“Blogs” on The Daily Caller

A number of conservative activists and bloggers say they’re furious at media magnate Glenn Beck for what they call content theft. Over the past several years, Beck has relied on video, audio and written content from others to fill his radio and television shows, as well as his websites. Often he has credited his fellow conservatives for their work. Yet in many other instances say dozens of conservative journalists who spoke to The Daily Caller, he has not, often taking elaborate steps to cloak the origins of the material. (more)

After much huffing and puffing, a group of unpaid Huffington Post contributors, led by blogger and union organizer Jonathan Tasini, is upping the ante and will bring a class-action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington, HuffPo and its new parent company AOL, according to Forbes blog Mixed Media. (more)

Glenn Reynolds interviewed me on Instavision earlier this week. I have to admit it looks better than bloggingheads. Production values! … In 14 minutes we cover lots of topics: Wisconsin, what’s happened to blogging, why I switched to Daily Caller, and–at about 8:09–my recipe for a winning Republican message in 2012. … Hint: It involves Wall Street … (more)

Let’s agree just between us not to tell our family members in the kitchen reading yesterday’s news in today’s newspaper. (more)

Former primetime MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced Tuesday that he will join former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore’s Current TV network. Olbermann will be the “chief news officer” at Current Media, and will attempt to provide “authentic, thought-provoking” programming. He’ll have his own television show in primetime starting later this spring. No details regarding the timeslot, surrounding lineup, name or format for the program have been released. (more)

Twitter users will have to step up their game if they want to compete in MTV’s new online-only awards show. (more)

Zach Osler, an old friend Jared Lee Loughner, says that the man suspected of shooting Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Tucson on Saturday steered clear of politics and the news. (more)

Tea Party activists often say the media ignored them when the movement burst onto the political scene in 2009. (more)

The presidential debt commission’s recommendation to downsize the federal payroll by 10 percent during the next decade wins a landslide two-thirds approval from voters, according to a poll released today. (more)

A federal judge on Saturday ordered Gawker Media to pull leaked pages of Sarah Palin’s forthcoming book “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag” from its blog. (more)

Anna Dello Russo lives in a glass house — the virtual kind — her subtlest gesture or sartorial quirk scrutinized by her legions of fans. Pecking at their keyboards, those online viewers wax effusive. “She is like Coco Chanel to me,” one admirer exclaimed on The Sartorialist, the popular blog. “Isn’t she fabulous … so jolie laide,” gushed another on The Fashion Spot; a third posting on Ms. Dello Russo’s blog, to her: “I love when you wear pink.” (more)

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 of the important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. (more)

In his song “Brownsville Girl,” Bob Dylan observes that “even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt.” That line came to mind for me when I saw the Daily Caller article entitled “True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash.” How discouraging! (more)

The search for doctored BP photos is on. And it’s a bit like finding Waldo in the famous game. (more)

Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, has responded to the news that The Daily Caller has acquired the domain, KeithOlbermann.com. (more)

Interning isn’t all about making coffee and taking Tucker Carlson’s gold-lined linen suits to the dry cleaners. Sometimes, The Daily Caller lets its unpaid workers out of their cage, especially when the C-SPAN bus rolls right up to the office door. (more)

“Sexting” is one thing…but text-while-sexing? (more)

Thursday morning on Fox 5′s “Good Day New York” program, the anchors were having a debate about alternative names you could call soy ‘milk,’ since it is, as we all know from unpleasant experience, technically not milk.  Anchorwoman Rosanna Scotto, perhaps thinking of something other than the news, almost elatedly blurted out “soy ji**um” as a possible name for the white liquid. (more)

As a sports fan in 2010, you must ask yourself the following questions: (more)

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends). (more)