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Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest was grilled over President Barack Obama’s meeting today with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, while the president has refused to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Friday at the White House press briefing, Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry shocked  press secretary Josh Earnest, who had just slammed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, saying, “I feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani,” regarding his recent

“I think, really, the only thing that I feel is to feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani today,” Josh Earnest said, responding to the former mayor’s comments about whether President Barack Obama really loves America.

President Obama’s chief spokesman insists that the war against ISIS “is not a religious war, this is not a war on Islam.”

The White House is condemning the murder of Egyptian “innocents” and “citizens,” but failed to note that the victims were killed because of their Christianity.

Wednesday at the daily press briefing, White House press secretary John Earnest told CNN’s Jim Acosta the wording in the resolution asking Congress for the authorization for use of military force against ISIS is “intentionally” fuzzy. Earnest said, “We believe

Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that “terror denialists” in the White House were “truly the Islamophobic ones” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Five.” “This is a very easy way to look at this. They are terror denialists. They

Barack Obama’s former adviser that says the president was lying about his position on gay marriage until he changed his public stance in 2012.

President Barack Obama’s attempt to dismiss the antisemitic terror attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris last month as a “random” shooting turns out to be more than a gaffe: it is administration policy.

As the media continues to corner Republicans on the issue of vaccines, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest refused say that President Obama endorsed the idea of federal vaccination mandates.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest discussed vaccines today, after reporters quizzed him about the president’s views on parents who choose not to vaccinate their children.

The White House won’t call the Taliban terrorists, but the group is behaving like terrorists. It recently killed three Americans.

Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, when press secretary Josh Earnest  stood behind yesterday’s refusal to call the Taliban terrorists, saying instead the Taliban “engages in tactics akin to terrorism,” CBS News’ White House correspondent Bill Plante and

On Friday, White House spokesperson said that President Barack Obama would not meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Washington, D.C. in March due to a policy of not meeting with foreign leaders prior to their election campaigns, “to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election in a foreign country.” However, that excuse proves empty against the historical record, as Bill Clinton met then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres in 1996.

Friday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest declined to give President Barack Obama’s opinion on the so-called “Deflategate” scandal but he did joke, “The one thing I can tell you is that for years, it’s been

Friday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest started by saying “Good afternoon everybody. TGIF, it’s been a long week, but a good one,” to which a reporter shot back, “So no briefing?” The White House press

President Obama vowed to protect the right to abortion in America — even as thousands of pro-life activists marched in Washington D.C. to protest the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained that President Obama wants to travel to all 50 states before he leaves office. In 2008, Obama famously claimed to have visited 57 states during his presidential campaign.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” host Bill Hemmer asked that considering this will be the president’s seventh year in office, how much time does Obama needed to fix the economy. In response White House press secretary Josh Earnest claimed they had “staved

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that White House feels a “palpable sense of momentum” heading into the State of the Union and that the president’s executive action on immigration was one factor that contributed to this confidence on Monday’s

Thursday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest defended President Barack Obama’s failure thus far to degrade ISIS in Syria, as pointed out by The Wall Street Journal by saying ISIS leadership “are scared to spend a

It is common for White House spokespeople to spin the facts–to find the interpretation that best flatters the president. It is rare, but not unheard of, for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that are not yet fully known to the public. It is extraordinary for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that everyone already knows. Yet that is exactly what Josh Earnest did on Tuesday, when trying to explain why the Obama administration strains to avoid mentioning radical Islam.

Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said accuracy is the reason the administration refuses to use the term “radical Islam.” When pushed by NPR’s Mara Liasson for the specific reason they won’t use the term,

Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended President Obama and White House officials for refusing to describe the terrorist attacks in Paris as a consequence of radical Islamic terrorism. Earnest explained to White House reporters during the press briefing that this is a question of “accuracy.”

On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, National Journal Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director Ron Fournier argued that the Obama administration has “probably the worst communications shop in the history of White Houses” in response to the decision

Monday during the White House press briefing, in defending his predecessor Jay Carney for questioning in the judgment of Charlie Hebdo publishing anti-Islamic cartoons in 2012, White House press secretary Josh Earnest refused to say there is an absolute right to freedom of

White House Press Secretary John Earnest acknowledges that the Obama administration should have had better representation at the Paris unity march. “I think it’s fair to say that we should have sent somebody with a higher profile to be there,” Earnest said.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest declared that “it continues to be clear to this day that core al Qaeda has been decimated” during the September 26, 2014 White House Press Briefing. After stating that “it continues to be clear

The White House has hosted serial race-baiter Al Sharpton dozens of times, and has followed his cues in racially divisive controversies from the Trayvon Martin shooting to the ongoing “Black Lives Matter” protests, which have led to retaliatory violence against police across the nation. Moreover, President Barack Obama himself spent twenty years in the pews of the church of Jeremiah Wright in Chicago, enduring Wright’s racist sermons without comment or complaint, and contributing thousands of dollars to Wright’s fundraising efforts

Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest refused to confirm whether President Barack Obama refers to UK Prime Minister David Cameron as “bro,” by calling CBS News’ chief White House correspondent Major Garrett’s question a “clown

Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest was challenged by Fox News Channel’s chief White House correspondent Ed Henry over claims that the president is willing and eager to work with Republicans despite President Barack Obama threatening vetoes and

Monday, at the first White House press briefing of the new year in answering a question about the controversy over Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) speech to a white supremacist group 12 years ago, press secretary Josh Earnest said though the president believes

Tuesday on CSPAN’s “Washington Journal,” investigative reporter  Sharyl Attkisson said while trying to obtain the official White House photographs of President Barack Obama on the night of the Benghazi terror attacks, after first being told by the photo office that

Thursday at the White House daily press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest got into a heated exchange with Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry over recent reports that President Barack Obama has been issuing  “presidential memorandum” to avoid

The White House sternly addressed the hacking incident at Sony, insisting that artists in the movie industry should be allowed the right to free speech. “What I can say is as a general matter, the president and the administration stand