Separated at Birth: Commentary’s John Podhoretz
This morning we match Commentary magazine’s feisty Twitter antagonist...
View ArticleConservatives Reveal October Surprise: Another Old Obama Video
A day after Mitt Romney's 47 percent video surfaced, Matt Drudge countered with a 14-year-old video in which Barack Obama makes the scary-sounding admission that he believes in "redistribution." The...
View ArticleMorning Doodoo: What’s J-Mart Tweeting?
We have to admit that following Politico SENIOR Political Reporter Jonathan Martin is a roller coaster ride. He generally tweets on good, insightful topics. It’s just HOW he does it that disgusts the...
View ArticleNational Journal Prez Steps Down, Wants to Squeeze in More Family Time
Andy Sareyan, President of National Journal, is stepping down and Bruce Gottlieb is sliding in to replace him. “Andy’s been splitting his time between us in D.C. and his family in...
View ArticleWendy Wednesday
Oh, Wendy. She sure does get around. We’ve seen several pictures of Wendy Gordon frolicking around with her Washington friends. She just LOVES the limelight and...
View ArticlePolitico‘s ‘Special’ Veep Debate Coverage
POLITICO is promising “special coverage” of this Thursday’s vice presidential debate, including a “special” edition of “POLITICO LIVE” and a full stream of the debate. A Look Ahead…On Thursday morning...
View ArticleWith Hillary in Hospital, Conservatives Backtrack on Fake-Concussion Meme
Soon after the State Department announced that Secretary Hillary Clinton had suffered a concussion, a conservative meme began: Clinton was totally faking it in order to avoid testifying about the...
View ArticleWho Won the VP Debate? Twitter Reacts to Biden-Ryan Match-Up
Pundits, reporters, everyday Americans react Before the VP debate goes live on TV, audience is told to avoid "harrumphing" and "deep anxious sighs." #veepdebate — Chris Moody (@Chris_Moody) October...
View ArticleFriday Night Fights: em>HuffPost vs Buzzfeed
On Friday afternoon, Fox News infamously aired a car chase that ended very badly. A man who had stolen a vehicle outran police until finally pulling into a field, pulling out a gun and shooting...
View ArticleWhy Did Paul Ryan’s Pants Not Catch Actual Fire Last Night?
Posted: August 30, 2012 Commentary — Did you tune in last night to see Paul Ryan’s speech on Day Two of the Republican National Convention? Ryan’s got a certain charisma, indeed, definitely more than...
View ArticleRoland on Rihanna, Chris Brown Love: MYOB
Over the long holiday weekend, CNN Contributor and Washington Watch’s Roland Martin defended the rumored reunion of Rihanna and Chris Brown. Brown beat...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Raises $19.3 Million in Funding
BuzzFeed just keeps getting bigger. In the past year, there have been multiple big name hirings, verticals launched and partnerships formed. Now, thanks to a $19.3 million Series D funding round,...
View ArticleWhat’s Dana Tweeting?
If you want political insight with a conservative point of view, you should follow Fox News’ Dana Perino on Twitter. If you like compromising photos of people’s pets, you should also follow Dana...
View ArticleReporters Zone in on Booze Habits
With the immediacy of social media reporting comes details that might later seem creative or quirky in an actual story. But everything is fair game when observation prowess is at stake among Capitol...
View Article‘Poop’ Gets Flung Around Twitter
A Carnival Cruise ship that was stuck out at sea, unable to port for several days finally made it to land Thursday. A large portion of the TV news coverage of the story centered on the ship’s sewage...
View ArticleObama Twitter Feed Dominates WaPo Homepage
The front page of WaPo’s website this morning has all their usual features including a front page ad that abnormally dominates the right...
View ArticlePolitico Sends 8 Scribes to Long Island
Leading up to what is sure to be a nail-biter of a second presidential debate Tuesday night, Politico has sent a whopping eight scribes to be on-site at Hofstra...
View ArticlePress Strategy: Should Rep. Shimkus Say More?
Over the weekend Christian LaBella (who might deserve to be fired for having such a douchey name) was arrested for allegedly scratching and possibly...
View ArticlePodhoretz Fake ‘Bored’ By BuzzFeed
Commentary‘s John Podhoretz continued his harassment-flirting with BuzzFeed earlier in the week, telling one of their reporters he...
View ArticleBuzzFeed’s Dinner Date: José Canseco
Of course they posed the question on Twitter. Last night just before the clock struck midnight, BuzzFeed had an...
View ArticleC-SPAN Sorry For 'Shut The F—k Up' During Fiscal Cliff Coverage
share Andrew Kaczynski/Twitter C-SPAN screenshot by Erin Skinner Cochran via Instagram The political network also aired the book title caption for "Just Plain Dick" during Sen. Tom Harkin's speech....
View ArticleMother Jones Editor Calls Carlson a ‘D–kbag’
Mother Jones‘ Engagement Editor Adam Weinstein, relatively new to Washington’s cozy media world, is making fast friends. But not with The Daily Caller‘s...
View ArticleTwitter Weighs in on Buzzfeed/State Dept. Fight
Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings had a few questions for State Department spokesman Philippe Reines yesterday and they were not received...
View ArticlePsst..WaPo in Market for ‘Big Thinker’
Just circulated in the Washington Post newsroom: WaPo management is on the prowl for someone with a human brain. “With Carlos Lozada‘s coming move to enterprise editor, we’re in the market for a new...
View ArticleMorning Reading List 10.16.12.
1. Biased professors? — The Hill‘s Managing Editor Bob Cusack has a story out this morning at 5 a.m. on professors who appear in political stories who have donated to President Obama’s reelection...
