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Rightbloggers Work on the Nixonization of Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread nationally and internationally, making it hard for even the American media to belittle it. This reality seems to have caught up to the rightbloggers who, as we saw a few weeks back, were at first eager to dismiss the phenomenon as a silly hippie effusion ... More >>

Prince William and Duchess Kate Adopt Baby Penguin

​Prince William And Duchess Kate (née Middleton) are the perfect picture of romance right now. Their wedding went off without a hitch, the frenzy around them has died down, and they've gone back to normal royal lives. But they're already adding a third member to their family; no, Kate's not p ... More >>

A Potential Article For the Tea Party Magazine

My, What a Teeny Hat That Patriot Is Wearing​The official Tea Party magazine, the Tea Party Review, is set to be released next week. They recently announced some of the stories they will be running, including "Obama's War on the First Amendment... and the Rest of the Constitution" and "The Lef ... More >>

In the Footprint's Hoop Schemes

The Civilians charge into the Atlantic Yards project

Acorn's Long Rise and Fast Fall

The GOP's other election victory

This Week in the Voice: Shock The Junkie with Ibogaine Ingestion

​It's common knowledge that kicking a capital-H Habit isn't the most pleasant experience, to say the least. But what if there were a cure for drug addiction out there that only comes with one side effect, that of intense hallucinations? For this week's Village Voice cover story, join Keegan Ha ... More >>

James O'Keefe: His Lubed-Up Present, His Hanky-Pranky Past

O'Keefe and our favorite pus-bucket​James O'Keefe has had quite a week, even apart from being Subject A in our psychological case study, "White America Has Lost Its Mind." CNN announced that O'Keefe planned to seduce reporter Abby Boudreau -- on a boat full of dildos, mirrors, and lube, no les ... More >>

White America Has Lost Its Mind

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

ACORN Shuts Down, Offering "Gimmie" of Schadenfreude to Today's Angriest People

​Cue any number of "...Drops" or "...Falls Off"-related headlines by bloggers and reporters trying to leave the office as quickly as they can.

NY Times: We Got the ACORN Story Wrong, Considering Correction

​New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt said in a column published online yesterday that it was "easy to see" why the Times described conservative merry prankster James O'Keefe going into the offices ACORN dressed in the "dressed so outlandishly that he might have been playing in a risqué hi ... More >>

ACORN Committed No Crime: Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes

​Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has determined that the ACORN Brooklyn office broke no laws when it was caught in James O'Keefe's sting operation last year. In a statement, Hynes says, "On September 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of ... More >>

Which Best Picture Oscar Nominees Wouldn't Have Made It Under the Old Rules?

​ 10! 10! 10! What happens when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences radically shakes things up, nominating not five but TEN films for best picture? A Sandra Bullock movie makes the list. So: Which five of the ten are the real nominees, and which are just padding? Let's make an u ... More >>

Michael Musto's Year (and Decade) in Review!

Gaga for Google and every twittle thing that made the Aughts fraught with fakery and fun

Freddy's Bar, Threatened by Atlantic Yards, Executes Dummy with Beer Cans, Vows Resistance

Mayor Bloomberg remains bullish, or should we say Nettish, on the Atlantic Yards project: "While the rest of the country wrings its hands about the national recession," he says, "we're building our way out of it." The patrons of Freddy's Bar, who last week showed resistance to their impending evic ... More >>

Congressional Research Service Says ACORN Didn't Break the Law, But James O'Keefe May Have

​A report from the Congressional Research Service, released by House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, states that the beleaguered community service group ACORN has at no point "violated the terms of federal funding in the last five years." An internal investigator hired by ACORN cleared the gr ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart Responds to Our Coverage (and the Whole, Rotten MSM's) of the ACORN Story

Image (cc) shalf. Andrew Breitbart of Big Government, the web site that ran the ACORN pimp/prostitute videos, leading to the investigation that cleared ACORN of illegal activity in the events there recorded, didn't like our item on the investigators' report yesterday. But then, he doesn't like mu ... More >>

The Best Fake Twitter Accounts: Fake Rahm Emanuel, Fake Christopher Walken, Fake AP Stylebook, and More

There are currently more than 120 Joe Jonases, at least 45 George Bushes, and exactly 13 Octomoms on Twitter. And while fake social networking profiles have been around since the dark ages of Friendster, the newest crop of Fakesters have embraced the most massive venue for Internet oversharers, th ... More >>

Report Clears ACORN; Pimp & Hooker Tapes "Edited," Used "Substitute Voiceover"

​You may recall the ACORN video scandal, whereby agents of Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site went out dressed as a prostitute and a pimp to con ACORN employees of into giving them advice on how to launder their illicit earnings for tax purposes, and taped the proceedings. This led to mass ... More >>

This Week in Conservatism: Obama/ACORN Stole Election, Lou Dobbs for Prez, Etc.

