Politico Renews Attacks On Private Citizens to Protect Obama This isn't the first time Politico has done oppo-research on private citizens to rescue Obama. In 2008, after then-candidate Obama approached the man who would become "Joe the Plumber" and completely fumbled his question, Jonathan Martin of Politico took it upon himself to do oppo-research on that private citizen. by John Nolte
Boston Herald, Howie Carr Credit Breitbart News' Investigation of Warren Warren seems to have decided that her best play is to double down on her pride in her "heritage." Ultimately, she can always claim that she had a good-faith belief in her Native American background, even if it's not true. However, Warren gave this information to hiring authorities at two different law schools, Univeristy of Pennsylvania and Harvard. And yet, Warren has claimed she had no idea that Harvard was aware of or, more to the point, using her minority status to defend itself against claims it was insufficiently diverse. This is almost certainly not true. by John Sexton 2 hours ago
Evidence Suggests Boston Globe Purposely Misled on Warren Genealogy The Globe knew on April 30 that the source document for the May 1 story was a 2006 family newsletter written and published in England, which they misleadingly described as a “record." Their correction did not acknowledge this error. by Michael Patrick Leahy 2 hours ago
Klein Book Soft-Pedals Obama Abortion Record Edward Klein’s new book apparently mischaracterizes Barack Obama’s record on abortion. by William Bigelow 3 hours ago
Politico Renews Attacks On Private Citizens to Protect Obama This isn't the first time Politico has done oppo-research on private citizens to rescue Obama. In 2008, after then-candidate Obama approached the man who would become "Joe the Plumber" and completely fumbled his question, Jonathan Martin of Politico took it upon himself to do oppo-research on that private citizen. by John Nolte 5 hours ago
Hillary Clinton and Democrats Still 'Evolving' on Gay Marriage A post by Carol Felsenthal at The Hill observes that the media did not put any heat on Democrats who were still "evolving" on the issue of gay marriage, the most prominent of whom is none other than Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Secretary of State and a darling of the mainstream media and liberal activists. by Tony Lee 6 hours ago
Why Conservatives Must Join the Battle for America On Twitter I'm convinced that, by ending the left's corrupt bottleneck of the flow of information, Twitter has become the most important political invention since the American Constitution; and like that document, we must cherish, protect, and use it. by John Nolte 21 hours ago
Juan Williams Runs Interference for Eric Holder, Fast & Furious Like Lanny Davis, Juan Williams has written an op-ed in The Hill to run interference for Eric Holder in the growing Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal. And like Davis, Williams only gives partial facts to distort the true story. by Mary Chastain 22 hours ago
Politico Busts Elizabeth Warren--Almost Maggie Haberman of Politico reports an interesting find: a 1997 article in the Fordham Law Review that listed Democrat hopeful Elizabeth Warren, now challenging incumbent Scott Brown for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, as Harvard Law School's "first woman of color," based on an interview with a Harvard official at the time. Haberman reports Warren's claim that her alleged Native American heritage "never came up" during her time at Harvard. However, Breitbart News has established that Harvard did cite it in at least one report on faculty diversity. by Breitbart News 23 hours ago
Georgia Blogger Responds to Lawsuit from Democrat Political Director Last night, Georgia political blogger Andre Walker told Breitbart News, "I am not easily intimidated. I don't scare easily." He was responding to a lawsuit filed by Rashad Richey, political director for the Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG), who accuses Walker and other bloggers of defaming him by calling him a felon and a recidivist. Breitbart News--which is not being sured--reported last month that Richey has had several run-ins with the law. by Dan Riehl 1 day ago
Questions Remain After Boston Globe Corrects Warren Story Today’s “correction” by the Boston Globe leaves several questions about their initial reporting of New England Historic Genealogical Society genealogist Chris Child’s statements about Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry unanswered. It states that the May 1 story and the accompanying headline “incorrectly described the 1894 document that was purported to list Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother as a Cherokee.” However, as New England Historic Genealogical Society spokesman Tom Champoux has subsequently admitted on May 9, the original source document was not an 1894 document, as the Globe’s correction today suggests. Instead, it was a 2006 family newsletter. by Michael Patrick Leahy 1 day ago
