Byron York

Via Glenn Thrush, Byron York reports that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is joining the campaign against Kevin Jennings, the openly gay head of the Education Department’s Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools.
Despite serving as the ‘safe schools’ czar, Jennings has demonstrated a willingness to look the other way on sexual abuse. His life’s work [...]

I mentioned in my story today about the Washington Examiner that political correspondent Byron York has had the paper’s first big success with a blogosphere-style, flood-the-zone story: relentless coverage of the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. York has an update today that consists of advice for Republicans on how to turn this into [...]

Byron York, the Washington Examiner’s political correspondent, is coming off a few slow weeks by relentlessly hammering the White House over the firing of Americorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin, who had been looking into Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Today, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked for more details on the firing (which no one argues was [...]

Byron York has responded to the criticism of his column on the “white-black divide” of presidential support by (yawn) crying that he’s been accused of racism.
I wrote that citing Obama’s “sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are” … Maybe “across-the-board” would have been [...]

A couple more things about that Byron York column. First, the topline argument about President Obama’s popularity is even sillier than it first seems, because the president’s popularity has risen with whites and held even with blacks since the election.
62 percent of whites approve of the job Obama is doing as president. Among blacks, [...]

Byron York engages in a perennial conservative media stunt — breaking down poll numbers between blacks and whites to make the point that Democrats wouldn’t be so popular if it wasn’t for the 14th Amendment. Or something. I’ve really never figured this out. (Some of the less tactful analysis I’ve seen on this was David [...]

I meant to link this Byron York story about “the escalating war between Obama and Bush” last week, but it’s relevant again as deeply unpopular former Vice President Dick Cheney engages in an anti-Obama PR campaign for torture. Four times, York grants former White House staffers anonymity to bash the president. And he doesn’t even [...]

Byron York, covering the 2006 immigration rallies:
At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators held aloft dark blue signs that read, “We Are America.” Below those words, in smaller letters, was the name “New American Opportunity Campaign,” and below that was a web address, www.cirnow.org.
Although not obvious [...]