To review, here's what the American conservative movement is up to these days: • A Public Policy Polling survey showed by that most Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Only 27 percent of them believe Obama won it fair and square, and opposed to 62 percent of Americans ... More >>

Doug Hoffman Loses in NY-23, Again

Well, it looks as if Doug Hoffman, who this week unconceded the apparently settled NY-23 Congressional race when he gained votes on a recanvass, and then charged that ACORN was trying to steal it from him, has failed again. The Watertown Daily Times says the Board of Elections has counted enough ab ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Kristen Stewart, New Moon premiere. Twitpic via KriisStewart_. Our Man of the Week is Rudolph Giuliani. He started off with confused but belligerent comments about the KSM trial, making him look like a candidate for something. Then word leaked that he would not run for Governor, then that ... More >>

Hoffman Email Blames ACORN for Low Vote Tallies, Begs for Rightwing Bucks

​As Doug Hoffman has little chance, despite his late gains, of reversing the apparent outcome of the NY-23 election that put Bill Owens in Congress instead of him, what reason could he have for dramatically "unconceding" the race this week? We found out via our inbox this morning -- money! T ... More >>

#acornfacts Becomes Thing, But Cannot Replace Semi-Nudity

​So this is how those "meme" things get started: reporter Dave Weigel, responding to some recent ACORNmania, tweets (with a tip of the hat to the Stonecutters and Steve Guttenberg), "FACT: ACORN rigged the 1993 Oscars for Marisa Tomei. #acornfacts." Then, a few more. Suddenly it's an avalanch ... More >>

Election Day 2009: 6 Losers to Watch!

It's Election Day and, this being New York, no surprises are expected. As Runnin' Scared has no influence to peddle, we can afford to be brutally honest about this. The Mayor's reelection is treated as a foregone conclusion and, down-ticket, the Democrats are expected to romp (except in Staten Islan ... More >>

Christie Wins

The folks at NJN News are taking an exceedingly, exit-poll-informed pro-Christie view, so in the spirit of the evening let's just call -- oops, we're informed by our boss (Gene Evans in Park Row) that they're calling Jersey for Chris Christie. That's odd, NewsMax just told us that ACORN was "gearin ... More >>

Rightbloggers Get a Scalp, and Perhaps a Party, in NY-23

On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first. Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and ... More >>

Anti-WFP Suit Charges Debi Rose Didn't Pay Enough for Services (or At Least Not Fast Enough) [Updated]

(Update: Dan Levitan of WFP has something to say about the "discounts," below the fold.) We've mentioned Data and Field Services, the election support outfit that was criticized by the Campaign Finance Board for giving discounts -- essentially in-kind contributions -- to Working Families Party candi ... More >>

GOP Public Advocate Candidate Does ACORN Joke, Gets Press

Since his run-off victory, Democratic public advocate nominee Bill de Blasio has been taking it slow and cautious, as may be wise in a race where Democrats are heavily favored. But his Republican challenger Alex Zablocki (pictured) isn't lying down for him. Zablocki, not a me-too party hack but a Te ... More >>

Bloomberg Pulls Gun Show Sting; "No Fair," Say ACORN Sting Fans

Mayor Bloomberg brought his nannying touch to gun shows around Ohio, Nevada and Tennessee, where he found guns being sold to buyers -- or, rather, undercover agents pretending to be buyers -- who admit they probably couldn't pass a legally-required background check, which is sort of like a kid go ... More >>

Merry Pranksters in The Yes Men Fix the World, Plus (the Not-So-Merry) Bronson

The Acorn Tapes

Jerry Nadler, the nine-term congressman from Manhattan's West Side, stands up for the Constitution

Election Night: At de Blasio Party, Shock, Then Euphoria

Over at his victory party in Dumbo, Bill de Blasio seemed shocked that he managed to get himself into a runoff for the office of Public Advocate with veteran candidate Mark Green. "This is a wonderful result -- amazing!" de Blasio said between hugs. "You kind of just get used to assuming it's not go ... More >>

Bloomberg and the Teachers' Union

It's (almost) summertime, and the Mayor's campaigning is easy. So easy, he can roll over the union this time—and should.

Rightbloggers Hold a Sparsely-Attended Tea Party

Rightbloggers had a big project last week: A series of "tea parties" across the country to protest Obama and his stimulus bill, inspired by comments by CNBC's Rick Santelli (and, it has been suggested, by some rightwing pressure groups). The results were not a great success, at least in the ob ... More >>

The Sheekey Diaries

The daily schedules of Kevin Sheekey, deputy mayor for Bloombergian political ambitions, have been posted courtesy of a FOIL request and a good deed by Azi Paybarah, the NY Observer/PolitickerNY's indefatigable political watchdog. In addition to Paybarah's shrewd observations (he notes, for instance ... More >>

'Dr. Evil' takes on ACORN

Obama, McCain Tell Lame Jokes at Al Smith Dinner

Brooklyn's Captain Nemo

Famously busted for his Revolution-era sub, artist/mariner Duke Riley returns at Magnan Projects

Letters

Billionaire Buys Union

But big bucks Mike gives the tab to taxpayers

The Battle of Brooklyn

Grassroots groups split on whether arena plan scores for borough

Empty Promises

Housing Activists Say the City Wastes Its Vacant Lots

Loan Wolves

Congress Preys on Local Subprime-Lending Protections

Interstate Raid

Megabank Moves In on SRO Tenants; Residents Protest at Ebbets Field

Sports

This Used to Be My Playground

Giuliani’s Plans for a Parade Grounds Ballpark Leave Kids Out in the Cold

Wooten for the Wrong Team

Councilmember quashes hopes for housing

Finally, a Progressive Party

Working families party forges a left-liberal coalition

Rudy's Inner Child

The Mayor's Temper Costs ACORN Contract