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During the May 22 broadcast of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” host Neil Conan repeatedly contradicted a guest by claiming that the IRS has nothing at all to do with Obamacare.  NPR’s Conan is, of course, completely incorrect.

An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks. A little over a week after

Progressive Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined the chorus of journalistic outrage over the Obama Administration’s decision to spy on Fox News reporter James Rosen and to seize and comb Associated Press reporters’ phone records, writing that “the administration’s actions shatter

NBC’s chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd said on Wednesday that the Obama Administration’s seizure of reporters’ emails and phone records is evidence that “they want to criminalize journalism.”  Todd, who made his comments on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, said that

In a May 21 piece, the New York Times’ Michael D. Shear blamed the lag time between the IRS targeting of conservative groups and the reporting thereof on Rush Limbaugh. When the IRS finally admitted that it had indeed unfairly targeted conservative

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

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

Nice catch by The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack: — Josh Marshall (10:15a.m.): Lerner Must Go talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/… Ezra Klein (9:45a.m.): Heads should roll at IRS washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog… — John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) May 22, 2013 — UPDATE: Add Salon’s Joan Walsh to the

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

NPR’s Ari Shapiro posted an interesting Tweet on May 21. He discovered that a cadre of well-known lefty columnists and journalists visited the White House together, three of whom he mentioned by name. Shapiro reported that Jonathan Capehart and Ezra

Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker: The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in

How many offenses before BuzzFeed is labeled a hate site? Well, not three. Tuesday afternoon, 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.

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

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

In Tuesday’s testimony before the Senate, outgoing IRS chief Steven Miller apparently reversed course under some tough questioning by Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. During his testimony last week, Miller not only insisted that the singling out of

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

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

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

The obfuscation continues. Monday’s White House press briefing was enlightening, in many respects, with regard to the ever evolving story of whom at the White House knew about the IRS IG report on the targeting of conservative groups for inappropriate, extra scrutiny.

Working together again, the White House and Media Matters have spent the last week attempting the herculean task of turning the Benghazi-scandal battleship around in the hopes of attacking conservatives. Washington Post factchecker, Glenn Kessler, just destroyed that cynical maneuver.

As we saw during the Boston Marathon Bombing, when people want actual news, they do not turn to MSNBC. What good is liberal-talk-radio-with-pictures hosted by unlikable hipsters who all share the same pair of glasses, when you want news, facts,