Ignore This Giant Plastic Card Around My Neck
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Question for Jake Tapper: doesn’t the White House, as a normal matter of course, issue press credentials which require the holder to be a part of a legitimate news organization, and as a part of that process, hasn’t the White House been engaged in the process of determining what is and isn’t a legitimate news organization for decades? ...

Tapper to Gibbs: Who are you to decide what constitutes a news organization?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Sheer comedy gold from one of the most honest White House correspondents in the business.  Jake Tapper used his time in the Briefing Room to challenge Robert Gibbs on the Obama administration’s attempts to brand Fox News as something other than a news organization.  Gibbs sputters but never answers Tapper’s essential question: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why ...

Gibbs's opinion
Ben Smith's Blog — Tapper and Gibbs spar on the subject of Fox: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one – (Crosstalk) Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that ...

today’s REAL question o the day
Knowledge is Power — ... It�s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations �not a news organization� and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it�s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one … ...

SCLM Watch: The Jake Tapper Series
Greg's Opinion — Jake Tapper continues his long-running symp-fest with right-wing opinion makers: Tapper: It's escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations "not a news organization" and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one - (Crosstalk) Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that ...

White House vs. FOX News: Round Five
The Swamp — ... Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, faced a question today from ABC News' Jake Tapper about the characterization of FOX as not a news network in the sense that, say, CNN is -- that's what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has said, on CNN over the weekend, and what Communications Director Anita Dunn has said, on CNN over the past weekend. ...

Punching Up
Neptunus Lex — In taking on Fox News, the White House appears to be committing the cardinal political sin of punching below their weight. You’re supposed to take on political opponents by punching up, rather than down. To do otherwise – especially for the federal executive/leader of the free world – is a kind of self-inflicted lèse majesté. ABC’s Jake Tapper shows how it’s done.

JAKE TAPPER AT THE WHITE HOUSE: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House ha…
Instapundit — JAKE TAPPER AT THE WHITE HOUSE: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one – (Crosstalk) Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage. Tapper: ...

White House's Battle With Fox News Comes to the Press Pool
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Here's where Tapper comes in with what might be deemed an uttered word of complaint:—just about nothing (click through for the whole exchange): ...

Poor Fox News
Taylor Marsh — ... Jake Tapper was all a flutter today. How dare the White House say these things about one of our “sister organizations?” Asking how Fox News is different from Univision? Is he kidding? ...

Speaking truth to power — at last
Cold Fury — The last honest journalist in Washington calls the gutless White House pussies out: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one – (Crosstalk) Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage. Tapper: But ...

Fox News vs. Faux Press Secretary
Daily Pundit — Today’s Qs for O’s WH – 10/20/2009 - Political Punch Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say? Gibbs: That’s our opinion. Better watch it, Jake. Keep it up, and all of a sudden ABC might find itself “not a news organization,” either. Actually, everybody knows what Gibbs is ...

Doubling Down On A Loser Hand
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... the White House look childish and petty at best, and it has a distinct Nixonian — Agnewesque? — aroma at worst. It is a self-defeating trifecta: it distracts attention from the Obama administration’s substantive message; it serves to help Fox, not punish it, by driving up ratings; and it deprives the White House, to the extent it refuses to provide administration officials to appear on the cable network, of access to an audience that is, in fact, broader than hard-core Obama haters. And Jake Tapper of ABC News, bless his heart, went after Head White House flack Robert Gibbs : ...

Is Fox News A "News Organization"?
Hit & Run — ... Via Instapundit, a remarkable exchange between reporter Jake Tapper and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one – (Crosstalk) ...

Tapper Asks Gibbs Why It's Appropriate For White House To Decide Who's A News Organization
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... up at the plate was ABC's Jake Tapper who asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during today's gaggle: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one? Tapper posted the full exchange with Gibbs at his Political Punch blog (emphases his, file photo): ...

Three Cheers For Jake Tapper
California Conservative — ... After Jake Tapper confronted Robert Gibbs on the Obama administration’s attacks on FNC, can it be very long before he’s targeted too? Here’s their exchange: ...

The White House’s War Against Fox News
Stop The ACLU — ... Posted on October 20, 2009 I’ve been behind the curve on this story, because I guess I dismissed its importance to the bigger picture….but slander in attempt to muffle free speech and free press on this degree can’t go ignored. Jake Tapper pinned down Gibbs with the essential question: Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to ...