Chris Matthews Is Dumb After relentlessly mocking how well Governor Sarah Palin would hypothetically do on "Jeopardy," Matthews made a king-size fool of himself in reality by John Nolte 1 day ago
'Gay Obama' Newsweek Mag Also Shoehorns in a Knock on Palin Inside the cover of the most recent issue of Newsweek, adorned by a rainbow haloed President Obama as the “first gay president,” is an article about New Mexico governor Susana Martinez. The article is largely positive piece about Governor Martinez’s compelling life story, her successes in the first year and a half of her term as governor, and what she could contribute to the national GOP as a whole and presumptive nominee Mitt Romney specifically. by Whitney Pitcher 1 day ago
What the Washington Post Missed Last week, the Washington Post produced a front-page story intended to shock readers with the news of Mitt Romney leading fellow preppies in cutting the bleach-blond hair of a student at their school. The incident in question took place in 1965, some 47 years ago. The news that Mitt Romney did dumb things in high school was played as if it was most revealing. But, unconnected to anything else, it leaves the reader puzzled. Why this story? Why now? by Ken Blackwell 1 day ago
Chris Matthews To Black Bishop: 'I Hope You Evolve' Break out the dog whistles! Chris Matthews tells black bishop to "evolve." by Dana Loesch 1 day ago
Look How Well That Rush Boycott Worked If only every pundit would be so lucky as to merit an astroturfed grievance campaign from a Soros entity. by Dana Loesch 1 day ago
Media Targets Rabbi Shmuley Boteach for Coming Out as Republican Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has always ranked near the top of the Newsweek list. In 2007 and 2008 he was #9 on the list. In 2009 he went to #7 and then peaked at #6 in 2010. He was #11 on the 2011 list, still quite respectable. And then, this year, he suddenly slid all the way down to #30. What happened? He won the Republican nomination for U.S. Congress in New Jersey's 9th district. by John Sexton 2 days ago
Desperate Newsweek Embarrasses President, Lies to America Newsweek has provided a magazine cover that leaves one speechless. Not because of its amazing photography, nor for its deep intellectual insight. But rather because, in its attempt to praise President Obama for his coming out in favor of gay marriage, Newsweek has managed potentially to insult the President, to create campaign fodder that will haunt him until Election Day, and to deceive Americans into thinking the President has done something extraordinary. by Tony Katz 2 days ago
NPR's 'On the Media' Ignores Media, Targets Republican Reactions to Obama on Gay Marriage When National Public Radio's weekly On the Media program tackled President Barack Obama's announcement that he supports same-sex marriage, it ignored the obvious and cynical coordination between the White House and a compliant media. Instead, NPR's Brooke Gladstone focused on how conservative media--alone--had reacted to the news, and suggested that Republicans knew they could not win on the substance of the issue. by Joel B. Pollak 2 days ago
Palin Derangement Syndrome: Romney Camp Allows Media To Impact VP Choice As of now, Romney has done a pretty solid job of consolidating the base. But to be seen as toadying up to the corrupt media by validating a dishonest mythology about someone as important to and respected by the base as Governor Palin, could harm that effort. Nothing, however, is more disturbing about this report than the idea that Romney would allow the media to in any way tamper with who he might choose to share the ticket with him. by John Nolte 2 days ago
Daily Beast Cartoonist Depicts Israeli PM Eating Obama's Limbs Eli Valley, artist in residence at the far-left, Obama-supporting Jewish Daily Forward has created one of the most anti-Semitic cartoons ever published. by Ben Shapiro 2 days ago
Washington Post Waters Down Obama-Putin Column Title The Washington Post ran a column this morning from its deputy editorial page editor, Jackson Diehl. The original title of the column: “Obama Still Sweet on Putin.” by Ben Shapiro 2 days ago
Newsweek Columnist: Ann Romney Like Hitler, Stalin As if Newsweek’s latest “Obama The Gay Archangel” cover wasn’t enough, yesterday, Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg spoke out against the scourge of motherhood on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes. by Ben Shapiro 2 days ago
Hilary Rosen: Straight People Ruining Marriage Yesterday, Hilary Rosen, who was last seen criticizing Ann Romney for supposedly never having worked “a day in her life,” has surfaced again – this time, to talk about how traditional marriage can be cured by allowing women to marry women and men to marry men by Ben Shapiro 2 days ago
