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As tempers flare in Washington this November, with the dust settling on late-night midterm results and vote fraud occurs in broad daylight… we see an unusual dispute in the news. This kerfuffle is between a major news source – CNN – and the White House. CNN’s reporter, Jim Acosta, refused to shut his mouth when his time was expired, and even shoved an intern out of the way for just doing her job. The White House had it with him, and revoked his press credentials - not CNN’s, just his. The reporter made more of the story than it was,...

"Sean, I'd like to ask you about two different topics but could you help us all by calling on Peter right now?" Peter Baker is the White House reporter for the New York Times. Spicer declined Simendinger's request. "No, I'm gonna— I understand," Spicer said. "I actually call the questions. Alexis, if you don't want to [ask] your question, I can call on somebody else." "Could you call on the New York Times, please?" Simendinger said. But Spicer moved on to another reporter.

<p>The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room.</p> <p>The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas.</p> <p>According to Ed Henry, the senior White House correspondent for CNN and member of the WHCA board, the Associated Press will move to the front-row middle seat formerly occupied by Thomas.</p>

In an interview, Helen Thomas, a White House Press Correspondent, gives her comment on Israel by cackling, “Tell them to get the he** out of Palestine!” She continues the interview with a blatant display of jaw-dropping anti-Semitism and racism. Someone should give Witch Thomas a lesson on history and remind her that Jews were in Israel long before the holocaust. Then send her home on her broomstick. http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/06/04/helen-thomas-to-the-jews-get-the-he-out/

Helen Thomas, the seemingly anti-semite White House Correspondent who just a couple day’s ago lashed out at White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs over the flotilla incident calling the Israeli response (mind you) a ‘massacre’, has now been caught on camera displaying her true colors once again by going for the juglar of the Jews.

From White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs’s press briefing today: Q ... Is this something that is being considered, by the president, for reversal? Or is this the policy that will go forward? And does he have any anxiety about the potential consequences of the release of these photographs? MR. GIBBS: Well, obviously the president has great concern about any impact that pictures of potential detainee abuse, in the past, could have on the present-day service members that are protecting our freedom either in Iraq, Afghanistan or throughout the world. That's something the president is very cognizant of. And we are...

In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire. Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps. The moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the White House Press Office and were never placed on the White House web site.

Robert Gibbs made a splash yesterday at his first official press briefing as White House Spokesman, managing to make odd references to Brazilian soccer while outing confidential sources and generally making display of his ham-handed tactics and smarmy, arrogant style. In a triumph for incompetence and unprofessionalism, two themes that I expect to play a large part in the Obama administration, Gibbs had an uncomfortable exchange that was covered by the Washington Times, but apparently more or less ignored by the mainstream media reporters at the briefing.

President Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press corps Thursday night, but got agitated when he was faced with a substantive question. Asked how he could reconcile a strict ban on lobbyists in his administration with a Deputy Defense Secretary nominee who lobbied for Raytheon, Obama interrupted with a knowing smile on his face. "Ahh, see," he said, "I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can't end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I'm going to get grilled every time I come down here." Pressed further by the Politico...

NBC anchorman emeritus Tom Brokaw has taken the network's obstreperous White House correspondent David Gregory to the woodshed, warning him not to let his relationship with brand new White House press secretary Tony Snow devolve into a foodfight. "David and I have actually talked about this," Brokaw told radio host Don Imus on Thursday. "I would succumb to this from time-to-time," the veteran newsman recalled. "You get into that bubble in the White House press corps and you begin to think that it's between you personally and the press secretary. Or that you're showing off for your colleagues in the...

Sitting in armchairs waiting for handouts not the best way to get scoops Members of the elite White House press corps this week have acted more like animals that have been kept in captivity for so long that they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing. The Cheney hunting accident story embarrassingly revealed this fact, which probably explains the greater-than-normal anger and outrage of White House correspondents over the last few days. “Why weren’t we told?” has been the refrain, not “How did we miss that story?” The White House press...

These press briefings with Scott McClellan have just gotten ridiculous. The White House press corps love to beat up on him because he has to come out there and talk to them every day. Meanwhile, the news networks have on policymakers who are actually in positions to give meaningful answers, yet rarely if ever ask the really tough questions because they fear they might not get the powerful pol back on the show. But since McClellan has to come back to the podium every day, these press briefings just become venting sessions for the press corps. In this latest example,...

My favorite supporting character in the legendary strip, “Peanuts,” is Pigpen. His unique trait is raising a cloud of dirt everywhere, even on a clean, dry sidewalk. Pigpen came to mind when I saw the White House Press Corps’ question President Bush Wednesday on his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. First, the status of the nomination. Monday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid held a nearly unprecedented press conference with Harriet Miers, just hours after her nomination. Reid said that she was an “exceptional” candidate, and “the sort of person who should be nominated.” In short, the...

'Gannon' Signs Off: Guckert Says He'll No Longer Talk to Press By Joe Strupp Published: February 15, 2005 10:55 AM ET NEW YORK James D. Guckert, the former White House reporter who's been accused of everything from asking partisan questions to being a male prostitute, is no longer speaking to the press, claiming it does not help his cause, he told E&P this morning. "I talked to attorneys, and I am no longer talking to anyone [in the press] anymore," said Guckert, who has used the alias Jeff Gannon. "It doesn’t seem to clarify anything any longer. Everything I say,...

President Bush gingerly waded into the controversy over John Kerry's remarks about Vice President Cheney's lesbian daughter yesterday. "The President of the United States does not believe it was appropriate for Sen. Kerry to bring [up] Mary Cheney at the debate," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. <...snip of Kerry's stupid excuse on the subject> Mayor Bloomberg offered his 2 cents. "I think it was inappropriate," Bloomberg said. "I think everybody's orientation is their own business.... Nobody should be talking about that."

WASHINGTON - A cheerful President Bush derisively bade "good riddance" yesterday to Saddam Hussein, laughing off the ex-Iraqi dictator's demand that he be allowed to negotiate with U.S. captors. "Good riddance. The world is better off without you, Mr. Saddam Hussein," Bush said at his last news conference of the year. "I find it very interesting that, when the heat got on, you dug yourself a hole and you crawled in it," the President added when asked what he would say to Saddam. Bush tried hard to avoid gloating, reminding Americans that guerrilla attacks and U.S. casualties surely will continue....