This is “BenSmithing” on steroids — in which the BuzzFeed Politics’ editor-in-chief is so eager to spin the capital murder trial of an abortion doctor into a liability for the right that he launches into a bizarre non-sequitur to connect
Ben Howe took to the digital pages of BuzzFeed Politics Tuesday to isolate and savage a project he (wrongly, as it turned out) believed was a work-in-progress for a feature film a Tea Party group was hoping to raise money
***ADDED: An Open Offer to Ben Howe’s Defenders In a piece titled “Another Terrible Conservative Movie” published at BuzzFeed Politics Tuesday, RedState editor Ben Howe used over 1500 words to brutalize a film trailer and music video that are part
In response to Another Post Begging for Good Storytelling: At the expense of linking to BuzzFeed, I completely agree with Ben Howe’s analysis. If conservatives want to be in the narrative biz, they need to step up their game. And if
There’s a lot of debate going on in the Twitterverse about this article by Ben Howe of Red State on BuzzFeed (!) titled “Another Bad Conservative Movie.” The article reviews the movie trailer for “A Movement on Fire” by Tea
Important distinction: This post did not appear on BuzzFeed, but BuzzFeed Politics. Y’all starting to see what I mean about that site being a clown car? The subtext of this, though, is a little more serious — it’s all about
There must have been a lot of tension in the BuzzFeed clown car office after left-wing smear merchant Andrew Sullivan launched into a series of anti-Mormon attacks against Mitt Romney in the waning days of the 2012 campaign. After all,
Buzz Feed Politics’ editor-in-chief Ben Smith appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday, and at no time condemned blogger Andrew Sullivan for launching unfounded smears against Pope Benedict or the Catholic Cardinals. Smith’s staff of energetic BenSmithers frequently launch sustained attacks
The left-wing clown car that is BuzzFeed Politics just keeps rolling along at CPAC. As we saw yesterday, Ben Smith’s crack crew of BenSmithers just love to report on what Marco Rubio doesn’t say (yes, you read that right). Today,
No agenda here, folks. Move along…. Jewish Democrats Blast Marco Rubio For Not Mentioning Israel Marco Rubio Shrugs Off Climate Change In State Of The Union Response Marco Rubio Avoids Talk Of Immigration Reform In CPAC Speech Real journalism: In-depth
The headline below was up at Politico for a brief moment before it was quickly yanked, corrected, and replaced: This note has been added to the post: Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story included unrelated text that
As though manufactured anonymous sources wasn’t enough, today BuzzFeed’s own Andrew Kaczynski is now tweeting out mockery of sequestration fear-mongering. Yes, that’s correct, ladies and gentlemen, a guy who works for a site that was the tip of the online
Wednesday night, in the aftermath of the blow-up regarding the White House’s email to Bob Woodward suggesting he would “regret” his reporting of sequestration, White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe took to twitter to bash Woodward as a past-his-prime hack:
In response to Woodward: WH Aide ‘Yelled at Me’ for Half Hour: Bob Woodward said a “very senior person” at the White House had threatened him about his sequester reporting via email, which John Sexton reports happened after that person
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
Because the he said/she said is so much fun between the left-wing BuzzFeed and the left-wing Michael Moore, an important fact has been overlooked: Initially, BuzzFeed apparently invented anonymous sources in its rush to protect Obama’s government from the filmmaker. In her original
Buzz Feed dug up a 1990 edition of “The Atlas Of The DC Universe” and it shows that Gotham City is on the north side of the Delaware River. This area would be part of New Jersey. However, even the DC
In response to Huffpo: Ben Smith, BuzzFeed ‘Government-Subservient’ Stenographers: BuzzFeed definitely made some mistakes but Glenn Greenwald’s outrage seems a bit over the top (as usual). Even Huff Post is backing off the outrage a bit: UPDATE: BuzzFeed wrote a
The Huffington Post and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald got together to absolutely blister Ben Smith (watch the video here) and BuzzFeed for doing what Smith has done ever since Obama became president: become the government’s Chief Palace Guard. The only real
Michael Moore is outraged that a news outlet would call his accuracy into question. The far-left filmmaker rallied to the cause of a Palestinian filmmaker last week after the man claimed he was delayed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Antics on or about social media. Shameful fakes continue. Lawmakers urge Facebook to remove fraudulent Sandy Hook tributes Some tweets are best left not tweeted. Not Even the Onion Thought Its Quvenzhane Wallis Tweet Was Funny One blogger has an
