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For a day that was supposed to be full of drama, fury, margin calls and overall bloodshed, newsflow is so boring, for a second we wanted to demand our money back from management, or the kleptocracy, whoever it is that prints these things nowadays. However, some excitement may yet be salvaged now that Boehner has just called for a news conference precisely on the closing bell at 4pm. We assume this will be to present details of his two-tiered plan, which we touched upon earlier, and which Fox News now provides some additional details on. Suffice to say, if Obama...

The Obama depression

I vaguely remember when folks criticized President Barack Obama for shirking press conferences. And at the time, in light of his campaign promises to lead the most transparent administration in U.S. history, ignoring the media did seem a little hypocritical. Now, after two presidential pressers in as many weeks, I’m nostalgic for the days when the president rarely spoke in such a public fashion.To be sure, BHO sounds slicker than ever, reciting lines that resound to his own acclaim, lines that circumspectly and self-consciously seek to contribute to his mythical mature, cool, cerebral superiority. Here’s a sampling of some of...

Barack Obama’s press conferences should be mandatory viewing for all Political Science and Economics classes. Lacking the appreciation for deception that most leftist politicians mastered long ago, President Obama spends his press conferences enunciating the goals and methods of the Left, honestly and proudly – blissfully unaware that an audience of real Americans, when able to see them clearly for what they are, is certain to be horrified. Analyzing an Obama event is like watching a flower girl at a wedding; our as-yet unindicted president skips down the aisle, tossing flower petals in every direction – his ideas on budgets...

Mention has been made about President Obama’s casting of corporate jet owners as villains in yesterday’s press conference. Clearly, he feels strongly about it, as he called them out specifically half a dozen times. This vilification is especially rich, coming as it does from the man who regularly rides what is likely considered to be the most expensive “corporate jet” in the world. And of course we shouldn’t forget that the “tax breaks” for those dastardly corporate jet owners came right from his own Stimulus plan which failed so spectacularly… But let’s take a look at the “corporate jet” part...

When Mark Halperin asked if the seven-second delay was working prior to offering his observation on President Obama's performance at his press conference of yesterday, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski seemed to assume he was joking, and invited the normally mild-mannered pundit to proceed. But it immediately became obvious that the joke was on the Morning Joe hosts, because when he spoke, Halperin said of Obama "I think he was kind of a d--k yesterday." As evidenced in the screengrab, Mika and Joe reacted with shocked amusement. View video here.

I should have used a laugh track.

I keep thinking/hoping, eventually journalists are going to wake up. I’ve spent 30 years in the business, always cynical about its mission (the business is supposed to attract cynics,) and waiting and wondering if good sense and logic will finally win out over the obvious politics. A ray of hope. Veteran journalists (many now retired) are starting to speak out about what they are seeing with todays “journalists.” “If you watch an Obama news conference, and watched a Bush news conference previous to that, where correspondents sit in their seats with their hands folded on their laps, [it's] as if...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The following are highlights from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's press conference on Wednesday after the central bank's monetary policy committee meeting. This is the first regularly scheduled press conference by a Fed chief. In a statement following the meeting, the Fed said it would finish its $600 billion bond-buying program in June as scheduled, and repeated its plans to keep interest rates low for an "extended period." ON FED TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY: "It used to be that the mystique of central banking was all about not letting anybody know what you're doing. As recently as 1994 the...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss rising energy prices and other issues as the world heaps pressure on Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, an official said. Obama wanted to discuss "rising energy prices among other things" in the appearance, which was scheduled for 11.15 p.m. (1615 GMT), a White House official said on condition of anonymity. The White House has said that it is well aware of the economic pain imposed on Americans at the gasoline pump by rising oil prices, amid turmoil in the Middle East. ..

Does anybody know how I can hear Ken Cuccinelli's 2 pm press conference (on the Healthcare ruling) live, via streaming, on the web?

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167 NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2 WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the...

In 1997, Henry Payne, the political cartoonist for the Detroit News and editor of TheMichiganView.com, said he was in Washington D.C. for a press conference on the international agreement on climate change called the Kyoto Protocol. Payne recalled the first question of the press conference was asked by the New York Times environmental reporter. "How do we get Americans to stop driving SUVs?" Payne said the reporter asked. Kyoto sets binding agreements for 37 countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations. Payne said the rest of the press conference was "simple cheerleading" by reporters. He used...

This afternoon the president gave a press conference concerning the administration’s response to the BP oil spill. Were the president my client, he would have been “fired” on the spot, and here’s why. President Obama said quite clearly, “the federal government has been in charge since day one”. Forgetting for the moment that no one believes that to be remotely true, he has handed BP a partial defense to damage claims on a “silver platter”. The trial of damage claims will go something like this. BP will freely admit, as it has to, that it is responsible for the explosion....

A defensive, un-authoritative, and equivocal Barack Obama did nothing today to show he's in charge of what appears to be our biggest oil spill in history. He couldn't even answer whether or not he had fired someone.

On Thursday, for the first time in 308 days, President Obama will confront the White House press corps in a full-blown news conference, taking the best shots that reporters have to offer on the topics of their choosing. Obama's lengthy absence from reporters' crosshairs has exceeded President George W. Bush's longest gap of 204 days. As a candidate two years ago, Obama, then a senator, mused aloud about holding a news conference every month. As president, Obama has held just four prime-time news conferences in the first 485 days of his term, but that is equal to the total number...

Amid growing discontent among his press corps about a lack of access, President Obama will take questions from reporters Thursday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. Obama will make a statement after receiving a report from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on what went wrong to cause the BP oil spill, Gibbs said, after which he will answer some questions. “I expect that the president will speak to you all about it and answer some questions about it,” Gibbs told reporters in his daily briefing Monday.

VFW’s Response to Blumenthal’s Press Conference KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 18, 2010 - Mr. Blumenthal is not a member of the VFW and VFW National By-Laws do not allow any level of the organization to endorse political candidates. VFW national did not sanction and was not, in fact, aware that the press conference was going to be held at a VFW Post. This decision was made at the Post level and the VFW Department of Connecticut issued the following: The following statement is by Richard DiFederico, Department Commander Connecticut VFW: “Those who served in Vietnam or offshore or in neighboring...

I think he left out the word "deliberately" when saying he misspoke, this is Dick Blumenthal's presser today, surrounded by veterans..(Video)

Once again, Connecticut and the nation got some “face time” with the former’s state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s press conference, flanked with members who have served in the Unite States Marines and speaks about a son who is now at present serving in the Marines.