Mark Knoller

(CBS News) 

Mark Knoller is an award-winning White House Correspondent for CBS News. He reports for CBS Radio News, as well as "CBS This Morning: Saturday." He also contributes to the weekend editions of the "CBS Evening News" and "Up To The Minute."

During his career as a reporter, he has covered every President since Gerald Ford. Knoller came to CBS News in 1988 after 13 years as a correspondent with the Associated Press Radio Network, where he was on the front lines of national news coverage -- everything from Presidential campaigns and hurricanes to the death and funeral of Elvis Presley.

After serving three years as Assignment Manager in the CBS News Washington bureau, Knoller was assigned to the White House, where he covered the last year of the George Bush Presidency and every day of Bill Clinton's. In fact, he has logged more miles covering President Clinton that any other member of the White House press corps. He is now covering the presidency of George W. Bush.

He has earned a reputation as one of the leading reporters on the White House beat. He has been honored with a number of AP Awards and with the Merriman Smith Award for Deadline Reporting on the Presidency, bestowed by the White House Correspondents' Association.

Knoller is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y.

[pabent]

Please have some respect when you are writing your articles. His name is PRESIDENT Obama not Mr. Obama. Did you write Mr. Bush when writing articles about PRESIDENT Bush? I don't think so. I checked several of your "Bush Era" articles and not once did you refer to him as Mr. Bush. Please report only facts and keep your personal feelings to yourself and have respect for the office you will never hold. Isn't that real journalism??? When you actually report only facts???

[kennet108]

"keep your personal feelings to yourself and have respect for the office " Mark Knoller is showing as much respect as the liberal press showed to Pres. Bush. I'll bet you never posted anything defending "respecting the office" when Bush was in office.

[norblin]

I ALSO WISH TO KNOW IF MARK KNOLLER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AIR FORCE ONE COMPLAINTS. I AM HOPING HE IS NOT. PLEASE LET ME KNOW ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

[mmills5951]

You are being credited with the following news article. I just wondered if this is true.

News missing from mainstream sources ************************************* Air Force One This is from Mark Knoller of CBS.


The pilots and crew of Air Force One are flying more hours than a rookie on a beer run. They are tired of it too, and are adding more crew to Air Force-1, - I know this for a fact because I'm one of the instructors that trains the crews. Our company (Atlas Air) has had the Air Force-1 and E-4 contract for over two years and I've been doing it for about 8 months now.


Last year (2010) Obama flew in Air Force One 172 times, almost every other day. White House officials have been telling reporters in recent days that the Democrat doesn't intend to hang around the White House quite so much in 2011. They explain he wants to get out more around the country because, as everyone knows, that midterm election shellacking on Nov. 2 had nothing to do with his health care bill, over-spending or other policies, and everything to do with Obama's not adequately explaining himself to his countrymen and women. And with only 673 days remaining in Obama's never ending presidential campaign, the incumbent's travel pace will not likely slacken. At an Air Force-estimated cost of $181,757 per flight HOUR (not to mention the additional travel costs of Marine One, Secret Service, logistics and local police overtime), that's a lot of frequent flier dollars going into Obama's carbon footprint.



We are privy to some of these numbers thanks to CBS' Mark Knoller, a bearded national treasure trove of presidential stats. According to Knoller's copious notes, during the last year, Obama made 65 domestic trips over 104 days, and six trips to eight countries over 22 days. Not counting six vacation trips over 32 days. He took 196 helicopter trips, signed 203 pieces of legislation and squeezed in 29 rounds of left-handed golf. Obama last year gave 491 speeches, remarks or statements. That's more talking than goes on in some entire families, at least from fatherly mouths.. In fact, even including the 24 days of 2010 that we never saw Obama in public, his speaking works out to about one official utterance every 11 waking hours. Aides indicate the "Real Good Talker" believes we need more.



Related: Obama spends nearly half his presidency outside Washington, plans to travel more Related: Vacationer-in-Chief Spends $1.75 Million to Visit Hawaiian Chums Obama has spent over $100 million taxpayer dollars flying around in Air Force One, and probably another $100 million on his entourage. Obama is just another tin-pot dictator living lavishly at the expense of his subjects. $200,000,000 is enough to hire about three or four thousand teachers for a year. And we seniors have to "tighten our belts" because we aren't getting a COLA again this year... and none last year!



THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED PUT THIS GREEDY WINDBAG IN OFFICE!! BE MORE CAREFUL NEXT TIME!

[obnox]

4 July.
I just got this crap email today. The person who sent it to me works for Honeyewell, a huge govt. contractor. Needless to say, he just HATES government spending...

[pabent]

Do you have ANY facts for the 8 years of the Bush presidency? Hmmm lets see: "...And in his first two years, Bush took 148 missions with 416 sorties, compared with 126 missions with 324 sorties for Obama over two years." (http://www.factcheck.org/2011/07/the-traveling-president/)
When President Bush traveled to England in the fall of 2003..."Mr. Bush, his wife, Laura, and a 700-strong entourage worthy of a travelling medieval monarch, flew into Heathrow airport...Mr. Bush will be accompanied by a retinue consisting of 250 members of the Secret Service, 150 advisers from the National Security Department, 200 representatives of other government departments and 50 political aides." YOU make the call... :)

[jack schweitzer]

Thanks for the Air abuse. Where can I find about the Bush Air useage. I would like for my son to see that B O has been on the campaign trail since he got in office.

[pabent]

Yeah...how many times did he go to Crawford??? I don't think he rode a horse there...LOL