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Published: 02/7/11

Arianna Huffington Joins Forces With AOL: Reactions From Around the Web

By Steven Hoffer - AOL News

Looks like we answer to Arianna Huffington now. The media universe awoke this morning to the news that AOL (our company) CEO Tim Armstrong has worked out a deal to acquire The Huffington Post for $315 million. Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post's co-founder and driving force, will enter the newly formed Huffington Post Media Group as editor-in-chief, overseeing content on AOL properties ranging from recent AOL acquisition TechCrunch to Moviefone and local journalism start-up Patch. Surge Desk rounds up a few instant reactions to the big deal. All Things Digital's Peter Kafka is a ...

Published: 01/6/11

NPR Exec Resigns Over Juan Williams Firing [STATEMENT]

By Steven Hoffer - AOL News

A senior executive responsible for Juan Williams' departure from NPR has resigned, according to a statement from the company. Senior Vice President for News Ellen Weiss, who started working at NPR in 1982, stepped down today following an independent review of the Williams' firing that expressed concern over the way NPR handled the political commentator's dismissal. Nathan Bilow, AP NPR executive Ellen Weiss, shown in Crested Butte, Colo., on July 14, stepped down Thursday following an independent review of the firing of commentator Juan Williams in October. Williams was fired as ...

Published: 05/22/09

Conservative Radio Host Mancow vs Waterboard: H2 Oh, Lord, Please Stop

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

According to NBC Washington, conservative radio host Mancow (nee Erich Muller) put his money where Sean Hannity's mouth is, agreeing to be waterboarded, hoping to prove the technique isn't torture:Mancow decided to tackle the divisive issue head on -- actually it was head down, while restrained and reclining. "I want to find out if it's torture," Mancow told his listeners Friday morning, adding that he hoped his on-air test would help prove that waterboarding did not, in fact, constitute torture.According to the man administering the waterboard, the average person lasts 14 seconds. Place your ...

Published: 05/18/09

Chris Hitchens Has More Advice for 'Black Dyke' Wanda Sykes

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

Author and uber-contrarian Christopher Hitchens couldn't leave well enough alone when it came to his offensive and bigoted assessment of Wanda Sykes' performance at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. While some folks cut him slack by surmising that he was probably drunk when he called Sykes "the black dyke," Hitchens "cleverly" wants us all to know he meant it by referring to her twice as "the sable Sapphist" in an article at Slate. Funny stuff, you fornicating little pink star.As if that wasn't insulting enough, the premise of Hitchens' piece was to school Wanda, and any other ...

Published: 05/18/09

New York Times Defends Maureen Dowd on Plagiarism Charge

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

As David Knowles wrote earlier, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is under fire for a passage in her op-ed piece that is a near-identical copy of one from TPM's Josh Marshall.Now, Politico reports that the New York Times has issued them a statement defending Dowd:...I put the question of whether this is common practice for columnists before Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, who passed me along to PR. But now I've now received a statement supporting Dowd from spokesperson Diane McNulty. Maureen had us correct the column online as soon as the error was brought to her attention, ...

Published: 05/12/09

Where is Right's Outrage Over Hitchens 'Black Dyke' Wanda Sykes Comment?

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

I was perfectly happy to say that Wanda Sykes told a tasteless, even reprehensible joke at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, and be done with it. She's a stand-up comic known for pushing the boundaries, and she slipped up.But after listening to crap from the right about this all night, acting like this is the worst thing to happen since, well, Election Day, I can't take it anymore. Literary puke Christopher Hitchens leveled a vile, hateful attack against Sykes that wasn't meant to be a joke:"The president should be squirming in his seat. Not smiling," he said. "The black dyke ...

Published: 05/8/09

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Uninvites Joe the Plumber From Around Her

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

It's a new weapon in the war of words, but Elisabeth Hasselbeck has rescinded any and all RSVPs, within her personal radius, from Joe the Plumber. The provocation for this most grievous penalty? Joe's remarks about "the queers":What will happen next? Will Joe ...

Published: 05/5/09

Michael Savage Banned From Entering UK

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

According to a list released by the British government, rabid right-wing radio host Michael Savage has been banned from entering the United Kingdom, along with several other undesirables: Hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far right US talk show host are among a "named and shamed" list of people banned by the Home Office from entering the UK, it was revealed today. Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October for fostering extremism so others could better understand the behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate. US ...

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Published: 04/22/09

HuffPo Outs Misleading ABC Clean Coal Story...That HuffPo is Running

By Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily

Update: This story has officially eaten itself. Nelson's piece singles out Hot Air as a site that would hype ABC's story to create trouble for President Obama. Hot Air has now updated it's clean coal story to include this debunking. Good job, Captain Ed.This is both excellent, and shoddy, work by The Huffington Post, to correct a misleading story that ABC News is running, but that Huffington Post is also running. They are sort of calling themselves out. Here's the excellent part, by Josh Nelson:ABC News ran a story Tuesday evening that immediately raised some eyebrows in environmental circles. ...