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Forbes: Nate Silver, the blogger whose unerring predictions made him perhaps the most important political byline at The New York Times during the last presidential election, is leaving the paper to join ESPN. An official announcement is expected later today.

On Saturday, Ed Schultz of MSNBC actually posited that the collapse of Detroit, a city run solely and completely Democrats for the last 50 years, could be attributed to “a lot of Republican policies.” Schultz explained, “Michigan used to be

Maria “Money Honey” Bartiromo is the face and star of CNBC, a network that has been her home for 20 years. With her five-year contract set to expire, the New York Post reports that through the high-powered Create Artists Agency,

Nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Miller skewered MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry for sporting tampon earrings on the air as a symbol of solidarity with the pro-abortion protesters in Texas. Miller took to Twitter to lambaste Harris-Perry in a way only

Former MSNBC anchor David Shuster has been tapped by Al Jazeera America to bring his special brand of journalism to the Qatar-owned media network.  Michael Calderone is reporting that sources close to the deal confirm will be an anchor for the

Any sane person would look at the ratings of MSNBC and CNN and conclude that aping them with their failed cast-offs might not be a good idea. But when you are Al Jazeera America,  and owned by an oil-rich Middle

As the rest of the media seem desperate to turn the page on all things related to George Zimmerman (and for good reason), an apparent dead-ender is NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd. In a very bizarre opening

The Huffington Post reports that left-wing anchor David Shuster has signed a deal with Al Jazeera America. The  network launches August 20, and has already signed two former CNN left-wingers, Soledad O’Brien and Ali Velshi: The Times’ Brian Stelter wrote

UPI: On her MSNBC show Sunday morning, Melissa Harris-Perry called attention to recently passed abortion regulations in Texas with a pair of tampon earrings. During a second special session of the Texas legislature — after a successful filibuster by state

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the United Kingdom would direct Internet service providers to block all pornographic content to households unless they specifically opted in to receive it, the BBC reports. Cameron’s initiative would also prohibit pornography depicting

CNN’s Don Lemon had Dallas radio host Ben Ferguson to discuss President Barack Obama’s remarks about racial profiling as it pertains to the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case. When Ferguson suggested that some women felt concerned for their safety when men

I couldn’t help but take notice of Chris Matthews speaking on “behalf of all white people” the other day when foaming at the mouth over the last faux racial injustice that fuels the left-wing media establishment’s drive to polarize this

In the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who is accused of leaking classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen, a federal appeals court has ruled that Risen will have to testify. The court stated: The

Members of the White House Press corps laughed out loud Friday when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to tell them that the amnesty bill currently being debated in Congress would “raise wages.” When asked if immigration “was part

On “Breitbart News Sunday” on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will discuss the failed rallies organized by Al Sharpton on Saturday to protest the

To express pride in his 70-year-old physique, Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera Tweeted a photo of himself without a shirt on Sunday morning, July 21. The Twitterverse was aghast. The photo, a sideways image showing the Fox Newser in his bathroom

On her Sunday morning news show, State of the Union, Candy Crowley expressed explicit support for more talk about race in America, commenting on the possibility that a nationwide conversation about race could emerge from the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman controversy:

The AP allowed their bias to slip in a recent piece about the Trayvon Martin vigils around the country on Saturday. The media is determined to make the case a white on black hate crime, but the facts do not

The last Rasmussen poll that looked at NBC’s Al Sharpton was in April of last year. It showed that only 26% of Americans viewed the MSNBC anchor favorably, while a full 60% viewed him unfavorably. It is hard to imagine

— — Helen Thomas, a pioneer woman journalist in the US who covered the White House for five decades, dies at 92 — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 20, 2013 — BREAKING: Helen Thomas, a pioneer for women in journalism,

As Americans watch the Saturday protests across the nation with shouts of “Justice For Trayvon!” and “No Justice, No Peace,” they’ll probably be wondering where all the money came from to support the organizational effort needed for the 100-city effort.

Various news outlets are announcing the death of Helen Thomas at 92, the disgraced journalist who, for years (between Kennedy and Obama) covered the White House. At the end of her career, she occupied the fabled center chair in the

Not every liberal journalist was brought to tears over the President’s belated statement on the George Zimmerman verdict.  Columnist Rich Benjamin at Salon.com called the effort “safe, over-rated and airy” and compared it unfavorably to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent

NBC News’ Mark Murray, the senior political editor who did not voluntarily disclose his marriage to an Obama staffer, covered the president’s racially-divisive statements about the George Zimmerman affair at First Read Friday. In the piece Murray refers to then-presidential

Friday, not long after Barack Obama’s racially-divisive statement about the Zimmerman case, and directly after five objective CNN staffers embarrassed themselves gushing over the statement, CNN interviewed their own anchor, Don Lemon. For a full three-minutes the weepy, melodramatic Lemon