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POLITICO: Breitbart News Shakes Up Masthead

POLITICO: Breitbart News Shakes Up Masthead

From Dylan Byers: Breitbart News, the combative right-wing news and opinion network, will today announce “a fundamental restructuring” of its masthead that will leave the 27-year-old Alexander Marlow in charge of editorial operations, POLITICO has learned. Editor-in-chief Joel Pollak, editor-at-large

MSNBC's Matthews: Tea Party Racist by Using Word 'We'

MSNBC's Matthews: Tea Party Racist by Using Word 'We'

Appearing on Now with Alex Wagner on MSNBC, primetime host Chris Matthews explained that Tea Party use of the word “we” was racist, and that Tea Partiers presumably still counted black people as “three-fifths” of a person. The leg-tingling host

NYT's Krugman Celebrates Finding One Obamacare Enrollee

NYT's Krugman Celebrates Finding One Obamacare Enrollee

In a blog post titled “Obamacare Success,” progressive New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took a victory lap of sorts after finding and speaking to one person who signed up for Obamacare, now over two weeks into its unveiling.  “This

*Live Updates* 'Objective' Media Celebrate Obama Shutdown Victory

*Live Updates* 'Objective' Media Celebrate Obama Shutdown Victory

Our objective-unbiased, not-at-all-liberal media are now in two modes: Openly celebrating Obama’s shutdown victory over the GOP and planting seeds of recrimination that they hope will bear fruit through the 2014 elections. Context is important… There is no question that,

NPR's Renee Montagne Flunks Civics–and Fairness

NPR's Renee Montagne Flunks Civics–and Fairness

National Public Radio has been cheerleading for President Barack Obama throughout the shutdown, and exulted in his political win the morning after Congress passed legislation to end the confrontation. But Morning Edition host Renee Montagne went even further in her

Appeals Court: Reporter Must Reveal CIA Source

Appeals Court: Reporter Must Reveal CIA Source

New York Times foreign affairs reporter James Risen must reveal his secret source while testifying in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent charged with leaking classified information, so says the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in

McCain On Gohmert: 'No Intelligence'

McCain On Gohmert: 'No Intelligence'

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) violated Reagan’s 11th Commandment Wednesday night by accusing fellow Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of having “no intelligence.” The charge was in response to something Gohmert said this past weekend about McCain. To be fair, Gohmert was

MSNBC Hires Mia Farrow's Son Ronan for Show

MSNBC Hires Mia Farrow's Son Ronan for Show

(AP) MSNBC hires Mia Farrow’s son Ronan for showNEW YORKA book deal, tabloid attention and now a new television show — it’s a busy time in the public eye for 25-year-old Ronan Farrow. MSNBC announced Wednesday that it had hired

CBS News: ObamaCare Launch 'A Complete Disaster'

CBS News: ObamaCare Launch 'A Complete Disaster'

On Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, co-anchor Norah O’Donnell described the ObamaCare launch as a “rough start.” CBS reporter Jan Crawford responded with, “‘Rough start’ could be the understatement of the year. It has been a complete disaster. We don’t know

Look Who's Dissing Andrew Breitbart

Look Who's Dissing Andrew Breitbart

Former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers tells Salon.com today that Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson are not “all that bright.” His evidence: they believe(d) in “small government.” His argument: Somalia has a small government, too. It takes a special kind

Critics: Alec Baldwin's New MSNBC Show a Snooze

Critics: Alec Baldwin's New MSNBC Show a Snooze

Actor Alec Baldwin’s new MSNBC show recently debuted to unimpressive ratings. Critics were not very kind to the “boring” show. Even the Los Angeles Times was not excited. Up Late with Alec Baldwin garnered only 654,000 viewers for its opening

ObamaCare: Obama Loses Hometown Newspaper

ObamaCare: Obama Loses Hometown Newspaper

In a brutal editorial, President Obama’s hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, blasts Obama Care, and not just the crippling technical issues that have marred the launch. Getting to the heart of the debacle, the Tribune points to what much of

Douthat Defends the Tea Party

Douthat Defends the Tea Party

On Monday, Ross Douthat of the New York Times mocked the Tea Party as the “Kurtz Republicans,” comparing them to the villain of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. On Wednesday, however, Douthat acknowledged that the Tea Party actually had some good

With Dow Up 150, NPR Says Deal Must 'Calm Financial Markets'

With Dow Up 150, NPR Says Deal Must 'Calm Financial Markets'

As the Down Jones Industrial Average broke through 150 points up on the day–after half an hour of trading–National Public Radio’s hourly news broadcast was still stuck on yesterday’s mainstream media narrative, informing listeners that a congressional deal on the

Guardian's Glenn Greenwald Gets Gig

Guardian's Glenn Greenwald Gets Gig

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who scored the scoop of the decade with the Edward Snowden/National Security Agency’s surveillance program story, is leaving the Guardian newspaper.  BuzzFeed reports that Greenwald will be leaving for a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity” described as “a

Be Careful What You Wish For, David Frum

Be Careful What You Wish For, David Frum

Former Bush speechwriter and Daily Beast contributing editor David Frum echoed much of D.C. and elite liberal opinion when he suggested on Tuesday that it would be a “blessing” for Republicans if the Tea Party left the party. “[I]t’s not

In Defense of Tommy Christopher

In Defense of Tommy Christopher

Tuesday, Mediaite White House correspondent Tommy Christopher made headlines for asking a highly unorthodox question of White House Spokesman Jay Carney. My friend and colleague Ben Shapiro hammered him as a “numbskull” for asking the “single worst question ever.”  I

Boston Globe: Obama Has Failed at Bipartisanship

Boston Globe: Obama Has Failed at Bipartisanship

Progressive Massachusetts paper exhaustively puts the lie to Obama’s post-partisan image. Republicans have been complaining that, despite his constant stream of rhetoric pleading for bipartisanship, President Obama has been one of the biggest opponents of America’s political parties actually working

NYT: Obamacare Collapse 'Has Deeply Embarrassed' White House

NYT: Obamacare Collapse 'Has Deeply Embarrassed' White House

A New York Times investigative article based on two dozen interviews with industry insiders and confidential Obama Administration documents reveals that the catastrophic $500 million Obamacare rollout “has deeply embarrassed the White House” and has the technology companies involved “publicly