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April 27, 2009, 10:24 am
By
Eric Zimmermann
The Washington Times' Christina Bellantoni sees a famous face on the White House grounds:
cbellantoniSpotted on White House grounds - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Is Obama consulting historians? Wouldn't be a presidential first.
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April 27, 2009, 10:22 am
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Michael O'Brien
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April 27, 2009, 9:00 am
By
Eric Zimmermann
Meghan McCain has writer's block. She took to the twittersphere to ask for story pitches for her Daily Beast column:
Good Morning Twitterland, so I want to hear from YOU, what are you interested in hearing from me/having me write about on The Daily Beast?
I'm sure her conservative Twitter antagonists will have some suggestions...
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April 27, 2009, 8:53 am
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Michael O'Brien
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April 27, 2009, 7:53 am
By
Michael O'Brien
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) may be one of the few members of Congress taking it easy on TMZ, the Hollywood gossip website which has expanded operations in Washington.
Rangel tweeted Monday:
Did you catch me on TMZ? All in good fun.
TMZ confronted Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Rangel to ask about National Economic Council Chairman Lawrence Summer's brief nap last week during a meeting at the White House with leaders of credit card companies.
Watch the video -- in which the TMZ videographer calls Summers "Stevenson" -- here.
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April 27, 2009, 7:14 am
By
Michael O'Brien
Conde Nast contributor Matthew Cooper may be back in the job market, judging by a tweet he posted Monday morning.
The financial magazine announced Monday it would be closing its doors. Cooper is also editor-at-large of TalkingPointsMemo, though questions have been raised about his role in the liberal blog.
Cooper mysteriously tweeted Monday:
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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April 27, 2009, 6:02 am
By
Michael O'Brien
We feel at liberty to openly agree with at least one lawmaker today on the Twitter Room.
Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.) tweeted Monday:
Back in DC - feels like summer and a busy week ahead!
Between the budget resolutions this week and the 90 degree weather in Washington, D.C. today, Biggert may be onto something.
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April 26, 2009, 1:52 pm
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Eric Zimmermann
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April 26, 2009, 10:33 am
By
Eric Zimmermann
CBS Mark Knoller more or less tweeted the whole White House press briefing. Everything you wanted to know about swine flu:
WH says Obama has ordered 'very active, aggressive and coordinated response" to swine flu outbreak.
Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan says Obama "very concerned" about the swine flu threat and is "monitoring very closely."
latest CDC count on swine flu cases in US: 20 in five states. NY, Kansas, Ohio, Texas and California
what can you do? WH says practice personal hygience: washing hands. and if you feel sick - stay home - so as not to spread illness.
CDC acting director Dr Richard Besser says "frequent hand washing" an effective way to reduce transmission of swine flu.
Napolitano says HHS declaring "public health emergency" - but says it's standard operating procedure in situation like this.
Napolitano stresses "you cannot get swine flu from eating pork" but govt stepping up screening and testing of livestock.
napolitano says "everything looks fine" with U.S. food supply.
Napolitano says government needs public help to contain outbreak: wash your hands and if sick - stay at home.
WH/Gibbs says "far too early" to weigh possible economic impact of swine flu threat.
WH/Gibbs says Obama's health was "never in danger" despite is visit to Mexico ten days ago.
WH official: "no evidence whatsoever that we have seen" that swine flu outbreak the result of bio-terrorism.
Though HHS Secretary is not in place, WH/Gibbs says it's not adversely impacting federal response to swine flu threat.
Questions on swine flu threat? WH recommends the CDC website @ cdc.gov
No travel advisory yet from State Dept but CDC has posted an outbreak notification on Mexico.
CDC says it has created "seed stock" for developing vaccine - but not yet decided one is needed.
more on "public health emergency." that declaration enables govt to free up resources for "prevention and mitigation" of swine flu.
WH/Gibbs says incubation for swine flu is 24-48 hours. Obama left Mexico a week ago friday - and is fine.
On declaration of "public health emergency," DHS/Napolitano says she would prefer to call it "declaration of emergency preparedness."
That's certainly an exhaustive twitter feed. Knoller isn't the only active briefing-tweeter. WaPo's Chris Cillizza often live-tweets the briefings, on @HyperFix, one of his two feeds. (@TheFix is the other).
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April 26, 2009, 5:45 am
By
Eric Zimmermann
CBS's Mark Knoller notices President Obama is going golfing today and provides a little background on what's par for the course for presidents:
White House to hold briefing at 1230P/ET on swine flu situation.
But at same time, it looks like Pres. Obama is going to play golf this morning.
Pres. Obama has departed the WH on a golf outing.
The last time a US president went golfing was Oct 13, 2003. After that, Pres. Bush stopped playing golf out of respect for US war dead.
Pres. Bush said last year in Politico.com interview that he came to feel "playing golf during a war sends the wrong signal."
Before his decision, Bush had played 24 rounds of golf as President - ending Oct 13, 2003 - about seven months after the war in Iraq began.
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