-do for years. Lately, however, it has come under fire for turning Hollywood–literally. In the wake of the event, some outlets continued the bashing but most lavished attention on
Speaking in advance of the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, New York Times writer Mark Leibovich blistered members of Washington’s permanent political class for their “self-congratulatory” parties that make them seem more removed from everyday Americans. Leibovich, who has
Politico, in an effort to get some a real scoop from the White House Correspondents Dinner, wrote a memo with suggested questions its writers could ask attendees. The questions will shock you with their depth–but don’t worry. After each question,
The late, great Christopher Hitchens famously jibed at Wanda Sykes, host of President Barack Obama’s first White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) in 2009: “The president should be squirming in his seat. Not smiling,” he said. “The black dyke got it
Barack Obama’s sense of humor fits perfectly with the elitist White House press corps that routinely cover him, and there was never a better example that one remark he made in his series of jokes at the White House Correspondents
Typical of when a Democrat is president, during a keynote monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the President is spared from too many mean-spirited barbs. In keeping with that tradition, TBS’ Conan O’Brien poked a lot of fun
Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, an annual event that features ultra-wealthy journalists hobnobbing with the tuxedo-clad politicians they are supposed to hold accountable, featured a swaggering President Obama lobbing verbal hand grenades at Republicans, Sheldon Adelson, Fox News, and
Former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who has fiercely fought crony capitalism and the permanent political class, absolutely blistered the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, tweeting that the dinner was “pathetic” and that “DC assclowns” were
