Progressive 'Village Voice' Newspaper Circling the Drain

Troubles are growing for New York City's venerable "alternative" weekly newspaper, The Village Voice. With multiple layoffs, ad revenue at an all-time low, and resignations by key staffers over the paper's management, the 58-year-old publication is coming to what one commenter is calling "the end times." 26 May 2013, 2:46 PM PDT

'Breitbart News Sunday' Memorial Day Weekend Special: The Honored Dead

On a special Memorial Day weekend broadcast of "Breitbart News Sunday" on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT, Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will host a tribute to our country's fallen and discuss the significance of Memorial Day with some of the nation's leading historians, authors, and former soldiers. The three-hour show will be called, "The Honored Dead." 26 May 2013, 8:25 AM PDT

Distorting NIAC's Court Defeat

Last September, Seid Hassan Daioleslam, an American of Iranian origins, won a major court victory against the informal Iranian U.S. lobby in Washington. The decision legitimated Mr. Daioleslam’s investigative research that exposed the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) and its president, Trita Parsi, as lobbyists for the Iranian regime. But on May 5 M.J. Rosenberg wrote an article that turns upside down the trial outcome and even the facts established in the case. This article points out Rosenberg’s many errors. 26 May 2013, 5:43 AM PDT

Why a Level Playing Field Matters in U.S. Politics--and How the IRS Helped One Side

One thing that puts "progressives" at a disadvantage in these ongoing Obama scandals is that many of them admit they want the American federal government favoring the Left. Some of the more honest among them have said they have no real problem with the power of the federal government being used to suppress Conservatives since it tilts the political field in the correct direction. 26 May 2013, 5:01 AM PDT

Beverly Hills Occupiers Protest Potential Sale of L.A. Times to Kochs

The Hollywood Reporter's Paul Bond details what might be the lamest protest in the history of Los Angeles -- which is saying a lot. Thursday, in Beverly Hills, a few dozen people showed up to protest at the home of Bruce Karsh, the Tribune Company chairman. They're worried he might sell the L.A. Times to the Koch brothers. 25 May 2013

Journalist, Author Haynes Johnson Dies at 81

Johnson's shoe-leather reporting and keen insights on the struggle of Southern blacks during the civil rights era won him the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1966, one of many honors showered upon him during a brilliant career that spanned more than 50 years. 25 May 2013

Politico: Attkisson Fights Bias of 'CBS Evening News' Producer

When you work at CBS in the capacity Attkisson does, getting on the "CBS Evening News" is what it is all about -- it is why you get up in the morning. Therefore, Attkisson's willingness to rub one of the holders of the keys to that kingdom the wrong way says a lot about her character. 24 May 2013

AP Reporter: DOJ Harassing, Intimidating Journalists

After State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell praised the agency's support of a "free press" on Thursday, Associated Press reporter Matt Lee engaged Ventrell over the release of Department records and the Department of Justice's investigation into James Rosen's activies. 24 May 2013

Ailes Letter to Journalists is a Battle Cry for Press Freedom

Fox News chief Roger Ailes's letter to his employees is a battle cry that will echo beyond the Avenue of the Americas. "The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth," he wrote. 23 May 2013

How the New York Times Shapes 'Correct' Perception of News

Some real news came out of the release of the Inspector General's report on the IRS abuse, and from the Congressional hearings this week. The Obama administration lied when it claimed it had no idea the IRS was targeting Conservative groups for delays & denials of their applications for tax-exempt status. 23 May 2013

Weekly Ratings: Fox News 3rd, CNN 29th, MSNBC 33rd

The Fox News Channel continues to obliterate the competition, not just among its cable news competitors, but in all cable. Out of the 94 cable channel measured by Nielsen, Fox News was ranked third in what is known as "total day" and in primetime last week. Only TNT and the USA Network had more viewers. 23 May 2013

Chuck Todd: Obama Wants to 'Criminalize Journalism'

Todd said individuals he now talks to are “quite uncomfortable having conversations on the phone. Maybe that’s the intent.” The NBC reporter added: “you can't look at this and see it as anything other than an attempt to basically scare anybody from ever leaking anything ever again.” 22 May 2013

