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There was a heated exchange today between White House press secretary Jay Carney and Fox News' Ed Henry about Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s claims that America was going to be less safe because of the Administrations claims the sequester cuts could not be changed.

Fox News’ White House Correspondent Ed Henry told the Associated Press Thursday that some of Fox shows and commentators have covered Benghazi “more than it needed to be covered.” …

FNC’s Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry got the first question at today’s joint news conference between Pres. Obama and Lee Myung-Bak, President of South Korea. Henry asked the president about the alleged Iranian terror plot, and used a quote from GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney who had criticized Obama’s leadership. Obama responded with, “I didn’t know you were the spokesman for Mitt Romney.” In an interview later with Megyn Kelly, Henry explains, “I was trying to put it in the broader context of not just Mitt Romney, but there are a lot of Republicans out there who would charge...

Ed Henry, CNN’s senior White House correspondent, is leaving to take the job of chief White House correspondent at Fox News, a source close to Henry confirms to POLITICO. He’ll be taking over the beat that’s been without a permanent reporter since Major Garrett jumped from Fox to National Journal last August. “He’s got a lot of wonderful experiences at CNN, and he appreciated his time there, but in the end, they gave him an offer he couldn’t turn down,” said the source. He’ll be leaving CNN at the end of the week. Henry left college early to go to...

TVNewser has learned CNN White House correspondent and White House Correspondents Association officer Ed Henry will vote for Fox News to take over the front row White House briefing room seat vacated earlier this week with the abrupt resignation of Helen Thomas. Henry is one of three officers on the WHCA, the others being Ed Chen of Bloomberg and David Jackson of USA Today. Other board members include Doug Mills of The New York Times, Steve Scully of C-SPAN, Don Gonyea of NPR, Julie Mason of the DC Examiner and Caren Bohan of Reuters. CNN only got a front row...

CNN senior White House correspondent Ed Henry says he asked his now-famous follow-up question about the AIG bonuses because “[t]he president, like any good politician, decided to pick and choose what to answer. So he swatted away the budget question and ignored the AIG stuff.” About Obama’s rejoinder to Henry that he needed time to get angry "because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak," Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi retorts: “Being slow to anger is fine. Being slow to honesty is not.” Indeed. What Obama should have told Henry: “Because the teleprompter script had not...

There is a somewhat amusing article on CNN.com right now. It's not amusing for it's witticism but for the fact that Ed Henry and CNN think they need to explain away the "tough exchange" that Henry and Obama engaged in during Tuesday's press conference. Also amusing is the fact that Henry seems to be apologizing to The One for simply doing his job. Finally, it's amusing for the fact that CNN and Henry think they are the news along with the president. It's narcissistic and revealing all at once. On top of all that it is amusing for whom CNN...

[Tuesday's press conference] is not the first time Obama has dissed the Wall Street Journal colleagues of MarketWatch senior columnist Jon Friedman, and he is fine with it: “[H]e is getting the hang of controlling the media, or rather not letting the media control him.” The Stiletto cannot recall Friedman praising former president Bush’s attempts to limit press access. In any case, Friedman shouldn’t be surprised if one of the Journal’s reporters - who are under orders to “break news” (or else) – gives him a wedgie. NOTE: Running late for work. Did not put any links in this blurb....

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The most amazing part of the exchange to me is that I didn't go into the East Room intending to ask President Obama about AIG. After frantic preparation for the prime-time newser with several colleagues, especially lead CNN White House producer Tim McCaughan, I had several provocative questions in my pocket. But none of them had much to do with the financial crisis because I assumed several of my colleagues would exhaust the topic of AIG before my turn came up. At the first presser in February, I was about the 10th reporter the president called on....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-MEuVdCLc4 President Obama flashed some anger at CNN correspondent Ed Henry for asking why it took him days to express outrage over the bonuses paid to executives at AIG. It took us a couple of days because I like to know what Im talking about before I speak, Obama snapped.

The fun thing about watching the presidential press conference with Twitter in the background are the real time reactions of people sitting at home remarking on the event. Like when President Obama flashed some anger at CNN correspondent Ed Henry for asking why it took him days to express outrage over the bonuses paid to executives at AIG. “It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak,” Obama snapped. The Twitterverse snapped too. “Ed Henry” soon became one of the most searched items and people quickly typed out what they...

LOL Ed Henry was just on Anderson Cooper's show talking about Obama getting testy and not wanting to answer the question. Said he noticed that none of his colleagues asked him about the biggest story of the week, AIG, and how he clearly didn't want to discuss it. Said he was evasive, and we noticed that he has to rely on his teleprompter because if he gets off message he gets testy and flummoxed. Said he wanted to stay on the budget, but the budget is not good news for the white house either. I agree, why weren't there ANY...

Claims public ‘doesn’t support private accounts,’ but facts show otherwise. Even as President Bush endorsed a new Social Security plan that didn’t focus on personal accounts, poor coverage of the reform issue continued. This time, it was CNN’s Ed Henry claiming that people don’t support personal accounts even though that isn’t the case. According to Henry, on the June 21, 2005, “Inside Politics,” “We see polls across the board saying that the public by and large doesn’t support private accounts.” Henry didn’t cite any of the polls showing this overwhelming opposition. Henry didn’t even bother to quote from the skewed...