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Despite the fact that her opponent, Republican Greg Abbott, has been in an interracial marriage for more than 30 years, in yet another desperate campaign move, flailing Democrat gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis used her verified Twitter account to suggest Abbott

Buzzfeed shared a list of reasons why it’s important to watch Breitbart News Network’s Sonnie Johnson speak at George Washington University on behalf of Young America’s Foundation, which is a conservative group that advocates for traditional values, a strong national defense, and

BuzzFeed reported Thursday that Susan Wismer, the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nominee in South Dakota, has been caught plagiarizing from the already plagiarized jobs plan of the party’s Wisconsin gubernatorial nominee, Mary Burke. Wismer also plagiarized from the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nominee in

Mary Burke, Scott Walker’s gubernatorial opponent in Wisconsin, plagiarized large swaths of her jobs plan from previous Democrat candidates. As first reported at BuzzFeed, huge chunks, full paragraphs were copied almost word for word by the Democrat without attribution. After

In  March of this year Mary Burke, the Democratic candidate challenging incumbent Republican Scott Walker in this fall’s Wisconsin gubernatorial election, approved the release of a jobs plan that, it now turns out, contains numerous passages plagiarized from the jobs

CNN host Fareed Zakaria has been accused of plagiarism again. Our Bad Media, the group that brought down left-wing Buzzfeed’s Benny Johnson before National Review hired him, found that “two dozen episodes of Fareed Zakaria GPS contain content that has

Alan Benyak, an unknown actor who appeared in an ad for Tom Wolf, a Democrat running for governor of Pennsylvania, is being held up for public ridicule by BuzzFeed. His sin, according to BuzzFeed, is appearing in a direct-to-video film

Chelsea Clinton announced Friday that she is officially leaving NBC News after the media organization reportedly paid her annual salary of $600,000. Clinton noted that she would continue a relationship with NBC in the future. “Chelsea’s storytelling inspired people across

Breitbart News has previously documented the left-wing bias at BuzzFeed Politics, specifically the bias of Andrew Kaczynski, who advertises himself as an objective journalist. For example, back in April a spot check of Kaczynski’s posts revealed that over two weeks

Few entertainment scribes are as vocal, and unexpurgated, as Nikki Finke. The founder of Deadline.com calls ’em like she sees ’em, but lately her cybervoice has been silent. Her protracted legal fight with her former employer Penske Media Corporation means

Pro-amnesty activists and lawyers are pushing Obama to give executive amnesty to up to ten million illegal immigrants. Marielena Hincapie, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, told BuzzFeed that by using extreme hardship waivers and drastically expanding

Central Americans headed for the U.S. may be looking to other modes of transport in the future, as Mexico’s “The Beast” train is slated to triple its speed in the next five years.  Heavily used and a common source of

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

UPDATE: BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has announced Johnson’s termination, stating that a review of over 500 posts unearthed 40 instances of plagiarism. “We are deeply embarrassed and sorry to have misled you,” Smith writes. “Benny’s editors — I, Katherine Miller,

TEL AVIV, Israel–13 soldiers in the Israel Defense Force’s Golani Brigade, an elite infantry unit, were killed early Sunday after fighting with Hamas terrorists in Gaza, bringing the total number of IDF soldiers killed during Operation Protection Edge to 18.

Reporting from Gaza, CNN’s Diana Magnay had a busy morning watching the mounting military action and interviewing onlookers. However, she also had time to jump on Twitter to call Israelis “scum” – purely as a “reporter,” of course. During her on-air

Britain’s socialist Labour Party leader Ed Miliband recently said that his favourite news website was not a British newspaper, but rather the U.S. Republican-owned Real Clear Politics.  Breitbart London spoke to Steve Forbes, the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, which owns

Buzzfeed ran photos Wednesday of two gay men welcoming their new son who was born from a woman who had rented her uterus to them though not her eggs. Those came from yet another woman. Jennifer Lahl, a campaigner against

The latest fashion trend in San Francisco (normcore) is actually quite antifashion and perhaps not even really a “trend” as the wardrobe of a “normcorer” is seemingly unchanging and entrenched in the basics of comfort and functionality; quintessential American dressing,

Today’s singers rarely croon about the evils of government red tape. But a new report says outdated laws and government regulations are costing musicians dearly. National Music Publishers’ Association estimates that red tape sets back songwriters about $2.3 billion a

Time and time again the Left falsely claims we’re the ones who are “anti-science.”  So, whenever I see a story about junk science, particularly, one pushed by the media I have to address it for its sheer stupidity. Unfortunately, the

HOUSTON, Texas–As U.S. Border Patrol agents are struggling to deal with the humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied minors flooding into South Texas, unsubstantiated allegations of abuse have been published by the national news and entertainment website Buzzfeed.com. The website states in

A report released Wednesday insisted that the Obama administration has been engaging in talks with Hamas, a US State Department designated terrorist group that rules over the Gaza Strip, for more than six months. According to a BuzzFeed report, two

An Obama administration official upset with the direction of the Bergdhal story voiced his concern on Twitter on Wednesday, floating a theory that put Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in a more sympathetic light–and his fellow soldiers as part of the problem.

With Democrats and the media gearing up to elect Hillary Clinton president, the obvious gameplan is to prep the battlefield by creating a cult of personality around women. If you are in any way paying attention, our cultural and media

Labour leader Ed Miliband has gone to further lengths to prove how out of touch he is with the British voting public – this time by declaring that he doesn’t read much British news. In a bizarre statement reported by

Buzzfeed hates America. There, I said it. No, not because it distracts American workers to the point where GDP forecasts will have to be revised down because of the number of hours we all spend reading, “19 ways you could

HuffPost Live held a discussion about a current topic in employment: whether women deserve paid “menstrual leave.” Slate had already tackled the issue, with writer Katy Waldman dismissing it by saying, “… don’t offer us paid period leave. We’ll just

Politico, the D.C.-based political publication, is sending senior writer Todd Purdum and media reporter Dylan Byers to Los Angeles.  Though the magazine insists it is not planning a broader expansion in L.A., and that the cross-country migration is largely a

Former Congressman Barney Frank says he has no problem with actor Alec Baldwin’s recent homophobic outbursts. Frank, the openly gay politician, happened to be sharing a stage with Baldwin when he was asked a question about the actor’s track record

For a year or so, House Budget Committee Chairman and possible 2016 presidential candidate Paul Ryan has been making trips to the inner city to help understand urban poverty and how the federal government can help fix it. The trips

Media Matters spends 100% of its research energy attacking the political right. BuzzFeed Politics apparently does the same.  BuzzFeed Politics and Andrew Kaczynski pose as objective. But if you look at Kaczynski’s author page over the last two weeks, of