Twitter Followers of Each Presidential Candidate Have Vastly Different Media Consumption Habits

Emma Niles / Truthdig Apr 19, 2016 Apparently, where you get your news may predict which presidential candidate you support -- and no, we aren’t just talking about CNN versus Fox News. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The ‘Obama Phone’ Fallacy, Coulter Ripped on ‘The View,’ and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Sep 29, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including more bad news for Mitt Romney, Claire McCaskill's response to Todd Akin's sexist remarks and further Republican charges about President Obama's religion. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

GOP Turns on Mitt, Fox News Backs Romney, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Sep 20, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including Romney dissing his wife Ann and why Jon Stewart says Mitt's own father wouldn't vote for him. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Right-Wing Media Critic Andrew Breitbart Dies

Staff / Truthdig Mar 1, 2012 Over the course of his career as a conservative commentator, blogger and vigilant crusader against liberal bias, as he saw it, in the mainstream American media and in Hollywood, Andrew Breitbart pulled off a few high-profile alliances and at least one major takedown.Conservative commentator, blogger and anti-liberal crusader Andrew Breitbart is dead at the age of 43. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Betting on Arianna

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 23, 2011 In defense of Arianna Huffington. Not that the lady needs one, having been a leader in undermining the right-wing dominance of Internet reporting. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Emanuel’s ‘Glad to Be Home’ … in Chicago, That Is

Staff / Truthdig Oct 5, 2010 Oops -- someone has caught Obama's outgoing chief of staff and ongoing hatchet man, Rahm Emanuel, being a duplicitous politician! It's not that bad, really; Rahmbo's just talking about how he's "glad to be home" in Chicago in this mayoral campaign video (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Celebrated Groundhog Sees Shadow, Human Handlers Claim

Staff / Truthdig Feb 2, 2010 It's a tad goofy, this Groundhog Day tradition -- and PETA, campaigning for an animatronic Punxsutawney Phil, would even say it's inhumane -- but if weather forecasts by clairvoyant rodents are your thing, we, who just spent part of the morning researching the origins of Groundhog Day, certainly aren't going to judge. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Coulter Definitely Not Banned From NBC, Shows Mug to Prove It

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2009 Conservative scarecrow Ann Coulter insists she was banned by NBC, and to prove it, she accepted the network's invitation to appear on air. Wait a second! The ban, like so much of what Coulter talks about, seems to exist only in her head and the pages of the Drudge Report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Police: Tale of Politically Motivated Attack Was a Lie

Staff / Truthdig Oct 24, 2008 A story that Matt Drudge seized upon Thursday, about a 20-year-old McCain campaign volunteer who claimed she was assaulted near a Pittsburgh ATM by a large African-American man who took $60 from her and carved a "B" into her face after noticing a McCain sticker on her car, was fabricated by the alleged victim, according to police. Updated Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NYT Rejects McCain Essay

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2008 Sorry, John McCain, but The New York Times doesn't publish just any presidential candidate. A week after Barack Obama's "My Plan for Iraq" appeared in the paper of record, a similar essay by John McCain was rejected on the grounds that it recycled attacks against his rival while offering little new information about his own war plans, according to the Drudge Report. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AP Backs Down, Blog Crisis Averted

Staff / Truthdig Jun 16, 2008 The Associated Press over the weekend challenged the very format of blogging, prompting an immediate boycott and, almost as quickly, a reversal. The blogosphere began organizing a bipartisan boycott after AP informed the Drudge Retort that its excerpts of AP stories -- some as short as 39 words -- were a violation of copyright. The news cooperative has since retreated, saying it will work toward "better and more positive" guidelines. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Team McCain Nervous about ‘Drudge Primary’?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2008 The most powerful aggregator of Web site links ever, self-styled Internet phenom Matt Drudge, has become an election-year institution in his own right -- or at least he looks that way to John McCain's wary aides, who studied coverage of Hillary Clinton's campaign on "The Drudge Report" and now wonder if they can count on Drudge's supposedly conservative political orientation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )