Before jumping on CBS News’ Mark Knoller for trying to embarrass the president by reporting how many times he hit the golf course this year, keep in mind that Washington’s unofficial statistician has kept track of all sorts of White House activities. It’s amazing that the president found time to golf at all, but he […]
http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/525636347609251840 On the heels of yet another White House fence jumper, here comes another “game-changing” security measure! Fence jumpers could be eliminated by barring pedestrians and tourists from the WH stretch of Penn Ave. But not politically tenable. — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 24, 2014 US Secret Service doubles size of buffer zone between adjustable […]
http://twitter.com/#!/RightGlockMom/status/525002156420923393 The White House has for years been a laugh-a-minute when it came to defending their lousy record on transparency. Today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest added to the pile: .@PressSec cites "Heisenberg principle" as the reason reporters excluded from covering Pres Obama's Q&A sessions with Dem donors. — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 22, 2014 The […]
http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/426483819688910849 Addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors Thursday, President Obama once again (to loud applause) threatened to use his phone and pen to bypass Congress. “Where Congress is debating things and hasn’t been able to pull the trigger on stuff, my administration’s going to move forward, and we’re going to … do it in partnership with all […]
http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/476101630941999105 The UConn Huskies men’s and women’s basketball teams both won NCAA championships earlier this year. Both teams also won the title in 2004. This frequency of victory caused President Obama, who met with players from both teams today, to make a “redistribution of championships” funny: http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/476098239280979969 Or, was it not a joke? http://twitter.com/#!/dutchindian/status/476098924328271874 Heh. […]
http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/451838586846208000 Now that David Letterman is retiring, there’s going to be no end to the “Top 10 reasons David Letterman is retiring” jokes. Credit CBS News’ Mark Knoller for being one of the very first. Let’s have a look. 10. Running out of stupid pet tricks. 9. Chris Christie will be thin by then. 8. […]