Jennifer Loven

AP White House Reporter Loven Jumps to Liberal Democratic Political PR/Lobbying Shop
By Brent Baker | August 12, 2010 | 12:55 PM EDT
Jennifer Loven, an 18-year AP veteran and the wire service's chief White House correspondent, has decided to put her communications talents to work for The Glover Park Group, a DC-based “strategic communications firm” founded in 2001 by a bunch of Clinton and Gore staffers, most prominently Joe Lockhart, who found themselves unemployed after the 2000 election. She'll be “Managing Director in its Public Affairs practice,” a Thursday press release from the Glover Park Group, plugged by Politico's Mike Allen, announced.

She's the second President in a row of the White House Correspondents' Association to leave journalism for a left-wing, or at least left-leaning, lobbying outfit. In June, Bloomberg's White House reporter, Ed Chen, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, jumped to the Natural Resources Defense Council as Federal Communications Director. (My complete Obama-journalism revolving door list.) Loven held the WHCA position for 2008-2009 and was succeeded by Chen.

Amongst the clients touted on the Glover Park Group's Web site: American Civil Liberties Union, Alliance for Climate Protection, Campaign for Women's Lives, Better World Campaign and the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty. They also list some corporate clients, but no conservative activist groups.
As ClimateGate Goes Worldwide, AP's Loven Grows Strangely Allergic to the 'C-Word'
By Tom Blumer | December 18, 2009 | 2:14 PM EST
GlobalWarmingThe establishment press dispatches from Copenhagen have been remarkable exercises in unreality.

That's because, as documented in two columns this week at Pajamas Media by Joseph D'Aleo (here and here), the ClimateGate scandal's scope has gone worldwide. The sub-headline at D'Aleo's first column succinctly states the following (bold is mine):

The focus belongs not just on CRU (the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit), but on all of the organizations which gather temperature data. All now show evidence of fraud.

That's right, "all." As in, "every." As in, "no exceptions." There is apparently no clean data anywhere. And the raw data? As noted some time ago (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), that's gone too.

Thus, there is no credible, scientific support for the assertion that the earth has been unusually warming, or for the contention that such warming if even occurring is human caused. None.

The word choices of Jennifer Loven at the Associated Press in her latest reports seem to betray a bit of anxiety that globaloney's house of cards is quickly collapsing. 

'Chris Matthews Show' Panel Links Limbaugh, Malkin and GOP to Birthers
By Geoffrey Dickens | August 3, 2009 | 5:51 PM EDT

On the syndicated "The Chris Matthews Show," over the weekend, Chris Matthews and his panel linked Rush Limbaugh and the GOP to the birthers movement and accused them of playing racial politics. After showing clips of Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin, Matthews and his panel argued that the GOP and conservatives were trying to capitalize on a "dark undercurrent" in America, as Matthews charged: "Are, are the Republicans using this to sort of build the undercurrent of passion against this president? They may not admit it, but are they using it?" 

NBC's Norah O'Donnell responded, "Yes I think I do. There is a sense that there are forces out there that are doing harm to this country and so people are looking for a way to de-legitimize Barack Obama. And so whether they can do it by aligning his race or his birth, even though he was born in America, they are a way to de-legitimize him and I think it, it's this dark undercurrent in America. And the thing that concerns me is that rather than focusing on things that unite us, that people are concentrating on things that divide us." [audio available here]

For his part Newsweek's Howard Fineman accused the GOP of using the "anger" to win in 2010. 

CNN Touts Obama $100M Spending Cut, but Even White House Acknowledges Insignificance
By Jeff Poor | April 20, 2009 | 4:24 PM EDT

It must be hard to keep a straight face when you report that the President of United States going to cut $100 million from a $3.5 trillion budget and then say he is serious about cutting government spending.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs couldn't pull it off. In the White House's April 20 press briefing, Gibbs was asked by Associated Press reporter Jennifer Loven why the $100-million target was so small and she even accused him of making a joke about it.

"I'm being completely sincere that only in Washington, D.C. is $100 million not a lot of money," Gibbs said. "It is where I'm from.  It is where I grew up.  And I think it is for hundreds of millions of Americans."

But somehow, CNN correspondent Elaine Quijano pulled it off. Originally on CNN's April 20 "American Morning," and again on CNN throughout April 20, Quijano reported the Obama administration was making an effort to cut spending.

AP's Loven Describes Obama Speech -- 5-1/2 Hours Before It Began (See UPDATE on Cantor's Statement)
By Tom Blumer | February 25, 2009 | 9:19 AM EST

APabsolutelyPathetic0109Who knew that the Associated Press's Jennifer Loven has the ability to see into the future?

That must be the case, because yesterday she told us what had happened at Barack Obama's sort-of State of the Union speech -- 5-1/2 hours before Obama uttered a word.

As fellow NewsBuster Noel Sheppard is given to say, "I kid you not."

Loven's AP story carried at Breitbart (HT to Abe Greenwald a Commentary's Contentions blog via Instapundit) has a 3:30 p.m. Eastern time stamp:

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Obama's speech was scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m.

Loven's before-the-speech as if after-the-fact review provides plenty of comic relief. Though she would be expected to have been given a pre-release copy of the speech, her use of the past tense gives readers the impression that the speech had already taken place. She even criticized Republicans for allegedly doing exactly what she was doing -- but they weren't (bolds are mine):

AP's Loven Criticized Bush's Valid Arguments as 'Straw Men,' Silent on Real Obama Examples
By Tom Blumer | February 21, 2009 | 8:27 AM EST

JenniferLovenWHCApic2008.jpgThe Associated Press's Jennifer Loven is now the President of the White House Correspondents Association (picture at right is from the WHCA web site).

