Ron Russell mentioned a story in the comments that I saw on Drudge earlier today just before I left for my appointment. Let me vent for one second before I go on...WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?! This headline at Drudge made my heart race: Wikipedia Scrubs Obama Page Clean of Critical Entries . My abso...

The Obamas are just like us: drinking through this recession, at home! Well, not entirely like us. They're all wearing fancy clothes and they have jobs and Steve Wonder is there. The Obama want to restore the idea of The White House as The People's House so they're hosting weekly black-tie cocktail ...

On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

Oh no! Not the Swedish model! Look carefully at that terrifying blue and yellow Nordic Cross; it is our generation's hammer and sickle. What is "the Swedish Model"? That's temporary nationalization of failed banks. See, you seize control of them, clean up the balance sheets, and auction them off. In...

WASHINGTON (SR) - Thanks to today’s Drudge Report headline ”500 Million Americans Lose Their Job Every Month” linked to the You Tube clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi giving that statement at a news conference, questions are being raised concerning her intelligence or lack ...

Frozen in Indifference. Via Drudge Report....

Another day, another shrill Drudge headline. On Monday, Drudge put up an unflattering picture of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), accompanied by the headline, “PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY.” His conservative fans in Congress, of course, quickly went on the attack against...

  The Drudge Report, uh, reports that the Economic Stimulus Bill has $335 million set aside for STD education and prevention programs through the Centers for Disease Control, and it's "buried on page 147 of the bill." According to Drudge, nearly $700K of such funds have previously...

If the Wordle and other coverage isn’t enough, here’s Sun editor, Rebekah Wade’s Hugh Cudlipp speech in full [note: may have differed very slightly in actual delivery]: The challenging future of national and regional newspapers is now the staple diet of media commentators. If you h...

Well, I’m not the one who called Andrew Breitbart “Matt Drudge’s Bitch” — Andrew Breitbart himself coined the “Matt Drudge’s Bitch” label for himself. (I suppose there’s some sort of closeted gay Republican thing going on there.) So let’s p...