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Colorado residents who get their news from the print edition of The Denver Post must be scratching their heads this morning. Why is everyone talking about Vice President Joe Biden’s comments about “chains?“ You’ll have to forgive them. Denver’s paper

The race to define Paul Ryan is on. Democrats greeted his selection with the predictable claim that he was an extremist who wanted to end “Medicare as we know it.” That characterization hit a wall Monday morning when Morgen Richmond,

Author LZ Granderson took to the web pages of CNN to wax poetic as to why no one likes Mitt Romney. Assuming some J school credited this nitwit, they should immediately be stripped of all accreditation as an entity of

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NBC’s Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams and reporter Peter Alexander took a look at Rep. Paul Ryan’s first few days on the hustings as Mitt Romney’s new VP pick. And what did they see? They saw

Now that Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan for his running mate, Politico finds itself finally ready to compare the stump claims and campaign ads of the two operations. Instead of looking at gutter ads like Obama’s claim that Mitt

Last week, CNN and TIME Magazine correspondent Fareed Zakaria got in hot water for plagiarism by lifting a few paragraphs from another writer for one of his articles. Now, the debate rages about whether Zakaria is guilty or not despite

Politico is on the warpath for the “high-minded campaign.” At least that’s what they’d have you think; their lead piece tonight is “Death of the high-minded campaign,” lamenting the supposed lack of decorum of both the Barack Obama campaign and

Since Obama took office, 740,000 women have been forced from the job pool due to poor economic policies — but totes like omg papaya. Mitt Romney today gave an interview to a Spanish language network in Florida and the subject

This week, James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times made a fascinating argument about Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. Romney, he suggested, should talk about his faith; doing so “might explode the soft bigotry of critics, particularly liberals who could use a

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) announced today that BBC Director-General Mark Thompson will become its next president and CEO. He will also become a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Thompson, 55, will report to the

CNN reported this week that Rep. Paul Ryan has become the king of Facebook by knocking President Obama off  “the most talked about” list of US politicians. CNN recently entered into a partnership with Facebook to track things political on

Yesterday the Oversight Committee filed a civil contempt lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder to force him to turn over documents pertaining to Operation Fast & Furious. Yet the Old Media still ignores Fast & Furious despite the fact that

“HECKLED! HECK, PAUL RYAN HECKLED BY HECKLING HECKLERS!” That sums up the mainstream media’s coverage of Paul Ryan’s successful visit to the Iowa State Fair on the weekend. Because a couple of left-wing lunatics rushed the stage, apparently punching a campaign

The most unkind cut of all is when your paper thin understanding of the facts is shredded by someone you think is on your side. This is what happened to Democrat National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she kept

Today the Oversight Committee filed a civil contempt lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder. This is a big story, but ABC and CBS did the bare minimum and NBC completely ignored it. NBC Nightly News Last year Cam Edwards, host

As the race for the White House heats up, Reuters suddenly realized that the massive Mormon Church has a lot of money in its bank accounts. The news service went on to needle the Church, saying if it were a

Obama flack Stephanie Cutter appeared on NBC’s Today for what she likely assumed would be a softball interview. Instead, she got a few hardballs from host Matt Lauer, when the morning talker used President Obama’s own words to slice Cutter

CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien has been caught using left-wing blog Talking Points Memo to counter Virginia House of Delegates member Barbara Comstock on the House GOP budget. As Ali Akbar of Viral Read discovered: Tonight, she was the substitute host

Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager bolted from “This Week” after she was caught lying about her knowledge of Joe Soptic, the star of a Priorities USA attack ad and an OFA campaign ad. Cutter instead joined Nancy Cordes at “Face the

BuzzFeed Politics, which presents itself as a nonpartisan news outlet, has deemed the “heckling” of a Republican candidate far more newsworthy than physical violence against his staff.  In a story titled “Ryan Heckled At First Solo Event,” author Zeke Miller

Two days after CNN’s Candy Crowley called Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan the “Death Wish Ticket,” the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that she will moderate one of the three presidential debates to be held in October: Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. and

Last night, newly-selected debate moderator Bob Shieffer of CBS featured Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on 60 Minutes. The interview was fine, except for one small portion – a portion Schieffer and the folks at CBS left on the cutting-room

There may be nothing new under the sun, but there appears to be at least one thing new on the Internet. Scientists have announced this year that a new bug was identified on the Internet. No, not a virus or

It’s no hidden secret the liberal media goes out of their way to completely trash members of the GOP and paint them as ‘extremists’, but when it comes time for a presidential election, they really step up their game.  Now