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Chinese Newspapers Battle Over China Censors

AP | By DIDI TANG | Posted 03.05.2013 | Media

BEIJING (AP) — In a rare move, some Chinese journalists are openly confronting a top censor after a southern newspaper known for its edgy reporting ...

Elise Foley

Bill Kristol: 'It Won't Kill The Country If We Raise Taxes' On Millionaires

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Conservative commentator and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said Sunday the Republican Party should accept new ideas, including the...

Worse Than Losing: How Obama Changed the Media Narrative

Dan Kennedy | Posted 12.04.2012 | Media
Dan Kennedy

You're going to hear a lot of talk from President Obama's supporters today about why Romney's vastly superior performance didn't matter. Don't believe it. In fact, the first debate is going to matter a great deal in the days ahead.

Limbaugh: Video Is "Golden Opportunity" For Romney

The Huffington Post | Michael Calderone | Posted 09.18.2012 | Media

NEW YORK -- Rush Limbaugh advised Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to double down on his controversial remarks made at a closed-door fundra...

Michael Calderone

Paul Ryan's New Reality

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 08.16.2012 | Media

NEW YORK -- "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski had a message Wednesday for the Romney campaign: "Let Paul be Paul." The "Morning Joe" crew was ...

Michael Calderone

Bill Kristol: 'We Began to Break' Paul Ryan VP News

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 08.11.2012 | Media

NEW YORK -- On Thursday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and senior writer Stephen Hayes urged Mitt Romney to choose Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as h...

WATCH: The Cowardly Lions of 'Free Speech'

Bill Moyers | Posted 09.08.2012 | Politics
Bill Moyers

Conservatives across the country are fighting legal battles to keep their sugar daddies secret. Why? The right wing opposes disclosure laws because the super-rich just might be bullied and harassed by the rest of us who want to know who's buying our elections.

Dear Libertarians: Stop Being Nuts

Eli Lehrer | Posted 08.04.2012 | Politics
Eli Lehrer

Simply wishing that government would vanish is no substitute for figuring out how to run it. If libertarians want the fusionist alliance to keep going and the political right to remain in power, they're going to have to stop being nuts.

Jason Linkins

The Less Shocking Photo That The Weekly Standard Doesn't Want Its Readers To See! [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.14.2012 | Media

Back in the day, you could typically count on the Weekly Standard to produce long and complicated arguments designed to build the case for getting the...

Michael Calderone

Message To Young Conservatives: Pursue Journalism

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.13.2012 | Media

WASHINGTON -- While Republican candidates score points slamming the media from the stump, prominent conservatives, gathered in Washington D.C. for the...

Obama Sics Media On Romney

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.26.2012 | Media
Dan Kennedy

The media are having no problem decoding the not-so-secret message from last night. Obama wants us to know that Mitt Romney is what the president's new role model, Theodore Roosevelt, would have called a "malefactor of great wealth."

Grumpy Conservatives Survey Post-Iowa Scene

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2012 | Media
Dan Kennedy

The Pollyanna award goes to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, who thinks caucus-goers did themselves proud last night. "Presented with the weakest presidential field of any major party in a generation," he writes, "they made the best of a bad situation."

PolitiFact and the Limits of Fact-Checking

Dan Kennedy | Posted 02.12.2012 | Media
Dan Kennedy

Perhaps the biggest lie of all is that fact-checking can act as some sort of short-cut to the truth.

Sam Stein

DNC Whacks The Weekly Standard

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.06.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Weekly Standard put up a blog post on Thursday questioning why, at a time when the White House was pushing for humility following Os...

Conservatives Ignore Their Own Recent Views of Gaddafi

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jackson Williams

Let's by God hear it for cowboy decision-making! We've taken over Iraq, and already we're scaring other Muslim potentates into submission. It's that easy.

It's The Overused Headline, Stupid

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Danny Groner

"It's the economy, stupid" is a phrase that has lived on longer than anyone would have expected.

Gaffemaster Steele's Greatest Gaffe (So Far)

Michele Langevine Leiby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michele Langevine Leiby

William Kristol has finally said what we've all been thinking but were either too indulgent or PC to say: Michael Steele must go.

Conservative Magazines Thriving Under Obama While Liberal Magazines Suffer

Vanity Fair | Matt Pressman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

What about the conservative magazines? The most prominent and biggest-selling, The National Review, definitely seemed to experience an Obama-hatred bu...

Another Assault on the SOLE Food Movement

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kurt Michael Friese

Causing no end of difficulties in our national discourse is the steadfast belief held by both the right and the left that everything is either right o...

The Right Goes for Another Round of Latina Bashing

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Mario Solis-Marich

Republican Senators not tired of Latina bashing have set their sights on Obama's nominee for Ambassador to El Salvador -- Mari Del Carmen Aponte.

Conservatives ... You Can't Handle the CBO!

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Bill Scher

Conservatives are straining to claim that the plain English version of the Baucus bill is completely meaningless. Which is, of course, all nonsense.

Searching for a Minyan: Our Response to Being Censored by J Street

Kevin Coval | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Kevin Coval

Some right-wing blogs and pseudo-news organizations have churned the alarmist rumor mill about the J Street conference. What is disappointing, and troubling, is J Street's response: caving.

How Does it Feel to be Praised by Bill Kristol for Critiquing Corporatism in the Democratic Party?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Miles Mogulescu

In our roles as objective political analysts, Kristol and I foresee the same results from a corporatist-dominated Democratic Party. Of course as political partisans, Kristol sees it with glee and I see it with dread.

The Rio Games -- And Those GOP Games

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rick Horowitz

Why was the GOP so elated with Chicago's Olympic failure? Was it the joy in avoiding the inevitable cost overruns? The security concerns? Or was it enough that Obama had failed?

Dem Staffer Apologizes For Shoving Weekly Standard Reporter

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

As you may have heard, a Dem staffer helping the Martha Coakley campaign was caught on video shoving a Weekly Standard reporter in Massachusetts, prom...