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The New York Times on Saturday published a story with a headline claiming “Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push,” referring to the multiple ongoing investigations of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. Times reporter Eric Lipton named

Liberals, the mainstream media, and establishment Republicans often reveal which conservatives they fear by their level of disdain and vitriol. This week, they put their crosshairs on freshman Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Tea Party conservative of Hispanic descent

One thing we can all agree on: Piers Morgan is pretty impressed with himself.   In an interview with London’s TV Magazine, the CNN host suggests that members fo the fairer sex are also quite smitten with the anti-gun advocate:

Apparently, the Washington Post and New York Times don’t like the idea of a non-white U.S. Senator acting all uppity. It’s fine for the lily-white Elizabeth Warren to immediately come out guns blazing, but over the past couple of days

On Thursday, Pope Benedict met with parish priests and clergy of the Diocese of Rome. After being greeted with prolonged applause in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, the pope delivered an unscripted 46-minute “chat,” as he called it,

The New York Times and BuzzFeed have some kind of relationship going on, but that still doesn’t explain the long, wet French kiss the Times gave BuzzFeed Politics editor-in-chief Ben Smith yesterday. It’s just a fact that when the left-wing

Political consultant, feminist, and Huffington Post blogger Naomi Wolf is in talks to join Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned news network that recently purchased Al Gore’s cable network, Current TV. Responding to inquiries, Wolf said the talks are “extremely informal and

Though she’s not getting much credit for it, it’s just a fact that most of the important media scoops of late have been coming from Betsy Rothstein at FishbowlDC. Today marks another scoop and, better still, another moment to savor

Tracy Schmaler, Attorney General Eric Holder’s top press defender, will resign her position on March 8. This reporter recently caught Schmaler colluding with far leftwing advocacy organization Media Matters for America to attack the reputations of whistleblowers, members of Congress,

Full disclosure, sometime yesterday afternoon I fired off a Tweet — that I have since publicly retracted — criticizing CNN for its seemingly non-stop coverage of the disabled Carnival cruise ship being towed into port. So, granted, for a time

You’ll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times: Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel.   Where did the media get this buzz word that’s

No one has to tell me I’m being greedy; I already know that. But if I’ve learned one thing during this misspent life of mine, it’s that the worst someone can say is “no.” But this is really Erik Wemple’s

Time Warner is looking to sell its magazine holdings to Iowa-based Mederith Corp., possibly ending its reign as the nation’s largest magazine publisher. Reports from those close to negotiations say that Time Warner would retain its newsweekly, Time magazine, as

Once again MSNBC has accused the National Rifle Association of being racists. Now host Alex Wagner claimed that NRA chief Wayne LaPierre employed coded racism in a recent op-ed he wrote. The day after the President’s State of the Union

Patrick Pexton, the Washington Post‘s ombudsman, admitted in a Tuesday phone call to a Post reader that the news story in which a Post writer relied on information from a satirical website to report Sarah Palin had signed on as a “contributor

Rumors of the death of the old media have not been exaggerated. Thomson Reuters announced today that they’d be cutting 2,500 jobs, a full 4 percent of its entire workforce. CEO Jim Smith explained, “These are not easy decisions, but

On the Feb. 14 airing of Hardball, Chris Matthews and former PA Gov. Ed Rendell got so worked up over Wayne LaPierre’s “Stand and Fight” speech that they played the race card against the NRA.  Rendell said LaPierre’s reference to

The successful effort by Republicans to rally in opposition to the confirmation of Chuck Hagel, blocking the Senate from closing debate with a successful filibuster Thursday afternoon, represents a significant victory for conservative new media, which continued vetting the former

As former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) faces a Republican filibuster in the Senate Thursday afternoon against his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, several liberal commentators are starting to wonder openly about his chances, following the release of yet another controversial

Two days after the fact, CNN and MSNBC are still having a fine old time replaying FL. Senator Marco Rubio’s awkward sip of water. Kate Obenshain, author of “Divider-In-Chief” sees the same writing on the wall many do, including myself.

Fausto Rosario Adames, a respected journalist in the Dominican Republic and editor of the well known Acento news website, has called on Dominican President Danilo Medina to launch an investigation of possible fraud in the disputed and controversial port security

This is a little off-topic, but my favorite part of this Politico article is the last line that reads, “Kenneth P. Vogel contributed to this report.” Talk about unnecessary. About half-way though the brutally-long 1600-worder, while  my mind started to

President Obama’s State of the Union speech was yet another opportunity to demand a new laundry list of big government programs and massive spending, but MSNBC’s Chris Matthews seemed to have some trouble seeing anything “liberal” in it. As he

In 2008, Barack Obama won 53% of the vote and a total of over 69 million votes. In 2012, Obama didn’t break 51% and received fewer than 66 million votes. This means that Obama is the rare president whose re-election

After buying Current TV, Al Gore’s struggling cable TV network, Al Jazeera has now hired a lobbying firm to push its interests in Washington D.C. The Muslim-owned TV network hired the firm of DLA Piper to ply the halls of