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RUSH: You know, I’ve noticed something that Trump does with these press conferences, and it was hot. It was like 86 degrees when he started. He was out there 38 or 40 minutes. It was 90 degrees when he’s wrapped up and headed to the helicopter. He was sweating profusely but not nervously. Just hot out there. He had sweat dripping down the face; you could see it starting to sweat-stain the dress shirt the president was wearing. But the hair remained intact and did not become helmet hair. It didn’t get wet. The president has that down pat. But...

The White House Press Corps has jumped the shark and needs to be reined in. While I respect and admire Sarah Huckabee Sanders's work, and I enjoy her ability to spar with an increasingly hostile force, the daily briefings have become about the media agenda and not the White House's agenda. Having a White House press credential is not a right; it is a privilege. The First Amendment prevents Congress from making any law ... abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press . It does not grant license to media sycophants to drive their agenda in the...

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders took on a number of questions from the White House press corps Tuesday afternoon about her credibility. Specifically, she was asked about a discrepancy surrounding a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower. Last August, Sanders said on the record the President did not dictate a response to revelations about the meeting. However, a letter written by President Trump's legal team states he did in fact dictate the response onboard Air Force One last year, which was then given to the press."Why should we be able to trust the information we...

Today Sarah Sanders conducted a press briefing. What transpired illustrates Michael Ramirez’s point that there is no difference between the crazed comic Michelle Wolf and the crazed reporters who cover the White House for their various liberal outlets. Ms. Sanders opened, as usual, by talking about some of the things going on in the White House and around the country: Today in the Rose Garden, President Trump continued the tradition of celebrating the National Day of Prayer. The President also signed an executive order to ensure that all faith-based communities have strong advocates throughout his administration..... Do you think the...

...Obama didn’t want any press around while he was hitting up the one-percenters for big bucks, so he sent them to their room. No word on whether they got supper beforehand.

Anti-Semitism: With the state of Israel facing an existential threat, journalism's grand dame advocates ethnic cleansing as a Mideast solution. Liberal intolerance has come out of the closet. The "retirement" of Helen Thomas comes as no surprise. Neither did the remarks that prompted it. She's expressed such sentiments before, and her brethren in the White House press corps, which salivates over any politically incorrect utterance from the right, let her get away with it.

Hearst made the announcement of her "immediate" retirement today. Helen once said, "I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?" Someone decided to end her fun." As a member of the White House Press Corps, Helen is officially a White House Press Corpse. After the Christmas Day Underpants bombing attempt, Helen ask Janet Napolitano to explain the motivation for "them" [jihadists] to harm us. Her face doesn't lend itself to looking coy, but she tried her best. So when Thomas told the Jews to "get the hell out," and soberly informed us that...

The president met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the White House. He traveled to Ohio to attend a fundraiser for Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell. Here are some more details from the doctors' report after W's physical exam yesterday, such as "Doctors treated a small precancerous lesion on his left arm but indicated it was nothing serious. They told him to use sunscreen and wear a hat." He smokes a cigar now and then, drinks coffee and diet sodas and takes a daily multivitamin but does not routinely take any prescription medication.

Issues & Insights Snow Stirs It Up Posted 5/12/2006 The Media: When President Bush introduced his new spokesman, Tony Snow warmly told the White House press corps he wanted to offer help. Surprise! The doctor started by writing prescriptions. ... he wasted no time handing out giant horse pills. It's a joy to watch our journalistic brothers and sisters struggle to swallow them. The stiff dosages come as e-mails, reports The Washington Examiner's Bill Sammon: "Since starting his job, Snow has challenged five major news outlets in a clear signal that he will be more aggressive than his mild-mannered predecessor,...

CALL THE WAAAH-MBULANCEM By Michelle Malkin · April 27, 2006 08:08 PM ***updated with reader feedback*** Transcript of the hissy fit White House press corps reporters had earlier today about TVs being tuned to Fox News (sent by reader John...by way of Hotline): Q It's come to my attention that there's been requests -- this is a serious question -- to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied. My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox? MR. McCLELLAN: Never heard...

Ask reporters here what they think of Scott McClellan, the soft-spoken Texan named last month to fill Ari Fleischer's job as White House press secretary, and one hears descriptions like "teddy bear" and "sweetie." The warm reaction contrasts sharply from their opinions of Fleischer, the combative New Yorker who seemed to revel in his regularly televised jousting with reporters - some of whom to this day cannot speak civilly about him. McClellan, building on the store of good will he amassed as Fleischer's more accommodating deputy, has emerged in his first few weeks as a compassionate conservative answer to Fleischer....

Scott McClellan can seem effortlessly funny, as when the new presidential press secretary told reporters: "I look forward to working with the White House press corps -- at least most of you, anyway." What the assembled journalists didn't know was that McClellan had tried out the line on several White House aides beforehand, asking if they thought it went too far. The 35-year-old Texan is soft-spoken, self-deprecating and so cautious that he makes the man he's replacing, Ari Fleischer, sound like a gangsta rapper. And there may never have been a White House spokesman in the television age who recoiled...