“The Huffington Post” on The Daily Caller

It’s not easy getting Andrew Breitbart to say a mean thing about Arianna Huffington. (more)

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly says his upcoming pre-Super Bowl interview with President Barack Obama is going to make history, reports The Huffington Post. (more)

President Barack Obama will have around 100 attendees at the White House for this Sunday’s Super Bowl, the Huffington Post reported Thursday. (more)

Two New York Times journalists have been arrested in Egypt, according to a tweet from Associated Press Middle East  correspondent Hadeel Al-Shalchi. (more)

Yesterday, Rupert Murdoch and Apple made Murdoch’s new all-iPad publication The Daily available to the public for the first time. The announcement had all the usual hype, with Murdoch himself (and Apple Vice President Eddie Cue standing in for Steve Jobs) showing the demo to a New York audience. (more)

Just a year after The Daily Caller’s launch, the Columbia Journalism Review says TheDC deserves as much recognition as anyone online for publishing original Washington reporting. (more)

So much for that new tone of civility. (more)

UPDATE (5:30pm): The Center for Public Integrity responds to inquires made by TheDC. (more)

There has been a lot of finger-pointing from the left, particularly at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accusing conservatives of intensifying of the political discourse. (more)

Did anyone see that coming? (more)

As actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office, “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin has once again expressed an interest in running for political office. (more)

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann may be planning a 2012 run for Senate — her office recently told The Hill that, “nothing’s off the table for the future.” (more)

1.) Inouye and other Senate dinosaurs make one last mad hobble for cash register — “In the waning days of the lame duck congressional session, Democrats controlling the Senate — in collaboration with a handful of old school Republicans — are pushing to wrap $1.27 trillion worth of unfinished budget work into a single ‘omnibus’ appropriations bill,” reports the AP. Sen. Jim DeMint hates this bill so much that he has threatened to read all 1,900 pages aloud if his colleagues do not make it smaller. To that end, a small contingent of fiscal guerillas are hoping to address the federal budget in the new year, when reinforcements will have arrived from Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Utah, and Kentucky. Until then, it’s DeMint, McCain, and Coburn attempting to hold back a red sea of pork. Their efforts are not completely futile. After requesting an earmark for the Kentucky National Guard to eradicate the most valuable cash crop in the United States, Sen. Mitch McConnell suddenly realized that he is not supposed to be spending other people’s money willy-nilly anymore, and had the earmark removed. “This is exactly what the American people said Nov. 2 they didn’t want us to do,” a chastened McConnell said. (more)

As I reported earlier today at FrumForum, Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has died. (more)

Every time I think that the “Press” can’t sink any lower than the rock bottom they’ve already hit, they somehow manage to burrow themselves further into the earth’s mantle. As is so often the case, this most recent gutter-dwelling example has to do with Sarah Palin, who dared to go on a humanitarian trip to Haiti. This does not suit! You see, how can the Press feel all holier-than-thou and better than Sarah Palin – and her fellow rubes – when she is out helping people in Haiti, while they are sitting at home and sipping their soy lattes? I mean, you can’t even see their super awesome and caring “cause ribbons” in print. Plus, she’s just a girl and not the right kind of girl; she embraces motherhood and doesn’t hyphenate her name. She doesn’t even limit herself to caring only about topics that women are assigned to caring about by the left. This aggression cannot stand. (more)

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s compromise with Republicans on extending tax cuts for the wealthy, which his self-described progressive critics see as a profound betrayal, is bound to intensify a debate that has been bubbling up on liberal blogs and e-mail lists in recent weeks — whether or not the president who embodied “hope and change” in 2008 should face a primary challenge in 2012. (more)

Commentator Erick Erickson says he never suggested that Tea Partiers target Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown in 2012 by running a more conservative primary opponent against him. (more)

According to a suit filed today, the Huffington Post was originally conceived as a liberal, Democratic site, despite editor Arianna Huffington’s protestations that it’s a politically neutral news outlet. (more)

The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim is accusing former President George W. Bush of “lifting” anecdotes and quotes in his recently released memoir, “Decision Points.” (more)

In the wake of accusations by The Huffington Post that George Bush plagiarized his own book, “Decision Points” from books written by his advisors, Andrew Breitbart tweeted today to point out that Arianna Huffington, founder of the The Huffington Post, settled plagiarism charges for her first book, Maria Callas, in 1981. (more)