Nation Dismayed by Realization WaPo Romney Story Not an Elaborate Prank Maybe John Quinones of ABC would pop out from behind a wall and say this was just a joke; they wanted to see how the media would react to a bogus non-story from 50 years ago about a Republican candidate. Sadly, it's no joke. The media is actually serious about this "bullying" story. by Ron Futrell 3 days ago
Newsweek: Obama 'First Gay President' Today, Newsweek magazine released this week’s cover via Twitter: a hopey, changey Barack Obama staring into the future, his head swirled with a rainbow halo. The bold font title: “THE FIRST GAY PRESIDENT.” by Ben Shapiro 3 days ago
New Media Shames MSM in Elizabeth Warren Saga When Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat running for Scott Brown’s Senate seat, seemed like she was caught red-handed (no pun intended) lying about her “Native American” heritage at best, and at worst, perpetuating the falsehood so she or her employers could reap the benefits from it, it seemed like a tailor-made for the mainstream media to pounce on. by Tony Lee 3 days ago
BuzzFeed Politics Distorts Facts to Smear Liberty University Students BuzzFeed Politics' McKay Coppins misleadingly implies that “more than 2,000 evangelical students” (a university source close to the commencement preparations indicated that there would be 6,000 residential and online students at commencement) graduating took a graduate level seminary course required for an apologetics degree and have monolithic beliefs concerning Mormonism. by Daniel Webb 4 days ago
Against the Family's Wishes, WaPo Continues To Exploit Romney 'Victim' According to the the Washington Post, Mr. Lauber died of liver cancer in 2004, and while the family didn't detail what the Post got wrong, they have made it clear that seeing a loved one exploited by the Post "to further a political agenda" has been hurtful to them. And yet, against the wishes of his surviving family, the Post's only response has been: drop dead. by John Nolte 4 days ago
WaPo Caves: Finally Notes Correction on Romney Hit-Piece The same Washington Post whose dogged and brilliant reporting was once responsible for the resignation of a corrupt president has now become itself corrupt. Misinformation, the memory-holing of mistakes, and the timing of hit-pieces to dovetail with White House messaging is the work of hacks not legends. by John Nolte 4 days ago
New Media Victory: New Poll Has Romney at 50; Up 7 Over Obama What the corrupt media thinks they can do to win Obama a second term is to tie the nation's political debate up in divisive social issues like same-sex marriage, racial division (Trayvon Martin), class warfare (Occupy Wall Street), and bullying, all in a desperate hope they can portray a rather vanilla, self-made moderate as a raving, elitist, right-winger who attends a "freaky" church. The media's gameplan is to scare independent voters back into the arms of the "devil they know" -- a failed and incompetent president. The polls show, however, that that plan is actually backfiring. by John Nolte 5 days ago
Family Denounces WaPo for Exploiting Lauber In the New York Times' followup to Washington Post's Thursday retrospective on Mitt Romney's high school years, reporters Ashley Parker and Jodi Kantor relate an incensed statement from the family of John Lauber, the man reportedly given a forced hair trimming by young Mr. Romney. by Ezra Dulis 5 days ago
Romney Bullying Witness ABC News Presents as Apolitical Told Mag He's a Democrat The question now is who lied? Did ABC News choose to not tell its audience that Maxwell stated he was a Democrat who intends to vote for Barack Obama? In other words, did they ellipses their way past that inconvenient fact? Or did Maxwell hem and haw around that fact. by John Nolte 5 days ago
NPR Cites Bully Dan Savage In Report On Romney Bullying Today, National Public Radio's Morning Edition host David Greene and NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro discussed the Washington Post's sensational accusations that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney had bullied fellow high school students in the 1960s for being "simply different." Shapiro did not mention any of the numerous questions raised about the Post's report, but did cite the "It Gets Better" campaign of White House-endorsed bully Dan Savage in explaining why reports of Romney's high school behavior should be important: by Joel B. Pollak 5 days ago
Washington Post Romney 'Bullying' Profile Contradicted By... Automobile Magazine The Washington Post's controversial exposé on the young Mitt Romney just became more controversial. Presented as an investigative journalism piece, Jason Horowitz’s article contrasts sharply with a similar "flashback" article on Romney recently published in the June 2012 print edition of Automobile Magazine by author David Murray. Both articles chronicle anecdotal events in Romney’s teen years as told by classmates and friends. But while both quote some of the same people, the Washington Post article contains several inexplicable inconsistencies, omissions and false inferences. by Susan Swift 5 days ago
