By Holly Bailey
Your Gaggler is in the press pool today, and I can now report first hand: the Russians really aren’t that excited about President Obama. Almost every trip, foreign and domestic, Obama has been the subject of curious, often cheering crowds. On domestic trips, some people even show up to boo. Not here. On [...]

By DAVID BAUDER
Even President Barack Obama, a gleam in his eye as he talked at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner two weeks ago, seemed to recognize the special relationship he’s forged with TV networks in the opening months of his administration.
“A few nights ago I was up tossing and turning and trying to [...]

In an article today, TWT’s Joe Curl calls “foul” after the WH press corps got played during yesterday’s news conference. On the presidential presser, Curl says:
Many in the hard-pressed press corps played along throughout the hourlong show, turning the ball over again and again - “accidentally,” of course.
Curl says that as the president dribbled around [...]

By Kevin McCauley
The media report that President Barack Obama’s job approval rating is slipping as the afterglow fades from his historic election.
The crowning achievement of the infant Obama Administration, the $787B economic stimulus program, gets the thumbs-up by little more than half (52 percent) of Americans. A bold prediction: Obama’s ratings will continue southward as [...]

By Matthew Dornic
In the midst of the RNC’s attack on ABC News for their daylong health care report; planned to air tomorrow from the White House, a group of 40 Republican House members who recently formed the “Media Fairness Caucus,” took a shot at the network. In a letter to ABC, the group blasts ABC’s [...]

By Howard Kurtz

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For Chuck Todd, getting calls from Rahm Emanuel is a staple of covering the White House. But they dwell as much on what the NBC correspondent knows as what he can get the president’s top aide to divulge.
For New York Times columnist David Brooks, it’s an Emanuel invitation for a White House chat [...]

by JERRY REMMERS

I’ve seen so many stupid things in my life I’ve grown immune to outrageous, gratuitous comments but this one by PETA pushed my alarm button where I refuse to take it in silence.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is a buzz because President Obama during another one of his endless television [...]

Joseph Curl
Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration’s interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
“I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the [...]

By Chris Ariens
Fox Newsers are responding to Pres. Obama’s comment yesterday to CNBC’s John Harwood about media coverage: “I’ve got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration,” said Obama. “You’d be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front.”
This morning on Fox & Friends, [...]

By JESSE WASHINGTON
News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights groups about a New York Post cartoon that critics said likened President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
The company will form a “diversity community council” in New York City that will meet with senior company executives twice a [...]