By Kat Stoeffel 6/22/12 9:15am

Liberal Media

Politico Reporter Suspended After Acknowledging Race on TV

Politico White House correspondent Joe Williams was suspended over remarks he made on MSNBC last night, according to Politico.

Discussing why Mitt Romney appears so frequently on the Fox News program Fox and Friends—the subject of a New York Times story yesterday—on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, Mr. Williams said that Governor Romney is comfortable with people who are like him.

“They’re like him,” he said. “They’re white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.” Read More

By Kat Stoeffel and Hunter Walker 3/01/12 10:00am

RIP

Andrew Breitbart (Photo: Facebook)

Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

Online publisher and conservative media activist Andrew Breitbart died shortly after midnight at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed. He passed “unexpectedly from natural causes,” according to one of his websites, BigJournalism.com. He was 43. Read More

By Drew Grant 1/02/12 4:57pm

Mediaite

Managing Editor Colby Hall Leaves Mediaite on a Non-Masturbatory Note

Disclaimer: Sorry, I used to write for Mediaite.

Colby Hall– the managing editor of Dan Abrams’ (Dan Abrams!) media site that is so un-navel-gazey that it put “Media” in its name and created a baffling metric ranking for “powerful” people in New York to judge their own placement in the incestuous workplace strata– is leaving for greener pastures at Clear Channel. But before he goes, he wants you to know one thing about Mediaite’s success. Well, actually there’s several things he wants you to know, and he’s put them all in a post titled “Lessons From Nearly Three Years In the Belly Of the Mediaite Beast.“ Read More

By The Editors 6/07/11 11:51pm

Opening Shot

Rep. Anthony Weiner Admits To Tweeting Lewd Photo, Lying

Photo Finish: Bratty Breitbart Bogarts Weiner Fest

So, Monday was fun. Not only did we learn that embattled amateur underwear model and unwavering mayoral aspirant Anthony Weiner really did tweet that infamous crotch shot to Gennette Cordova, in addition to numerous other indiscretions conducted over social media (we couldn’t resist imagining how a certain member of–well, Mr. Weiner’s person–may have felt about the whole affair), but we also learned that Andrew Breitbart has no qualms about creating new photo ops for himself. Read More