Tag: Washington Post

It’s almost like the Washington Post is trying to be irrelevant.  As the IRS scandal continues to unfold, certain members of the Obama Administration are coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism for purposely keeping the president in the dark about

By BARRY SCHWEID and BRETT ZONGKERAssociated PressWASHINGTONWhen Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he’d found “no discernible change in the racial climate of

Washington Post’s Erik Wemple: As big a move as it is for the New York Times, it may be double for Politico, for Martin offers the sort of reporting that the site badly needs. In its short time on the

During the May 22 broadcast of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation,” host Neil Conan repeatedly contradicted a guest by claiming that the IRS has nothing at all to do with Obamacare.  NPR’s Conan is, of course, completely incorrect.

An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks. A little over a week after

Progressive Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank joined the chorus of journalistic outrage over the Obama Administration’s decision to spy on Fox News reporter James Rosen and to seize and comb Associated Press reporters’ phone records, writing that “the administration’s actions shatter

Coming out of the weekend, after a brutal week for their president, the media held tight to a little lifeboat in an ocean of bad news: Polls from CNN and The Washington Post had Obama’s approval rating at 53% and

Nice catch by The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack: — Josh Marshall (10:15a.m.): Lerner Must Go talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/… Ezra Klein (9:45a.m.): Heads should roll at IRS washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog… — John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) May 22, 2013 — UPDATE: Add Salon’s Joan Walsh to the

NPR’s Ari Shapiro posted an interesting Tweet on May 21. He discovered that a cadre of well-known lefty columnists and journalists visited the White House together, three of whom he mentioned by name. Shapiro reported that Jonathan Capehart and Ezra

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi. A majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by

The provocative headline “Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage” doesn’t appear in a traditionally conservative paper like the NY Post or Wall Street Journal; it’s in the Washington Post. And before you equivocate, no, it’s not hovering over the byline

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post compared Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to Jim Crow-era segregationist (Democrat) Alabama governor George Wallace: “Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff

If there is one lesson I have learned over my decade and a half at Judicial Watch, it is this: you must never overestimate the hypocrisy of the Left–especially in covering for their own.  Lest you have even the slightest

(AP) Policy, discretion guide media sources probesBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONIt was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington

The White House press corps posed several angry questions to Obama administration spokesperson Jay Carney about the James Rosen case in his daily briefing Monday. The Washington Post revealed Sunday that Rosen, who works for the Fox News Channel, had been

According to New York Times national security reporter Mark Mazzetti, who spoke with The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, the leak investigations by the Obama Justice Department are already having their intended effect: There’s no question that this has a chilling

Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama’s Justice Department. Fox doesn’t have all the details yet on reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air makes a great bust here.Sunday, the Washington Post’s ZacharyGoldfarb and Kimberly Kinday triedto argue that one reason the IRS might have singled out Tea Party and otherconservative groups for paralyzing harassment in 2010 was due

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward appeared on “Meet the Press” Sunday to discuss the brewing scandals of the Obama White House. When conversation turned to the controversy over the Benghazi talking points which show the White House and State Department’s successful attempts