Earlier this week we brought you the story of a small town Arizona politician caught in a big trap laid by federal law enforcement.
Now, records unearthed by TPM show that the FBI’s sting touched some of the most senior members of Arizona’s political establishment.
Nick Martin and Ryan Reilly have the story.
Turns out the front company the FBI set up for its Arizona sting had its own lobbyist. And he met with all sorts of politico-types.
Read the White House transcript of the exchange between the Daily Caller reporter and President Obama.
Glenn Beck vows to singlehandedly take down “Glee.”
The Daily Caller says it’s “proud” of reporter Neil Munro for interrupting the President today.
The guy who saw fit to interrupt twice the President’s address in the Rose Garden on his new immigration policy, which was being carried live by the cable nets, was actually a reporter for The Daily Caller named Neil Munro.
Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown (D), the woman who was silenced by House Republicans for saying ‘vagina’, tells TPM how it all went down.
Ryan Lizza talks to TPM about his magnum opus on a prospective Obama second term, the crisis in political journalism, and what makes Obama think the Republican fever will break.
RNC takes down Latino outreach site that mistakenly featured photos of Asians.
This was a doubly clever move by the Obama administration. Over and above the obvious appeal to a key constituency, the policy here mimics, I assume intentionally, what Republicans claim they want to adopt in a scaled-down version of the DREAM Act. But for Republicans, embracing Obama’s move carries the same risk with their base as rejecting it does with immigrants — the voting bloc they’re most concerned about alienating. A hunch: prepare yourself for a deluge of condemnations of executive-branch overreach, paired with real reluctance to say anything meaningful about what the directive actually accomplishes.