The implied insinuation of conservative media outlets is that a simple question in an online application for the Affordable Care Act is a backdoor effort by the administration to encourage people to register to vote. Which is partially right, but not unfamiliar.
The credibility of The Daily Caller's report that New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez had sex with prostitutes during a junket in the Domincan Republic took yet another blow on Monday afternoon as The Associated Press reported that police in the Dominican Republic have determined that an attorney named Melanio Figueroa paid three women a couple hundred dollars each to make the claims on camera.
The Daily Caller claims that The Washington Post screwed up its report debunking their report about Senator Bob Menendez and Dominican prostitutes, but their defense isn't much more solid than the original story.
But does a muckraking conservative journalist get it right? So far, all the evidence that's emerged on this supposed scandal is inconclusive, misdirecting, or simply unrelated to the allegations at hand. Let's take a look at what Robert Menendez has to answer for, and whether he should be worried.
Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller has gone full-McCarthy in its coverage of a "special report" by Americans for Limited Government about an Obama nominee sending her children to a summer camp which was started in 1923 by leftist New York City Jews.
We know Mitt Romney loves to play pranks, and in yet another fun story about the candidate's teen years, The Daily Caller's Hal Libby tells us learn that he once impersonated a fireman, a story solidifies our sense that even as a mischief-maker, Romney is a square.
Periodically in every presidency, a mere mortal interrupts the president at a public event, giving voice to the relatively powerless people who don't like him.
Did you watch the president's address on his new immigration policy? Did you see the part where he yelled at someone for interrupting? Turns out that someone was The Daily Caller's Neil Munro.
There's no way this could ever go wrong: The Daily Caller plans to give away a gun a week until election day.
A look at visitor logs from The White House has MSNBC's star being cleared to enter The White House seven times and meeting with Obama face-to-face three of those times--a number on par with King Abdullah of Jordan.
Rick Santorum's nephew, 19-year-old University of Pittsburgh student John Garver, wrote an op-ed in the Daily Caller today urging readers to vote for, who else, Ron Paul.
Van Susteren calls Carlson a 'pig' and attacks his website after a NSFW Palin story runs
The Daily Caller claims a New York Times reporter helped The White House
Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas continues her move into politics
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