- Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch and a good chunk of the Breitbart crew will be at CPAC beginning today. Loesch will broadcast from radio row, is scheduled to receive the AIM award today, present one of the Bloggers’ Red Carpet Award tomorrow, and speak on Saturday at 3:15 eastern. Andrew Breitbart speaks Friday at 4:40 eastern on the topic of “unity.” You won’t want to miss this speech — and won’t have to, as it will be livestreamed on Breitbart.tv

- Media Matters is jealous that they have never been nominated or received an award. They’re trying to bully Sharyl Attkisson from showing up to receive her AIM award. Keep in mind, MMfA mysteriously received (and didn’t disclose) a massive wad of cash from SEIU following the beating of Ken Gladney — around the same time they began vigorously defending SEIU — is criticizing Attkisson for receiving an award for her excellent reporting on Fast and Furious, which Media Matters has wholly ignored. And no, defense pieces for Holder that go against the facts Attkisson discovers don’t quality as “coverage.”

- Is CNN is censor-happy? Now Martin’s Tweets are “homophobic?” Since when the hell is making fun of soccer “homophobic?” Instead of getting angry at drama-happy GLAAD, progressives have blamed … Dana Loesch and Erick Erickson. And probably also George Bush. And Sarah Palin. Also Grover Norquist. And the Koch Brothers, don’t forget them. And Foster Friess. Forgetting anyone?

- Sean Hannity vs Ed Schultz on Twitter.

- Brent Bozell vs Sam Feist on Twitter.

- Even after Roland Martin apologized for GLAAD’s determination to find gay-bashing in a soccer joke, they’re still not satisfied. They want to continue having conversations on how jokes about David Beckham’s underwear can result in LGBT “violence.”

- Dylan Byers: Why didn’t CNN suspend Loesch, Erickson over a joke Martin made that groups claimed was homophobic but wasn’t? Also, when will Loesch, Erickson, apologize for Hurricane Katrina, the Challenger explosion, and Greece’s economic problems?

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- How many times can Newsweek insult readers before they leave? Have you picked up a Newsweek lately? I flipped through one while in line at the gas station and was shocked to see how anemic it has become: it’s printed on a cheap, matte, flimsy stock, 1/3 of the pages of its heyday, and filled mostly with ads. Know why? Because of idiocy like this:

The above is what the cover looks like while wearing the media equivalent of beer goggles. Take them off.

Apparently Tina Brown was too busy playing paper dolls with Diana Spencer photos in Photoshop to actually put out a magazine this week. It’s obvious that they just completely stopped giving any sort of damn.

- Red State is hosting a Photoshop contest for the above.

- Brit Hume challenges claim US Marines urinating on dead Taliban is ‘despicable’:

I can’t wait to see progressives freak out over Hume.
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I can’t shake the feeling that while she’s talking about Obama, she’s thinking of hastily Photoshopping Lady Di heads onto model bodies for more creepy Newsweek covers. Tina Brown was asked her opinion on the President’s tenure on “Morning Joe.”

“I think that Obama doesn’t like his job, either … he doesn’t know how to exercise power.”

She tried to temper her analysis by saying that the former community organizer is more “professorial,” as opposed to a quality leader of the free world but really, just said that he’s unqualified for the job. Another panelist chimed in: “It appears that you could make the case that Barack Obama doesn’t like politics.” Joe Scarborough added that if you don’t like politics, “then don’t be a politician!”

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Is it a coincidence that four days after Nancy Pelosi sat and gave an exclusive pep talk/schmooze session with AOL’s Arianna Huffington and an all-female editorial meeting in the offices of AOL/HuffPo, Arianna’s Washington Bureau Chief phoned-in a “nothing-to-see-here” apologia for the former-Speaker’s congressional insider trading scandal?

Huffington Post's wishful thinking headline a few hours after a "60 Minutes" report on congressional insider trading.

As liberal news outlets like CBS News, Daily Beast/Newsweek and even MSNBC saw fit to report the fact that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a sweetheart IPO for VISA, while at the same time ensuring that tough regulations that would have stifled VISA’s profits stayed bottled up in the Pelosi-controlled House of Representatives, AOL/HuffPo opted to re-print Pelosi’s talking points and obfuscations in lieu of doing actual reporting.

With the awkward and ham-handed headline “Hit Job Falls Flat,” you can almost see Arianna herself hammering out bullet points on her blackberry, firing them off to reporter Ryan Grim in an effort to put her elegant fingers in the metaphorical dyke to stop the gushing in the most serious corruption story to hit Pelosi’s long career.  The banner headline, full of wishful thinking, ran just hours after the “60 Minutes” story.  First thing on a Monday morning at the beginning of a news cycle is a curious time to declare that a story “fell flat.”

