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snip A press conference to discuss the final phase of Bergdahl's reintegration has been scheduled for 3 p.m. CDT.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was openly mocked by the assembled press corps Thursday after saying President Obama “doesn’t give himself enough credit for what he’s done around the world.” Associated Press reporter Matt Lee asked sarcastically whether he deserved 200 percent credit, while another one wondered for what “accomplishments” Psaki meant he deserves more praise. “For engagement initiatives like Iran, what we’ve done on Ukraine, efforts to dive in and engage around the world,” she said. “I mean, Russia has still annexed Crimea,” another reporter asked. “I mean, Iran — there’s ongoing negotiations, but is that the success here...

May 29, 2014 Reporters Openly Mocked the U.S. State Department’s Spokeswoman Today Bryan Preston Whatever US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki is trying to sell, she’ll have no buyers among the Washington press corps. Psaki tried arguing that President Obama “doesn’t give himself enough credit” for his foreign policy triumphs.Reporters asked a sensible question in response: What on earth are you talking about? When does this president not give himself enough credit?One reporter even asked Psaki how much credit she would give the president. Answer: A lot.As the conversation devolves into farce, this exchange happened. Q: I mean — I...

**SNIP** Homeowners Irrationally Choosing to Be Deadbeats: "And so when I read people saying, now, this wouldn't be a big deal; we should test it out; let's take default out for a spin and see how it rides -- and I -- I -- I say, imagine, in your private life, if you decided that I'm not going to pay my mortgage for a month or two. First of all, you're not paying money by not paying your mortgage. You're just a deadbeat. And you can anticipate that will hurt your credit, which means that in addition to the debt...

This doesn’t come from just any talking-head guest on Barack Obama’s friendliest cable-news channel, either, but from its management. MSNBC.com executive editor Richard Wolffe — who wrote not one but two Obama-friendly books over the last four years — called the President’s performance in the St. Petersburg press conference “actually embarrassing,” and blasted the White House for pushing a dishonest rationale for war (via Mediate and The Corner):CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Wolffe began by agreeing with the panel on MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner that the “service professionals” quoted in reports strongly questioning whether the administration had a...

Obama's first post-election press conference, if you could call it that, tells us a great deal about his attitude and the approach he intends to pursue in his second term, which is the same failed policy mix on steroids. Obama's re-election, of course, gives him the right to pursue these policies, but it doesn't deny elected Republicans the right or relieve them of the duty to oppose them. If Obama can glean any intelligible mandate from his victory, it is that relentless negative campaigning, demagoguery, divisive identity politics, deceit and superior political strategists targeting essential voters and voting districts work....

Very short notice, but per Woofie, no info as to the subject matter, but he will be in the Briefing Room.

Obama held a press conference last Friday, July 15 which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest: in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.　 Deception 1. "make sure that the United States does not default on our obligations, and that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved." There is zero risk of a default to the creditors of US debt. The federal government takes in about...

President Obama is evidently feeling the pressure from the current shenanigans over a routine hike in the debt ceiling. But really, what president does not have to push through congressional attempts to embarrass him at debt-ceiling time? Man up, Mr. President. If you can 't take the heat, keep out of the kitchen, said Harry Truman, a product, like the president, of an all-American big-city machine. Problems, said the Bard, come not single spies, but in whole battalions, and the president's real problem is the onrushing Four Horsemen of the Democalypse. There is the shambles in the black community. Walter...

But Timothy has just come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and LOVE. 1 Thes 3:6 Once again we are going to have an Armageddon on Aug 2nd when the world ends from not raising the debt limit. The world will literally stop and the sun will not come up if gummit is not allowed to borrow more from China. How do we know that for sure? Simple, the geniuses who got us in this situation are telling us. The same economic gurus who pushed through Tarp I & II as well as the...

QUESTION TIME -- WATCH LIVE: White House press secretary Jay Carney is set to brief reporters shortly. Here's what we'd we like to ask him: Is the president hopeful for his Israeli-Palestinian plan even after Benjamin Netanyahu expressed doubt over it? How did the president plan to approach that subject with Netanyahu today? Did the president have any reaction to the news that Tim Pawlenty will run for president? When does the vice president plan on resuming debt ceiling talks with Republicans?

Democrats in Wisconsin were crying foul Friday after a significant vote-count change in the hotly contested Supreme Court election gave the conservative incumbent the lead in a race that could decide the fate of the state's new divisive collective bargaining law. [Snip] Liberal groups also howled in protest.

President Obama flubs "lowest sh**" when he meant to say "lowest share." OBAMA: ".. bring annual domestic spending to its lowest sh** -- lowest share to the economy since Dwight Eisenhower."

If the commenters at the Huffington Post, and the hosts and guests at MSNBC, are any guide, the Bush tax cut deal has rendered the Obama presidency a zombie.  It looks alive and is even able to move and groan a bit, but it’s mostly dead. foxinretreat—CLASS WARFARE and some civil unrest , brewing in a neighborhood near you. Hey oligarchs how it turns out is anybody’s guess. I hope Wikileaks unleashes its info on the banks ASAP, I could care less if WS has to tank to stop this madness.mjtaylor22—THEY GOT MOR EBANG FOR THEIR BUCK, HOW BOUT...

RUSH: Why... is... he... uh... talking... uh... this... way? He's even got a teleprompter in there and he's still talking like that. He's putting a period not at the end of every sentence, but at the end of every word. I'm talking about Obama and this abomination of a press conference. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday! RUSH: Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yahoo. He said he wanted to close Guantanamo Bay sooner but we missed the deadline. We... missed... the... dead...line. This thing's been going on for over an hour, and......

Sometimes, a White House press conference can be a chance for a president to take some weight off his shoulders ... but weight off his fingers? Eagle-eyed reporters noticed that President Barack Obama wasn't sporting his wedding ring during Friday's White House press conference. "big to-do over potus not wearing his wedding ring today," Tweeted The Hill's Sam Youngman, who was at the presser. Obama's wedding band is "an intricate gold design from Indonesia, where he had lived as a boy," the New York Times reported in 2009. Michelle will probably be okay with it; after all, she once left...

Welcome to my world Steve Jobs, when tech stuff breaks down! Today Apple will hold a presser today on the issue of the problems with the reception issues of its new iPhone 4. This is a first for Apple. Give Apple CREDIT that it is addressing the issue RIGHT AWAY.

'Obama Struggling to Show He's in Control," reads the headline on The Washington Post's story on Barack Obama's Thursday press conference, where most of the questions were about the Gulf oil spill. "Defensive, unauthoritative and equivocal," wrote Congressional Quarterly's Craig Crawford of Obama's performance. "He came across as a beleaguered bureaucrat in damage control." Uh-oh. People, even people in the Obama-friendly press, are beginning to say that the oil spill is Obama's Katrina. That it destroys his reputation for competence. Obama's press conference -- his first in the White House in 309 days -- didn't make him look any more...

Video shows President Barak Obama walking down a beach, doing what I call a “walking presser” giving an explanation on what an oil based tar ball is. Knowing the political heat he has been under as of late, President Obama knows EVERYONE is WATCHING HIM.

President Obama said at his BP press conference that when he was shaving the other day, his daughter Malia asked him, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" If Obama wanted to give her a quick lesson in how the world works, he might have said: "No, dear, that's beyond my capacity. I can't stop oil from gushing from a well 5,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface. Now, did you do your homework?" Malia can be forgiven for not understanding the limits on her daddy's power. She's 11 years old. What's everyone else's excuse? If the presidency of the United...