View ArticleElevator Pitch: TwoChop Makes a Game Out of Web Content
In this episode of Elevator Pitch, host Alan Meckler meets with TwoChop founder Mo Lam and AppAddictive CEO Mike...
View ArticleNehman Signs Off WMAL For Last Time
WMAL’s Mornings with Brian and Brian, which runs form 5-9 AM, is down one Brian. This morning Brian Nehman signed off for the last time. After 12 years with the station, he...
View ArticleWhose Shoes?
Late last night a FishbowlDC spy sent me this photograph of a journalist’s shoes from The Daily Caller‘s book party. The book is The Lizard King by Will Rahn and Jamie...
View ArticleWhen is a Scoop Not a Scoop?
On Tuesday evening, shockwaves blasted through the Twitterverse as the Drudge Report website put up a siren and claimed to be dropping a bombshell that would rock this Presidential election. A story...
View ArticleAnn Coulter Cuts Off C-SPAN Caller
Conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter went on C-SPAN this morning to discuss her new book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. As was to be expected with this guest, the...
View ArticleWhat’s Podhoretz Tweeting?
Recently, conservative pundit, John Podhoretz waged war with Buzzfeed and called their reporter, Andrew Kaczynski, a “deceitful punk.” In the following days, we’ve been keeping an eye on Podwhore....
View ArticleCombative Paul Ryan Interview Has Nothing on the Twitter Fight it Spawned
An interview Paul Ryan did with Flint, Michigan's ABC12 took an awkward turn on Monday when the vice presidential candidate's staff halted it abruptly after the reporter asked an out-of-the-blue...
View ArticlePodhoretz Picks Fight with Buzzfeed
The NYPost’s John Podhoretz had a total Twitter meltdown on Monday evening. He was angry over this piece by Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski. The piece shows a video of a frustrated Paul Ryan ending an...
View ArticleFish Food
(A sprinkling of things we think you ought to know…) Slate‘s Twitter guru offers rules for tweeting during catastrophe– Jeremy Stahl, the guy who runs Slate‘s official Twitter account, has a piece with...
View ArticleHorse_ebooks Twitter account run by Buzzfeed employee. Is nothing sacred?
The dreamy, poetic Horse_ebooks account that had us all rapt has turned out to be an elaborate piece of performance art. Another win for the corporate machine Nothing is sacred. Nothing. Photograph:...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Brews Books Fast
If you’re dying to go to “BuzzFeed Brews” tonight, where Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith will interview...
View ArticleHow the New York Times Got Scooped on Its Own Story
Twitter is almost unrivaled in its capacity to create inside jokes, usually in the form of hashtags whose origins require research. One such inside joke that neared the top of Twitter's "trending"...
View ArticleHow the New York Times Scooped Its Own Story
Twitter is almost unrivaled in its capacity to create inside jokes, usually in the form of hashtags whose origins require research. One such inside joke that neared the top of Twitter's "trending"...
View ArticleJohn Podhoretz Storms Off Stage at 92nd Street Y
Commentary editor and New York Post columnist John Podhoretz abruptly exited the stage Monday night at the 92nd Street Y, after becoming too incensed to continue a discussion about Israel. According...
View ArticleWhat To Read Today: Interview With Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti
If you only read one thing on the Internet today, this is it. And it will probably be all you have time to read, clocking in at the 91 minute mark according to Medium’s estimation. (But hey, if your...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Reviewing Benny Johnson's Work Following Plagiarism Charges
NEW YORK -- BuzzFeed is reviewing the work of viral politics editor Benny Johnson after acknowledging that "instances of plagiarism" were found in his writing. Two Twitter users, @blippoblappo and...
View ArticleMorning Chatter
Rocky radio interview “That moment when your son stumbles into the room during your radio interview. . . #franticgestures #silentscream” — the Washington Examiner‘s Charlie Spiering. A D.C. journo...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer Kind of Almost Cries on TV
This morning, during something like the 97th TV interview of his two-day-old campaign for comptroller, Eliot Spitzer was asked a question he had been asked probably 34 times or so already: What has...
View ArticleUm, Congrats? MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Exalts BuzzFeed Scribe For Being On Show
Wearing a cornflower blue vest that made us ask “Where’s Abu?,” BuzzFeed‘s Andrew Kaczynski appeared on...
View ArticleTwitter Has Meltdown Over Beyonce's Lip Syncing Scandal
After Monday's inauguration even President Obama was ready to hand over the keys to the democracy to Queen B. And then Lipsyncgate happened. The one and only Sasha Fierce lip-synced the Star Spangled...
View ArticleBen Carson Apologizes For Plagiarism, Says He's Working To 'Rectify The...
Dr. Ben Carson apologized Thursday for plagiarizing parts of his book America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great and said he's working with his editors to "rectify the situation."...
View ArticleFlorida Orange Juice/ Buzzfeed Funniest Meme Contest
Tweet 0 Email Report Photo 1 of 12 Florida Orange Juice has partnered with the social content website Buzzfeed to bring you the "Funniest of the Funny" Meme contest. One more finalist...
View ArticleBuzzFeed is Launching a Business Section
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that BuzzFeed is adding a business section to its wide array of offerings. Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of the...
View ArticleBowties, Bowling, and Bourbon for BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson
Photo cred: Mrs. Dayspring In celebration of BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson‘s 28th birthday, friends gathered for a surprise party yesterday at Pinstripes in...
View ArticleOhio Politics Now: Gov. John Kasich's budget to include $500 million tax cut
A look at what is happening in Ohio politics and policy today: Gov. John Kasich won’t roll out his two-year budget until Monday but he gave a sneak peek yesterday including a $500 million tax cut,...
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