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The Nashville Tennessean, the traditionally liberal newspaper that gave Al Gore his start in journalism, endorsed Republican challenger Mitt Romney for President Thursday. It was another stunning setback for the Obama campaign, already reeling from plunging poll numbers. While the state

This is the latest in a series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, Cold War historian and professor of political science, on his blockbuster book, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.  The Communist

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien made a fool of herself today. In other news, water’s wet and cows go “moo.” Listen, I get why Soledad O’Brien might believe Obama’s up 15 points in Virginia when the truth is that the president’s campaign

With the focus on the horrible job of “moderating” perpetrated by CNN’s Candy Crowley at the latest 2012 presidential debate, it is instructive to take a look back at some of her past work. For instance, in a 2010 interview

It took almost 15 years, but the rotting and decayed corpse called Newsweek will finally be buried as a print edition at the end of this year. Newsweek’s actual time of death, though, was by suicide in 1998, the day

Last Thursday morning, the headlines on National Public Radio were jubilant. “Jobless Claims Drop To Lowest Level In More Than Four Years,” they crowed. NPR’s anchors repeated the news in their hourly and half-hourly updates. The sudden, seasonally-adjusted drop–from 369,000

George Will made a relatively quixotic proclamation immediately after the second presidential debate held at Hofstra University in New York. First of all, he thought the debate was “immeasurably the best” in American presidential debate history. Just as quixotically, Will

Late this afternoon, TMZ reported a leaked email from CNN Managing Editor Mark Whitaker to the staff of CNN, defending disgraced second presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley. It’s a full-throated list of Barack Obama talking points. Here’s the email: Let’s

The corrupt media is made up of many entities. But within it you have legitimately good reporters and correspondents like the Daily Beast’s Eli Lake and CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson who are out there doing the kind of reporting and

Man alive, can you imagine the media reaction if in 2008 Obama was thisclose to winning the presidency and dozens of citizens made public death threats against him? Between the tweets collected at Twitchy and Info Wars, the Secret Service

Two days after actresses Stacey Dash appeared on CNN to discuss the online abuse she’d taken as a black woman who planned to vote for Mitt Romney for president, CNN posted a factually inaccurate opinion piece by Sherrilyn A. Ifill. 

ADDED: Via Twitter, Tom Vaughn catches something I missed. Wemple also reported this: [emphasis added] President Obama, though, wasn’t done with Kerry Ladka. “After the debate, the president came over to me and spent about two minutes with me privately,”

What are the odds for getting the last word in a debate with Barack Obama? If the moderator is Obama-sycophant Candy Crowley, the odds are 8 to 3 against you. That’s what happened to Mitt Romney in the second presidential

As a longtime watcher of politics for going on thirty years, I’ve seen both parties and the corrupt media grab hold of some inane nonsense in my time, but this “binders full of women” meme is so inane I actually

Candy Crowley, who was suspected of being one more liberal moderator in the tank for Barack Obama, was more than just in the tank for him; she dove in and sucked all the water out for him so he could

On CNN’s “State of the Union” on September 30, Candy Crowley asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) why he thought it took the administration 17 days after the Benghazi attacks to give a “sort of definitive statement” that terrorists orchestrated the

On CNN’s “State of the Union” on September 30, Candy Crowley insisted David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s chief strategist, was wrong when Axelrod tried to claim President Barack Obama called the Benghazi attack “an act of terror” on the day after.  “First,

***UPDATE 4: Politico’s Dylan Byers: “After the debate, even Crowley seemed to acknowledge that she had erred.” ***UPDATE 3: Even Politico’s Mike Allen is questioning Crowley’s call. ***UPDATE 2: Even Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler says Crowley got it wrong: Obama

Jeffrey Goldberg, official Obama brownnoser for The Atlantic, has decided that he, and he alone, knows who is responsible for allowing the terrible murders in Benghazi of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. So just which great personage is

As we already know, CNN’s Candy Crowley is moderating tonight’s second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. Crowley has already signalled her intent to make her mark on the debate and she has already done everything

Mitt Romney has made a few honest gaffes during this campaign, as has the President. But Romney’s actual gaffes are surely outnumbered by the number of invented, bogus gaffes pushed out by the professional left. Here’s a list of ten

***UPDATE: Van Jones just did an awkward CNN walk-on to apologize to Mitt Romney.   During the second half of the 4PM Eastern hour on CNN’s “Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, referred to

Fox News is reporting that Candy Crowley’s desperate need to marginalize everyday American voters and steal the spotlight for herself during tonight’s debate has just been formalized. Altering the original agreement with the debate commission, and under intense media pressure,

After U.S. intelligence, U.S. security officers in Libya, Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Dan Burton (R-IN), and even the State Dept say the Benghazi attack was terrorism, The New York Times is claiming “there is little doubt what occurred” —

Voters do not like taxes. So, National Public Radio in New Hampshire helped Maggie Hassan, the Democrat candidate for Governor, by doing a little editing work to take the word “tax” out of one of her answers at a recent