It was announced today that Evan McMorris-Santoro, the national politics reporter for Talking Points Memo, will replace Zeke Miller as BuzzFeed’s White House reporter. News of Miller’s departure didn’t come as a surprise. It’s been rumored for some time. The
Throughout the fight over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense, a devoted group of pro-Hagel journalists has been determined not only to defend Hagel, but to attack his critics and their credibility. They have gone beyond the “normal” mainstream
Even as the liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank blasted President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for hypocrisy on his Cayman Islands investments and $950,000 Wall Street bonus, Buzzfeed is circling the wagons to defend Lew. Treasury Secretary nominee Jack
In response to WaPo on Sequestration: THINK OF THE SEALS: As many Washingtonians know, most stories about the National Zoo with a corresponding photo of a cuddly animal often don’t bring happy news. Remember your 2005 story, WaPo? “Animal Deaths Renew Criticism of Care at
At the exact same time BuzzFeed Politics’ Andrew Kaczynski was puffing himself as The Arbiter Of Journalistic Ethics with some new rules about how it’s now wrong to write stories based on what you’re told by unnamed sources, he was
If there’s anything that may help mitigate some of the anger the right currently has toward Gov. Christie, it’s the anger the left has toward him. Last Week Gov. Christie made a campaign swing through Califiornia. It concluded Wednesday night
In response to Rubio Rakes in $100k+ for the Sip Heard ‘Round the Beltway: Marco Rubio has managed “WaterGate” very skillfully indeed. What the left-wing media tried to turn into an inexcusable “career-killing” gaffe, Rubio parlayed into a political triumph,
Last week Rosie Gray wrote a post at Buzzfeed titled “The Christopher Dorner Fan Club Is More Mainstream Than You’d Think.” Mainstream, yes. Bipartisan, not so much. The article attempts to make the case that the #teamDorner phenomenon is spread across
The New York Times and BuzzFeed have some kind of relationship going on, but that still doesn’t explain the long, wet French kiss the Times gave BuzzFeed Politics editor-in-chief Ben Smith yesterday. It’s just a fact that when the left-wing
Someone needs to Gif the stages BuzzFeed Politics went through as they published the first thing they’ve ever published harmful to Obama’s agenda: 1. Those “wingers” are gonna lose the Hagel vote today. Let’s high-five Obama’s infallible awesomeness. 2. Oh,
As former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) faces a Republican filibuster in the Senate Thursday afternoon against his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, several liberal commentators are starting to wonder openly about his chances, following the release of yet another controversial
Panelists MC Lyte, Jack Moore, Editor of BuzzFeed Sports, Lauren Ashburn, Editor-in-chief at The Daily Download, and Mark Lamont Hill joined Brooke Baldwin on CNN today to talk about the social media support for alleged quadruple killer Christopher Dorner. Ashburn
Although BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith’s article is a cheeky defense of ObamaCare, it is the first time since the program’s passage that a member of the elite media has actually bothered to publish a high-profile look at the devilish details.
The genesis of this all was that Buzzfeed actually ran an article critical of Obama. That’s a headline right there. Holy Mackerel. I could just stop this post right here and say I’ve done my duty. But it went on
It’s hard to imagine the media doing anything other than to express outrage should some low-life hacker hack into email accounts connected to President Obama’s family — especially if something was found that might damage Obama politically. But that same
An attorney for the U.S. Postal Service has argued that her cash-strapped agency’s employees do not have to pay for speeding tickets. East Cleveland, Ohio, is attempting to collect nearly $700 in traffic violations committed by local USPS trucks, but
BuzzFeed Politics puts a ton of effort into using its content and contributors’ Twitter accounts to suck up to the left-wing media, especially MSNBC, in the hopes of getting links and television appearances. And there’s no question that’s worked. The
No wait, there’s even more to the gag than that. Sorry, this didn’t seem to display. Here’s the link.
You know the story: frog carries scorpion across river. Frog tells scorpion, “Don’t sting me or we both drown.” Scorpion stings frog. Frog asks scorpion why. Scorpion says, “It’s my nature.” Senator Marco Rubio sits down with Ben Smith of
