George Soros

The Wall Street Journal Ran 20 Op-Eds Without Disclosing The Authors' Ties To Romney

BREAKING: A lot of the people who write op-ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal are in the tank for Mitt Romney. That information might not come as a shock to anyone possessed of basic media literacy. But a report released today documents 20 different instances in which the Journal ran columns by ... More >>

Meet the Breitbrats: Carrying on the Work of Andrew Breitbart, Only Really, Really Badly

When Andrew Breitbart died at the absurdly young age of 43, rightbloggers were sad -- and also mad at liberals, whom some of them blamed for the rageaholic activist's death. After a period of mourning, they decided that the best tribute to their fallen leader would be to follow his example, i.e., ... More >>

Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

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 >>

Right-Wing Sites Succumb To Silly Occupy Wall Street Conspiracies

A wave of reports "exposing" the secret liberal money behind the Wall Street occupation has been cresting over the right-wing blogosphere, which has been at a loss to explain how a movement of dumb dirty hippies has managed to build up attention and support rather than explode or fade away. The answ ... More >>

NYPD Arrests Lou Reed's Manager, Tom Sarig, For Threatening Headhunter

​Police have actually arrested rock icon Lou Reed's manager for allegedly threatening to send Israeli hit men to go after a headhunter for the stars in a nasty squabble over an unpaid bill. In a complaint filed two weeks ago with the Midtown North Detective Squad, as the Voice first reported, ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing their part, too. They're using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, glob ... More >>

WikiLeaks Responds to Claims of 'Jewish Conspiracy' From Julian Assange

​Julian Assange, according to the sometimes-satirical British current affairs publication Private Eye, had an angry phone conversation with an editor at the magazine, claiming a conspiracy at the hands of journalists and editors from the Guardian, "all of whom 'are Jewish.'" After some argumen ... More >>

Rightbloggers Welcome Gay, Muslim Diversity at CPAC -- But Not Too Much

The 2011 Conservative Political Action Cnference (CPAC), held last week, was in some respects like the previous year's: For example, everyone loved that the place was full of young people, until the kids gave libertarian Ron Paul their straw poll vote. There were some changes, though. Perhaps hopi ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Is the Second Most Philanthropic American

​This year our own New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave away $279.2 million in charitable donations to 970 nonprofit groups, more than two-thirds of which were in New York. This beats the $254 million he donated last year. (Each year he gives away a bit more.) In doing so, Bloomberg moves f ... More >>

Press Clips: RELEASE THE IACRACKEN! (or: Newsweek/Daily Beast Merger Rumored, Again)

​ARISE, DAILY NEWS BEAST OF THE WEEK! Press Clips, Day 20, I'm Somehow Writing About The Observer Again edition, right here:

Free Will Astrology: November 11 through 17

Rightbloggers Defend Rush with an NFL Boycott; Are Beer, Buffalo Wings Next?

The National Football League has a large millionaire population which predictably contributes overwhelmingly to Republicans over Democrats. Yet this week we learned from rightbloggers that the NFL is in fact a wing of the liberal conspiracy. Early this month Rush Limbaugh and Dave Checketts coll ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic via kbell7. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people -- whoops, sorry, wrong diary. Our week was much worse. DC37 went for Bill Thompson. But what did Mayor Bloomberg care -- he had Twitter ... More >>

Evil George Soros Gives $35 Million to New York Schoolchildren

​Conservatives have become very interested lately in George Soros' finances, as $5 million of them have been pledged to sponsor advertising in favor of health care reform (or, as Born Again Redneck calls it, "ObamugabeCare"). Soros may have decided to take advantage of the attention, and has ... More >>

Bloomberg Tweets!

