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Open thread: Obama press conference with David Cameron

Ed Morrissey — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:41:52 +0000

Hot seat?

Talk about bad timing! UK Prime Minister David Cameron is paying a long-scheduled visit to Washington DC, and protocol for such a visit requires a joint press conference. Barack Obama will have to face the press just as two scandals are erupting, one new — the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups for the past three [...]

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Obama to Chuck Todd in Israel: What’s with all the questions?

Allahpundit — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:21:11 +0000

"You're incorrigible."

Drudge has been having fun all day with minor embarrassments from O’s trip to Israel, from the presidential limo breaking down to Israel deciding it’ll have to dig up the tree he planted to this, in which he allegedly “berates” Chuck Todd. I wouldn’t call it that; even when he’s annoyed, Obama’s adept at not [...]

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Video: OFA selling WH access to donors?

Ed Morrissey — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:01:36 +0000

"This just looks bad."

“This just looks bad,” says MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, and that’s an understatement. Todd worries that the White House is “ceding the moral high ground” by having Barack Obama’s presidential-campaign-turned-activist-network pledge to provide access to the President in exchange for big bucks, as the New York Times reported over the weekend: Finally, The New York Times reported over [...]

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Is the White House freezing Fox out of pressers?

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:01:28 +0000

The big chill.

It’s no secret that Fox News is not Barack Obama’s favorite news channel. In his first year, the White House more or less declared war on Fox, suspending its strategy only when other media outlets began to publicly criticize Obama for it, blocking the White House attempt to freeze Fox out of coverage. They may [...]

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Tick tock: No deal on the fiscal cliff yet; Update: The last hope is …

Ed Morrissey — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:31:43 +0000

The great leap Forward.

I think this is the moment when Harvey Keitel started running after the blue 1966 Thunderbird convertible at the Grand Canyon, isn’t it? Senate leaders are racing against the clock to reach a “fiscal cliff” deal the House and Senate can approve on New Year’s Eve. Leaders in the upper chamber narrowed their differences Sunday [...]

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Chuck Todd on Sandy Hook: If your kid’s playing “Halo” for three hours a night, make sure he doesn’t have a problem

Allahpundit — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:00:45 +0000

It's come to this.

Via Mediaite, I like this clip because it captures the essence of the Do Something gun-control impulse, even though Todd’s not talking about guns. The “Halo” games have sold 50 million copies worldwide. Microsoft estimates that people collectively have spent five billion hours playing them. Violent crime has been declining for 40 years and mass [...]

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Chuck Todd: We’re seeing a structural change in the race toward Romney

Ed Morrissey — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:01:16 +0000

"I don't know if one more debate could make it up."

Bear in mind that Chuck Todd is using the WaPo/ABC poll from this morning for part of his analysis, and you can see just how bad things are going for Team Obama. While I agree with Todd on the momentum shift, I’m not as sure it’s recent, but I do think the debate was [...]

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Chuck Todd: The enthusiasm gap is real — and a real problem for Obama

Ed Morrissey — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:01:33 +0000

"And by the way, all of this ... pre-debate."

Did the enthusiasm gap detected by the Politico/GWU poll published today have to do with the debate performance by Barack Obama on Wednesday night? Not necessarily, and it might mean that the full impact of the debate has yet to materialize. On yesterday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd detailed the falloff in enthusiasm among key [...]

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