"I'm not going to be happy until I have half the jobs in America," DeGeneres declared. "If that means taking your job, then so be it."
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Jody Powell, who was White House press secretary and among the closest and most trusted advisers to President Jimmy Carter, died Mo...
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
This morning on C-SPAN, White House Press Secretary Gibbs fielded an unusual question about goverment transparency. The questioner wasn't concerned ...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
MSNBC caught a gem in White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' college yearbook: a photo of the Obama spokesman wearing an earring in his left ear. ...
AP | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The White House says it's not surprised that Osama bin Laden has released a new audio recording threatening America just ...
Wall Street Journal | JOHN D. MCKINNON | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON -- Dana Perino, President George W. Bush's last White House press secretary, will join Clinton administration adviser Mark Penn at public-r...
Paul Armentano | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
Gibbs knew in advance that he was going to publicly respond the question of taxing and regulating cannabis. And yet the best response he could come up with was snickers and "uh."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
Earlier today, the Columbia Journalism Review reported on how their bloggiest of alumni, Meghan McCain, went onto the Hannity show and straight up cal...
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 04.05.2009 | Media
A day after announcing that he didn't own a radio (hence, he doesn't listen to Limbaugh), White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was presented with ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
Jon Stewart compared White House Press Sectary Robert Gibbs to his Bush-era predecessors on "The Daily Show" Wednesday. After intro-ing a clip of Gib...
Think Progress | Matt Yglesias | Posted 03.03.2009 | Media
Asked by TNR to offer some advice to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan makes the provocative suggestion...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, during an hour long press conference today, admitted that he is unable to send out a "week ahead" memo to th...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 12.17.2008 | Home
On one of his last nights on the campaign trail, Barack Obama was agitated. He was backstage and face-to-face with a traveling aide after giving a spe...
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Scott McClellan (born February 14, 1968) is a former White House Press Secretary, a current best selling author, a future blackballed politician, and ...
Jay Rosen | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
McClellan as White House spokesman lacked experience, talent, charm, agility, depth. But Bush and Cheney saw these defects as an advantage. They actually wanted the executive branch to become more opaque, and he was the perfect man for the job.
Steve Young | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media
Anyone who says that truth is funnier that fiction, probably has never seen a good comic or isn't familiar with what it takes to be a side-splitting White House press secretary.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
Tony Snow has begun his new gig at CNN, and ancient declaimer of non-sequitirs Larry King's heart is so a-flutter that you'd think CNN had just hired a lissome blond, 50 years his junior.
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, former White House spokesperson Tony Snow was interviewed on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher discussed how woefully unprepared the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
To the surprise of nobody, the New York Times this morning reported that, as it turns out, four White House officials - Harriet Miers, John Bellinger,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
"Western" feminist organizations are frequently criticized for keeping mum on the issue of women's rights in Islamic countries. "How hypocritical of ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow is apparently attempting to remake himself into the image of Bill O'Reilly. In a series of recent public ...
236.com | Paul Slansky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
With George W. Bush's hapless former press secretary Scott McClellan issuing bleats of blame about having been tricked into lying to the press about t...
Broadcasting & Cable | John Eggerton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow said there is a threat to the First Amendment, and it comes from within. "There is an ideological samene...
Denver WestWord | Michael Roberts | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
I've heard one former press secretary at another agency say they'd rather die than have this job," says Dana Perino, the new White House press secreta...
David Kronke | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy