“Matt Lauer” on The Daily Caller

During the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, FEMA Administrator Michael “Brownie” Brown got a lot of flak from the mainstream media for, well…everything. Some of it was deserved and some of it was little more than mendacious piling-on, but all of it was intense and it lead to Michael Brown’s resignation from FEMA mid-Katrina response. The media is extremely powerful in this country, and what the press coverage of the latest disaster to hit the United States—the BP oil spill—proves is that the media wields this power very selectively. (more)

UPDATE – 7:05 P.M. – The Obama administration, through National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, has asked BP’s Chairman of the Board Carl-Henric Svanberg to meet at the White House with President Obama and top government officials next Wednesday, June 16. (more)

Alexis Houston — the singer who held a press conference last week to announce she never had sex with “Today” show host Matt Lauer — had some interesting yesterdays. She used to be a man who called himself Wellington Houston. (more)

Today show host Matt Lauer and his wife Annette Lauer are denouncing and denying a report saying they have split. (more)

Sources claim that Today host and NBC resident sexy beast Matt Lauer’s affair has led to the imminent demise of his 11-year marriage to model Annette Roque. (more)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that anytime there is any political position open, everyone must discuss whether Hillary Clinton will fill it. (See previously: New York City mayor, New York senator, President, Senate majority leader, vice president, and secretary of state.) As you might have heard, there’s a Supreme Court gig opening up this summer. And as you also might have heard, the Clinton-for-SCOTUS speculation has already begun. (more)

America shed a tear for Governor Rod Blagojevich last night when he was plucked out of Donald Trump’s recession nightmare The Celebrity Apprentice for courageously defending Bret Michaels’ work ethic. But Blago only gave the nation about 12 hours to mope before he was back on TV announcing his triumphant return to public office, which is a bold declaration to make when you’ve been banned for life from serving in your home state. (more)

I slept on my pullout sofa the other night, just to mix things up. It was fun—felt like a vacation from my bed. It’s taking every ounce of energy I have not to surgically examine the fact that the only kind of getaway I can manage these days is one in which I travel a mere 17 feet and it’s over in about six hours. (more)

On this morning’s “Today Show,” Pres. Obama told host Matt Lauer that he got the idea for insurance pools from the Heritage Foundation. Heritage President Ed Feulner took issue with the characterization. Sometimes, nuance is just lost on people: (more)

No amount of doublespeak will free Mitt Romney from the spot Obama has put him in: (more)

A year ago today I went head-to-head, live, with Matt Lauer on the Today Show during the coveted 7:30 a.m. slot. The purported occasion for this interview was the release that day of my documentary film on the 2008 election and its aftermath, “Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.” (more)

Today Show hosts Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer struggle to discuss the Conan/Leno fiasco this morning: (more)