If the first step in solving a problem is admitting you have one, thenthe NY Times is almost on its way. A Saturday piece by Arthur Brisbane, thepaper’s public editor, comes as close as you’re ever likely to see to
Today the US DOJ announced via a press release on its website that a former BP engineer was being arrested and charged with two counts of obstruction of justice. The charges stem from the intentional deletion of text messages relating
CNN’s Don Lemon did a segment of his show Sunday night in which he suggested that, after three years in office, it was time for the Obama administration to stop looking back and blaming Bush for their problems. He even
Last week I criticized the premiere of Julian Assange’s new Russia Today chat show, which featured a tepid and occasionally fawning interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Breitbart News wasn’t the only outlet to criticize Assange and RT. The Guardian,
You have to admire the blatant hypocrisy of the left-wing media. You could get whiplash watching an operator like Keith Olbermann do a reversal on politically-tinged dog stories: Jonah Goldberg broadened the argument beyond dog stories to the way the
Today, the left-leaning fact checkers at Politifact let the mask slip a bit while attempting to weigh in on the Obama-ate-a-dog story. In case you missed it, the DNC has spent months harping on a decades-old story about Romney putting
For the last year, the New York Times has sought to break the will of itsown employee union. That’s not something you’ll read in the Times’ pages,but it is the assessment of Times’ labor reporter Steven Greenhouse made public today
Kalle Lasn and the crew at Adbusters are very worried about the future ofOccupy. They are now encouraging their fans and followers to defend it notfrom the police or conservative media outlets but from the encroaching professionalleft: First they silenced
In an April 3rd appearance on the left-wing Democracy Now TV show, Van Jones has offered his own behind-the-scenes take on an incident that made race a political issue three yearsbefore the Trayvon Martin case. As Jones describes it, the
Obama was right about the “do-nothing Congress”–at least about the Democrat-controlled Senate portion. A report released by the Secretaryof the Senate shows that the 112th Senate has done less work than almost any Senate inrecent history. The 2011 Senate spent
Today Julian Assange unveiled his new show on RT (Russia Today) with a half-hour interview with Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. The interview covered a number of topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the situation in Syria. Nasrallah spoke from
The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, and both Huffington Post and Politico won an award. The HuffPo award went to David Wood for his months-long series on wounded soldiers. The Politico award went to cartoonist Matt Wueker for “his
Today, Senate Democrats are attempting to pass the so-called Buffett Rule, which creates a 30% minimum tax on top earners. The bill isn’t expected to pass, and even some on the Democratic side of the aisle are calling it out
Members of Occupy San Francisco took over a building owned by theArchdiocese of San Francisco on Sunday. The usual chaos ensued: Despite their official police escort, demonstrators gainedaccess to the building, put up banners and scrawled anti-corporate andanti-police slogans on
John Paton is the CEO of a newspaper empire and a man who sees the end of the old guard media on the horizon. He addressed what the future of news will look like in a speech to the Canadian
When he was fired from Current last week, Keith Olbermann suggested he wouldbe filing a lawsuit against his employer. Thursday afternoon Olbermannfollowed through on his threat: According to the 43-page, eight-count complaint, filed Thursdayafternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court by
Van Jones’ radicalism is a thing of the past. That’s what he claimed yesterday on Soledad O’Brien’s show. Jones was there to promote his book, Rebuild the Dream, but things became a bit testy on set when Jones was confronted
The left seems to have a really hard time leaving the kids of Republicanpoliticians out of their fits of rage. Yesterday, Governor Scott Walker gavean interview to David Brody of CBNNews in which he talked about the anger directed at
Comedian Louis C.K. was originally scheduled to host the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner. He dropped out last month when conservatives, led by Fox News’ Greta van Susteren, called him out for comments made about former Gov. Sarah Palin.
Last November, President Obama made a visit to Canberra, Australia todiscuss an expansion of US troop presence in the region. Obama and PrimeMinister Gillard reached an agreement which would allow up to 2,500 Marinesto spend six-month stints in the port
Last Thursday, Chris Matthews spent a portion of his show discussing the Trayvon Martin story. Early in the show he introduced a security tape which ABC had obtained from the polic, saying: Chris Matthews: George Zimmerman says he shot Trayvon
Solyndra is no longer the administration’s biggest energy blunder. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared a think tank event held in Washington yesterday. During an interview Harper explained that President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone pipeline had forced Canada to
Yesterday, Joe Klein wrote a piece titled “Bill Kristol’s Blues: The Republican Party is Still LookingBackward” at Time. It’s ostensibly an attack on Bill Kristol’s recent assessment of the 2012 race, but in fact that’s just a jumpingoff point for
Saturday, Occupiers held a rally for “artists, musicians, writers andactivists” midway between downtown LA and Beverly Hills. The website announcing the event promised akeynote speech by Van Jones and hinted at appearances by Hollywoodcelebrities. Yesterday, Variety reported that Hollywood did
