The White House Does Not Like Ford’s Ad. Did It Apply Pressure to Get the Ad Yanked?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 27th at 01:19 PM |
UPDATE: Ford is now out saying it was not “coerced” into pulling the ad and that the ad campaign will continue. Wonder whatever gave the Michigan news media a contrary impression? ——————————————- I told you a week ago that the White House and General Motors coordinated on GM’s ad campaign it rolled out before the 2010 general election designed to highlight the government auto bailout | Read More »
White House and Congressional Leaders Resort to Fearmongering
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 21st at 03:00 PM |
If you’ve seen the recent Harry Potter or watched any of a host of exorcism movies, you know that right before the demon dies, he lashes out most brutally and fearfully to try to get you to give up. We’re seeing the demon of out of control government lashing out in spectacular fashion now before House Republicans kill it. In one last spectacular bout, the | Read More »
The CDC Coverup Now Turns to Bureaucratic Panic
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 4th at 12:10 PM |
“The CDC told us last week there were ‘no plans’ to release the data. The CDC now says it is scheduled for ‘this month’. Did the CDC just not bother looking at the editorial calendar it now tells us is booked ‘well in advance’?” It’s never the action, it’s the cover up. Yesterday RedState broke a significant story which points to the Centers for Disease | Read More »
Little White (Board) Lies
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 19th at 11:14 AM |
The White House has out another white board video in defense of Obamacare. There’s just one problem: it’s so loaded up with half-truths and lies as to be propaganda, not fact. in a nutshell, here’s what you need to know about the lies in the video from the Republican Policy Committee: The video claims that premiums will fall under the law, and will increase under | Read More »
White House Conspires With Media Matters
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 28th at 09:02 AM |
ABC News notes the White House had a meeting of special needs representatives. What ABC News fails to point out is that two of them work at Media Matters For America, the George Soros funded character assassins who see evil racists in the white filling of every twinkie they consume. In fact that’s why they eat so many twinkies at Media Matters — they are | Read More »
Is the White House, SEC, and DNC Colluding to Destroy Goldman Sachs to Pass Financial Reform?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | April 19th at 06:35 AM |
Few people are fans of Goldman Sachs on either side of the aisle these days, but FamousDC is raising some seriously troubling questions about the level of collusion between the SEC, White House, and DNC to get Financial Reform passed. This is serious stuff. Just ask yourself what the reaction in the media would be if the Bush White House had done this. In a | Read More »
It is Barack Obama Serving Al Qaeda’s Goals
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 9th at 11:41 AM |
First the White House National Security Advisor, John Brennan, said Republicans were briefed on the FBI detainment of the Christmas Day panty-bomber, including that the terrorist had been mirandized. In fact, that was not true. Now John Brennan says critics of the White House are serving ‘the goals of Al Qaeda.’ When did Barack Obama become a White House critic? Chief among those helping Al | Read More »
Man Who Attacks Pope as “Hurting People in the Name of Jesus” Gets Appointed to Oversee Faith-Based Initiatives
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | February 4th at 10:45 AM |
This is really disturbing. Barack Obama has appointed Harry Knox to the White House’s Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In March, Knox began an attack on the Catholic Church during a speech before the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign. Knox, attacking Pope Benedict XVI directly, said the Pope and, through him the Catholic Church, is “hurting people in the name of Jesus.” | Read More »
White House attacks worry moderate Democrats
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 23rd at 10:54 AM |
The White House’s attacks on Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, etc. are making Democrats on Capitol Hill nervous. In particular, the Democrats who sit in districts John McCain won are incredibly nervous about these attacks. Jonathan Allen has an article today on it. This is perfect timing. Several of us were thinking it’d be fun to get these Democrats on record with | Read More »
Another White House Name Surfaces in the ACORN Rolodex
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 29th at 05:01 AM |
Last week we showed how Barack Obama is connected to ACORN by his White House Political Director, Patrick Gaspard. The Missouri blog 24thstate.com has built on those ties and has a look at Sara Howard, Russ Carnahan’s spokesgal. Howard and Gaspard both worked for Americans Coming Together (“ACT”) in 2004. In that year, ACT sent out a sensational, hate filled political flier showing white men | Read More »
Valerie Jarrett and the Army Private
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 15th at 03:20 PM |
Valerie Jarrett is Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Engagement. You’d think as Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor for Public Engagement, she’d show some more class to our soldiers. But not today. Flying home to Washington, D.C. today after speaking to the left wing online activists gathering in Pittsburgh, Ms. Jarrett’s flight had an Army | Read More »
Doctors to Throw Pharmaceutical Reps Out of Their Offices
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 14th at 10:20 AM |
Interesting. I’m hearing from more and more doctors and from pharmaceutical sales representatives that the sales reps are rapidly becoming persona non grata in the doctors’ offices. Here’s the thing — PhrMA and the American Medical Association both have thrown doctors under the bus. Doctors are supposed to be represented by the AMA, a majority of doctors oppose Obamacare, but the AMA has decided to | Read More »
White House Actions Might Be Unlawful
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 5th at 11:22 AM |
As Jeff noted yesterday, the White House is asking individuals to report misinformation to the White House on healthcare. Specifically, the White House said There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t | Read More »