Right on the heels of NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell admonishing a guest for describing herself as “pro-life” because, according to Mitchell, the label was not “value neutral,” Planned Parenthood is now saying that they will be moving away from the
For the most complete demonstration of just how far the MSM is willing to go in its attempt to use the nomination of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense as a cudgel to put Israel on trial and endanger the
Andrew Kaczynski of BuzzFeed reacted as any normal, non-partisan journalist would when news broke of Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization; in keeping with tradition at BuzzFeed Politics, he scoured the archives of the Internet to score political points against conservative media. Kaczynski
In a classic example of substituting opinion for facts, Buzzfeed reported that MSNBC’s recent ratings should “make Fox News nervous.” It seems the main reason Fox should be nervous is because its featured stars and its back bench correspondents are
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio now appears to be trying to distance himself from House Speaker John Boehner when it comes to the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. Rubio told Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket on Tuesday that while he empathizes with
Does Susan Rice pulling her name from consideration to be the next Secretary of State somehow “end” the Benghazi scandal? BuzzFeed seems to think it does. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice came before the American people and served up the false
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
Today, Media Matters featured Breitbart News in its front-page salvo against conservative media, which it labeled a “racket,” following in the footsteps of discredited former conservative Joe Scarborough of MSNBC. Media Matters acknowledged the explosive growth of Breitbart News: [I]n
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
For the first time, the Obama administration is showing some flexibility by deploying Vice President Joe Biden to explain to the media that raising rates on top earners to Clinton rates would not be an unbreakable precondition for negotiations over
BuzzFeed recently compiled a list of things Millennials, those who are 18-30 years of age, have been accused of supposedly ruining, and some the findings show how bleak the Obama economy has been for young people. Young people in Obama’s economy
House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday warned his House Republican conference against dissent from GOP leadership – and threatened retaliation similar to that against the already-purged conservatives if anyone else breaks from his pack. The Hill reports that, according to
Last week, at the post-election Harvard Institute of Politics conference, Republican campaign managers intensely took notes as Obama’s top campaign operatives explained some of the technology, data, and metrics the campaign employed to run circles around Mitt Romney’s operation. According to
We’ve been found out. Yes, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Joel Pollak is one of the top bidders for an hour-long “strategy session” with Obama campaign operative Sandra Fluke at BiddingForGood.com. Fluke, who rose to prominence advocating for government to force private
A few months ago, in order to protect Barack Obama, Ben Smith and his merry band of BenSmithers had a full-fledged meltdown when the Daily Caller released a 2007 video of an Obama speech. “OLD! OLD! OLD!,” they screamed. “Nothing to
In November, voters in four states — Minnesota, Maine, Maryland, and Washington — handed election day victories to supporters of same-sex marriage initiatives, a marked contrast to the 2008 defeat they experienced with California’s Proposition 8. President Obama won all
I must say, that of all the post-election criticism of conservative media (and not all of it undeserved), yesterday’s crowing from the BenSmithers over at BuzzFeed Politics was the most dopey. McKay Coppins and Ben Smith and the media in general
Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins claims that “conservative media lost the election.” He echoes an emerging theme in the mainstream media and the Republican establishment, arguing that conservative outlets were wrong about the polls, and that we failed to make our narrative
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,
The press corps following presidential candidate Mitt Romney frequently displayed anti-Mormon bigotry through the election season, according to fellow reporter and BuzzFeed Politics author McKay Coppins. Coppins, who is also a Mormon, offers several interesting bits of information and even
Like the rest of the left-wing media, BuzzFeed Politics is feeling emboldened by their electoral victory last Tuesday night. Now the push is on to pretend Global Warming actually exists and must be dealt with and you just know we’re not going
President Obama held his unity meeting at the White House today over the fiscal cliff. Attendees ranged from John Podesta of the Center for American Progress to Bono; all were there to urge the president to stick by his guns
Today, Nancy Pelosi told reporters that she could step down tomorrow as House Minority Leader. “I love you all very dearly, but I thought I’d tell my caucus first,” Pelosi said. “We may not have the majority. We may not
There’s nothing more edifying than hearing celebrities wax eloquent on what the Republican Party must do after the election loss to Barack Obama: Sarah Jessica Parker, who hosted a $40,000 per person fundraiser for Obama, said she hadn’t heard from
BuzzFeed Politics was forced on Friday to ask the question that all tween girls find themselves pondering about their first crush: why won’t he talk to me? Andrew Kaczynski seemed confused and distraught that President Obama issued a statement without
