Claim: Al Jazeera reporter Kimberly Halkett called White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany a "lying bitch" during a press briefing.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: White House travel office controversy
text: had requested all relevant materials. House committee chair Clinger charged a cover-up was taking place and vowed to pursue new material. These developments, following Hillary Clinton's prior disputed statements about her cattle futures dealings and Whitewater, led to a famous exchange in which high-profile "New York Times" columnist William Safire, who had endorsed Bill Clinton in the previous election, wrote that many Americans were coming to the "sad realization that our First Lady—a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation—is a congenital liar," followed by White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry saying that

title: Andrea Mitchell
text: grabbed her and forcibly shoved her out of the room. After the incident Mitchell said, "It is our job to ask. They can always say 'no comment'… but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior." Prior to the incident, Sudanese officials expressed reservations about allowing American newspaper or television reporters to join the Sudanese press pool. Sean McCormack, the U.S. State Department's assistant secretary for public affairs, said to his Sudanese counterpart, "I'll convey your desires about not permitting reporters to ask questions, but that's all I'll do. We have a free press." McCormack's Sudanese counterpart

title: Red Hen restaurant controversy
text: chef telephoned restaurant co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson to report that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had entered the restaurant to dine with a group of about eight people. Wilkinson told "The Washington Post" that, after conferring with her employees, she told Sanders that the restaurant upholds standards "such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation", and asked Sanders to leave, which Sanders did. Wilkinson related that the other people at Sanders' table had been served appetizers and were invited to stay, but they also left, Wilkinson saying their appetizers were on the house. In the morning press briefing of Monday

title: The Washington Times
text: to 1998, says her experience there allowed her to jump directly to her current job at "Business Week". "I got a lot of opportunities very quickly. They appreciated and rewarded talent and, frankly, there was a lot of turnover." In his 2003 book "Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right", comedian, author, and later Democratic senator Al Franken devoted a chapter to criticizing the "Times" after executive editor Wesley Pruden rewrote a reporter's story, without the reporter's knowledge, about Franken's performance at a White House party. According to Franken, the rewrite

title: Annabeth Schott
text: and the election of Matt Santos as President, Annabeth is selected by First Lady Helen Santos as her Press Secretary, working alongside Donna Moss, who is named Helen Santos' Chief of Staff. Annabeth Schott Annabeth Schott, played by Kristin Chenoweth, is a fictional character on the political drama "The West Wing". She joins the Bartlet administration in Season 6 as Deputy Press Secretary for media relations following the promotion of C. J. Cregg to White House Chief of Staff, although she applied for a different position after working for and reportedly "discovering" political talk show host Taylor Reid. She holds

title: Kayleigh McEnany
text: presidential election, formally announcing her endorsement of his then-candidacy on February 1, 2016. In February 2017, McEnany had a heated exchange with "New York Times" columnist Charles Blow on CNN's show "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon". In March 2017, McEnany apologized after claiming Barack Obama was president when Daniel Pearl, an American journalist, was beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. McEnany had meant to refer to James Foley, a journalist who was beheaded by ISIS in 2014. On August 5, 2017, McEnany tweeted she had left CNN after asking to leave the network for another opportunity. The next day,

title: Kayleigh McEnany
text: of the University of Oxford, in England. McEnany studied at the University of Miami School of Law and then transferred to Harvard Law School, where she received a JD in May 2017. After graduating from Georgetown University, McEnany was a producer on former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee's eponymous TV show. She interned for several politicians, including Tom Gallagher, Adam Putnam, and George W. Bush; for Bush's 2004 campaign; and in the White House Office of Communications in the Media Affairs department. On CNN, she was frequently called on to defend President Donald Trump, whom she supported during the 2016

title: Annabeth Schott
text: in for C.J., is often occupied by his duties as White House Communications Director. Although able to talk to reporters effectively outside of the realm of press briefings, Annabeth finds herself nervous in the formal briefing setting. Instead, she does her best to coach Toby, who is prickly and mumbly with the press, to use his natural "watchable quality" to turn him into an able Acting Press Secretary. Toward the end of Season 6, Annabeth assists Leo McGarry in running the 2006 Democratic National Convention. Leo is announced as the vice-presidential running mate of Matt Santos at convention and in

title: Sharyl Attkisson
text: she stated was an "amicable" parting. "Politico" reported that according to sources within CBS there had been tensions leading to "months of hard-fought negotiations" – that Attkisson had been frustrated over what she perceived to be the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting, as well as issues she had with the network’s corporate partners, while some colleagues within the network saw her reporting as agenda-driven and doubted her impartiality. Later that year, her book "Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington" (Harpers) was published. In this

title: Red Hen restaurant controversy
text: she is "the first press secretary in the history of the United States that’s required Secret Service protection". At 7:41am on Monday, June 25, President Donald Trump tweeted that the restaurant should focus more on cleaning its "filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders", adding that "I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!" (Virginia health department records show the restaurant "easily passed its most recent inspections".) After comments made by Congresswoman Maxine Waters