In fact, the story was talked about on cable news and in the halls of congress all day.  It inspired new legislation to finally make the corrupt practice of congressional insider trading illegal.  Presidential candidate Rick Perry produced a 30-second ad featuring the story and calling for jail-time for any politician who profited from insider information.  If this is “falling flat” I would like to see AOL/HuffPo’s idea of a successful investigative report.

Seriously, I’d really like to see one.  Do they even do anything like that, or do they just sit back and let the rest of us do all of the real reporting?

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This past Newsweek cover of Presidential candidate, Michele Bachmann, shows the unfair portrayals of female politicians in the media. While Publisher of Newsmax, Christopher Ruddy, reasonably displays Bachmann as a lady of office, Newsweek Editor-in-Chief, Tina Brown’s choice of an unflattering picture depicts Bachmann as an insane politician. As if the photo isn’t weird enough, the article entitled “Queen of Rage,” presents a propagated notion of instability and lunacy, whereas “Heartland Warrior” better describes her candidacy.

Bachmann’s Newsweek scandal is only the most recent of sexist subjections. Rooted in what seems to be the Madonna verses whore syndrome, society continues to allow the media to degrade women without concern. Thankfully, the National Organization of Women declared the cover misogynistic, but where are the rest of the feminists?

The list of unfair projections is growing with every women who steps into the political arena. As soon as a powerful, strong, intelligent woman surfaces as a leader, the media immediately attempts to destroy her reputation. From the 1st Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, who was thought to have mafia relations, Hillary Clinton, who was portrayed as an unattractive obscene Presidential contender, and Nancy Pelosi, who’s facial features have been criticized, to Sarah Palin, who’s intellect and family life was demoralized, Christine O’Donnell, who was characterized as a promiscuous witch, Meg Whitman, who was unjustifiably called a “whore” by political opponent, Jerry Brown, Jan Brewer, who was  labeled a racist for wanting to protect her state from illegal immigration, and Nikki Haley, who was accused of extramarital affairs during her 2010 campaign – these women have been torn apart on matters unrelated to the real issues they were fighting to solve.

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Sunday night we told you about Newsweek’s unflattering cover of Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and how the magazine gleefully promoted it on Twitter with the hashtag #QueenofRage. (It sparked our own caption contest using an unflattering photo of Newsweek’s editrix, Tina Brown.)

Sexist shots at conservative women (of conservatives, period) by the media have become so prevalent that we hardly page so-called women’s groups any more because their support for female conservatives is non-existant. From the female equality industry, one group has been somewhat present, although vocally inconsistent: NOW.

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I don’t know about you, but when I want articles on women that read like bitter Summer’s Eve scripts, I turn to Newsweek. Under the editorial control of Tina Brown, the rice paper magazine barely struggles against its bias towards conservative women to view them with anything other than contempt.

Check out Newsweek’s latest cover, which they happily Tweeted out minutes ago:

When your premise is an unflattering photo (and if you don’t have them you’re a liar or Miranda Kerr) to sell your bias, you just might be a chauvinist.

So because Brown thinks bad images are fair game, let’s have fun with an image of her, taken from MSNBC. Bragging rights, kudos, and hopenchange to the pithiest commenter who can best CAPTION THIS:

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Ever since Tina Brown took the helm at Newsweek she has been courting controversy. The magazine, acquired for a dollar last year, has been shrinking in physical size, circulation and relevance since Brown took over. If there’s one thing she knows how to do it’s run a publication into the ground (Remember Talk magazine?) In recent months Brown’s desperation for attention has grown and manifested itself in Photoshopped and sensationalized cover stories hoping to boost circulation. Her Princess Diana and Mitt Romney covers were the most blatant examples … until now.

Newsweek has hit a new low with this week’s cover story on the crumbling sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Under the headline “The Maid’s Tale,” they interview the accuser, 32 year old Nafissatou Diallo and present her in a very sympathetic light.

Newsweek makes passing reference to the fact that the case against DSK has obviously has catastrophic flaws and the ever-growing suspicious background of Diallo, but the bulk of the story friendly to Diallo. How a news magazine can so casually gloss over shady characters in Diallo’s life and the implausible aspects of her story can only be ascribed to the tabloid culture that has become all too prevalent in today’s media.

The fact that DSK is not going to win any awards for being a good husband is clear, he’s admitted affairs in the past, but that does not make him a rapist. Newsweek knows full-well the case is falling apart and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is on the verge of dropping the charges, so this piece, and the piece on The Daily Beast, are essentially another in the chorus of left-wing voices advancing the idea that this case should go forward without regard to evidence. They believe a “victim’s right to confront the accused” is more important than the facts is common among the Left, and a dangerous trend.

