Radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith whether the website was engaged in “tabloid” reporting in an interview set to broadcast on Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” The discussion centered on a piece that Hewitt said was originally titled “Dead
The fallout is still mounting over the November 17 BuzzFeed piece alleging that an executive of Uber said that his company should do opposition research on recalcitrant journalists and release their personal information to the public. But now the scrutiny
On Monday night, Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed ran a lengthy hit piece against car service Uber. Smith smacked around senior Uber executive Emil Michael for supposedly claiming seriously that Uber would monitor the private lives of journalists: A senior executive at
A few days ago, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith had a big scoop revealing that a senior Uber executive thought it would be a good idea to do opposition research on journalists and expose their private information to the public. But it
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith announced the firing Benny Johnson Friday night after an internal review found 41 separate instances of plagiarism in the viral politics editor’s posts. “[W]e had no choice other than letting him go,” Smith wrote in a
CHICAGO (AP) — Jeff Carter scored three of Los Angeles’ six straight goals, and the Kings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 on Wednesday night to leave the Western Conference final tied at one game apiece. Drew Doughty and Tyler Toffoli
The infotainment website BuzzFeed infamously holds a “no haters” hiring policy, but several conservative figures have experienced nasty personal attacks from its employees–and in gun rights advocate John R. Lott, Jr.’s case, from the man at the very top of the
ABC’s “This Week” Roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith, ABC News’ Cokie Roberts, Republican strategist Ana Navarro, and former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer…
The persistent theme of much mainstream media coverage of President Barack Obama is the earnest effort to justify the leap of faith the American electorate made in 2008–a leap that the media themselves convinced the voters to make. Buzzfeed’s Ben
(AP) Bickell keys Blackhawks’ 3-1 win over Maple LeafsBy JAY COHENAP Sports WriterCHICAGOBryan Bickell sparked Chicago’s big second period with his first goal of the season, helping the Blackhawks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Saturday night. Brandon Pirri
CNNBuzzfeed: BuzzFeed Brews with New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Hosted by BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Filmed LIVE in New York.
On Monday, embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said he knew what role Huma Abedin–his wife and Hillary Clinton confidante–would have in Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, but he would not reveal what exactly her role would be. Clinton
CNNBuzzfeed: BuzzFeed Brews with New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Hosted by BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Filmed LIVE in New York.
On Wednesday evening, Ben Smith of BuzzFeed appeared on Piers Morgan Live to discuss the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal. Gloria Allred appeared on the same show, and talked about how one of the women she represented in the Anthony Weiner
(AP) Paille, Bergeron put Bruins ahead 2-0 after 2ndBy HOWARD ULMANAP Sports WriterBOSTONGoals by Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron after a scoreless first period gave the Boston Bruins a 2-0 lead over the Chicago Blackhawks through two periods in Game
Researches have found that confidence–more than accuracy–attracts people to sports pundits, perhaps because people crave their confidence in “an uncertain world.” These findings should not come as a surprise. Former President Bill Clinton once said that Americans would initially prefer
On Sunday evening, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith announced that The Heritage Foundation has dropped out of the BuzzFeed Brews immigration summit taking place this Tuesday. Heritage’s Derrick Morgan, the only immigration reform critic among the various participants, is replaced by the
An event touting itself as an evening of immigration reform discussion with a “diversity of opinion” turns out to be slanted heavily towards “comprehensive immigration reform.” The BuzzFeed Brews Special Edition: Immigration Summit, sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute, will take place
Friday afternoon MSNBC’s Luke Russert anchored “Now with Alex Wagner” when the news of the altered Libya talking points finally made their way to the left-wing network hours after ABC’s Jonathan Karl first broke the story. After Kelly O’Donnell finished
On Monday, the left-leaning Public Policy Polling group (PPP) released what they no doubt hoped would be a bombshell poll on gun control. According to PPP, and based solely on their vote against the Toomey/Manchin bill to strengthen background checks
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 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
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,
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.
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
In the last 24 hours, the BenSmithers* at BuzzFeed Politics have posted 21 posts. Thus far, all 21 of those posts have received a total of 146 comments. Half of those comments are for one article. When you open the comment
How about this: Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith Will Interview Senator Marco Rubio At First Event Social news leader BuzzFeed announced today it is launching a newsmaker speaker series where members of the BuzzFeed Politics team will interview Washington newsmakers in the
Did the JournOlist hotline go down, or something? Here’s Ben Smith fuming at Obama for not backing Susan Rice: Susan Rice is essentially a repeat of Gitmo in 2009,” a former Obama administration official emailed moments after Susan Rice withdrew
Make no mistake about it, it’s not just the Obama White House breathing a sigh of relief over Susan Rice’s “decision” to take her name out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The media’s just
Ben Smith’s BuzzFeed is stumping on behalf of the House members responsible for the purge of top conservatives from committee leadership. They’re accomplishing that trick by having staffers for those House members praise each other. BuzzFeed then reports those comments
The all-important social media site BuzzFeed ran a weekend hit piece on comic artist Matthew Inman, proprietor of TheOatmeal.com, the incredibly popular comic website. Buzzfeed’s article was penned by one Jack Stuef. What was the point of the piece? It
This entry of “BenSmithing” into the official Urban Dictionary has been up since August 12. But do I get a card from Ben Smith? A call? A thanks? Nope. Nothing. No good deed, right? I have no idea who took the
I must say, that of all the post-election criticism of conservative media (and not all of it undeserved), yesterday’s crowing from the BenSmithers over at BuzzFeed Politics was the most dopey. McKay Coppins and Ben Smith and the media in general
For a website that was leading with the story “27 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names” at the time of this writing, BuzzFeed has a surprisingly tenuous grasp of irony. Earlier Tuesday, editor-in-chief Ben Smith‘s top political reporter,
Today, those BenSmithing BenSmithers at BuzzFeed Politics dropped a hit-piece on us. Just a few minutes ago, we linked that piece here at Breitbart and it was fascinating to watch our link to their piece receive more action in ten-minutes than
Today, the following article appeared in its entirety today on Ben Smith’s Buzzfeed. Less than a year after the sudden death the conservative provocateur and pioneering blogger Andrew Breitbart, the web empire he had begun to build under his own
There was some entertaining crybabying over the weekend. Very entertaining. Apparently, two of America’s most dishonest and disreputable journalists are pretty upset over the fact that Americans no longer trust the government and the media. This Sunday on “Meet the
Just as he tried to do to one of Andrew Breitbart’s scoops the day after Andrew’s funeral, as I write this, BuzzFeed Politics’ chief BenSmither — Ben Smith himself — is flailing away in the hopes of downplaying the Daily
This morning as the Middle East burned while Obama fundraised in Vegas and our genius president told the world he had lost Egypt as an ally (whoops!), BenSmithing BenSmither John Stanton over at BuzzFeed Politics wrote an hysterically desperate hit-job against
Ben Smith of Buzzfeed recently wrote about campaign donations — both Romney’s and Obama’s — for this presidential election. In an otherwise fairly informative piece, Smith feeds into one of the myths about the 2008 election, the claim that Obama’s
