It was just last week that the once-legendary Washington Post ended the four decade run of its Ombudsmen. Patrick Pexton was the last person to hold that role. Now that he’s gone, so is the role of an independent watchdog
The once-legendary Washington Post has been caught once again correcting a high-profile article without noting the correction. The Daily Caller reports that in an investigative piece looking into the prostitution scandal surrounding Sen. Robert Menendez, the original Post article read:
On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he misspoke when he tried to scare the American people a week before the sequester hit last Friday by claiming the across-the-board cuts would force school districts to give teachers “pink slips.” “There
Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig claimed Monday she had court documents and sources showing that a woman who alleged she was underpaid to have sex with New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez fabricated the story and admitted to doing so
This Washington Post headline says the reasons are “elusive,” but there’s no question that, when it comes to violent crime, we can forever rule out a couple of left-wing myths: Though gun ownership has spiked along with the poverty rate,
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter says Robert Gibbs sent him a “threatening email” in 2008 after he wrote an article critical of Barack Obama. There is a kind of a threatening tone that from time to time, not all the time,
Liberals have accused Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia of being the court’s resident bully, but when two liberal female Suprem Court Justices–Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan–this week tried to browbeat Scalia and lawyers arguing against the Voting Rights Act’s Section 5
Now that it is OK for the Old Media to slam Bob Woodward, hit pieces on his work are coming out of the woodwork. One of the latest is from The New Yorker, where Woodward’s body of work was termed,
For Obama and his media minions, the stakes around sequester are mammoth. With the economy already tanking, the hope is to blame sequester for the president’s failed left-wing economic policies. If the White House and its media can convince enough
In the face of Obama’s ongoing propaganda campaign to blame his failed policies and faltering economy on what amounts to a 2% budget cut, we’re seeing small pockets of excellent reporting on sequestration, and this includes the Washington Post’s Glenn
And it comes from a two-Pinoochio fact check at the Washington Post. Wait, did I say two Pinocchios? Glenn Kessler updated it to four Pinocchios – the full-on total-B.S. rating – after the Architect for the Capitol sent him some documentation and
Bob Woodward sat down for a frank talk with Sean Hannity to discuss the attacks on him for reporting that the idea for sequestration originated with Barack Obama. Hannity asked him about the conversation Woodward had with Gene Sperling, Obama’s
“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.” – Barack Obama The President of the United States is lying. He’s not lying about his personal life sex a la Bill Clinton; he’s lying
For a few weeks after Andrew Breitbart’s death, I allowed my personal sorrow to color my worldview. All around me, I heard brave voices saying that Andrew’s spirit would never die, that fresh hands would pick up the torch that
Bill Frezz at Forbes makes the exact same point I have about how Obama and the media’s big sequester gamble is now collapsing: President Obama has gone all-in trying to get Republicans to blink and serve up another round of
Some genius said this last night: I think there is a push to kill this story before other reporters realize they have a story if they report their own experiences. — DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 28, 2013 Now National Journal reporter
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com GenerationalDynamics.com unavailable for a couple of days In major reversal, U.S. will provide military aid to Syria opposition GenerationalDynamics.com unavailable for a couple of days Network Solutions has crashed GenerationalDynamics.com again,apparently because they’re unable
Secretary Duncan’s statement about sequester on Sunday’s Face the Nation is about as accurate as Susan Rice’s explanation of the cause of the 9/11 attack on our Benghazi consulate. In both cases, their superiors at the White House, who sent
On Tuesday, conservative scholar and firebrand talk radio host Mark Levin blasted the mainstream media and Republicans alike. Chuck Hagel was narrowly confirmed as Defense Secretary once Republicans deferred to President Barack Obama in voting for cloture to move his
BuzzFeed’s reflexive defense of The State overall, and Obama’s government specifically, targeted the wrong person this week. Usually the left-wing snark site is battling the right on The Government’s behalf. But this time it was filmmaker Michael Moore, and BuzzFeed wasted
This morning on “Mornings on the Mall” on WMAL-FM in Washington DC, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) used the memory of Ronald Reagan to give himself cover for a tax increase he helped engineer. Once considered a strong contender for
The White House is mulling a major shift in policy on war-torn Syria and could supply rebels with “non-lethal” aid such as body armor, armored vehicles and perhaps even military training, according to the Washington Post. Citing unidentified US and
Having recently confessed that, yes, the sequester was a White House proposal, progressives are now trying to downplay that admission in any way possible. Ideally, they’d like us all to ignore the fact that the White House has been lying
If it mattered, the dismissive way Obama treats the media coupled with his lack of transparency would be troubling. But it doesn’t matter. Even if the president was as transparent as glass, the media would still cover up anything that
An interesting thing is happening in Washington DC. The White House is trying to assign blame to Republicans in Congress for the impending “draconian cuts” to the federal budget known as the “Sequester.” Speaker of the House John Boehner, who
