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CBS, NBC Maintain Blackout on Deleted State Dept. Vid; ABC, CNN Cover
June 2nd, 2016 1:39 PM
CBS This Morning and NBC's Today on Thursday followed in the footsteps of their networks' newscasts the previous evening in failing to cover the State Department's Wednesday admission about an intentional edit of an online video posting of a 2013 briefing. To their credit, ABC's GMA aired a news brief on the controversy on Thursday. CNN's AC360 devoted a full report to the revelation on…
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Nets Blackout Evidence of State Dept. Manipulating Video of Presser
June 1st, 2016 11:05 PM
Manipulating video to hide the truth seems to be all the rage in politics these days and so is the liberal media’s refusal cover it. “President Obama's State Department is admitting tonight that it deliberately edited out of its video records an exchange between our Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen and the department's then spokeswoman [Jen Psaki],” reported Fox News’ Bret Baier,…
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Networks, Major Papers Skip State Dept. Removal of Fox Q&A Video
May 11th, 2016 8:27 PM
In the national TV-news world, only Fox News reported that Obama national-security communications whiz Ben Rhodes told The New York Times he created an “echo chamber” with a compliant national media to promote the Iran arms deal, even misleading the public as to when those talks began. They actually began in July 2012, but the administration claimed it began after “moderate” Hassan Rouhani’s…
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Network Evening Newscasts Dodge Latest in Clinton E-Mail Scandal
March 18th, 2015 3:21 AM
The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC combined to ignore the latest in the Hillary Clinton e-mail on Tuesday night after news broke that the State Department had no record of the former Secretary of State having signed a separation agreement to turn over all documents related to her work. While the networks neglected to cover this development, the Fox News Channel’s Special Report devoted a full…
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NBC's Mitchell Helps Psaki Blast GOP's 'Unprecedented' Letter to Iran
March 13th, 2015 3:42 PM
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell deferred to State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on the Friday edition of her program, and let the Obama administration flack attack the 47 Republican senators who signed an open letter to Iran's leaders. Mitchell led into the segment by playing President Obama's condescending "I'm embarrassed for them" and "it's close to unprecedented" shots at the senators, and gave…
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Megyn Kelly Rips Psaki Over Panetta's Early Iraq Withdrawal Claims
October 4th, 2014 12:13 AM
On her Thursday Fox News show, Megyn Kelly interviewed the State Department's Jen Psaki.
Psaki's thankless and impossible task was to defend the administration against former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's assessment that U.S. troops completely left Iraq too early. Video and the damning portions of the transcript follow the jump:
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State Dept. Press Deputy Sneers at O'Reilly Show For Having No 'Intell
September 4th, 2014 12:27 PM
Fox News correspondent James Rosen has been investigated by Obama's Justice Department for being a "co-conspirator" and violator of the Espoinage Act. Attorney general Eric Holder even approved seizing Rosen's private e-mails. Now, Rosen's latest question at a State Department briefing to press aide Jen Psaki prompted her assisant Marie Harf to tweet that Psaki "explains foreign policy w/…
As World Tensions Mount, State Dept.'s Psaki Tweets on Being 'Smart, S
July 18th, 2014 3:38 PM
The Obama administration is probably wondering why so many people of all political stripes don't believe that they take foreign policy seriously, up to and including charges that the president and his minions are doing the equivalent of fiddling as some parts of the world burn, and others threaten to.
I don't see why would anyone think that (in case it's not obvious, that's sarcasm). After…
AP's Matt Lee Shows Some Spine Challenging WH on Syria
September 6th, 2013 11:20 AM
Associated Press reporter Matt Lee has been on the State Department beat for almost four years. At times, he has been one of a very few establishment press reporters who will challenge Obama administration officials when their assertions become too brazen to tolerate.
One of those times (HT Business Insider via Hot Air) occurred yesterday, when hapless State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki…
WaPo's Amy Gardner Gushes Over 'Jen and Jay Show' Aboard Air Force One
October 31st, 2012 5:47 PM
Yesterday's Style page of the Washington Post devoted a gauzy piece by staffer Jason Horowitz to Obama's "data-driven guru" David Plouffe. Today, Horowitz's colleague Amy Gardner took her turn at Obama campaign puffery with her Style section front-pager, "
"Welcome to the 'Jen and Jay Show,' the latest iteration of the White House news briefing," Gardner opened her October 31 piece on the Air…
Obama Still Using Variation on Presidential Seal
July 8th, 2008 6:42 AM
Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for Obama's campaign, said Monday that the altered seal would not be used again. She said it was only intended for that event, in which Obama held a round-table discussion with Democratic governors. -- AP story, June 23, 2008 [emphasis added]Hat tip teoman.Add Obama's pledge to drop the faux presidential seal to his list of "inoperative" statements. The image shown here…
