Even as the liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank blasted President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for hypocrisy on his Cayman Islands investments and $950,000 Wall Street bonus, Buzzfeed is circling the wagons to defend Lew. Treasury Secretary nominee Jack
In response to WaPo on Sequestration: THINK OF THE SEALS: As many Washingtonians know, most stories about the National Zoo with a corresponding photo of a cuddly animal often don’t bring happy news. Remember your 2005 story, WaPo? “Animal Deaths Renew Criticism of Care at
At the exact same time BuzzFeed Politics’ Andrew Kaczynski was puffing himself as The Arbiter Of Journalistic Ethics with some new rules about how it’s now wrong to write stories based on what you’re told by unnamed sources, he was
If there’s anything that may help mitigate some of the anger the right currently has toward Gov. Christie, it’s the anger the left has toward him. Last Week Gov. Christie made a campaign swing through Califiornia. It concluded Wednesday night
In response to Rubio Rakes in $100k+ for the Sip Heard ‘Round the Beltway: Marco Rubio has managed “WaterGate” very skillfully indeed. What the left-wing media tried to turn into an inexcusable “career-killing” gaffe, Rubio parlayed into a political triumph,
Last week Rosie Gray wrote a post at Buzzfeed titled “The Christopher Dorner Fan Club Is More Mainstream Than You’d Think.” Mainstream, yes. Bipartisan, not so much. The article attempts to make the case that the #teamDorner phenomenon is spread across
The New York Times and BuzzFeed have some kind of relationship going on, but that still doesn’t explain the long, wet French kiss the Times gave BuzzFeed Politics editor-in-chief Ben Smith yesterday. It’s just a fact that when the left-wing
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,
As former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) faces a Republican filibuster in the Senate Thursday afternoon against his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, several liberal commentators are starting to wonder openly about his chances, following the release of yet another controversial
Panelists MC Lyte, Jack Moore, Editor of BuzzFeed Sports, Lauren Ashburn, Editor-in-chief at The Daily Download, and Mark Lamont Hill joined Brooke Baldwin on CNN today to talk about the social media support for alleged quadruple killer Christopher Dorner. Ashburn
Although BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith’s article is a cheeky defense of ObamaCare, it is the first time since the program’s passage that a member of the elite media has actually bothered to publish a high-profile look at the devilish details.
The genesis of this all was that Buzzfeed actually ran an article critical of Obama. That’s a headline right there. Holy Mackerel. I could just stop this post right here and say I’ve done my duty. But it went on
It’s hard to imagine the media doing anything other than to express outrage should some low-life hacker hack into email accounts connected to President Obama’s family — especially if something was found that might damage Obama politically. But that same
An attorney for the U.S. Postal Service has argued that her cash-strapped agency’s employees do not have to pay for speeding tickets. East Cleveland, Ohio, is attempting to collect nearly $700 in traffic violations committed by local USPS trucks, but
BuzzFeed Politics puts a ton of effort into using its content and contributors’ Twitter accounts to suck up to the left-wing media, especially MSNBC, in the hopes of getting links and television appearances. And there’s no question that’s worked. The
No wait, there’s even more to the gag than that. Sorry, this didn’t seem to display. Here’s the link.
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
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
The great thing about this new media-era we’re currently living in (at least for the media), is that there’s no accountability. This means the media can do whatever it wants and manufacture whatever reality it would like to manufacture. For
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
WaPo media writer Erik Wemple: No matter your view of the media’s role in Benghazi; no matter your take on whether U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice leveled with the country on the Sept. 16 talk shows; no matter
In his illuminating new e-book on covering the Obama re-election campaign, Buzzfeed reporter Michael Hastings reveals that President Obama secretly joined reporters for drinks once while the campaign was in Orlando, Fla. The “beer summit” with supporters is described by Hastings as little like
The GOP-as-racists narrative continues on Buzzfeed with a piece today focused on the minority outreach being planned by National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Greg Walden. Reporting for Buzzfeed on Walden’s appearance at a recent GOP retreat, John Stanton reports only on
QUESTION: How many anti-gay outbursts before BuzzFeed is labeled a Hate Site? ANSWER: It’s a Leftist site, so everything they do is noble and pure. BuzzFeed’s bad week ends badly — you know, credibility-wise. First, Michael Hastings and the rest of the BuzzFeed
This morning, BuzzFeed Politics’ McKay Coppins ran a story titled “How the Gun Culture Won Over Liberals,” that featured Complex magazine’s Foster Kamer, The New York Times’ David Carr, and Reuters’ Anthony De Rosa. The three are described by Coppins
