Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen published a feature today (currently their top story) that pretends to be an examination of the double standard we’re seeing from the media with respect to the vetting of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. But
Tamron Hall interviewed Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere about a “prophesy” that is not part of LDS church doctrine:
Last night, Elizabeth Warren finally admitted to the Boston Globe that she lied when she made previous statements that she had “no idea” why Harvard Law School referred to her as a “woman of color.” Ms. Warren confessed that she told
New York magazine just published a hefty pieceby John Heilemann giving a behind-the-scenes look at the comingelection from the point of view of the Obama campaign. The O-team isconfident they’ll win, we’re told, and yet Heilemann conveys a realsense of
Two weeks ago, Breitbart News broke a story about a biography written by a literary agency in 1991 that incorrectly claimed that their then-client, Barack Obama, was born in the African country of Kenya. In followup stories, we reported that
Liberal Democrat and political consultant Bob Shrum, who is notoriously lambasted for his winless record in presidential elections, told Politico he thinks the Boston Herald‘s coverage of Elizabeth Warren’s phony claims of Native American ancestry is a form of “race
A month ago, The Boston Herald scooped all local and national outlets by revealing that liberal darling Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat running for senate in Massachusetts, had been touted by Harvard as a “Native American” and an example of its
The National Education Association (NEA) has enlisted 10,000 of its three million members to help reelect Barack Obama, says NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. “Theenthusiasm is there,” Mr. Roekel told Reuters. Last Wednesday, Mitt Romney took aim at teachers unions
The media has chosen the Memorial Day weekend to finally address the deepening scandal surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. The Boston Globe, which had ignored the story for weeks, ran a front-page story using much of the information
As the policy debate regarding how best to ameliorate what some style the “spectrum crunch” affecting wireless broadband providers plays out in Washington, D.C., TV broadcasters are trumpeting some new statistics that demonstrate the popularity of broadcast media with the
We are just a month away from the Supreme Court’s ruling on ObamaCare. So, what will Congressional Republicans do when the high court renders its decision? Republican leaders apparently have been mulling over their options, and Speaker John Boehner has said, “When
Over the last several weeks the Obama 2012 campaign has made a push into the college campus arena. A Harvard poll has shown that interest in the 2012 election among college students has dwindled in comparison to 2008. During the
In late 2008–long after the election–the media revealed a long-forgotten article written by Barack Obama while at Columbia. Obama wrote the March 1983 article, “Breaking the War Mentality,” about two campus groups, Arms Race Alternatives (ARA) and Student Against Militarism
The media can’t decide if Congressman Darrell Issa has enough votes within the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to bring contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder. The Hill claims Rep Issa doesn’t have the votes, but Politico says
Breitbart News has uncovered exclusive new evidence that in the spring of 1993, three years before Harvard Law School first publicly stated she was “a woman of color,” Elizabeth Warren likely made that claim while teaching at Harvard, and at
A year ago I was up late packing for Puerto Rico, having given notice that I’d be offline for seven days’ vacation. My phone rang. It was The Boss, the late Andrew Breitbart. When he called, you answered, and a
In an appearance on Fox News this morning, Mitt Romney was asked ifhe agreed with Rush Limbaugh that Obama seemed ready to run a campaignagainst capitalism. Romney responded that it “certainly sounds likethat’s what he’s doing.” Romney has spent the
The fallout of the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital has led to a series of blue-on-blue attacks from the Democratic far left on the so-called “Clinton Wing” of the party. As pointed out by Ben Howe at Redstate, not
Monday, Politico’s “media analyst” Dylan Byers posted what at first glance looked like bad news for radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh, who has been the target of a boycott after apologizing for comments he made about about pay-for-my-birth-control crusader
Alec Baldwin might be leading this nation to prosperity if it weren’t for those nasty right wingers. Baldwin’s Twitter rants against the Right are legendary – typically brimming with unexpurgated venom against those who don’t share his world view. Just
Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden insulted the working class in front of a crowd in New Hampshire with this absurd declaration: “Your job as president is to promote the common good. That doesn’t mean the private equity guys are bad
Late last week, in two separate Breitbart News’ pieces (here and here), I openly accused the New York Times and its many mainstream media toadies of launching a coordinated attack of intimidation against Joe Ricketts, a wealthy Chicago businessman and
At the Washington Times today, Charles Hurt contrasts the mainstream media’s fixation on obscure and irrelevant “news”–such as Ann Romney’s enthusiasm for horses–with the Breitbart News’s team’s focus on actual facts: So, not only does Mrs. Romney love horses, but she
I was looking forward to watching “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos for his heavily promoted interview with House Speaker John Boehner. I was particularly excited to hear Stephanopolous ask about Operation Fast & Furious, as promotional spots for the show
Today at Politico, the left-wing site does a fairly good job of covering the blowback the Obama campaign is facing in its own party over attacks on Bain Capital, a venture capitalist firm once successfully run by Mitt Romney. After
