Since George Stephanopoulos left This Week, I’ve been pulling for the great Jake Tapper to get the job. He is a real journalist in the Tim Russert mold. But today Mediaite is reporting that CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has been offered the job. Let me be the first to predict that this is going to be a [...]

The last two days illustrate some of the Obama Administration’s favorite PR tricks in action. Yesterday, Gallup reported some poll numbers that should worry Administration officials. Although his personal approval rating remains high (67% approve; 32% disapprove), his support on specific issues is waning—particularly on budget issues. Americans disapprove of his handling of the federal [...]

This is amazing and scary. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has decided that she doesn’t like the word “terrorism.” Instead, according to Newsmax, she prefers the term “man-caused disaster”: Instead of referring to threats from terrorists, Janet Napolitano is referring in her speeches to “man-caused disasters.” In an interview, a reporter for Germany’s Spiegel Online [...]

No point deductions for The One today (I feel a big one coming the next day or two)–just an update to yesterday’s post about Obama’s Caterpillar fib. Jake Tapper, not content to have simply embarrassed the administration yesterday, decided to rub their nose in it today. Check out this transcript of Tapper and Gibbs discussing it. Who do [...]

This should come as no surprise. Yesterday, President Obama claimed that the CEO of Caterpillar had promised to rescind some of the 22,000 layoffs the company announced last month if the porkulus bill is passed. He repeated the same claim today. The problem is, it’s a lie. Jake Tapper of ABC reports that the CEO was asked [...]