Tag: Media

Roger Stone speaks to reporters after speaking at the American Priority Conference.

Roger Stone: I will not lie to special counsel

Katelyn Caralle · January 30, 2019 5:21 am

Beltway Confidential

Treat anti-vaxxers like the dangerous conspiracy theorists they are

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 29, 2019 10:19 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Washington Secrets

Trump insider: CNN’s Acosta, Bob Woodward make it up, ‘It’s a joke’

Paul Bedard · January 29, 2019 9:59 pm

Former Starbucks CEO and Chairman Howard Schultz looks at a heckler who interrupted him at the start of his book promotion tour, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, in New York. Democrats across the political spectrum lashed out at the billionaire businessman on Monday after he teased the prospect of an independent 2020 bid, a move Democrats fear would split their vote and all but ensure President Donald Trump's re-election.

Beltway Confidential

Howard Schultz meets the ‘ratio’ mob

Eddie Scarry · January 29, 2019 7:04 pm

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese's all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

‘Resurfaced’: A subversive euphemism for the craven and the lazy

Grant Addison · January 29, 2019 2:46 am

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson tells viewers: Mueller can send armed men after you ‘because he feels like it’

Daniel Chaitin · January 29, 2019 2:12 am

BuzzFeed agrees to pay laid-off employees for unused vacation days after internal revolt

Vaishnavee Sharma · January 29, 2019 1:08 am

Former BuzzFeed writer mocks layoffs with parody quiz: ‘Unionize your media company’

Katelyn Caralle · January 28, 2019 7:35 pm

Melania Trump and Nina Burleigh.

Beltway Confidential

Nina Burleigh is undeterred after having two pieces retracted in less than a year

Becket Adams · January 28, 2019 5:58 pm

FILE - In this June 27, 2018 file photo, Democrat rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, speaks to the media in New York, the day after her congressional primary upset over 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, has responded to a conservative TV host who questioned her background in the Bronx borough of New York City. Her campaign explained her family moved to Westchester's Yorktown Heights when she was 5 to attend better schools but she moved back to the Bronx after college.

Beltway Confidential

When it’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the press discovers a newfound appreciation for fact-free media criticism

Becket Adams · January 28, 2019 4:05 pm

Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, speaks outside of the federal courthouse following a hearing, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Stone was arrested Friday in the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.

Beltway Confidential

Why the armed FBI raid on Roger Stone’s home was justified (it has nothing to do with collusion)

James A. Gagliano · January 28, 2019 2:03 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2007 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife Virginia Thomas in Washington. With their Ivy League pedigrees and East Coast addresses, Supreme Court justices often are rightly described as unrepresentative of the nation. But in one area, the justices look a lot like the rest of America. Members of the court have first-hand experience with divorce and adoption, as well as making it alone without ever getting married. Just five of the nine justices have been married once and have had biological children with their spouses.

Beltway Confidential

The New York Times slimes Virginia Thomas

Quin Hillyer · January 28, 2019 1:14 pm