WaPo/ABC Poll: Majority Distrust Obama, Media in Various Scandals

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi. A majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups. The media are still distrusted, with a majority feeling that the Justice Department's seizure of the AP's phone records was justified. Despite all this disapproval, Obama's approval rating is still just over 50 percent positive. 21 May 2013, 12:37 PM PDT

The Conservative Hispanic Society: IRS Targeted Us Too

The Conservative Hispanic Society has joined the growing list of conservative groups that feel that they, too, were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service in its recent campaign of harassment. In a statement, CHS is "expressing outrage" over what it feels is Obama's "infiltration of every aspect of our government." 21 May 2013, 5:23 AM PDT

Politico's Thrush Politicizes Oklahoma Tornado: 'Global Warming Denier'

The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma was only a few hours gone. The devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest. Politico's Glenn Thrush felt it was already time to politicize the event by scolding Oklahoma's Senators because they are against global warming and big government spending. 21 May 2013, 1:27 AM PDT

Even The New Yorker Sides with Fox News Reporter on DOJ Attack

On Monday it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News' James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not just as a reporter getting "classified" information, but an "aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator." 20 May 2013

CBS' Attkisson Reports She's Been Shut Out by White House

The intrepid Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News has been one of the few reporters attempting to dig deep into controversial stories--and by controversial we mean stories that Obama would rather see go away. But after her work on Fast & Furious and Benghazi, she is now reporting that she's been shut out of the information loop by the White House. 20 May 2013

Gov't Memo Proves CBS's Sharyl Attkisson Got Benghazi Email Story Right

One of the earliest reporters revealing the internal emails about Benghazi exchanged between the U.S. Department of State and the intel community was CBS' Sharyl Attkisson. Her original report was based on "written notes" and, as she said from the beginning, was not derived directly from the emails themselves. 20 May 2013

Politico: AG Holder Now Untouchable

Politico has declared embattled Attorney General Eric Holder untouchable after the many scandals, lapses, overreaches, and contempt charges have failed to induce the President to fire him. 19 May 2013

Arkansas' Democrat State Treasurer Arrested for Extortion

On Saturday the FBI arrested two-term Arkansas State Treasurer Martha Shoffner (D-Newport) on charges of "extortion under color of official right," a violation of the Hobbs Act, which prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion affecting interstate or foreign commerce. 19 May 2013

Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

Yahoo, Inc. has announced that it has cleared the way to purchase the social website Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion. The Yahoo board approved the deal in a conference call on May 17, but by Sunday, it wasn't clear whether Tumblr had accepted the offer. Yahoo reports that it will hold a press conference as soon as Monday to make an announcement on the matter. 19 May 2013

CNN's Crowley Admits Obama Didn't Call Benghazi a Terror Attack

On the May 19 broadcast of CNN's State of the Union, host Candy Crowley said that Obama was late in identifying the attacks in Benghazi as terrorism quite contrary to what she said during the Presidential debates late last year. 19 May 2013