Washington Times Shake-Ups Connected To New President's Book Review?
Given today's big management changes and still-unanswered questions about whether executive editor John Solomon will stay at the paper, there are a lo...
Given today's big management changes and still-unanswered questions about whether executive editor John Solomon will stay at the paper, there are a lo...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Three top executives are out at the conservative Washington Times, and the newspaper's editor remains in limbo. The company announced Monday that the...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
The conservative movement has become a mindless mob, and the right-wing media, more and more often, are sending their overeager foot soldiers out on seek-and-destroy missions involving private citizens.
Time | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
There they go again. Now that the "death panel" lie has snookered nearly half the country, the Washington Times is going for the other half in an edit...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Cantor and I talked about how Republicans would behave, and I asked if it would be like a State of the Union when they sit on their hands or hiss for parts they don't agree with.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Biden made a renewed health care push, asking supporters to join the White House to debunk rumors and imploring Americans to send in their personal stories to showcase the need for reform.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
In pulling together notes for my Ted Kennedy story, I found these two videos I captured at the Kennedy endorsement speech on Jan. 28, 2008.
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
The Washington Times ran an admirable piece about the post-Katrina mental health mess, yet there is a remarkable lapse: a failure to explain why the disaster happened, why the city was inundated.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment
This weekend, Robert Green slept in his own home in the Lower 9th Ward for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flattened his neighborhood and killed his mother and infant granddaughter.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
File this under "You can't make this stuff up": a 13-month old joke about health care resurfaced today when President Obama held a town hall meeting in Raleigh.
Karl Frisch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
It's clear the conservative press has little interest in ascertaining the veracity of right-wing smears against Sotomayor before advancing them.
David Fiderer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Only a tiny percentage of millionaires would ever pay a significant dollar amount for the tax surcharge associated with health care reform. To obscure this obvious truth, David Brooks has launched a series of deceptions.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
In a first that should be noted in the presidential archives, the White House on Friday used the Twitter feed to announce to more than 726,000 followers that Obama is holding a press conference Wednesday night.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
From making March Madness bracket picks in the White House Map Room to thanking Russians for Washington Capitals hockey star Alex Ovechkin, Obama is embracing his role as America's No. 1 sports fan.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Keying off the furor over chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's Wall Street Journal remarks on health care that I blogged about earlier, MoveOn is activating its 3.2 million membership list.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
Do you know how many people read The Weekly Standard? 80,000. To put it bluntly, that's pathetic. Its main purpose is to spread Republican propaganda in the guise of news.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
The trip abroad with President Obama was a bit of a whirlwind. Here are photos from the trip, along with original video that offes a glimpse into what it's like traveling with Obama abroad.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com DRESDEN, GERMANY -- The whirlwind tour continues here Friday as President Obama sees Buchenwald concent...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Aides told us reporters traveling with Obama that the speech tomorrow in Cairo will last between 40 and 45 minutes. They also announced an unprecedented social networking blitz to engage the Muslim world.
Karl Frisch | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
The Right's reaction to Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment shows that numerous conservatives in the media have savaged her as a racist and a bigot.
Terry Krepel | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media
Levin's book could be called old wine in new bottles, but since Levin resorts to the same old misinformation to sell his brand of conservatism, the bottles aren't all that new either.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media
The Washington Times juxtaposition of the Obama girls with crime and violence dumped back on the table the sensitive, troubling, and polarizing issue of racial stereotyping.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media
We knew President Obama was a big sports fan, but he broadcast that to the world today when the White House video live stream played nearly 10 minutes of ESPN programming.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media
On Wednesday, a story featured on the Washington Times website about murdered Chicago schoolchildren was inexplicably paired with a photo of President...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
The most eye-opening event that unfolded in the wake of Specter's move was the completely new way in which the Senator got treated by the Republican Noise Machine.
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books