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Obama's Bribes to the Washington Post and CBS

In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington

Cenk Uygur Confuses Insurance with Gasoline

As expected, the first line of defense against the budget cuts proposed by Paul Ryan will be to demagogue the issue of Medicare cuts. Ryan’s budget essentially turns the system into a subsidy for premiums. Over on MSNBC, Cenk Uygur

Glenn Beck Leaving His Fox News Channel Show

NEW YORK (AP) – Glenn Beck is leaving his Fox News Channel show later this year. The network and Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, announced the departure on Wednesday. Fox and the company said they will work together to create

Why wouldn't the Times publish the Goldstone Retraction?

In April of 2009, the United Nations Human Rights Council commissioned a report on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians that had taken place the previous winter. That report is colloquially known as the Goldstone Report, so named for

Media Matters' Potentially Lethal Distortions On Guns

Everyone wants to keep guns away from criminals, but gun control advocates, such as Media Matters, don’t want to acknowledge that there are costs to disarming law-abiding citizens. Lately Media Matters has particularly been incensed that anyone would point out

It's Official: Couric is Out

Couric discusses her regrets: Outgoing “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric says America wasn’t ready for the “overly ambitious” change she brought nearly five years ago as the first woman to helm a nightly network newscast. “In retrospect I would

Gaffe of the Week

A great catch by Legal Insurrection: While the link was changed after the fact, the screenshot remains forever.

The Huffington Post's Arrogant Silent Treatment

The AOL/Huffington Post is certainly doing a spectacular job of keeping their readers completely in the dark about the entire story of their caving to pressure from the group Color of Change and banning Andrew Breitbart from their front page.