What is it with the left-wing media attempting to sexually humiliate Ann Romney lately? It only takes a few seconds to scroll Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed Politics to see what the political site’s primary goal is. Currently, Ben Smith and his
Ben Smith, in his article at Buzzfeed this week, noted that David Maraniss, in his new biography, Barack Obama: The Story, finally confirmed that Obama was incorrect when he wrote in Dreams from My Father that his father left his mother,
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith criticizes President Barack Obama for falsifying a significant portion of his first autobiography, Dreams from My Father. Smith builds his case on the research in David Maraniss’s new book, Barack Obama: The Story. But even when joining
Last week, controversy over Barack Obama’s involvement with Chicago’s “New Party” unfolded on two fronts: the story itself and its coverage by Ben Smith, former Politico blogger/Journolister and now editor of BuzzFeed Politics. The Obama campaign in 2008 pilloried National
An interview with Noam Chomsky from 1997 has the far-left professordescribing his involvement with the New Party at about the time that Barack Obama Obama joined and sought an endorsement from the group. Contrary toclaims made by founder Joel Rogers
In the ongoing discussion of Barack Obama’s involvement with Chicago’s extremist “New Party,” online literature from the Party likely reveals that the young state senator not only was a member but had to commit financially to membership. This past week,
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith now concedes that Barack Obama sought the socialist New Party’s endorsement in 1996–but continues to give Obama, and the New Party, the benefit of the doubt on whether Obama was in fact a member. While admitting the Obama campaign misled
2012 is all about the media, as far as I’m concerned, and BuzzFeed Politics looks as though it’s going to be our primary example of just how corrupt and desperate the media is to see Barack Obama re-elected. Just when
***UPDATE: Wanted to highlight a comment left on this piece; an eloquent and insightful analysis of the BuzzFeed article from someone who describes herself as a Mormon and SAHM: I read it and rolled my eyes. I’m a Mormon SAHM. Liberals
As someone who has closely watched the media for over two decades now, I’ve seen an awful lot of shameful behavior. But I have never seen anything like CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien’s now infamous “do-over.” Never before have I seen
How pathetic is this when Chuck Norris doesn’t even mention the words “buzz” or “feed” in his column. And yet, here’s the BuzzFeed headline and opener: Chuck Norris Responds To BuzzFeed’s Obama Video Chuck Norris responded today in his column
Breitbart’s Joel Pollak appeared on WABC’s Geraldo Rivera Show.
Appearing on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, Breitbart.com’s Dana Loesch and BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith had a heated back and forth over who had the real scoop on the controversial Obama hug video.
If you want to understand what BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith is up to today, watch him in this clip as he spins newly discovered video from Obama’s Harvard days. It’s video no one would’ve seen, had Andrew Breitbart not decided it
Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.” The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows
It’s time we start anticipating the “mainstream” media’s narratives and get ahead of them. We need to stop playing checkers and start playing chess. Yesterday the website BuzzFeed published an “exclusive” story about Florida Senator Marco Rubio once being a Mormon. In
The thing about Ben Smith is that we always seem to eventually discover something about him that helps to explain so much. Over the past few weeks, after he moved from Politico to Buzzfeed, I haven’t written a word about Ben
On Monday evening, the political blogosphere was rocked by the unprecedented publishing of a 200-page opposition research book on Mitt Romney written by the John McCain campaign for the 2008 GOP presidential primary. Who decided to release this information to
Wednesday, I came across this Columbia Journalism Review interview with Politico’s Ben Smith, in which he describes his work in this context: The news cycle now is about these tiny segments, and I think my stuff is what people are
Politico‘s Ben Smith writes today that Media Matters for America (MMfA) and the Center for American Progress (CAP), both “core institutions” of the Democratic Party, are pushing anti-Israel policies and downplaying the threat of a nuclear Iran. By promoting views
Today’s opening snark courtesy of Journolister Dave Weigel from his Slate perch: Big Government breaks the news that Bill Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama; well, this was broken by Ben Smith in 2007, but still. I call it
***ADDED: Please read my colleague Joel Pollak’s intelligent and thoughful counterpoint here. Also, keep in mind that as a proud Palinista I watched Rubin join with the MSM in tearing apart Sarah Palin and gave her the benefit of the
This is pretty typical of what Ben — “Tanning Bed” — Smith does over at his Politico perch. From what I’ve observed over the last few years, the liberal Smith’s job is to use his blog to feed the MSM’s
Is vanity hard to mock? Failure? Addiction to a teleprompter? How about the need to use the word “I”? Urging Congress to pass a bill now that hasn’t been written yet is kind of stupid, no? And so is “jobs
