Add abcnewsblog to Breitbart, buzzfeed, dailymail as …challenged… — ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 9, 2014 — I’m not exactly sure what that means but considering Baldwin’s behavior this past year (and this morning), we should probably consider ourselves lucky that he
BuzzFeed reports that on Wednesday morning television actor Alec Baldwin lashed out at Garrett Jackson, a former aide to Governor Mitt Romney, with a homophobic tweet that read, “You’re on your knees in that photo. What’s up with that Garrett?”
Many prominent GOP establishment figures with deep ties and loyalties to the Bush family trekked to College Station, Texas last weekend not only to celebrate the 25th anniversary of George H.W. Bush’s presidency but also to convince former Florida Governor
News anchor Reimy Chavez quit his job at Venezuela’s Globovision TV on air last week. In an interview published today, Chavez says he quit because he feared he was becoming an “accomplice to censorship.” Globovision was an independent, opposition friendly
Buzzfeed reports that the top television networks refused to grant access to the White House for Barack Obama’s Tuesday night address in which he bragged about the supposed 7 million people who signed up for Obamacare. Unlike the prime-time announcement
On Wednesday, during a visit to the University of Michigan, President Obama dumbed down his rhetoric to BuzzFeed-style name calling by saying that Republicans are offering “stinkburger” ideas that are a real “meanwich.” Obama spoke at the University of Michigan
Over the weekend I saw this video at BuzzFeed of “Facts That Will Restore Your Faith in America.” In the section titled “Progress,” the video boasts that “Less than half of the population believes the U.S.A. is better than everyone.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp said that in 2010 Obama told U.S. military leaders to accept his push for gays in the military, and that if they didn’t, they could take the “opportunity to resign [their] commissions.” Papp said
A new study by the left-leaning think tank the New American Foundation finds that 40% of the over $1 trillion in U.S. student loan debt belongs to graduate students. “Most of these degrees are not intuitively worth it,” Jason Delisle,
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air wrote a column for The Week in which he quite literally “harrumphs” at the excessive nudity on pay cable television: Nudity in film and its effects on society have been debated since film began, and
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) revealed in a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, an incident that occurred along the U.S./Mexico border in which two men in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and who were heavily armed, were
Vladimir Putin isn’t the only one who can slip a few armed men across an inconvenient border. Buzzfeed has a big story about a possible Mexican Army incursion into Arizona. It’s a big enough deal to have Senator Tom Coburn
Nearly 10,000 Las Vegas casino workers say they are considering going on strike over what the unpopular Obamacare program has done to their health care insurance. If contract negotiations to keep their existing benefits go unsettled by March 20, Nevada’s
The British Embassy in Washington, D.C. has today proudly released a list of “several [social media] platforms” it uses “to better connect with people throughout the US and the world”. Remember, the British Embassy receives its budget from the Foreign
‘Enlisted’ Star Keith David Salutes Military with Fox Comedy Big Hollywood’s Christian Toto interviews The Mighty Keith David, someone I had the pleasure of working with and getting to know during my time in Hollywood. Great guy. Even greater talent.
You don’t have to like Donald Trump to be disgusted by the spectacle of the Beltway media’s self-congratulation over their collective role in trashing the man. Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins, author of last week’s sensational hit piece, was joined by Maggie
Perhaps symbolizing why CNN’s ratings are tanking, a senior producer for CNN’s The Situation Room on Wednesday either mocked conservatives or showed his ignorance of a website that caters to those outside the D.C.-NYC bubble when he asked, “What’s breitbart?” After
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
If Donald Trump wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, he will have start taking himself more seriously. And by that I mean putting together an operation that’s competent, credible, and creative. In particular, Trump, as a Republican,
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has a message for Donald Trump about BuzzFeed blogger McKay Coppins, and it’s one that other Republican officials might heed when liberal journalists come looking to “humanize” them. “This nervous geek isn’t fit to
In his rundown of the back and forth between BuzzFeed and Donald Trump, Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple rips the left-wing site for what he describes as a “glaring unprofessionality.” This piece of “glaring unprofessionality” is nothing less than
I can’t pretend to have mastered the details of the fight between Buzzfeed and Donald Trump (and I don’t think Buzzfeed’s writers have, either), but I have some experience in dealing with the mainstream media as an earnest political candidate,
A Friday article from The Verge asserted that when a person shares an article on social media, that very rarely means he or she has read it. On Tuesday, several high-ranking members of BuzzFeed’s editorial team proved that thesis by ridiculing an article from
Aboard Donald Trump’s $100 million 757 private jet with its gold-plated seatbelts, BuzzFeed reporter McKay Coppins flattered his host. “When I was in high school, my business teacher used have us do a weekly assignment dealing with what happened on
In an embarrassing bit of timing, the Obamacare website was down on Saturday due to a “Social Security system outage” on the same day as its National Youth Enrollment Day. According to the HealthCare.gov website, Social Security system maintenance means
You may recall that just last week, comedy veteran Jerry Seinfeld told a BuzzFeed Brews interview that he didn’t care about ticking politically correct boxes for his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. I like the series, and I
On February 3 comedian Jerry Seinfeld noted in an interview that comedians shouldn’t craft comedy solely through the lens of race, sexuality, or gender. Funny should be the goal, not agendas. But Gawker.com decided to turn Seinfeld into a racist,
In an appearance on CNBC on Thursday, BuzzFeed President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Steinberg discussed Twitter’s earnings report and raised concerns about their user growth. He made several suggestions, one of which was Twitter can not continue forward without
Some Democrats are so concerned that the end of the Obama era means a return to Clinton party rule that they are going on the record attacking Hillary Clinton’s nascent presidential campaign. A number of veterans from Obama’s 2008 campaign told
Jerry Seinfeld forged a stand-up career by avoiding R-rated routines, preferring observational gags to F-bombs and sexual puns. He didn’t push anyone’s buttons. He just made people laugh. Yet the Seinfeld star said something so politically incorrect Monday that it
Responding to embattled Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s scandals concerning “Bridgegate” and Hurricane Sandy Relief funds, conservatives have been more anti-mainstream media, anti-President Barack Obama, and anti-Hillary Clinton than pro-Christie. Their support, though, has been far from enthusiastic, showing how difficult it will be
So-called Republican Ana Navarro told a left-of-center outlet this week that she believes some people on the right oppose amnesty because they are racist. Navarro, the former “strategist” to liberal Republicans like John McCain and Jon Huntsman, has been elevating
Hollywood may not care much for Christianity or for actual Christians, but it loves the Roman Catholic Church – and it’s not an affair that began with the election of Pope Francis in March 2013. Reverent and/or accurate films about the Church
In response to Obamacare Enrollment Mix Looking Worse Than Expected: You’re right on about how the demographic mix of ObamaCare enrollments would be trumpeted unto the heavens if it was good, rather than being guarded more closely than anything Edward
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…
A number of Iowa Republicans were surprised to see the image of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie winning reelection in their mailboxes on a holiday card with a warm greeting. According to multiple sources, the recipients interpreted the card as
The New York Times is reporting that Time Warner as we know it is soon to be no more, with the corporation letting Time Magazine and its print subsidiaries trek out on their own. With the print industry near collapse
Here is my rundown on the Justine Sacco story, the woman plucked from obscurity Friday night to have her life assassinated by the elite media and its mob while she was on an 11-hour flight and could not defend or
On Friday, elite media sites like Gawker and BuzzFeed went after an obscure public relations professional who had fewer than 200 followers on Twitter and sent the online mob to destroy her. In the sports world, nobodies have been attacking
