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Did Ben Smith Accidently BenSmith Ben Smith?

Someone needs to Gif the stages BuzzFeed Politics went through as they published the first thing they’ve ever published harmful to Obama’s agenda: 1. Those “wingers” are gonna lose the Hagel vote today. Let’s high-five Obama’s infallible awesomeness. 2. Oh,

BuzzFeed Plays Nice with Rubio, Attacks Once Back Turns

BuzzFeed Plays Nice with Rubio, Attacks Once Back Turns

You know the story: frog carries scorpion across river. Frog tells scorpion, “Don’t sting me or we both drown.” Scorpion stings frog. Frog asks scorpion why. Scorpion says, “It’s my nature.” Senator Marco Rubio sits down with Ben Smith of

Speaking of Phony Phenoms: BuzzFeed Politics

In the last 24 hours, the BenSmithers* at BuzzFeed Politics have posted 21 posts. Thus far, all 21 of those posts have received a total of 146 comments. Half of those comments are for one article. When you open the comment

Five Reasons Marco Rubio's Smart to Volunteer For a BenSmithing

Five Reasons Marco Rubio's Smart to Volunteer For a BenSmithing

How about this: Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith Will Interview Senator Marco Rubio At First Event Social news leader BuzzFeed announced today it is launching a newsmaker speaker series where members of the BuzzFeed Politics team will interview Washington newsmakers in the

Susan Rice Falls On Sword To Save … The Media

Susan Rice Falls On Sword To Save … The Media

Make no mistake about it, it’s not just the Obama White House breathing a sigh of relief over Susan Rice’s “decision” to take her name out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The media’s just

BuzzFeed Kisses Ring of House Leaders Who Purged Conservatives

BuzzFeed Kisses Ring of House Leaders Who Purged Conservatives

Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed is stumping on behalf of the House members responsible for the purge of top conservatives from committee leadership. They’re accomplishing that trick by having staffers for those House members praise each other. BuzzFeed then reports those comments

Comic Artist Obliterates BuzzFeed for Inaccurate Hit Piece

Comic Artist Obliterates BuzzFeed for Inaccurate Hit Piece

The all-important social media site BuzzFeed ran a weekend hit piece on comic artist Matthew Inman, proprietor of TheOatmeal.com, the incredibly popular comic website. Buzzfeed’s article was penned by one Jack Stuef. What was the point of the piece? It

BuzzFeed: Conservative New Media Lost the Election

BuzzFeed: Conservative New Media Lost the Election

For a website that was leading with the story “27 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names” at the time of this writing, BuzzFeed has a surprisingly tenuous grasp of irony.   Earlier Tuesday, editor-in-chief Ben Smith‘s top political reporter,

Failure Of BuzzFeed Politics Proven In Less Than 10 Mins

Today, those BenSmithing BenSmithers at BuzzFeed Politics dropped a hit-piece on us. Just a few minutes ago, we linked that piece here at Breitbart and it was fascinating to watch our link to their piece receive more action in ten-minutes than

BuzzFeed Runs Breathtakingly Incorrect Story About Paul Ryan

BuzzFeed Runs Breathtakingly Incorrect Story About Paul Ryan

This morning as the Middle East burned while Obama fundraised in Vegas and our genius president  told the world he had lost Egypt as an ally (whoops!), BenSmithing BenSmither John Stanton over at BuzzFeed Politics wrote an hysterically desperate hit-job against

BuzzFeed Reporter Launches Anti-Gay Attack on Ex-Romney Staffer

BuzzFeed Reporter Launches Anti-Gay Attack on Ex-Romney Staffer

Our friends at Twitchy have uncovered a tweet BuzzFeed Politics’ reporter Michael Hastings fired off at Richard Grenell, an openly gay Republican political consultant who worked for Mitt Romney until last May: – @RichardGrenell ric, your tweets often appear to