Remainders: Who'll get GMA job?
Michael Calderone's Blog — MSNBC, CNN keeping talent off Imus? Media ethics crowd weighs in on Brauchli's role in salons. Hippeau: HuffPo's "now in the big leagues." O'Reilly, Hannity, Greta on WH-Fox feud. HuffPo: "10 most egregious Fox News distortions." Moran gets new duties; SCOTUS beat. Stephanopoulos in the running for GMA job. Tapper grills Gibbs on Fox dispute. Gladwell's advice: skip J-School, study accounting.

Jake Tapper Challenges White House Over Fox News Claims
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... ABC News' Jake Tapper challenged White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Tuesday over the White House's claims that Fox News is not a legitimate news organization (transcript via ABCNews): ...

Sending some love to Jake Tapper for standing up to WH’s war against Fox News
Sister Toldjah — ... to asking this WH tough questions few other journalists would dare to (and who was just as tough with the Bush WH), took WH Press. Sec. Robert Gibbs to task today for the WH’s ...

Meredith Jessup: Thank You, Jake Tapper
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... that the White House shouldn't "kill the messenger." And now ABC News' Jake Tapper is also pressuring the White House to answer for its attacks on the cable news network. During a WH press conference Tuesday, Tapper had the following exchange with press secretary Robert Gibbs: Tapper: It's escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations "not a news organization" and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to ...

ABC’s Jake Tapper Corners Robert Gibbs On The White House’s War On Fox News
Below The Beltway — ... ABC News White House Reporter Jake Tapper is seemingly the first member of the media to question the Obama Administration on it’s propaganda campaign against Fox News: ...

Rove: ‘People Would Go Nuts’ If Bush Had Campaigned Against NBC, New York Times
Think Progress — ... ,” senior adviser David Axelrod said. Yesterday during the White House press gaggle, ABC’s Jake Tapper came to Fox’s defense, asking, “Why is that appropriate for the White House to say?” “You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said, referring to Fox programs hosted by Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. ...

Even ABC Questions White House Attack on Fox News
Moonbattery — ... At last, an MSM journalist with a shred of credibility. At the White House yesterday, ABC's Jake Tapper laid into Comrade Obama's answer to Baghdad Bob over Big Government's campaign against Fox News: ...

“That’s our opinion” says Gibbs
neo-neocon — ... In this interview he interviews Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, voicing some obvious questions that every person in the MSM, whether of the Right or Left, ought to be asking: ...

The Village and its Idiots
Open Left - Front Page — ... , and yesterday ABC's Jake Tapper called FOX a "sister organization" and attacked Robert Gibbs over the White House's position. Other talking heads have taken up the banner. The Village doesn't actually recognize its Idiots, and has become them. ...

Because being ignored is exactly the same thing as being muzzled.
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... what Fox will air now that their hosts have lost their words. An hour of Glenn Beck sobbing uncontrollably while pointing at a chalkboard on which the links between ACORN and his muted mouth-hole have been arranged into a misspelled anagram? Granted, they were ready to go with the sobbing and pointing before the Plague of Silence zipped his mouth and pocketed the key . . . . . . but seriously, because this is serious, serious stuff, otherwise Jake Tapper wouldn't be on the case: Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they ...

Yes, More on This
Whiskey Fire — ... Like many others, I wasn't sure why Jake Tapper jumped (uninvited) so vociferously into the fray on the subject of Fox News's illegitimacy. As it turns out, not only does Tapper think Fox is a news organization, he thinks it's a sister news organization--a legitimate sister news organization!--and he said as much, for Major Garrett. You have to wonder what's in it for him. I assumed that because Fox hates "the media," they would also hate Jake Tapper, and I was all prepared to be like, here Jake Tapper, you poor deluded boy, read about the horrors Fox people want visited on your ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... abouyt the Obama/Fox war with regard to at least individual he mentions -- Jake Tapper, I think, is taking Fox's side because he likes to suck up to the right -- but I think Adam's right when says that at least some of the journos who are coming to Fox's defense have motivations somewhat along these lines: ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... questioning Obama’s citizenship. When an ABC News correspondent insisted that Fox was "one of our sister organizations" in an exchange with the president’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, last week, he wasn’t joking. ...