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The government obtained “thousands and thousands” of phone records of Associated Press staffers according to CEO Gary Pruitt.  Pruitt held a town hall meeting with AP staff and revealed that the phone records obtained by the DOJ included incoming and

NBC News cable outlet MSNBC finished May in a dismal 4th place in the ratings race delivering a humiliating blow to the left-leaning news network. If MSNBC execs are rationalizing the 4th place finish by pointing out that CNN Headline

The Associated Press is the latest major news outlet to inform President Obama’s Department of Justice that they will not be participating in an off-the-record briefing on how Eric Holder’s team deals with journalists who work with leakers.  The announcement came

Newsweek is up for sale again, as the once-powerful magazine edges closer toward oblivion. IAC, which bought Newsweek in 2010 when it merged Newsweek with the Daily Beast, has sent out inquiries to prospective buyers. Newsweek has been desperately trying

Nothing is off limits when the left attacks conservatives. As soon as Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced that she would not be seeking a new term, it was time to brace for a barrage of vile, lying bile from the

In a classic case of “now you tell me,” the Associated Press reports today that a whole swath of people who like their health insurance might be losing it. You see, ObamaCare requires all Americans get the equivalent of a

Bob Shrum, a longtime Democrat operative, has decided that President Barack Obama’s handling of the White House during this IRS scandal has been bad. Maybe not “Nixonian” bad, but instead indicates a sort of Carteresque incompetence. Shrum is a high-powered

State Department Deputy Spokesman Patrick Ventrell told journalists on Tuesday that “no court order is required” for the Department to turn over records of journalists’ movements within the Department building or any information deemed necessary to “cooperate” with Department of

The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee raised the stakes in the ongoing stare-down with Attorney General Eric Holder over his involvement with controversial investigations of reporters over the past several years.   Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) along with Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner

Tuesday’s self-serving, distraction tour of the Jersey Shore featuring President Barack Obama palling around with Governor Chris Christie to show-off the progress made since the devastating hurricane pummeled the shore six months ago, successfully allowed the media to change the subject from

Eric Holder knows that the only way he can save his job is by currying favor with the media, which is exactly what the embattled Attorney General is doing. The question is, will the media once again cave to the

CNN: Democratic strategist Stephanie Cutter and Republican strategist Kevin Madden will join CNN as political commentators, it was announced today by CNN Washington bureau chief and senior vice president Sam Feist. The veteran communications consultants will add their expert analysis

Larry King has joined the RT network to launch a brand new political show. According to RT:  Award-winning interviewer Larry King will host a mold-breaking political talk show on RT from next month, speaking to both leading establishment figures, and

In his always-terrific Best of the Web column, James Taranto looks at how the Justice Department’s shockingly aggressive probe into the private emails and phones records of Fox News reporter James Rosen resulted in a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of outrage from

BANGKOK (AP) — An Italian photographer killed while covering the military’s crackdown on anti-government protesters in Thailand’s capital three years ago was shot by a high-velocity bullet like those issued to soldiers, a judge said Wednesday. The inquest said it

With Fox News‘ “declaration of war” on the Obama administration’s anti-journalism policies, the Democrat-Media Complex has been divided against itself.  Members of the press, who consistently hide behind their own objectivity, have been forced to come out in Fox News’ favor in

In an open letter published on Saturday, Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff fired back at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “spectacularly uncivil behavior” in the wake of a controversy over the scholars’ austerity findings. “It has

Just over a month after the NRA won the the day when the Senate voted down a proposed gun control package on April 17, the New Republic declares the NRA isn’t as strong as you might think and gun ownership

Last week, the Justice Department claimed that back in 2010 it had notified News Corp (parent company of Fox News) that the government had seized the phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen. News Corp can find no record

CNN will partner with the left-leaning BuzzFeed on a YouTube channel.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the partnership will give BuzzFeed access to CNN’S archives so it can create mash-up videos that will appear on CNN.com and the CNN/BuzzFeed channel on YouTube. The

Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder is in full damage control mode. In an attempt to re-shape his image with the press after the highly damaging revelations that he personally signed-off on secret subpoena requests for James Rosen and Fox News over

Wednesday Washington Times’s senior op-ed editor Emily Miller published a personal account of a two-year-old interview with Anthony Weiner during the heart of  Weinergate. Miller says that during the interview, the disgraced ex-Congressman stood very close to her and made

It is impossible to understand the Obama administration’s uniquely hostile treatment of Fox News without understanding the self-image of the Obama team. On the one hand, the targeting of Fox News for isolation and surveillance suggests an administration so lacking

The biggest problem for Liberals in these current growing Obama scandals is they have been robbed of their usual favorite defense/justification of Obama:  “Bush did it too!” Perhaps you’ve seen this yourself over the past 4 1/2 years. The Obama