UPDATE: Politico Apologizes; Politico Sanitizes Vile Playboy Attack on

June 2nd, 2009 9:59 AM
UPDATED below: Politico removes item, writer explains/apologizes decision to highlight the list.Yesterday, Playboy writer Guy Cimbalo published a top ten list of conservative women against whom he would like to commit vulgar and violent sexual acts. His piece, which has since been removed by the skin mag's Web site, was actually promoted to conservative sites like NewsBusters by Playboy's PR…

Politico's Cummings Whines Cheney's 'Made It Much Harder to Close Guan

May 23rd, 2009 2:53 PM
The Politico's Jeanne Cummings, a veteran of the Wall Street Journal, fretted on this weekend's Inside Washington that former Vice President Dick Cheney has “changed this debate in a way that has made it much, much harder to close Guantanamo, which the President is already committed to doing.” So he's done an awful thing in daring to oppose something President Obama is “committed to doing.”…

Time's Joe Klein Says People in Wheelchairs Can't 'See' the World

May 21st, 2009 3:47 AM

Shocking Headline: 'Some on Left Souring on Obama

May 17th, 2009 1:54 PM
Here's a headline you'd never expect to see at a left-of-center website so soon in the new President's first term:Some on Left Souring on Obama Maybe even more shocking was the content in Josh Gerstein's Politico piece that was so prominently placed as the feature story on the site's front page Sunday:

Politico's Revealing Coverage Double Standard on Challenges to House L

May 17th, 2009 11:35 AM
Those who believe that Politico is a hangout for former establishment media journalists who want to recreate a combination of the New York Times and Washington Post on the web -- complete with the insufferable biases of those two publications -- can look to the disparate treatment of two challenges to party congressional leaders as affirmative evidence. In a search on "Cindy Sheehan" at Politico…

Greta Slams Politico Accusation She's Todd Palin's 'Handler

May 11th, 2009 10:41 AM
Politico on Saturday accused Greta Van Susteren of being Todd Palin's "host AND handler" at a pre-White House Correspondents' dinner brunch, and the Fox News host is none too pleased.This was at least the second time in two months Politico has implied an improper alliance between Van Susteren and the Palins, and the "On the Record" host wasn't going to let them get away with it.On Sunday, she…

Obama's 'Small Biz Owner' No Stranger to Government Programs - or Dem

May 8th, 2009 5:11 PM
This morning's remarks by Barack Obama on the latest unemployment figures included the usual self congratulations we've come to expect from The One.  CBS News quotes him as saying:Such hard-working Americans are why I ran for President. They're the reason we've been working swiftly and aggressively across all fronts to turn this economy around; to jumpstart spending and hiring and create jobs…

Politico's Obama Blog: 539,000 Job Losses 'Employment Doing Well

May 8th, 2009 1:20 PM
When NewsBusters reported earlier today that media members were depicting April's 539,000 jobs loss as "good news," I never imagined anyone would characterize the data as "employment doing well."Yet, that's how Politico's "44" blog -- "A Living Diary of the Obama Presidency" -- first teased Friday's Labor Department announcement at its front page.Here's a screen-cap of the first picture taken…

Politico Hit Piece on Sen. Sessions Uses Left-Wing Racial Talking Poin

May 6th, 2009 1:07 PM
Now that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. has been named the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, some on the far-left are gunning for Alabama's junior senator. The battle is happening as President Barack Obama is on the verge of naming an appointee to the Supreme Court to fill void of Justice David Souter.Some of the left-wing points that suggest Sessions has racist tendencies were…

Politico: 'For Obama, Hipness Is What It Is

April 24th, 2009 9:49 PM
Politico today reveals what those in the fawning mainstream media have known all along: "For Obama, hipness is what it is."  It begins:During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper — in substance and style — than the color of his skin.Barack Hussein…

The 'GM CEO Resigns at Obama's Request' Open Thread

March 29th, 2009 10:44 PM
Did you feel the earth shake under your feet in the past couple of hours?It's because GM CEO Rick Wagoner has resigned...at the request of President Barack Obama.As reported moments ago by Politico (h/t NBer AgentAmerican):

Greta Responds to Politico: 'I Have Never Given Gov. Palin Advice

March 29th, 2009 9:50 PM
Greta Van Susteren is clearly sick and tired of people accusing her of advising Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.She's also fed up with what she referred to Sunday as a "hit and run":This is why I hate “sources” and where journalism can be grossly unfair — in the law you have to step up on the witness stand and identify yourself and take an oath to tell the truth.According to Van Susteren, that's not what…

Matthews: Is Obama Avoiding Tough Questions From the Press

March 28th, 2009 6:13 PM
I don't know what got into MSNBC's Chris Matthews Thursday, but the "Hardball" host seemed rather annoyed by his President's recent treatment of the news media.First, he opened up a segment with guests Roger Simon of "Politico" and USA Today's Susan Page by accusing Barack Obama of behaving "like the campaign never ended" asking:[W]hat`s the president up to? Is he doing what he does well? Is he…

Obama Reaches out to Media... But Only Lefty Ones

March 25th, 2009 4:24 AM
Imagine the howls of anguish that would have belched forth from the Old Media if George W. Bush had decided to only talk to Fox News and Drudge? Imagine if members of Bush's administration had reached out only to the Internet sites RedState and Powerline. What if Bush had instituted a concerted effort to only interact with conservative media sources? Who can doubt that the Old Media would have…