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From NPR’s “All Things Considered”: [audio: /files/2010/02/20100202_atc_17-3.mp3] Conservative Blogger Faces Criticism Over Protege, by DAVID FOLKENFLIK The conservative online news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart is, for the moment, doing little to dispel stereotypes about bloggers. During a recent visit to his

In case you missed this cheer moment Sunday on ABC’s This Week, guest-hosted by Barbara Walters, here’s Fox News’s Roger Ailes swatting aside a pesky Arianna Huffington the way President Obama might dispatch a fly: [youtube Bf_tB4Ol8uk&feature nolink] Naturally, the

From FoxNews.com: James O’Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was “framed” by the media and the U.S. attorney’s office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday. The same day the

The media is now dependent on a few basic food groups, which are keeping it on life support as readers migrate to the Internet and sites like this one for news, informed commentary, provocative questions, some laughs, and a shared

Ever wonder where your tax dollars really go? Cops? Firemen? Schools? Courtesy of the libertarian Reason magazine: take a look down the drain: There was a time when government work offered lower salaries than comparable jobs in the private sector

Britain’s Charlie Brooker explains it all for you. Sure, he writes for The Guardian, but he’s bloody funny, so don’t hold that against him… today. [youtube YtGSXMuWMR4&feature nolink] What do you think? Have you got what it takes?

In the ongoing national debate — who is the most biased, belligerent and repellent MSNBC anchor or commentator — it’s a shame that Contessa Brewer hasn’t been getting much face time lately, as the network boots her around from failing

This is going to make the Left even crazier than normal. Yup, the sound you hear outside your window is heads exploding in rage and frustration yet again: PPP_Release_National_126 _1_ –

The Heisman Trophy winner — un-aborted, home-schooled, and a devout Christian — is causing a stir on the Left with his upcoming Super Sunday ad extolling the virtues of the pro-life position. Since his mother was advised to abort him,

Who had the line of the night? Was it Obama’s condemnation of the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito mouthing of the words “that’s not true,” or was it this instant classic from MSNBC’s most gaffe-prone host?: Your reactions below. Oh,

Update 1/27 4:47pm PST: Salon corrected the mistake. Reich’s article was cross-posted at Huffington Post (yet to be corrected) and at RobertReich.org, where the professor took out the error and replaced it with a dig at Fox News. Former Obama

Statement from Andrew Breitbart: “We have no knowledge about or connection to any alleged acts and events involving James O’Keefe at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. We only just learned about the alleged incident this afternoon. We have no information other

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann broke from his self-described pattern of not offering commentary, and called for an end to the media’s self-imposed editorial silence concerning the U.S. government’s response to a terrible natural disaster. [youtube 1YycEdZCSKs&feature nolink] Okay, it was a

You know that the Obama pixie dust is beginning to wear off when radical leftist economists/professors/New York Times columnists like Paul Krugman turn on President Obama. But he has, and not for the first time recently: A spending freeze? That’s

Starting Feb. 1, Michael Savage, host of The Savage Nation, returns to the air waves in the Bay Area on XTRA Sports 860 AM in San Francisco from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. fax000977187 –

Some among the heaviest of Obama Kool-Aid drinkers are awakening to the performance gap between the campaign myth of Obama versus the reality of his inability to govern. America’s Fourth Great Awakening has begun. Historians widely recognize three Great Awakenings.

Did you believe in “Hope?” Millions of American obviously did, including 99 percent of the media, as they elected Barack Hussein Obama II the 44th President of the United States in the fall of 2008. Despite the loss of “Teddy

The way reporters used to be: [youtube lQ2bvo5S6Y4 nolink] Can you name someone like “Frank Ross” today? Let’s have your thoughts.

The blogosphere is abuzz with speculation about the real identity of the strange and wonderfully timely “Ellie Light,” President Obama’s No. 1 fan and apparently the owner of more residences than Donald Trump, John McCain and John Kerry combined. Not

Still trying to sort out the implications of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision this week? Puzzled by President Obama’s threat of a “forceful response”? Wondering what sort of legislative remedies against the First Amendment are

What a week! Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. “Health Care” on the ropes in Congress. Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission puts paid to most of McCain-Feingold and breathes new life into the First Amendment. Air America crashes

The Chicago media is having trouble picking a winner out of the line-up of likely suspects for the Machine’s chosen candidate for Barack Obama’s old, hardly even used U.S. Senate seat. The dragnet doesn’t include anyone with an impressive rap

From AirAmerica.com: It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter

Fans of the First Amendment can rejoice. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down large portions of the abomination known as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, especially those aspects of the law that imposed restrictions on

A lot of pigs have been taking to the air since Scott Brown’s historic — maybe this time the word actually means something — win in the Massachusetts special election for “Teddy Kennedy’s seat” on Tuesday night. The balance of

Last night– which likely will be seen by future historians as the beginning of the end of the Obama Administration — seems as good a time as any to reach back into ancient history ( that would be Monday, when

Well, the cat is finally out of the bag and guess who let him out? None other than Morning Joe‘s own resident heartthrob, Mika Brzezinski. In an interview with TV Newser’s Julie Menin, promoting her new book, All Things At

Is this the Boston Globe‘s “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment? (See Big Journalism’s header, above, for the memorable Chicago Tribune goof.) The Hub’s ultra-liberal broadsheet today “inadvertently” posted an interactive election-results dummy on its website, boston.com — which, amazingly, forecast a

Will the Chicago Machine corruption story break wide open in 2010? If you think Chicago crook and long-time Obama buddy Antoin Rezko is serving out his jail sentence, think again. Antoin “Tony” Rezko is a forgotten man. During the presidential

From the Daily Caller: The following was written by a well-known news anchor from a top-10, big city station: For the last 30 years, I’ve devoted the better part of my life to frightening you, trying my best to make

A revealing report released today by Rasmussen regarding voters’ perception of media bias: 67% say Media has Too Much Influence on Government 20% say most reporters try to offer unbiased campaign coverage 72% say they try to help their candidate

From the U.K. Telegraph: 2009 was the breakout year for the irrepressible Andrew Breitbart, 40, a conservative firebrand operating deep in enemy territory in Los Angeles, and the sky will be his limit in 2010. A regular presence on Fox

The latest: Michael Meehan, the Coakley staffer involved in last night’s scuffle, no make that a stumble, let’s try it one more time, the shoving incident with a Weekly Standard reporter, has now apologized: Last evening I was a little

Terrorist sympathizer and convicted felon Lynn Stewart can now add one more item to her c.v.: board member of a radio station The New York Post Reports: WBAI-FM listeners have elected disbarred civil-rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to the radical radio

We’ve all heard it — the screech of the Fox News haters who feel perfectly free to share their low opinion of the cable-news channel with everyone within ear shot. Normally, well-bred and well-mannered people don’t feel compelled to challenge

The president of the United States is a “light-skinned” man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” That, at least, is the carefully considered opinion of soon-to-be-former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, quoted in a forthcoming book