Loven was the first person on President Obama's preselected list of those permitted to ask a question at his February prime-time press briefing. Whether she received this top placement because of her office, or because of her years of George Bush-bashing bias -- so strong and obvious that Powerline was moved to dub her a "Democratic Operative" back in 2004 -- is an open question.

Loven queried the president as follows:

Earlier today in Indiana you said something striking. You said that this nation could end up in a crisis, without action, that we would be unable to reverse. Can you talk about what you know or what you’re hearing that would lead you to say that our recession might be permanent when others in our history have not? And do you think that you risk losing some credibility or even talking down the economy by using dire language like that?

(Obama actually said "may be unable to reverse," not "would be." But I digress.)

Obama's rambling answer, and the rest of the briefing, should have reminded Loven of what she surely considered a withering critique of Bush three years ago (HT to an e-mailer; bolds are mine). After all, she wrote it:

White House Briefing Live-blog [Feb. 11, 2009]
By Ken Shepherd | February 11, 2009 | 2:09 PM EST

Waiting for the press conference to start. I may also tweet some over at Twitter.I'll be particularly looking for any questions on Wall Street's reaction to Geithner's plan (382-point drop, market stagnant today) and how Gibbs would respond to it. Should be fun.I'm watching via Fox News.14:15: We're 15 minutes late. Par for the course with Gibbs. 14:16: Chris Cillizza of Washington Post tweeting @TheHyperFix: Is this like a concert? If we all start clapping, will Gibbs come out?14:18, Fox was at commercial break when Gibbs came out, switched to CNN. Sneaky, Mr. Gibbs. 14:19, Jennifer Loven of AP asking if Geithner didn't realize how bad the market reaction would be yesterdayGibbs says the plan wasn't designed for one-day market reax.

White House Press Briefing Live-blog [5 Feb. 2009]
By Ken Shepherd | February 5, 2009 | 2:16 PM EST

Update: The highlight thus far is the testy exchange between Gibbs and Tapper. Checking the tape again it appears he did answer Tapper's second question, albeit tersely muttering the response, before turning to Chuck Todd of NBC.

Gibbs starting press conference about 10 minutes late, at 2:10. Says was late getting started due to news about Associate Justice Ginsburg's pancreatic cancer surgery.

[N.B.: I'm watching via Fox News ]

14:10, Jennifer Loven, AP: question about stimulus size.

14:13, Loven question about potential conflict of interest for Obama's Labor Sec. designee, Rep. Solis.

14:14, female reporter notes more "combative" tone to Obama's talk on stimulus, asks if he's "given up on bipartisanship"

sorry for the gap, had Internet connection problems for a few minutes.

14:19, Ed Henry: President talked about the trillion dollar deficit, why then if that's a failure does he want to add $8 or $9 billion on top of that?

14:20, Henry: Paid for with a cigarette tax but we're not sure how many are going to buy cigarettes

14:22,Henry: Notes Labor Secretary-designate Hilda Solis's husband's reported tax liens, asks if White House knew about it.

14:24, Jake Tapper, ABC News: Can we get copy of the waivers for former lobbyists given by the OMB. It's not available by email or the Web, can we get them. 

AP Warns GOP Against 'Risky' Opposition to Debt
By Joshua Sharf | February 1, 2009 | 11:11 PM EST

Opposition to excessive debt as "analyzed" by the AP:

O'Reilly: 'AP May Now Be Dead As an Objective News Organization'
By Tom Blumer | July 19, 2008 | 7:18 AM EDT
APlogoUpsideDownThe fallout that began a week ago after the publication of the Associated Press's Tony Snow obituary continues.

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly took his concerns about it to the top of AP, and didn't like the response he received. He shouldn't.

In his column this morning at Townhall.com, he also reaches a conclusion about the self-described "Essential Global News Network" that is becoming increasingly difficult to deny.

AP's Snow Funeral Story Holds on for 20 Grafs, Then Goes Classless
By Tom Blumer | July 18, 2008 | 1:26 AM EDT

Tony SnowAfter the firestorm that erupted Saturday over the Associated Press's classless story on the death of former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, I was hoping that the possibly-chastened wire service could get through its coverage of his funeral without getting in any gratuitous digs.

In that horrid Saturday story (blogged at NewsBusters and BizzyBlog), the AP's Douglass K. Daniel, with the assistance of longtime Bush basher Jennifer Loven, felt it necessary, within hours of Snow's passing, to characterize him as "not always (having) a command of the facts," questioning reporters' motives "as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing," and turning his briefings into "personality-driven media event(s) short on facts and long on confrontation." In a further descent into tastelessness, they felt it necessary to tell us what Snow's salary at the White House was -- something I don't believe I have ever seen written in a story on anyone else's death. (11:00 a.m. update: See this comment below for an exception.)

Covering Snow's funeral Thursday, AP reporter Ben Feller stayed classy almost to the end. But then he apparently couldn't help himself, and followed the execrable example of his Saturday predecessors in his story's third-last paragraph.

Classless AP Takes Cheap Shots at Just-Passed Snow
By Tom Blumer | July 12, 2008 | 9:03 AM EDT

At long last, has the Associated Press lost all sense of decency?

The AP's story (saved here for future reference in case the wire service is embarrassed into revising it; you might consider saving it too as Exhibit A on how far over the cliff the dinosaur media has driven itself) by Douglass K. Daniel, with Jennifer Loven contributing (I might have known), gets in at least three cheap, fundamentally untrue, and totally uncalled-for shots at Tony Snow, who died earlier this morning.

I won't sully NB's front page with any of them. They follow the jump: