The controversy surrounding NJ Sen. Bob Menendez began as a sex scandal. The Senator allegedly traveled to the Dominican Republic for sex trysts with prostitutes organized by a major campaign donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen. Further reporting has unveiled more serious
The nomination of John Brennan for Director of the CIA has uncovered that the Obama administration, after ostensibly withdrawing from Saudi Arabia to pacify Muslim outrage, still has a secret base in the country from which it operates drones. The base
Just when I’m pretty sure I couldn’t be happier with the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple and his righteous refusal to let the media off the hook for lying about Heckle-Gate, Wemple calls out one of his own, the Post’s Dana
If Hillary really doesn’t run for president in 2016, it is so hard for the Washington Post to “imagine the presidential field without a woman contender” that the paper has decided to look at who might replace her. And the
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) — The Washington Post has joined the list of targets attacked by Chinese hackers that includes The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the Times reported. The Times reported Wednesday its computer systems had
The Washington Post Fact-Checker, Glenn Kessler reported that ‘a number of readers have raised questions about the president’sstatement that he goes skeet shooting “all the time.”‘ So he thought some fact checking might be in order. He actually did a
The great thing about this new media-era we’re currently living in (at least for the media), is that there’s no accountability. This means the media can do whatever it wants and manufacture whatever reality it would like to manufacture. For
NBC is taking flack for casting Mike Tyson–a convicted rapist and accused serial abuser–as a victim of abuse in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU. Tyson will portray a death row inmate who was abused as a child
Former Senator Chuck Hagel is getting roughed up by Republicans at his ongoing confirmation hearing, today.. Sen. John McCain R-Ariz. blasted him thismorning for his strong opposition to the surgethat brought stability into the region, and wanted to know if
Today, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was famously shot by mentally ill Jared Lee Loughner in Tucson, Arizona, testified before the Senate on gun control. While Giffords and her husband, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, testified that they weren’t
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has denied soliciting prostitutes in the Dominican Republic but admitted he traveled at least three times on a donor’s private plane to and from the country. The statement comes on the heels of an
In an explosive exchange outside the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., security guards for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg accosted senior Talk Radio Network investigative reporter Jason Mattera when he asked the mayor about his strong
The Washington Post (WAPO) is reporting that “nearly 1,000 people” took part in a pro-gun control march in Washington DC on Saturday. CNN described the same event as a a march attended by “thousands.” A slight discrepancy to say the
President Barack Obama and, for that matter, most of America seem woefully ignorant about a scandal unfolding at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. As hard as it is to believe, outgoing Administrator Lisa Jackson actually appears to have had agency
The Washington Nationals on Saturday introduced William Howard Taft as the team’s next presidential mascot for its famed Presidents’ Race. As the Washington Post reported on Friday, the pick makes sense because Taft started the “tradition of ceremonial first-pitch tossing with a
In an editorial published Wednesday, the Washington Post urged President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and “ignore” activists who want it blocked on environmental grounds. In it’s most recent editorial on the topic, The Post says President Obama
Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division who played a critical role in lying to Congress about Operation Fast and Furious, plans to resign soon, the Washington Post reports, citing anonymous sources. “It
The media calls started coming in within hours of the Newtown Massacre on December 14th. Demands were already being made for more gun control laws, and the media wanted responses. The next week was a blur, with four appearances on CNN, the
Even as Obama stood in front of hundreds of thousands of admirers during his inaugural speech saying that we needed to end the name calling, many in his party and many of his surrogates have utterly ignored that advice. “We
It didn’t take long for the media to start trumpeting Hillary Clinton 2016. A new ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Clinton dominating Vice-President Joe Biden in favorability ratings. The favorable-unfavorable rating of Clinton was 67-26 percent, while Biden languished at
Facing the passage of the House GOP’s “No Budget, No Pay” bill Wednesday, Senate Democrats, including Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray, have promised they will draft a budget for the first time in four years. “I’ve been discussing
In 2004, perverse former conservative David Brock, a highly paranoid alleged drug devotee, founded Media Matters for America. It was an offshoot of the John Podesta-run Center for American Progress (CAP). Podesta, of course, was the former chief of staff
I know, I know, I know… This is a tired exercise, but it has to be done. Imagine an alternate universe where it was George W. Bush, or any Republican, sworn in for a second term yesterday — but with
Remember when President Obama was caught on a hot mic telling then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to be patient with him because he would have more “flexibility” in his second term when he would never again have to face American voters?
During President Obama’s inauguration today, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander (R) quoted Alex Haley, the author made world-famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning literary sensation, “Roots.” According to The Washington Post, Haley and Alexander were longtime friends. That’s all well and good,
