The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives access to the Obama administration and its own staff in exchange for cold, hard cash, reports Politico’s Mike Allen.
Politico obtained a WaPo flyer that was sent to a health-care lobbyist, who then “provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict [...]

Reading Todd Purdum’s explosive story on Gov. Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair, I’m struck by this section:
Sarah Palin is a star in Evansville and all the many Evansvilles of America, but there is a big part of the Republican Party—the Wall Street wing, the national-security wing—in which she cuts no ice. At the 2009 Conservative [...]

The MSM continues to trash the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney for asking President Obama a so-called “staged” question from an Iranian. (Note: it wasn’t staged.)
The Washington Post’s spectacular blowhard Dana Milbank made a fuss over the question yesterday in his typical pompous fashion, once again confusing fancy verbiage with accurate reporting.
The New York Times’ Kate [...]

The Gerald Walpin story continues to hang around.
Redstate leads off with this dubious claim: “Others on this site and elsewhere have done a marvelous job of exposing the fact that Obama almost certainly broke the law in his dismissal of Gerald Walpin (and perhaps other IGs).” I’ve explained multiples times that Obama fully complied with [...]

Today on Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough once again took issue with CIA Director Leon Panetta’s assertion that Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s terror policy is playing “gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
Scarborough [...]

After calling the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary a statistical dead heat, Ed Schultz proclaimed that he told relatives in Virginia to support former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe already has been endorsed by Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
While no other candidate has received an endorsement from MSNBC, it should be noted [...]

Amidst the smothering coverage of President Obama’s speech in Cairo, there was a very fiery exchange between MSNBC host Tamron Hall and Republican strategist Alex Conant.
During a conversation about radio host and de facto GOP leader Rush Limbaugh’s comments comparing President Obama to Al-Qaeda, Alex begins reminiscing about Limbaugh’s challenge to MSNBC to not [...]

The Politico’s Josh Gerstein is a solid reporter. I give him credit for being the first journalist to combat the conventional wisdom surrounding CIA Director Leon Panetta’s response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the agency had misled her.
But Gerstein’s story today, currently featured on Politico’s homepage, just starts off on the wrong foot:
“In [...]

Washington Post resident conservative Charles Krauthammer just decked Charles Krauthammer. In today’s Washington Post, Krauthammer wrote that Senate Republicans should criticize and then confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
“What should a principled conservative do? Use the upcoming hearings not to deny her the seat, but to illuminate her views. No magazine gossip from anonymous court [...]

Jesse Watters, the same Bill O’Reilly producer who stalked Think Progress blogger Amanda Terkel, has set a new personal low: infiltrating a GE meeting and and criticizing MSNBC without identifying himself as a FOX employee.