Fox News will join the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the Huffington Post in rejecting Attorney General Eric Holder’s invitation to an off-the-record meeting that would deal with the Department of Justice’s guidelines for handling leak investigations. The news organizations
***Added: Fox News and CBS have announced they are joining the boycott. Eric Holder’s attempt to save his job by repairing his image with the media through a series of off-the-record meetings with several news organizations is backfiring in a
After reports broke that the Department of Justice would be holding an off-the-record meeting with members of the press to discuss its policies on monitoring journalists, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced that the Gray Lady would not
US Attorney General Eric Holder will reportedly meet this week with Washington bureau chiefs at major media outlets to brief them on how the Justice Department deals with journalists who work with leakers. Michael Calderone of Huffington Post reports, “It’s
Call them the Center for American Hypocrisy. The Citzens United vs. Federal Elections Commission ruling that struck down some parts of the censorious McCain-Feingold campaign finance law in 2010 created a firestorm of scorn from the left. Of course, that
PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is searching for the personal information of anonymous commenters who allegedly defamed group’s euthanasia policy on an article published at the Huffington Post. The group has filed a civil lawsuit. People
Last week, and while under oath, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before a House committee that when it comes to “try[ing] to prosecute the press for the publication of material” he has “never been involved in, heard of” such a
When David Aronchick reviewed Duck Dynasty’s season finale for the Huffington Post, he said season three demonstrated the show had gone too far–that the “redneck factor” was ruining what had been a great show for two seasons prior, and the
In one of the less rational attacks on the NRA to date, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence’s Josh Horwitz used his May 20 column to make the case that the NRA doesn’t understand the Constitution or the man who
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has introduced a bill to cut college student loan interest rates to just 0.75%, a move that progressive Huffington Post writer Robert Kuttner says could spark a “counter-revolution against austerity politics.” Kuttner calls on progressives to
During the 2012 election we heard about “Julia,” the woman who benefited from government programs or more specifically from President Obama being in office. What we didn’t hear (because Republicans failed to make the case) was the harm that big
During the 2012 presidential campaign, many conservatives complained that the IRS was targeting them for harassment, with some even claimed that Obama had an “enemies list.” At the time, the progressive media complex ridiculed these claims, but now the IRS
Elisabeth Hasselbeck understands the core values of most women’s groups, and it has less to do with a person’s sex than how they vote come Election Day. The conservative Hasselbeck, a mainstay on the primarily liberal chat show The View,
Jason Collins, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, said he had not “reached acceptance” yet with his homosexuality when he broke off his engagement with Carolyn Moos, the former Stanford and WNBA basketball player whom he had dated for eight
The insinuation by CNN’s Carol Costello that Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was cut for supporting gay marriage followed a statement by Amanda Terkel of the Huffington Post asking if there was a Branch Rickey willing to sign Jason Collins after he
On Sunday the Huffington Post ran a blaring headline at the top of its page blaming Israel, without context, for attacking Syria. The headline read: “ISRAEL STRIKES AGAIN.” A picture of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, clapping and smirking, ran
On May 2, the Huffington Post claimed red state Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) will actually fare better in 2014 for having supported gun control. The site bases the claim upon numbers from a poll by Public
Mikey Weinstein, Founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has gone on record saying members of the military sharing their Christian faith are guilty of “treason,” and of committing an act of “spiritual rape,” as serious a crime as “sexual assault.”
In a column published on May 1, the Huffington Post blamed the recent defeat of gun control in the Senate on the NRA’s “money and power.” Just months removed from Adam Lanza’s heinous crime in Newtown, and just days before a Senate
In some of its reports on Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD), the Associated Press failed to include one of President Obama’s own gags. AP strangely left out the word “Muslim” in one of Obama’s self-referential jokes. Early in his
Republican New Jersey Governor Christie Christie was Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post’s guest at the celebrity-laden White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night in Washington. Huffington bragged on Twitter about being seated with Christie: Being at the HuffPost table
The only company that will have a College Football Playoff semifinal game named after them is Chick-fil-A. The honor will come less than a year after President Dan Cathy came out against gay marriage, and the Huffington Post had to
Wear a Che Guevara T-shirt any day, any time, and no one from the media will say a syllable about it. Don a dress emblazoned with gun imagery and you’re a target. Both TMZ and The Huffington Post jumped on
Both Planned Parenthood and NARAL claim to have “condemned” Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s actions as “reprehensible.” The question, however, is what it is they actually believe he has done that deserves condemnation. Many of the same “horrors” found in Gosnell’s
On Monday, the progressive Huffington Post blasted Congress and President Barack Obama for being “missing in action” in combating the brutal effects of the Obama economy on ordinary Americans falling into poverty. “The issue has all but disappeared from the
Nathan J. Winograd wrote an extensive exposé for the Huffington Post on the history of euthanizing animals perpetrated by the supposed animal-loving group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Winograd reports that thousands of animals are killed every year,
Jim Carrey’s incendiary music video Cold Dead Hand lampooning the late Charlton Heston and gun owners has garnered more views than any video its parent company, Will Ferrell’s Funny Or Die, has received in two years. Cold Dead Hand has elicited 2.8
Jim Carrey is suddenly singing, “can’t we all just get along?” The rubbery-limbed comic of Ace Ventura fame has spent weeks demonizing those who don’t support stringent new gun control laws. Now, courtesy of an op-ed posted at The Huffington
The owner of a New York apartment building is suing liberal media queen Arianna Huffington for what he claims is widespread damage to a loft she rented in Chelsea. Huffington rented the showy space as a place to hold parties
Time and again, the left is shocked when the freedom and prosperity-hating personalities that they idolize and the statist systems that they dream up descend into chaos, madness, and violence. As shown in the Stephen K. Bannon film Occupy Unmasked,
As if to prove to CNN that the right decision was made to fire not renew Roland Martin’s contract, the CNN contributor (whose contract expires April 6) lashed out at his soon-to-be former bosses Friday on HuffPost Live. You have
It worked last time. Last year, when oral arguments in the Obamacare case seemed to go against the administration, the left targeted Chief Justice John Roberts with a series of attacks from President Barack Obama on down. The attacks may have worked,
Hollywood celebrities are rallying today on behalf of same-sex marriage, with one famous director using his wallet to help him get to the front of the line. Some changed their Twitter photos to an “equal” symbol to represent their hope
The Huffington Post duplicitously linked comedian Steven Crowder with the third rail of GOP political discourse by telling its readers that he “made a questionable remark about actress and possible Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd. ” HuffPo continued by offering
Ashley Judd will not get tons of free publicity next week during March Madness like she normally does at this time of the year when CBS’s cameras focus on her in the stands during Kentucky’s tournament games. Kentucky, the defending national
The only surprise in the left’s new attack on podcast king Adam Carolla is why it took so long to happen. Carolla took on Calif. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom during a recent podcast, challenging the liberal politician on his assertion
When Mike Ruffer, an eight franchise owner of the Five Guys hamburger chain revealed this week that the economic impact of Obamacare would force him to raise the price of the popular burgers, he received national attention including a segment
Rev. Brian Costello, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic parish in San Francisco, wrote in his March 3rd church bulletin that he decided to remove a picture of now-Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in order not to offend members of
Please disregard the headline of this article by Mark Judge of Real Clear Books. In between the jabs against various friends, he makes some good points. Reconnecting with Buckley’s wonderful prose revealed something quite clearly: conservative journalism has plenty of pit bulls,
The Huffington Post, also known as the Hugo Chávez fan club, is running a lead story, “U.S. Drone Policy,” that features a photo of American-born Islamic terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki amidst several photographs of dead children. The image, which would