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**Post updated with higher quality video and audio. For those you who haven’t been following our extensive coverage of Max Blumenthal’s character assassination attempt of James O’Keefe, a fringe blog called One People’s Project was the key source in Blumenthal’s

There is a somewhat convoluted story flying under the radar about a White House official, Rashad Hussain, who back in 2004 allegedly spoke out in support of Sami Al-Arian, a man accused (and subsequently convicted) of aiding the Palestinian Islamic

When politicians are free from the demands of reelection, they often find their true, inner voice. They often speak with an honesty that eludes them on the campaign trail. Retiring Senator Evan Bayh provides the latest example with this quote:

[youtube 7g0RLyxP13o nolink] Chicago Tribune reporter John Kass is an old school journalist. He’s one among a cadre of Windy City reporters, most from the Sun Times and the Tribune, who routinely expose the hooligans and shenanigans of the Chicago

There’s a question oft-posed by the proponents of global warming… or of “climate change,” as the new term of art has it, thus allowing warmists to claim both the snowstorm now blanketing America’s East Coast, as well as the melting

Try to control your incredulous laughter as Jim VandeHei of Politico heatedly explains to Bill O’Reilly that most MSM reporters don’t really hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. VandeHei acknowledged that the mainstream was late to the tea

Watch CBS News Videos Online Politico: President Barack Obama is planning to host a televised meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders on health care reform. The Feb. 25 meeting is an attempt to reach across the aisle but not

It was almost a dream come true. The media reported that a group of a National Tea Party Convention counter-protesters were going to flock to the Opryland Hotel for a showdown. But only 4 people showed up. The mainstream media,

Despite what Congress and the current administration would have the people believe, the inconvenient truth is that fiscal conservatives are the dead center of American politics. Amidst accusations of extremism, Americans are responding to a message of limited government, fiscal

UPDATE: HuffPo corrected the post but did not post an update aknowleding a previous version of the story contained false information. Moments ago the Huffington Post published an article by Lila Shapiro that requires a correction: On Monday night, conservative

In a news brief published by the Greensboro News & Record on February 1, 2010, the segment “James Who” contains a reference to an attempt to “bug” Sen. Landrieu by James O’Keefe and three other conservative activists in New Orleans:

Barack Obama came into office with a promise of ushering in a new post-racial era. One year into his term and Chris Matthews has already declared, “Mission Accomplished!” He forgot Obama was black, you see. America is now post-racial! Sadly,

Politico: “When you look in the mirror, do you see a president staring back at you,” asked “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “No, I do not,” Ryan said. “And I am not running for president. My good friend John

Politico: White House press secretary on Robert Gibbs said Sunday that the White House’s new jobs push would cost about $100 billion, though he didn’t detail how that money would be spent.

Politico reports that Rush appears to be having the time of his life as a judge for the Miss America pageant: On Thursday night, in between rounds of competition, the judges competed for their own crown: “Judge of the Night.”

In the msnbc.com staff and news service report “Activist filmmaker arrested in senator’s office” published January 26th, 2010, it is noted on two occasions that James O’Keefe is being accused of a plot to wiretap Senator Mary Landrieu. First in

UPDATE: Talking Points Memo has issued an update acknowledging some comments made in the post highlighted at Big Journalism were in error. In Josh Marshall’s article “What were they thinking?” of January 27th, 2010, Mr. Marshall referrs to a wiretapping

Politico: POLITICO’s Kasie Hunt, who’s in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words “not true” when Obama criticized the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision.

Who had the line of the night? Was it Obama’s condemnation of the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito mouthing of the words “that’s not true,” or was it this instant classic from MSNBC’s most gaffe-prone host?: Your reactions below. Oh,

Now President Obama tells us he’s going to take the economy seriously. God help us. As the war on the economic recession grew bleak and the unemployed body count grew, Obama and the Democratic Congress were bogged down in the

David Axelrod, top political advisor to President Obama, was one of three White House advisors who took to the Sunday shows yesterday to plead the Administration’s case. Numerous outlets have noted that the three advisors gave three different accounts of

Take a listen to Barney Frank saying “God didn’t invent the filibuster.” Remember way back in 2003 when the Republicans were looking to rewrite the senate rules so the Dems couldn’t filibuster judicial nominees? Partisan disagreement over judicial nominations is

Headlines like the ones below tell the story: “Democrats point fingers after stunning loss” “GOP Win in Mass. Puts Dems on Offensive – Scott Brown’s Surprise Senate Victory Has Democrats Scrambling to Regain Footing” “GOP Senate Victory Stuns Democrats” “In

Martha Coakley’s campaign team began leveling charges against DC Democrats as it became increasingly apparent the wheels had fallen off her campaign wagon well before Election Day. DC operatives, including those in the White House, of course, couldn’t withhold return

I’ve been involved in politics for longer than I usually care to remember. I’ve been in and around countless campaigns at all levels of government. One of the more intense times in political campaigns is the period immediately following a

What do Jake Tapper, Alan Colmes, Rich Shapiro, John Cook and Mike Potemra all have in common? All of them reported that reliable media punching bag, Pat Robertson, blamed the devastating earthquakes in Haiti on a “pact with the Devil.”

Republican Scott Brown has been running ads in Massachusetts where he is out driving around in his old pickup truck while campaigning for US Senator something Marcia Martha Coakley refuses to do. On Sunday Barack Obama slammed Scott Brown and

It seems the Democrats have the art of poor taste down to a science. Who else would think to use an image of the World Trade Center, destroyed by terrorists in 2001 because the towers were a symbol of American

Third of a series. Find parts one here and two here. Martha Coakley is caught making false statements on financial disclosure form, does not report $262,000 in assets. Now this is a story that only Charles Rangel could love. One

The president of the United States is a “light-skinned” man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” That, at least, is the carefully considered opinion of soon-to-be-former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, quoted in a forthcoming book

Politico reports (emphasis mine): “As president, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people, and when the system fails, it is my responsibility,” Obama said. Obama said an intelligence review found that the U.S. government had

Yesterday, I made the mistake of answering the following email, addressed to Big Government editor Mike Flynn, promptly: Hi Mr. Flynn, I’m a reporter from the Business Insider working on a short item about the new Big Journalism site launched

Just before New Year’s, C-SPAN Chairman and CEO Brian Lamb sent a letter to Congressional leadership, requesting permission to televise negotiations around the final health care reform legislation. The letter was addressed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, GOP Leader Rep. John

UPDATE: According to Politico’s Ben Smith, the Bertha Lewis who went to the White House is not ACORN’s CEO but another woman named “Bertha Lewis.” I contacted Smith to tell him that Big Government would offer a correction if the

Politico: “The U.S. Embassy in San’a is closed today, January 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula … to attack American interests in Yemen,” the embassy said in a brief message on its Web

From Politico: Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency. The pointed attacks reflect a