Apparently, CNN’s Ali Velshi is unhappy with my interpretation of his outrageously biased and dishonest sequester reporting yesterday. Here’s our back and forth on Twitter yesterday after my piece published: — You @noltenc followers should know that I did not
Over the past two weeks, conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has been advancing a theory about why President Obama’s approval ratings remain above average, despite the fact that most Americans say they are dissatisfied with the direction the country is
By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.
(AP) WASHINGTONPresident Barack Obama has signed an order authorizing the government to begin cutting $85 billion from federal accounts, officially enacting across-the-board reductions that he opposed but failed to avert. Obama acted Friday, the deadline for the president and Congress to
Bob Woodward sat down for a frank talk with Sean Hannity to discuss the attacks on him for reporting that the idea for sequestration originated with Barack Obama. Hannity asked him about the conversation Woodward had with Gene Sperling, Obama’s
This afternoon, while Obama was giving his White House press corps. their marching orders to blame sequester for his failed economy (which CNN’s Ali Velshi wasted no time following), the president mixed up his “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” metaphors. It was a
NBC is thisclose to being put out of our misery. Can’t we band together and give it the final push into the grave? You know NBC’s ratings are bad when… An affiliate decides to air a 21-year-old Matlock movie
Ali Velshi is CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent and Barack Obama’s Chief Sequester Propagandist. This so-called correspondent is a living breathing pipe-organ for the White House and its latest push to blame sequester — and by extension, the GOP — for
Actress Ashley Judd, a potential 2014 Democratic U.S. Senate challenger to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will refuse to take questions from the press at an event this afternoon at George Washington University. Event organizers told reporters here at the event
President Barack Obama issued a one-page memorandum on January 25, five days after the inauguration. The memo told the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish new mandates that would allow federal agencies to
Don’t you miss those days when political humorists kept the president honest through smartly observed jokes without stooping to mean-spirited assaults? Me, too. Today, we have a comedy community (save Jay Leno who remains an equal opportunity cutup) that either ignores President
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
Leave it to Mike Allen, one of the White House’s designated spokespeople at Politico, to misquote one of Politico’s own stories in order to push the Obama sequester-end-of-the-world agenda. This morning on Politico’s Playbook, Allen quoted a story from his
(AP) Boehner after Obama meeting: No new taxesWASHINGTONHouse Speaker John Boehner says higher taxes won’t be part of any deal to solve the country’s budget mess. Boehner emerged from a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and said there
Hours before the $85 billion sequester cuts will take place, we learned that personal income dropped 3.6% last month, the biggest drop in two decades. Weeks before the awful-terrible-doomsday 2% cut in the federal budget takes place, we learned that
As though manufactured anonymous sources wasn’t enough, today BuzzFeed’s own Andrew Kaczynski is now tweeting out mockery of sequestration fear-mongering. Yes, that’s correct, ladies and gentlemen, a guy who works for a site that was the tip of the online
The White House is urging the high court to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Jan Crawford reports.
“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.” – Barack Obama The President of the United States is lying. He’s not lying about his personal life sex a la Bill Clinton; he’s lying
By DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated PressCHICAGOMichelle Obama says it was “absolutely not surprising” to her that her satellite appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony provoked a national conversation about whether it was appropriate, after some conservative critics accused her of selfishly crashing
How much time did Barack Obama spend in a “meeting” with GOP lawmakers on Thursday to look for an alternative to sequestration? Seven minutes. That’s how serious Obama is about any compromise. He’s not even interested in whether sequestration does
There are two stories circulating around Bob Woodward this morning. One is relatively easy to resolve and the other is more difficult. The first is the the claim being made by numerous media personalities, both left and right, that what
American Seniors Advocates President Randy Lewis slammed White House senior adviser David Plouffe’s ageism, calling him an “ass” for bashing Bob Woodward for being an old and washed up reporter. “David Plouffe is an ass,” Lewis told PJMedia on Thursday.
The ObamaMedia really needs to get its talking points together. Though Woodward never claimed he’d been threatened, Obama’s dishonest media minions are pushing back as though he said he was. Now we have The Week’s Marc Ambinder trying a new
UPDATE: Micheal Scherer responded to this post via Twitter: @noltenc Just saw your scoop. My tweet was about irony in Jindal tweet, accusing WH of fighting politics while he did same. Not WH defense — michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) March 1, 2013
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to criticisms of the White House threatening Bob Woodward by saying that the White House and the Administration is always “respectful” to journalists trying to do their job. Carney claimed that anyone who