title: Media coverage of the Iraq War
text: servant and a parliamentary researcher detailed a lengthy conversation on April 16, 2004 between Prime Minister Blair and President Bush, in which Bush according to British media allegedly proposed bombing the Qatar central office of Al Jazeera. House press secretary, Scott McClellan, describing it as "outlandish" said, "Any such notion that we would engage in that kind of activity is just absurd." A UK government official suggested that the Bush threat had been "humorous, not serious." Another source said Bush was "deadly serious." The UK government refuses to publish the memo and two civil servants have been charged with violating

title: Emily J. Miller
text: WTTG, a Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., as chief investigative reporter. In June 2016, she moved to One America News Network as their senior political correspondent. In 2004, while working as deputy press secretary to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Miller was criticized when she attempted to abruptly end an interview he was giving to "Meet the Press". She instructed the cameraman to stop filming Powell, although Powell finished the interview after instructing Miller to allow him to continue. A spokesman for the State Department later defended Miller, saying that she had ended the interview because it had run long

title: Annabeth Schott
text: Annabeth Schott Annabeth Schott, played by Kristin Chenoweth, is a fictional character on the political drama "The West Wing". She joins the Bartlet administration in Season 6 as Deputy Press Secretary for media relations following the promotion of C. J. Cregg to White House Chief of Staff, although she applied for a different position after working for and reportedly "discovering" political talk show host Taylor Reid. She holds a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Maryland. As Deputy Press Secretary, Annabeth is often called upon to brief the press, particularly as Toby Ziegler, who has been filling

title: Al Arabiya English
text: Al Arabiya English published a series of stories which were based on revealing leaked emails belonging to Sherri Jaafari, the daughter of Syria's UN envoy Bashar Jaafari. The leaked emails showed Sherri requesting an internship with US television host Charlie Rose in exchange for securing an interview with President Assad. Furthermore, the emails revealed how Sherri worked with NY-based public relations company BLJ to produce a 2011 Vogue magazine feature about Asma Al-Assad, the Syrian first lady, which infamously labelled her a "rose in the desert" while Syria was undergoing a deadly civil war. Al Arabiya English's stories were carried

title: Fox News
text: House admitted to a low-level mistake, saying Fox had not made a specific request to interview Feinberg. Fox White House correspondent Major Garrett said he had not made a specific request, but had a "standing request from me as senior White House correspondent on Fox to interview any newsmaker at the Treasury at any given time news is being made". On November 8, 2009, the "Los Angeles Times" reported an unnamed Democratic consultant was warned by the White House not to appear on Fox News again. According to the article, Anita Dunn claimed in an e-mail to have checked with

title: Al Jazeera English
text: Doha. On 12 October 2008, Al Jazeera English broadcast interviews with people attending a Sarah Palin United States presidential election rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, with interviewees making comments about Barack Obama such as "he regards white people as trash" and "I'm afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over". The report received over two million views on YouTube. Following this, "The Washington Post" ran an op-ed, claiming the news channel was deliberately encouraging "anti-American sentiment overseas", which was criticized by Al Jazeera as "a gratuitous and uninformed shot at Al Jazeera's motives", as the report was just one

title: Sheryl Gascoigne
text: to accounts her former husband had published about their life together. The "News of the World" later featured a story under the title "You Lying Bitch!" giving Paul Gascoigne's reaction to the book. Sheryl Gascoigne subsequently sued the newspaper for libel and was awarded an undisclosed amount of compensation in at the High Court in May 2010. In November 2011 she gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, established to examine the activities of the media following the News International phone hacking scandal. She told the inquiry she had been portrayed as a gold-digger by the press, but that her ex-husband's

title: Paula Jones
text: D.C.–area lawyers. Susan Carpenter-McMillan, a California conservative commentator, became her press spokesperson. Carpenter-McMillan wasted no time bringing the issue to the press, calling Clinton "un-American", a "liar", and a "philanderer" on "Meet the Press", "Crossfire", "Equal Time", "Larry King Live", "Today", "The Geraldo Rivera Show", "Burden of Proof", "Hannity & Colmes", "Talkback Live", and other shows. "I do not respect a man who cheats on his wife, and exposes his penis to a stranger," she said. Judge Susan Webber Wright granted President Clinton's motion for summary judgment, ruling that Jones could not demonstrate that she had suffered any damages. As

title: Al Jazeera bombing memo
text: ally of the United States and the United Kingdom in the Iraq War, many commentators have speculated that even if the reports of the memorandum are accurate, they may simply be recording a statement which the President did not intend to be taken seriously. A White House official told CNN "We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response," and a Pentagon official called the "Daily Mirror" report "absolutely absurd." A BBC News correspondent has suggested that if President Bush did indeed make the comments they were intended as "some kind of joke." Writing in "The Independent"

title: John F. Kelly
text: John Kelly as the White House Chief of Staff. In October 2017, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) criticized Trump for his phone call to the widow of a slain U.S. soldier, saying his remarks had been insensitive. Wilson had been in the widow's car when Mr. Trump had called her. A few days later, Kelly held a press briefing where he defended Trump's phone call, which he had overheard, saying Trump "expressed his condolences in the best way that he could." Kelly harshly criticized Wilson, calling her "the empty barrel that makes the most noise" and stating that in a 2015