It’s time we start anticipating the “mainstream” media’s narratives and get ahead of them. We need to stop playing checkers and start playing chess. Yesterday the website BuzzFeed published an “exclusive” story about Florida Senator Marco Rubio once being a Mormon. In
In light of recent investigative reports from the Daily Caller that reveal close coordination between Media Matters for America and the White House, BigJournalism and BigGovernment have undertaken the task of revisiting some of our prior reporting on the media
In 2008, while Republican crowds were chanting “USA, USA, USA,” during Sarah Palin’s speeches, Democrats were chanting “hope and change” as Barack Obama talked about “fundamentally transforming America.” And to their shame, many of the people chanting “hope and change”
As you may recall, Judicial Watch has been investigating Vice President Biden’s role in securing a bailout for auto manufacturer Fisker Automotive, which opened a facility in V.P. Biden’s home state of Delaware in 2009. Well, that investigation has taken
From Accuracy in Media’s Logan Churchwell: While some conservative leaning blogs are beginning to grumble that a popular NPR personality is hosting a fundraiser for the Obama campaign this week, POLITICO and other outlets carrying the original Minnesota Public Radio report are only skimming the surface of
Last Saturday, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page feature story on the upcoming HBO television film Game Change, and predicted that the movie, “was sure to reopen the wounds of that lost campaign and reignite controversy over Palin’s fitness
He’s been there, done that. Slugging it out with Mitt Romney, having millions of dollars of negative ads thrown at him. Now, with Rick Santorum going toe to toe with Mitt, and social issues taking center stage, Newt Gingrich is
Global warmists finally have an email “gate” of their own that they can turn against “deniers” and they are taking full advantage of it. The Warmists are excited that the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based state policy group, has been “outed”
Alec Baldwin, star of Twitter meltdowns and that populist phenomenon “30 Rock” (ranked 106 last season!), lashed out — unprovoked, I might add — at Andrew Breitbart on Twitter earlier today. At least I think it was unprovoked. As far as I
El Rushbo has New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s back. Christie critics are harping over his plans to have flags fly at half-staff to honor the Garden State’s own Whitney Houston this weekend. They argue the tribute should be reserved for fallen soldiers
President Obama may not like it but the American people finally need to declare a statute of limitations for blaming Bush. Obama is traveling around making appearances uttering some semblance of the words “we didn’t know how bad it was” in defense
Hope. Change. It just doesn’t happen overnight. So says Questlove, the leader of the hip hop band The Roots who was behind the vulgar attack on Congresswoman Michele Bachmannlate last year on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” Now, Questlove is throwing
J.B. Pritzker is one of the richest members of America’s one percent and a staunch pro-Israel Democrat. After backing Hillary Clinton in 2008–in opposition to his sister, Penny Pritzker–J.B. helped raise money for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Among other civic and philanthropic causes, Pritzker
As discussed earlier this week, the most important number in Obama’s budget is that the burden of government spending will be at least $2 trillion higher in 10 years if the President’s plan is enacted. But there are also some very unsightly
The thing about Ben Smith is that we always seem to eventually discover something about him that helps to explain so much. Over the past few weeks, after he moved from Politico to Buzzfeed, I haven’t written a word about Ben
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie famously recoiled at the connection between the trash-talking denizens of “Jersey Shore” and his home state. But Christie is making sure the Garden State’s own Whitney Houston will be paid the appropriate respect when she’s laid to
Dylan Byers may be the new kid on the block over at Politico.com, but he’s already fallen in line with how easily the site regurgitates the ramblings of Media Matters for America. The recent blockbuster by The Daily Caller shows the cozy
[W]hile [Politico’s Dylan] Byers’ story on Monday was titled “Daily Caller publishes old MMFA memo,” there was much in the memo Smith didn’t touch in his story. Daily Caller: Smith made no mention of Media Matters targeting organizations other than
– Site whose mission is to ‘correct conservative misinformation’ is oddly silent about the Daily Caller piece. – Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch accepts the Accuracy in Media Award: [youtube YXO_B4zZiY8 nolink] – The David Brock Enemies List. Big Hollywood and Big Government make an appearance! – Dylan Byers
There has been a lot of chatter about the blockbuster report at the Daily Caller revealing the extent to which the self-proclaimed “media watchdog” outfit Media Matters for America is joined at the hip with the White House. Many are shocked at just how
For those of you unfamiliar with him, Politico’s Dylan Byers is a left-wing operative disguising himself as a “media analyst.” If you look at his incredibly biased work just since the start of the year, you’ll find someone who has enjoyed an open
Following a somewhat vague initial response to President Obama’s “accommodation” to Catholic and other religious leaders’ objections to the ObamaCare mandate requiring religiously-affiliated charities, hospitals, and organizations to provide free contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs to their employees, the United States Conference
Recently at Politico, Tim Mak listed ten reasons why he thinks Santorum will have problems going forward. Sure enough: at number seven is Santorum’s perceived “racial insensitivities.” Rick Santorum with Robert Traynham, his openly gay black aide Here we go again. Let’s
Unlike the mainstream media (especially Politico), I believe in context. So below this poll, you will find any and all background information needed to answer questions 1 – 3. Question number four speaks for itself. —– —–—–Roland Martin’s tweets: “If a dude at your
Erik Wemple of the Washington Post was (along with Politico’s Dylan Byers) one of fascistic GLAAD’s primary co-conspirators in the blacklisting witch hunt to get CNN’s Roland Martin suspended from CNN, over a few perfectly harmless and defensible tweets Martin fired off during
