Author: Stephen Gutowski

Stephen Gutowski is an award-winning political reporter who got his start in 2009 when he founded this blog.

Join Me For The “Screw Politico” Happy Hour

With FreedomWorks Blog Con coming up I thought to myself, how can I get together with some awesome bloggers AND stick it to Politico a little bit? The best I could come up with was the “Screw Politico” happy hour! Pretty clever, huh?

This meet up is completely unofficial and not endorsed by FreedomWorks or any other organization but will start at 7pm Friday night at The Rocket Bar (changed it to this bar because it’s bigger). The tavern happens to be right across the street from FreedomWorks’ office and right after the last organized Friday event for BlogCon. So, hopefully, that will allow for as many people as possible to show up and hang out.

It should be a good time. Everybody is invited. Come on out if you want to share some food, a few drinks, and the sentiment that Politico can shove their legal bullying where the sun don’t shine.

Or come and defend Politico… the main goal is to get together and have some fun.

POLITICO Threatening Me Again

Well they’re back at it again.

Don’t worry I’m going to keep fighting the good fight and won’t be backing down. I’ll try to keep everybody updated on whats going on. Thanks for all the support though it really helps keep me strong.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about check out these background posts from a while back.

Sorry I haven’t been writing here as much lately but I’m spending most of my time writing over at my new MRC blog The Blast which has been incredibly successful by the way. It’s reached more than 300,000 visitors in just the past three months or so. It’s also been linked across the blogosphere and the rest of the web.

So you can check me out there and also at Human Events where I get to write op eds from time to time.

The College Politico Makes it Big!

Hey everybody.

I’ve finally made it big as shown by my recent appearance on Breitbart.tv’s B-Cast show C-side! Now that both Ed Morrissey and Michelle Malkin have pronounced my name correctly and B-Cast has interviewed me there’s no telling where I might pop up next… so watch your TV’s carefully, after you watch this clip of my appearance naturally: Continue reading The College Politico Makes it Big!

Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey Pronounce My Name Correctly!!!

Ok… I know what you’re thinking… is that really the biggest part of this story?

Well, for me, its pretty awesome. Yes, the fact that my important story on AOL News‘ extreme breach of ethics and sweeping attempts to censor the news was picked up by Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Protien Wisdom, Howard Kurtz at The Washington Post, USA Today, Lucianne, Conservative Grapevine, The Huffington Post, Ed Driscoll, Breitbart.tv, Townhall.com, and many many more is very important to me. However, its not everyday famous media personalities mention my name and it’s even more rare that somebody I haven’t met (Michelle) and someone I’ve only met once (Ed) manage to pronounce my name right.

Here’s the show that the magic happened on, the awesomeness happens at about the 20:50 mark but be sure to watch the whole show if you can:

Sweet stuff right?

But on a more serious note I would ask that you contact as many major media outlets as possible to force them to cover this story. AOL and Time Warner have refused to return my requests for comment and need much more pressure applied to them. I’m gonna do my best to get this more coverage but I desperately need your help on this.

Required Daily Reading

books

It’s been a while but here’s your required daily reading for today:

Enjoy!

My Latest on NewsBusters

My most recent story on NewsBusters deals with Politico’s white washing of one of the most violent and disgusting sexual fantasies that Playboy.com has ever published.

I am happy to say that it contributed to the retraction of the Politico story. Read up and enjoy!

Biden Makes Fun of Obama for Teleprompter Use; UPDATE: Video Added

Biden

In a classically Biden moment our Vice President ripped on our President for his famous reliance on teleprompters. Biden delivered his joke while speaking to new Air Force graduates. From Top of the Ticket:

not content to leave without a jaunty ad lib, Biden noted that heavy winds were gusting through the ceremonies. One of his two teleprompters had toppled over. Alluding to the jokes of Obama’s reliance on the speech-facilitators, Biden added, “What I am going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken. What will he do then.”

Oh boy. Please let the man speak more often. Dream Scenario: Obama replaces Gibbs with Biden for Press Secretary… if only.

