What to Do When You Don't Know the Answer
It's perfectly permissible to admit that you are not the repository of every minute fact known to humankind. No one expects you to be a walking encyclopedia.
It's perfectly permissible to admit that you are not the repository of every minute fact known to humankind. No one expects you to be a walking encyclopedia.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
To maintain his trademark cool demeanor and to abolish his unwords, the president would do well to insert more pauses in his answers -- and to avoid Chuck Todd.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Obama, whose smooth delivery in major speeches has been lauded by friend and foe alike, has also been derided for his tendency to sputter "ums" and "ahs" during extemporaneous answers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
The latest faux outrage in the debate over health care reform has to do with the terrible way President Barack Obama has treated doctors. Over the we...
Adele Stan | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
What made Wednesday's press conference so interesting was that the men's questions were quite predictable, while the questions from Christi Parsons, Julianna Goldman and Lynn Sweet were anything but.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Friday morning ventured into the racial and political debate over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Now that he is talking healthcare "change," Obama's rhetorical passion has been displaced by the soporific drone of a mid-grade federal accountant. Where is the passion, Mr. President?
Eric Deggans | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home
Why did the Today show -- by far TV's most-watched morning show -- spend its first segment this morning discussing what the president said about the arrest of a black scholar in Cambridge, Mass.?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media
The chance to ask a question during a prime-time presidential press conference is treasured real estate in the world of journalism. So when the Presid...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Near the conclusion of his press conference on Wednesday, President Obama was asked to respond to the controversial arrest of distinguished Harvard Pr...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Below is the full text of the prepared remarks President Obama delivered during his press conference last night, along with updates from the subsequen...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought Wednesday night to rally support for sweeping health care legislation he's stru...
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
Mr. President, talk to us directly. Tell us again why your election was only the first step, not the culmination, of a genuine movement to change the way we understand power, democracy, and our own roles in those phenomena.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media
FOX is alone among the major television networks in making the decision to continue with their regular programming tonight instead of interrupting the...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
"America's Got Talent" judge David Hasselhoff took his critical eye to President Obama Tuesday, suggesting the nation's leader would not be a strong c...
The Live Feed | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
Fox declined outright to air the news conference. NBC and ABC fell into line late Monday after the White House shifted the event's time from the previ...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
In a first that should be noted in the presidential archives, the White House on Friday used the Twitter feed to announce to more than 726,000 followers that Obama is holding a press conference Wednesday night.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media
How are Obama's relations with his former idolaters going to play out? Is the honeymoon over?
Jerry Weissman | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Sooner or later every human being on the face of this planet is confronted with tough questions. One of the toughest and most common is the infamous l...
Ari Melber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
Obama took a question from an Iranian citizen at his Tuesday press conference, marking a small step towards a more open Washington press corps. You might not know that, however, from the press corps' reaction.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
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The Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
President Obama fielded a question at his press conference Tuesday from Huffpost Senior News Editor Nico Pitney. Pitney's question, which was sent to ...
Huff TV | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Nico Pitney, National Editor of The Huffington Post, has been covering the Iranian presidential election and the subsequent turbulence with his extens...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's comments about health care during his Tuesday press conference gave the progressive community, which has warned for weeks now...
Jerry Weissman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics