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Rush Limbaugh’s producer James Golden (“Bo Snerdley”) said the mainstream media and the left relentlessly try to take down those who champion conservatism so they can more easily convince the American people that the liberal point of view is the

Breitbart writer Brandon Darby made an appearance on HuffPost Live on Thursday where he was confronted by David McKay, one of the two men that Darby helped convict for their role in planning attacks on the 2008 Republican National Convention.

The news that broke Thursday that founder Tina Brown is parting ways with the Daily Beast likely came as a blow to some staffers and a relief to others. But what has to be deeply unsettling to all staffers is

In a press release issued Friday, National Public Radio announced one of the largest staff cuts in its history; 10% of the organization’s 840 employees will be offered a voluntary buyout. The Washington Post reports that this is due to a

According to the New York Post’s look at IRS records, although her non-profit Women in the World Foundation collected nearly $1.2 million in 2011, Tina Brown’s charity only gave away $10,000 during that same year. The foundation’s stated goal was

When the media was terrified Governor Sarah Palin might run for president, Meghan McCain was useful. As the daughter of the man who chose Palin as his running mate in 2008, the fact that John McCain’s daughter is not very

The timing could not be worse. Just three days after voters in Colorado made a fool of the “Morning Joe” host by proving that his high-profile, months-long demagogic campaign to convince the GOP to cave to Obama on gun control

According to the Atlantic, Time managing editor Rick Stengel’s decision to join the Obama administration is just the latest example of a new trend among mainstream media journalists who are making it official by joining the Obama administration. Stengel, who

Polling agency Survata conducted a survey or 8,546 people to determine the initial perceptions of America’s newest cable news station. They asked respondents a straightforward question: “Do you perceive Al Jazeera America as an objective news source?” According to the survey,

Yesterday the US Senate attempted to define who is and is not a journalist. In the process of passing a “Shield Law” to protect journalists and their sources, a fiery debate ensued over just who is a journalist and who

The revolving door between the field of journalism and the Obama administration spins again as Richard Stengel, Time Magazine’s managing editor, quits his journalism career to join Obama’s Department of State. If he is confirmed by the Senate, Stengel will

The fact that CNN has lost some esteem with the American people, was apparent Tuesday night when President Obama gave a rare primetime address to try and explain his policy on Syria. Tuesday night’s ratings show once again that when

(AP) Fox ending Smith’s nightly newscastNEW YORKFox News Channel is eliminating one of Shepard Smith’s two daily newscasts and putting him in charge of a breaking news team where he will travel more to stories and break into other Fox

Not for days, not for weeks, but for months, Joe Scarborough and his Morning Joe panel not only pushed, begged and berated Congress to pass new gun control laws — they threatened, shamed, mocked, and laughed in the faces of

(AP) Senate panel Oks measure defining a journalistBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONA Senate panel on Thursday approved a measure defining a journalist, which had been an obstacle to broader media shield legislation designed to protect reporters and the news media from

National Public Radio’s David Welna reported Thursday morning that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and other pro-Israel groups had suffered defeat in efforts to lobby Congress to back a military attack against Syria.  Though Welna cites some dubious sources,

In a Thursday op-ed titled “Obama and Syria: Stumbling Toward Damascus,” Time magazine’s Joe Klein, a reliable Obama defender, eviscerates the president over “one of the more stunning and inexplicable displays of presidential incompetence that I’ve ever witnessed.” Klein, obviously,

An Italian journalist and Belgian writer who had been held captive in Syria for the past six months were released this past Sunday. Domenico Quirico says he overheard a conversation held on Skype by his captors. The captors claimed that the

CNN’s retooled Crossfire show debuted Monday, September 9, with some heavy political lead in, but still did not set the cableverse on fire with its ratings. Wolf Blitzer interviewed President Obama before the debut. Nonetheless, the new show’s ratings did

After a troubled five-year run, founder and editor of the Daily Beast, Tina Brown, is reportedly on her way out at the end of the year. IAC/InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller’s parent company that owns Daily Beast, will not be renewing Brown’s

National Review editor Rich Lowry announced Wednesday that his publication will sue Newark mayor and Democrat US Senate candidate Cory Booker, the City of Newark, and that city’s police department. The dispute stems from NR’s desire to verify a story 

The conventional wisdom is that when you poll “all adults” as opposed to a tighter screening for “registered voters,” Democrats generally do better. If that is the case, the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov is the worse news yet for

President Obama’s bungling of everything surrounding Syria is so apparent that even some of his biggest fans in the mainstream media are finding it impossible to do anything other than declare the obvious. While CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and the New

No one worked harder to cynically exploit the horrific deaths of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary, turning those deaths into a victory against their political foes, than the mainstream media — not Barack Obama, not Democrat lawmakers, not Michael

Anthony Weiner suffered a humiliating loss in his bid to become the mayor of New York City.  Remarkably, a little over 31,000 New Yorkers wanted Weiner to run Gotham but that wasn’t enough to give the former congressman even 5%