Washington Post Changes Story, Doesn't Admit Error On Thursday, Breitbart's Retracto, the Correction Alpaca asked the Washington Post to correct its anti-Matt Romney hit piece wherein it included an inaccurate and misleading statement about his past. The error was exposed when Stu White contradicted WaPo's reporting in an interview with ABC. The Post changed its piece after we made our request without informing its readers of the change. by Dana Loesch 5 days ago
Washington Post Romney Hit Piece Implodes Today’s unconscionable Washington Post story, which implied without evidence that Mitt Romney was a homophobic bully to one John Lauber back in his high school days five decades ago, has totally imploded. by Ben Shapiro 5 days ago
St. Louis Post Dispatch Attacks Tea Party, Carries Water For Claire McCaskill The Post was upset that Steelman's reaction didn't match the hyperbole demonstrated by the McCaskill campaign in apparently leaking a story about her security to the Post-Dispatch and then using the media to bully the speechmaker about it for several days thereafter. The Post apparently wanted Steelman to rip out Boston's endocrine system through his nostrils and post the punishment to Youtube. by Dana Loesch 5 days ago
Van Jones: Fox News 'Checkmated' Democrats' Supermajority Breitbart's own Rebel Pundit captured some video of Van Jones speaking at a Green Festival last weekend. After listening to it, I felt one part of the speech needed additional attention. Jones explains how taking over all three branches of government in 2008 only gave progressives one-third of the power they needed to create real change. by John Sexton 5 days ago
ABC News Finds Washington Post Romney Falsehood, Buries It And yet, ABC News doesn't lead with the finding of this falsehood, doesn't make it the headline, and mentions it only in passing in the third paragraph before using the rest of the article to get back on narrative track to blast Romney as a vicious bully. by John Nolte 5 days ago
Correction Request: Washington Post Uses Falsehood in Romney Hit Piece While the Post reports White as having “long been bothered” by the haircutting incident,” he told ABC News he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post. by Retracto, The Correction Alpaca 6 days ago
Does WaPo Know Obama Shoved a Little Girl? No doubt that after expending all that energy bullying an innocent little girl, young Obama readied himself for round two by eating a Golden Retriver. by John Nolte 6 days ago
Media Downplays Obama's Past, Tries to Define Romney with Teen Prank The timing of today's Washington Post hit-piece on Romney only confirms what I already suspected: That Journolist is alive and well and that the same news outlet responsible for bringing down a corrupt president through their extraordinary investigative reporting of Watergate, is now coordinating hit-pieces to amplify White House messaging. by John Nolte 6 days ago
Flashback: Obama’s Sordid High School Past While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days. by Ben Shapiro 6 days ago
Washington Post Disgraces Itself By Targeting Romney's 'Anti-Gay' High School Pranks Today, the Washington Post ran an egregious hit piece about Mitt Romney … circa 1965. Seriously. by Ben Shapiro 6 days ago
Federal Court Bans Enforcement of Illinois Eavesdropping Law According to the Chicago Tribune, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the Illinois Eavesdropping Act “likely violates” the First Amendment. v by Rebel Pundit 6 days ago
Soros Gives David Brock $1 Million for New Media Ground War George Soros is a major donor to the Democratic Party and to progressive causes and foundations. This week he announced he will be donating $100 million to support progressive groups this cycle. One of the first million-dollar donations will go to American Bridge, an oppo-research PAC set up by Media Matters founder David Brock. by John Sexton 6 days ago
Left-Wing Media Smears Jonah Goldberg For What It Calls 'Not Uncommon' If Dedman and his merry band of left-wingers want to argue the point that -- even though Jonah was indeed nominated for a Pulitzer by outlets he wrote for -- such a distinction shouldn't be treated as a nomination -- fair enough. And judging by their quick action and admission, Jonah and his publisher agree. But where are the long-form articles and investigations into the many others who have also done what we're told is "not uncommon." by John Nolte 6 days ago
Media Fail: 'Dying' Tea Party Raises $12 Million Wisely, the Tea Party remains leaderless. This makes it impossible for the MSM to do what it wants to do more than anything, and that's destroy the movement by destroying its leader. by John Nolte 7 days ago
Despite Boycott, Limbaugh Thrives as CNN and WaPo Collapse During this failed boycott, Limbaugh's ratings have increased across his 600 stations while CNN's ratings have collapsed, and the Washington Post is sinking almost as fast. by John Nolte 7 days ago