Israel Releases Damning Report on Al-Dura Hoax

The Israeli Government has released a comprehensive report into the infamous Al-Dura incident of Sep. 30, 2000, declaring that the 12-year-old Palestinian boy was not killed by Israeli soldiers and that journalists had perpetrated a "misleading and mendacious" hoax that had inspired terrorist violence against Jews and Israel. 22 May 2013

Media Fail: Obama Approval Dips Below 50 In Four Polls

Coming out of the weekend, after a brutal week for their president, the media held tight to a little lifeboat in an ocean of bad news: Polls from CNN and The Washington Post had Obama's approval rating at 53% and 50%, respectively. But Monday was a lifetime and countless revelations ago, and today, four newer polls all show Obama's approval rating sinking below 50%. 22 May 2013

New York Times: Obama Leak Investigations 'Chilling,' 'Threatening'

At least when it comes to the overreaching Department of Justice leak investigations, President Obama has finally lost one of his biggest fans, The New York Times. In a Wednesday editorial written by the full editorial board, the Times said it was a threat "to fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news" when the Obama administration labeled a Fox News reporter a "co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation. 22 May 2013

BuzzFeed Staffer: Ted Cruz 'Latino In Name Only'

Using her Twitter feed, BuzzFeed staffer Aswini Anburajan lashed out at Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for not being left-wing enough when it comes to immigration. Anbuarajan not only knocked the Senator's chances at becoming president due to his stand on "immig and benefits," she attacked Cruz racially, declaring him a LINO, or Latin In Name Only. 21 May 2013

Top IRS Official to Plead Fifth

Tuesday afternoon a bombshell was dropped into the already explosive IRS scandal when it was reported that Lois Lerner, a top IRS official in the non-profit division that paralyzed Tea Party groups with ongoing harassment, would invoke the Fifth Amendment. 21 May 2013

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

Investors.com: Obama's White House 'Reminiscent of Totalitarian Regimes'

An editorial at Investors.com Monday noted that, having succeeded twice at electing a candidate with a radical socialist background, Barack Obama’s political advisors have now moved from a goal of merely controlling the “narrative,” to one of control of the actual “news.” The “seizure of AP phone records and surveillance of Fox employees,” says the editorial, demonstrates the White House’s “real aim.” 21 May 2013

Eugene Robinson Hammers Obama Over AP

The provocative headline "Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage" doesn't appear in a traditionally conservative paper like the NY Post or Wall Street Journal; it's in the Washington Post. And before you equivocate, no, it's not hovering over the byline of Charles Krauthammer or George Will at WaPo, it's accompanying a column by long-time Obama apologist Eugene Robinson. 21 May 2013

Milbank: If You Oppose Immigration Bill, You're a Segregationist

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post compared Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to Jim Crow-era segregationist (Democrat) Alabama governor George Wallace: "Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now." The irony of the false comparison to Wallace is apparently lost on Milbank. Wallace famously stood in the door to defy federal enforcement of the law. Sessions is standing up to demand federal enforcement of the law. 21 May 2013

White House Correspondent: Carney Should 'Threaten To Resign'

Jay Carney's credibility is now on the line, according to veteran White House correspondent Keith Koffler. He reports today, at White House Dossier, that Monday's briefing by Carney was filled with acrimony over the ever-evolving narrative put forth by the White House Press Secretary over the Inspector General report dealing with the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups by the IRS. 21 May 2013

Carney Can't (Or Won't) Name 'Senior Staff' Who Knew About IRS Report

We also learned, from press secretary Jay Carney, that many other members of the President's "senior staff" knew about the report and purposely failed to inform their boss, Barack Obama. When pressed about the names of these "senior staff" members, Carney replied "I don't have a list for you." Was this his way of refusing to disclose the names? Or, was he merely saying that he didn't have the names "at that moment" and will provide them later? 21 May 2013

Ratings: MSNBC Hits 7-Year Low, Fox News Rises

Last week, between May 13-17, MSNBC averaged 350,000 overall viewers and only 94,000 in the all-important 25-54 demo. One day last week, in that demo, MSNBC averaged only 83,000 viewers, a low not seen since July of 2006. 21 May 2013