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Just a small glimpse into the past week’s “new tone” rhetoric from President Obama, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Joan Walsh, Tina Brown, and Josh Marshall.

“The GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government.”

“I think they’re the suicide bombers in all of this.”

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Yawn.

The new cover features United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the magazine’s special edition, “150 Women Who Shake the World.”

Brown, who previously captained Vanity Fair and the New Yorker magazines, took over the flailing news-weekly in November when it merged with her website, The Daily Beast, which launched in October 2008. Brown is now the editor in chief of both the Daily Beast website and the new Newsweek.

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Although Brown is one of the most highly respected magazine editors in the world, her legendary 35-year career has not been without the occasional disappointment, such as the much-heralded but short-lived Talk magazine – which also featured Hillary Clinton on the front cover of its first issue.

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An interesting article comparing the success and pathways of the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington.

The same day that Huffington’s $315 million deal with AOL was announced,Media Week’s Brian Morrissey reported that Tina Brown’s merged Newsweek-Daily Beast had yet to find a revenue model to match its glamorous masthead.

According to comScore, The Daily Beast drew 2.9 million visitors in December, up only slightly from the same month a year before. Newsweek had traditionally done better, but its audience has shrunk and its traffic deal with MSNBC.com was dissolved, leaving the NewsBeast with a combined audience of about 5.2 million.

Compare that with the Huffington Post’s reported 25 million unique monthly visitors – a figure rivaling the traffic of the New York Times website – and it becomes clear that comparing Brown’s and Huffington’s sitesis like comparing apples and oranges.

Yes, both are middle-aged, English-educated women whose personal brands are in some ways greater than the brands that they created. And yes, they have been friends for 30 years.

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“Ms. Huffington has thousands of raucous voices on her site, many of them emanating from her high-profile friends, as well as large-scale aggregation of news from around the web. Ms. Brown’s formula is more like that of a magazine – rather than compile mounds of material and offer a platform to almost anyone with a laptop, she chooses what she likes.”

Yes, and even some whose names Huffington used without permission. Then there was the HuffPo blogger who carried out an incestuous affair with his daughter. Then there were all the stories about plagiarism.

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From Politico:

On the eve of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast’s turning two years old, Brown took to the site’s pages Tuesday to announce some big news: Howard Kurtz is joining the Beast as Washington bureau chief.

Funny, Kurtz was on Imus yesterday morning and, unless we missed it, didn’t breathe a word about it. In fact, he said this:

Kurtz’s other employer, The Washington Post, is still publishing everyday, but, like the rest of the newspaper world, is struggling to stay current amidst technological advances. Many veteran print reporters are jumping ship to online outlets like the Huffington Post.

“I’m old-fashioned enough to think that newspapers, particularly the best ones, will continue in some form,” Kurtz said. “I like turning the pages. I know young people think that sounds like something out of the stone age.”

Maybe he didn’t really mean it.  Or maybe he got tired of living in the Stone Age. Wonder when he’ll be invited back on the show.

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Next we’ll hear that James O’Keefe attended a dinner party honoring Apartheid South Africa’s former president, P. W. Botha. If so, and the accusation verified, O’Keefe’s “insensitivity” to human (and civil) rights would barely register against that of Max Blumenthal’s boss at The Daily Beast, Tina Brown.

I’ll report. Y’all decide:

“N**ger!” taunted my jailers between tortures,” reported the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner about his suffering. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!”  laughed my torturers. For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell. That’s four feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.

I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, the prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Peñalver, whose incarceration and torture at the hands of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s Stalinist regime stretched to 29 years, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.

“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent,” wrote Ernesto “Che” Guevara in his diaries.  When during a 1959 press conference a Cuban black asked Guevara, “what his Revolution would do for blacks?” Che sneered: “we’ll do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: nothing!” (more…)

Sure, it’s a silly question.  Still, it’s nice to see the lapdogs of the Democrat-Media Complex finally ‘fess up to an act of malfeasant journalistic cheerleading on a scale never before seen in this country.  From Newsbusters:

Two prominent journalists appeared on Friday’s Good Morning America and casually admitted that Barack Obama has received glowing coverage from the press. Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown announced, “No, [Obama] got the best press known to man. Let’s face it.”

Howard Kurtz, host of Reliable Sources on CNN and a Washington Post columnist, corrected, “in the history of civilization.” The liberal Brown quickly agreed, “In the history of civilization, incredible.”

Well?  Did he?