At least when it comes to the overreaching Department of Justice leak investigations, President Obama has finally lost one of his biggest fans, The New York Times. In a Wednesday editorial written by the full editorial board, the Times said it was a...
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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 the Washington Post. And before you equivocate, no, it's not hovering...
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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 doubt, cast an eye to the outrageous...
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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 a reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up...
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Congressman Anthony Weiner was forced to resign in disgrace after Andrew Breitbart exposed the politician's penchant for Tweeting sexually explicit photos to various women. Now, Weiner is running for Mayor in the Big Apple, but The Washington Times'...
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NBC’s chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd said on Wednesday that the Obama Administration’s seizure of reporters’ emails and phone records is evidence that “they want to criminalize journalism.” Todd, who made his comments on MSNBC's...
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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...
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The Israeli Government has released a comprehensive report into the infamous Al-Dura incident of Sep. 30, 2000, declaring that the 12-year-old Palestinian boy was not killed by Israeli soldiers and that journalists had perpetrated a "misleading and mendacious"...
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There has been much speculation in the media on why Obama's current scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups for attack didn't come out last year when the initial flurry of reportage on the incident occurred. Well, The New York Times thinks it...
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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 50%, respectively. But Monday was a lifetime...
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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)...
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In a startling exchange Wednesday during the IRS hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, America learned that the IRS knew in May of 2012 that its employees were targeting conservative organization with paralyzing harassment and Kafka-esque...
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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...
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Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker: The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in the case...
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How many offenses before BuzzFeed is labeled a hate site? Well, not three. Tuesday afternoon, using her Twitter feed, BuzzFeed staffer Aswini Anburajan, lashed out at Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for not being left-wing enough when it comes to immigration....
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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...
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Tuesday afternoon a bombshell was dropped into the already explosive IRS scandal when it was reported that Lois Lerner, a top IRS official in the non-profit division that paralyzed Tea Party groups with ongoing harassment, would invoke the Fifth Amendment...
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An editorial at Investors.com Monday noted that, having succeeded twice at electing a candidate with a radical socialist background, Barack Obama’s political advisors have now moved from a goal of merely controlling the “narrative,” to one of control...
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In Tuesday's testimony before the Senate, outgoing IRS chief Steve Miller apparently reversed course under some tough questioning by Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. During his testimony last week, Miller not only insisted that the...
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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...
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In Tuesday's Senate hearings into the ever-widening IRS scandal, outgoing IRS chief, Steve Miller, acknowledged that the planted question that broke the story last week was his idea. The "planted question" refers to the way in which the IRS chose to...
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Jay Carney's credibility is now on the line, according to veteran White House correspondent Keith Koffler. He reports today, at White House Dossier, that Monday's briefing by Carney was filled with acrimony over the ever-evolving narrative put forth...
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The obfuscation continues. Monday's White House press briefing was enlightening, in many respects, with regard to the ever evolving story on who at the White House knew about the IRS IG report on the targeting of conservative groups for inappropriate,...
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Working together again, the White House and Media Matters have spent the last week attempting the herculean task of turning the Benghazi-scandal battleship around in the hopes of attacking conservatives. Washington Post factchecker, Glenn Kessler, just...
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As we saw during the Boston Marathon Bombing, when people want actual news, they do not turn to MSNBC. What good is liberal-talk-radio-with-pictures hosted by unlikable hipsters who all share the same pair of glasses, when you want news, facts, and information?...
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As Oklahomans were suffering after Monday's devastating tornado, Roll Call reporter Meredith Shiner callously wondered on Twitter if Republican lawmakers who were tweeting "thoughts and prayers" to the victims of the deadly tornado would demand that...
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In one of the less rational attacks on the NRA to date, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence's Josh Horwitz used his May 20 column to make the case that the NRA doesn't understand the Constitution or the man who wrote it--James Madison. According to Horwitz,...
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The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma was only a few hours gone. The devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest. Politico's Glenn Thrush felt it was already time...
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CBS News has a piece quietly mocking a Benghazi whistleblower for writing poetry in a classic example of how the MSM marginalizes opponents of Barack Obama: Raymond Maxwell, who was one of Hillary Clinton’s State Department officials who was disciplined...
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On Monday it was reported that several Fox News reporters were targeted by the Department of Justice over interaction with an employee(s) at the State Department. In the investigation, Fox News's James Rosen was fingered by the DOJ not just as a reporter...
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Google and Verizon Wireless reportedly gave government officials reporters’ private email and phone records as part of the Department of Justice’s seizure of journalists’ communications. According to the New York Times, two reporters’ personal...
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The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart took some time out from defending the indefensible IRS today to accuse Matt Drudge and Breitbart News' Matt Boyle of racism for their entirely non-racial reaction to President Barack Obama's commencement address at the...
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Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report that details what journalists have faced while trying to get some answers from the Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the Tea Party targeting took place. According to ABC, an "armed...
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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...
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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...
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Ed Morrissey of Hot Air makes a great bust here. Sunday, the Washington Post's Zachary Goldfarb and Kimberly Kinday tried to argue that one reason the IRS might have singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for paralyzing harassment in 2010...
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One of the earliest reporters revealing the internal emails about Benghazi exchanged between the U.S. Department of State and the intel community was CBS' Sharyl Attkisson. Her original report was based on "written notes" and, as she said from the beginning,...
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The intrepid Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News has been one of the few reporters attempting to dig deep into controversial stories, stories that President Obama would rather see go away. But after her work on Fast & Furious and Benghazi, she is now reporting...
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In the hopes of manufacturing a self-fulfilling prophecy, the media have spent weeks coordinating an industry-wide conspiracy where everyone in media asks the same question again and again and again and again: "Will Benghazi backfire on the GOP if Republicans...
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Peter Beinart of the Daily Best often takes positions that are merely liberal. His stance on the IRS scandal is laughable. Sticking to the government's debunked narrative that a lowly, understaffed Cincinnati office was to blame, Beinart argues that...
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