While Rosen Is Pursued, Gregory's Gun Violation Gets a Pass

If there is one lesson I have learned over my decade and a half at Judicial Watch, it is this: you must never overestimate the hypocrisy of the Left--especially in covering for their own. Lest you have even the slightest doubt, cast an eye to the outrageous behavior of District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan when he allowed NBC-TV’s David Gregory to walk away scot free for a firearm offense, even while openly acknowledging “the clarity of the violation of the law.” 21 May 2013

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

Policy, Discretion Guide Media Sources Probes

It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier. 21 May 2013

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

Beinart Calls Drudge & Boyle Racists--Hilarity Ensues

The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart took some time out from defending the indefensible IRS today to accuse Matt Drudge and Breitbart News' Matt Boyle of racism for their entirely non-racial reaction to President Barack Obama's commencement address at the all-black, all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday. Beinart's attack is so clumsy, however, that he undermines his own case--and proves Drudge and Boyle's point. 20 May 2013

Angry Press Corps Grills White House on Reporter Scandals

The White House press corps posed several angry questions to Obama administration spokesperson Jay Carney about the James Rosen case in his daily briefing Monday. The Washington Post revealed Sunday that Rosen, who works for the Fox News Channel, had been the target of unusual surveillance by the Department of Justice, which treated his reports on North Korea as potential crimes against national security. 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

IRS Scandal: Beinart Stands up for Poor, Helpless Bureaucrats

Peter Beinart of the Daily Beast often takes positions that are merely liberal, but his stance on the IRS scandal is laughable. Sticking to the government's debunked narrative that a lowly, understaffed Cincinnati office was to blame, Beinart argues that the lesson of the IRS scandal is that the agency needs more power, staffing and funding. The IRS scandal, he writes, was just a "mess"--one "born less of overregulation than underregulation." 20 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

Woodward: White House Lied

"You look at the whole Benghazi thing. You look at those talking points and the initial draft by the CIA very explicitly said we know that activists who have ties to Al-Qaeda were involved in the attack. Then you see what comes out a couple of days later and there is no reference to this. This is a business where you have to tell the truth and that did not happen here." 19 May 2013

Schieffer On IRS Scandal: 'Dumb And Dumber'

CBS News' Bob Schieffer took aim at the Obama White House today and their involvement in the IRS scandal. "Welcome to dumb and dumber," Schieffer intoned, as he railed against the administration's contention that no one really knew anything about this or the other scandals until they heard about it on the news. 19 May 2013

CNN's Cooper 'Marries' SNL's Stefon In Weekend Update Sketch

Hader's flamboyant character, Stefon, is a regular on Myers' Weekend Update segment and there has been an ongoing, flirtatious subtext to the segment between the two and that plot line came to full fruition this week as Myers chased after Stefon (in the style of "The Graduate") to interrupt his marriage. As the camera pans to reveal the church setting Stefon's groom is revealed: CNN's newsman Anderson Cooper. 19 May 2013

Rumsfeld, Cuccinelli Headline 'Breitbart News Sunday' on Sirius XM 125

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will headline "Breitbart News Sunday" on SIrius XM Patriot Channel 125. The show airs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT. Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli will also join the show. Catherine Engelbrecht, of True the Vote, and Jenny Beth Martin, of Tea Party Patriots, will also be on the show to talk about the IRS's targeting of their organizations. 19 May 2013

No, Nate Silver Did Not 'Debunk' IRS Scandal

Nate Silver, the New York Times' political number-cruncher, has earned his bragging rights after schooling conservative pollsters in the 2012 presidential election. However, his attempted "debunking" of one aspect of the IRS scandal is nothing of the sort. 19 May 2013

Full Spin Mode on IRS, Benghazi, AP Scandals as WH Advisor Does 'Full Ginsburg'

Senior White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer is set to perform the 'full Ginsburg' on Sunday, appearing on all five major Sunday morning news shows in the latest sign that the Obama administration is determined to fight for control of the news cycle following an explosion of major scandals in the past several days. Pfeiffer will appear on CNN's State of the Union, ABC's This Week, CBS's Face the Nation, NBC's Meet the Press, and Fox News' Fox News Sunday. 19 May 2013

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