UPDATE: For your viewing pleasure

Did The History Channel Run Anti-American Ads Abroad?

That’s the question Caleb Howe is trying to figure out over at Redstate today. I’m going to link him twice to make sure that you go and read his work because it’s an example of quite remarkable reporting.

Besides if you don’t read his post you won’t get the full story and you might not fully understand how I came to my conclusions.

The basic summary is that the History Channel in all likelihood didn’t commission or run these anti-American ads (click to enlarge):

History Channel

The History Channel

And this anti-Christian/western ad (click to enlarge):

The History Channel

However, the ad agency which works for the History Channel (among many others), Ogilvy & Mather, did commission the ads then brand them with History Channel logos and even submit them to the prestigious CLIO awards. And what’s worse is that these absurd ads actually won a CLIO award.

Now, again, Caleb Howe has great insights into all the things wrong with this situation and these ads so go read his post. But, he doesn’t go quite far enough down the CLIO trail. There is definitely a lot more to this.

I mean, sure, I could buy that the award ceremony disregards political messages and judges the entries based off of their creativity and visual appeal… except that those ads are neither creative or visually appealing. They look like something a 6 year old made in paint on windows 95. For goodness sake if that’s all it takes to reach the pinnacle of print advertising then sign me the heck up!

I’ll be raking in the millions in no time and I can barely get by with my cheap rip off of photo shop. Seriously, look at those pictures. It’s just a quick and simple cut and past job. And a crappy one at that. Those stupid billboards couldn’t look less like they were a part of the picture. Over all this potential campaign is just a worthless piece of crap.

So that leads me to this question: HOW THE HECK DID THIS WIN A PRESTIGIOUS AWARD???

Despite the in depth analysis a screaming question like that might seem to require I can offer only this: It’s anti-American political message. Nothing else makes a lick of sense.

New Hampshire House Rejects Gay Marriage Bill

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In what comes as a surprising twist the New Hampshire house has rejected a new bill which would have legalized gay marriage. Its particularly surprising not just because its well… New Hampshire but also because the house had already approved a previous bill legalizing gay marriage which was ultimately vetoed by the governor. Not to mention the fact that the New Hampshire senate had passed the new bill. Here’s how the AP described it:

A divided New Hampshire House has refused to go along with changes the governor demanded to make his state the sixth to allow gay marriage. Instead, it voted to further negotiate with the Senate.

But let’s not get our hopes up about this one. It seems they aren’t necessarily being held up by wether or not gay marriage should be legal but instead are arguing about protections for churches who refuse to perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples.

The AP story is extremely light on details but the vote totals show how divided even the New Hampshire house is over gay marriage so take a gander…

I’ll try to update when more info comes out about the exact reasons why the New Hampshire house didn’t pass this bill.

Gingrich to Pelosi: Resign

Pretty Pelosi

The call comes after Pelosi vomitted her lies all over the CIA. Sure he’s gone off on her over this before and sure this is little more than grandiose political theater that will lead to nothing in the end… but it’s still fun to listen to someone give ol’ Nancy a much deserved smack down:

In a column for the conservative publication Human Events, the former House Speaker takes aim at Pelosi’s press conference last week, during which she said the CIA did not tell her in 2002 that it used the aggressive interrogation technique of waterboarding. She went on to allege the CIA routinely misleads Congress.

“She charged that the CIA, deliberately and as a matter of policy, violated the law by lying to Congress,” Gingrich writes in the column. “And with that allegation, Speaker Pelosi disqualified herself from the office she holds.”

“Speaker Pelosi has damaged America’s safety,” Gingrich also writes. “She’s made America less secure by sending a signal to the men and women defending our country that they can’t count on their leaders to defend them.”

Indeed all those things are true. And, yes, she should resign. But lets be honest… she won’t and the Dems won’t do a thing to her. So really the political hacks used as human shields surrounding Pelosi got this one right: Continue reading Gingrich to Pelosi: Resign