AP Sues WH Over Gulf of America Name, Alleging Free Speech Violation

February 22nd, 2025 10:34 AM

On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small,…

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Stein, Todd Lament Media's 'Collective Weakness' Defending AP, Rip Fox

February 21st, 2025 6:51 PM

Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf…

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Stelter Decries Trump as ‘Word Police,’ But He Backed Disinfo Board

February 20th, 2025 11:00 AM

In an appearance on Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom and in his so-called “Reliable Sources” Newsletter, liberal media janitor Brian Stelter kvetched about President Trump “embracing the role of word police” for barring the Associated Press from official White House events over their refusal to call it the Gulf of America. Meanwhile, Stelter had backed the Biden administration’s attempt to…

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Trump SLAMS ‘Bad,’ ‘Horrible’ AP, CNN, MSNBC, PBS in Musk Interview

February 19th, 2025 12:45 PM

In an lengthy interview with Elon Musk that aired Tuesday on the Fox News Channel with Sean Hannity (and taped late last week), President Trump unsurprisingly found time to lambaste the “bad,” “dangerous,” “horrible” liberal media as he and Musk have stood up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shrink and tame the leviathan that is the federal government.

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PBS: Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ Ban Attacks Freedom of 'Nonpartisan' AP

February 18th, 2025 11:17 AM

PBS’s regular Monday political conclave with Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith ran hotter than usual, with concerns about President Trump’s purported assault on the First Amendment fanning the fear flames, leading the panel to make ridiculous defenses of the non-partisan (!) Associated Press.

White House: Our Spat with AP Is About ALL Their Left-Tilted Lingo

February 17th, 2025 12:20 PM

It's strange to see AP and the White House battling over the Gulf of America, but Axios reports there's a broader message. "This is about AP weaponizing language through their Stylebook to push a partisan worldview." 

AP Drew 'One of the Largest Investments' from the Federal Government

February 6th, 2025 10:15 PM

Wallace White at the Daily Caller reported it isn't just Politico that's a substantial beneficiary of federal government support. The Associated Press -- which in recent years has offered a seriously soft touch to President Biden -- receives many millions from taxpayers

AP's Party Lost, Whines About Red States 'Rolling Back Trans Rights'

January 27th, 2025 7:47 AM

Blithely tossing aside biological reality for ideological ends, Associated Press wrote from Topeka: “Republican-led states emboldened to continue rolling back trans rights as Democrats struggle with response.” AP absolutely mangled the political controversy over “transgender rights,” and assumed with no scientific evidence that a high number of children are “trans." AP used all the LGBTQIA-…

'Fact-Based' AP Hypes Hoax of Elon Musk Offering 'Nazi Salutes'

January 23rd, 2025 11:19 AM

The Associated Press claims to bring "fact-based, nonpartisan information to the world." Fact check? Pants On Fire. In two stories, AP hyped Democrats and leftists (and "right-wing extremists") claiming Elon Musk made a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day. It's a hoax.

AP’s WH Reporter: America, Bidenomics Was Actually the Bee’s Knees!

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January 16th, 2025 4:31 PM

The Associated Press’s in-house public relations flunky for President Joe Biden, Josh Boak, is following the dragged out trend of leftist media figures treating Americans like they’re just too impatient to understand the true genius of Bidenomics.

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Last KJP Briefing Brings an Emotional Speech, Non-Answers, and a Shrug

January 15th, 2025 8:18 PM

Wednesday afternoon brought us the final Biden White House press briefing and, by her own count, the 306th featuring the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. It featured Jean-Pierre emotionally patting herself on the back, plenty of unanswered questions (mostly stemming from the monumental Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal), the final Jacqui Time, and even Jean-Pierre doing her own…

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The 18 Best Battles, Hardballs, Smackdowns From the Biden WH Briefings

January 15th, 2025 2:30 PM

With the final White House press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, we’re looking back at the best hardballs, tussles, and moments over the hundreds of Biden administration press briefings, primarily helmed by Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre. The story of the Biden White House press corps is far more complex than Fox News – led by Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich – asking challenging questions…

A Progressive Hellscape

January 10th, 2025 4:10 PM

“February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February -- and the seventh-wettest month overall -- in the city’s nearly 150-year recorded history,” said Judson Jones’ report on Los Angeles’ weather on March 2, 2024, in The New York Times. Just under a year later, Los Angeles is on fire and…

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Ten Times WH Reporters Lobbed Softballs or Whacked KJP From the Left

December 28th, 2024 10:00 PM

In this final year of the Biden presidency, the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre provided a litany of verbal stumbles and word salads when under tough questioning from Fox’s Peter Doocy, Jacqui Heinrich, Edward Lawrence, and even from liberal legacy outlets. Thankfully for her, there were also times when she had assists from the press corps in peddling the left’s preferred storylines (to hide…