Emily Shire

Double Standard: The Daily Beast Whines That ‘Breitbart Twerks Pelosi’
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 8, 2014 | 12:48 PM EDT

The conservative website Breitbart.com recently started running a controversial ad campaign featuring Nancy Pelosi’s head superimposed on the body of a twerking Miley Cyrus. Unsurprisingly, an April 8 piece by The Daily Beast’s Emily Shire complained that “Breitbart Twerks Pelosi With Credibility-Destroying Ad” without admitting her publication’s double-standard when publishing questionable images.   

Shire began her piece by declaring that the online web campaign was “The ultimate proof that Breitbart doesn’t deserve to be considered a legitimate political news site, regardless of its political leanings” before laying into the conservative organization.

Daily Beast Writer Celebrates Duke Student's Desire to Have 'Successful' Porn Career
By Ken Shepherd | February 24, 2014 | 5:40 PM EST

For all the liberal media's insistence that it is squarely on the side of the sisterhood in the "war on women," there are reminders every day that liberal victory in that conflict looks curiously like women being reduced to the sum of their genitalia in the name of sexual gratification of men.

"Duke's Freshman Porn Starlet Isn't Ashamed—and She Shouldn't Be." trumpets the headline, of Emily Shire's February 24 Daily Beast item defending and even celebrating the choice of a young female Duke University student -- "Lauren" -- to pay her way through the pricey private institution by having sex with men for money. At one point, Ms. Shire insists that "we should not blame Lauren for wanting to have a successful adult film career."