Breitbart.com's feeble rationalization for its leering coverage of a trip taken by the Obama daughters shouldn't surprise anyone. It's by Matthew Boyle, the Murrow-wannabe at the center of nearly every recent embarrassment in the conservative media.
The Washington Post is reporting that the man who reportedly paid women to accuse Senator Robert Menendez of prostitution says he was hired by the conservative political outlet that reported the news. Prompting this unprecedented statement: We must rise in defense of the Daily Caller.
Politico goes long this morning with a report finding that Salomon Melgen, the ophthalmologist and political donor who may have received favors from Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, also donated to other politicians! According to the Daily Caller, this is big news.
A federal grand jury has been convened to examine the relationship between the New Jersey senator and a Florida doctor in an episode which may end up doing as much damage to the reputation of the senator as to the conservative website that attacked him.
Turns out the Daily Caller landing its story on Senator Robert Menendez may have had less to do with dogged reporting than the ability to ignore what now at least three other media outlets that passed on the story say they could not: credibility problems.
Seen that "80 percent of New York high school graduates can't read" headline? The prospect of a failed liberal metropolis is tempting, but it's also wrong.
On Wednesday, Media Matters' Simon Maloy noticed another stunning Tucker Carlson contradiction: the Daily Caller founder once adamantly opposed reporting on senators and prostitutes.
Should we care that the former actress and potential Senate candidate performed nude in several Hollywood films at the peak of her career in the 1990s? Here's the latest over-the-top controversy of a Kentucky race with no shortage of drama.
Even with a juicy new story line developing over health-care fraud, conservative media outlets remain fixated on Menendez's alleged cavorting with Dominican prostitutes on a Florida optometrist's dime.
Tucker Carlson's website The Daily Caller is taking a shot at the October Surprise game, accusing New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez of soliciting prostitutes while on a trip to the Dominican Republic.
Right-leaning politics site The Daily Caller rarely shies away from publishing risqué photographs (see: "Obama's hottest celebrity donors"), but this morning the site's homepage ventured into new territory: Hardcore porn.
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