Political blogger Ben Smith's career is a series of progressively wackier job moves. He was at the NY Daily News, covering state politics, and was more respected than the average tabloid writer. He moved to THE POLITICO, where he's been blogging about politics and media for the past five years, managing to stay more…
In a brand-new blockbuster ad—titled "High Tech Lynching," in a nod to legendary American victim-of-libruls Clarence Thomas—supporters of Ann Coulter Academy of Superior Blackness graduate Herman Cain rail against all the imaginary sexual harassment allegations their man has been facing in the wake of lying …
At long last, little local DC trade newspaper Politico has its very own Jayson Blair-type uproar! Short version: Politico reporter Kendra Marr was apparently a serial plagiarist.
In your most-beautiful-day-of-the-year Tuesday media column: Don Lemon's for sale, The Politico will not stop succeeding, Tina Brown will not stop showing out, Slate spinoff suggested, and Mediaite locates America's most meaningless story.
It's beyond all comprehension that a professional event planner in Washington, D.C. would offer seven minutes of freestyle standup comedy time, as the official entertainment for a black-tie banquet, to Arizona Rep. Ben Quayle, son of the former vice president and penman of Scottsdale's richest pornographic tales.…
Barack Obama went to church on Sunday. This must mean something. What does this mean? The Politico newspaper explains what this means.
MSNBC, just to put itself on the record as "consistent," has suspended Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough for the same reason it suspended Keith Olbermann: Political donations without advance approval. Interestingly, Politico, where Scarborough writes a column, instigated the suspension.
The president and both parties' leaders were supposed to meet at the White House on Thursday night for a "summit," where they would fight each other to the death, with the winner becoming Emperor. So which scaredy cats backed out?
Politico and NBC News will co-host the first 2012 Republican debate, at party overlord Ronald Reagan's presidential library.
Former President George W. Bush's interview with Matt Lauer airs on NBC tomorrow night, but tonight's Nightly News gave us a tech/gossip-focused preview. Apparently, Bush has an iPad—he likes to read gossip on it! Find out what inside.
MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann because he donated to candidates' campaigns. Uh, so did Joe Scarborough. Alabama campaign finance records show he made a $5,000 donation to an Alabama state legislative candidate. Scarborough claims it was his wife's donation.
Politico's co-founder John F. Harris and senior editor Jonathan Martin have penned a lucid and reasoned Election Day lament cataloging all the horrible ways that they, themselves, personally, through their publication Politico, have disfigured American political journalism. Apology accepted, guys!
2012 presidential gossip has already driven Sarah Palin into an awesome state of sarcastic fury, hours after Politico wrote — with help from anonymous operatives — that the GOP Establishment wants to destroy her. She really didn't like that article.
In your vacuous Tuesday media column: the Juan Williams brigade pipes up, Politico launches a paid news operation, Katie Couric might stay at CBS, and Rupert Murdoch's war against Hollywood PR firms.
Lady Gaga ran into a Politico reporter at a restaurant in the East Village. She signed a copy of the paper "Repeal DADT," but—wait—what is the word preceding those ones? That doesn't say "Cenate," does it? Updated!
In your celebratory Wednesday media column: newspapers still find admirers, Michael Lewis' J-school turnaround, the NYT's a popular target of politicos, Christine O'Donnell gives up on national media, and John Cook's back.
Barack Obama didn't fuck up or produce a controversial "YouTube moment" during his press conference today, so here's what Politico has settled for instead: he wasn't wearing his wedding ring. Why does Barack Obama obviously hate his wife? [Image: AP]
CNN isn't the only outlet looking to replicate the sexual tension-driven success of MSNBC's Morning Joe! Politico will run weekly columns by host Joe Scarborough, with Slate founder Michael Kinsley providing the Sam-and-Diane will-they-or-won't-they suspense in lieu of Mika Brzezinski.
Politico, the Beltway's go-to sociopath news outlet, has weighed all of Barack Obama's "options" for 9/11 this year and finds "few" good ones. There are apparently some grave political risks for Obama on 9/11 if he doesn't mourn properly.
Politico reporter Mike Allen, whose hot-about-town Washington status was recently confirmed via an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine profile, has a dream. It's that Republicans win nine Senate seats this November, making politics more fun for reporters!
