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I’ve written previous about the “Would Your Spouse By It Test”? But with Weiner’s latest press conference we’ve moved beyond that to the lower bar of “Would A Reasonable Sane Parent Even Possibly Accept This Excuse And Just Move On?”

In some Tweets I sent to Jim Geraghty at NRO yesterday, I was pointing out that I thought he was allowing his expectations to get in the way of his reporting on Sarah Palin’s bus tour. Unfortunately, perhaps he was

So, the cat’s out of the bag: “Primetime Propaganda” has hit the market, accompanied by exclusive tape of Hollywood insiders admitting to anti-conservative bias in the industry, openly talking about using their shows to propagandize for political purposes, and bashing

“Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.” – Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals. Could Breitbart report two plus two equals four without MSNBC and HuffPo Alinskyites trying to demonize him? To borrow a phrase from Rep. Weiner:

MSNBC has finally broken radio silence on “Weinergate.” Their take: Protect yourself from hacking. MSNBC’s version of practicing journalism on this story involves taking Representative Weiner’s statement and accepting it without question. Truly, MSNBC is speaking truth to power. After

There’s a scene in Platoon – a crappy movie, by the way – where Willem Defoe’s character is running from the pursuing communists and we see him take hit after hit, stumbling, getting up, stumbling some more, and then finally,

Bill O’Reilly told his viewers tonight that he will demand that the FBI offer a statement to his show tomorrow on the Weinergate “hacking” incident. His panel tonight did not believe Anthony Weiner’s claim that his twitter account was hacked.

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Yes, this is Rep. Anthony Weiner calling a CNN producer a “Jackass.” And that’s just the beginning:

As much of America tries to get to the bottom of whether Congressman Anthony Weiner’s yfrog and/or twitter accounts were hacked, actual hackers published a bogus story on PBS’s website. From Fox News: ARLINGTON, Va. – A hacker group angry

Move along. Nothing to see here.

As the Weinergate story leaves behind many unanswered questions, the Twitterverse is not likely to get many truthful answers – not as long as Joan Walsh has anything to do about it. The Salon.com editor had some harsh words for

CNN’s John King managed to be the first cable news outlet to ask the question Big Government and Big Journalism have been asking all weekend: There’s one way the congressman could try to put this to rest, and that would

Bigs contributor Ben Shaprio’s new book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV is out today (head over to Big Hollywood for continuing coverage of this important work), and the media is already

“I hope he [Weiner] comes after me. Look up my IP. Nothing to hide here. I’d voluntarily hand anything they want over. Check me and my IP. Anything. I did not post that tweet.” Twitter user Dan Wolfe (known as

Okay, this will get me in trouble but here goes.. The Huffington Post has finally posted something about this weekend’s evolving #Weinergate Story – but not on the national page, but buried… …in the much less read New York section.

A solid report from CNN’s Dana Bash: CNN reports on the latest developments involving a lewd photo sent out on Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account to a young college girl in the Seattle area. She says despite the congressman’s claim

**UPDATE: I missed this earlier, but in another tweet, Kurtz offered the Clinton sex scandal–the one Kurtz’s Newsweek attempted to kill–as an example of unbiased media coverage of a Democrat sex scandal! The hubris is breathtaking. Kurtz also suggests that

Although I don’t think what Anthony Weiner is even accused of doing rises to the level of ‘love child while your wife has cancer,’ the #Weinergate story reminds me a lot of the post-Beverly Hills Hotel phase of the John

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The left is always a bundle of contradictions. On one hand leftists set themselves up as the ultimate in “tolerance” and a guarantor of “freedom” to do as one wishes. Most leftists imagine themselves interested in making sure everyone is

With the exception of Jonathan Allen and Ben Smith of Politico, who both deserve credit for covering the Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) story we broke here at the Bigs on Friday night, the mainstream media’s silence on this objectively important

There are at least two demonstrably false statements issued to the New York Post on behalf of Representative Anthony Weiner by his spokesperson, Dave Arnold. Here’s the first [emphasis mine]: The tech-savvy congressman saw the picture almost immediately. He had

A tale of two stories. Politico took a cautious, yet objective approach to the #Weinergate story: A photo of a man’s bulging gray boxer-brief underwear was posted to Weiner’s account with yfrog — an online image-sharing site — on Saturday