​ As you can see, he's a twittering mayor for all the people. Though his twitter feed is usually written by campaign operatives, with such breathless dispatches as "@corybooker praises Mike's leadership on Meet the Press today. Video of Mayor Booker endorsing Mike last month," just this once ... More >>

Town Brawl! Rightbloggers Applaud Aggro Outbreaks at Health Care Meetings

As you may have heard, some of the town hall meetings held by public officials for debate on Obama's health care plans have become brawls. In St. Petersburg, protesters bellowed until Representative Kathy Castor left the meeting; in St. Louis, a health care reform proponent, Brian Matthews, said h ... More >>

Eagle Squints at Foreign-Looking Bloggers; Fraud Suspected

It's all over the place but that never stopped us before: here's an internet warning about the foreign-looking liberal bloggers who will destroy our country with funding by master criminal George Soros. As it comes from someone named AntiPelosiFan who has also posted "Anything Is Funny Sped Up An ... More >>

"World's Richest" Meet in Secret, Plot New World Order or Something

Get out your tinfoil! ABC today reports a heretofore secret meeting of "America's Richest Givers", including Mayor Bloomberg, Oprah, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Ted Turner, and other illuminati, were invited by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to a "window-lined private room" -- as opposed to one ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 15 through 21

Fox News Gets Mafia Guy to Call Democrats Mobsters, Traitors

In the immortal words of The Simpsons, "The Fox network has sunk to a new low." Here are two Fox News bobbleheads getting mobster/author Michael Franzese to tell them that the Obama Administration is like a crime family. "What do you mean?" asks the female bobblehead. "Extortion?" "I mean just thi ... More >>

Week in Review: It's Time for Some Guiliani-Loving Madball Fans to Step Up to the Plate

Credit: Rebecca Smeyne In the week we worked in this church, paid our penance, and gave our blood, Lil Wayne and Pharrell said "Yes." To which Young Dro and Yung LA responded, simply, "Woah." And Diddy wept. TV season at Sound of the City has come (is it the cold weather?), and though The City re ... More >>

Economy Doesn't Stop George Soros from Enjoying Chekhov, Ethan Hawke

credit: Joan Marcus It's nice to know that the meltdown of the world economy is not preventing George Soros from enjoying classic Russian theater. The international financier was just one of a surprising number of notables taking in Wednesday night's opening of the Sam Mendes-directed The Cherry O ... More >>

Out There In The Dark: Rightbloggers Go Hollywood!

As we get closer to the actual transition, rightbloggers are shifting gears. They're losing interest in the remaining pre-inaugural Obama business. We probably won't see anything like the Hillary Clinton Constitutional crisis again. Leon Panetta's CIA appointment drew some criticism on the grounds ... More >>

Daily Flog, Part 2: Tote that bailout, lift those markets

Letters 8.20.08

The State Of the Union Ignores the State of Sub-prime

Giuliani's Immigration Problem

Much as he hates to admit it, Rudy loved (most of) those huddled masses

Danger of a Pull-Out -- of the Dollar

Brutal Chain of Command

Harsh light from the Supreme Court on White House war crimes against detainees everywhere

Your Late Fees, Their Millions

Can't pay your student loan on time? The fat cats at Sallie Mae are so glad to hear it.

Bush Averts His Eyes

With rape as an official weapon in Darfur, Sudan officials are now welcome here

Wolfowitz Leaves Pentagon Without Causing Further Casualties

It's Just a Book

How a 'pro-marijuana' children's story found its way to Congress

The Best Votes Money Can Buy

Facts and figures of the most expensive election campaign in U.S. history

The People's Prosecutor

In an Albany primary, a candidate for D.A. attacks the Rockefeller drug laws—and wins

PBS Gets Picky

A Reporter Disses Halliburton, and Newshour Producers Decide His 15 Minutes of Airtime Are Up

MoveOn Ad Competition Ushers Bush Attacks Into the Mainstream

The Medium Is the Message

First Amendment Treats for the Rich

The Media Blew This One Big-Time

In-House Revolution

Home Screenings of an Anti-War Doc Rally the Bush Opposition

Bush Aides Coo Like Doves

Ariel Maneuvers Growing Tiresome

Crazy/Dutiful

Don't Do Drug Ads

Here's a Downer Story for the Media

Schmooze Operators

Inside the World Economic Forum

Bloomberg News

Media Mogul Mike Bloomberg Is Running for Mayor. Will His Billions Make a Difference?

Nation

The Reflective Rudy

Memo to file: Rudy Giuliani, April 4, 1999

Pot Shots

Bear Markets

Scenes from Russia's ruble crisis

Long Shot

Drug Policy Experts Ponder Prescribing Heroin to Junkies