CNN contributor and Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism Dana Loesch took a lot of flak over the weekend for her declaration of solidarity with the four Marines who videotaped themselves urinating on the corpses of alleged Taliban fighters, in which she said “I’d drop trou and do it too.”

Countdown host Keith Olbermann and liberal watchdog Media Matters, among others, have called for CNN to fire Loesch over the remark, and according to Big Journalism, even Politico is in on the act.

CNN political contributor and Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism Dana Loesch came out in support of the video showing US Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters during her radio show Thursday. “Now we have a bunch of progressives that are talking smack about our military because there were marines caught urinating on corpses, Taliban corpses…Can someone explain to me if there’s supposed to be a scandal that someone pees on the corpse of a Taliban fighter?

Liberal watchdog Media Matters published an item yesterday showing that Andrew Breitbart‘s Big Journalism website repeatedly published an altered version of an anti-Semitic  Nazi-era propaganda cartoon. Breitbart responded that his blog had taken down the cartoon, prior to Media Matters‘ report, when editor Joel Pollak flagged the image as possibly offensive (the cartoon remains, at this writing, on three other Big Journalism posts). Neither party is content, as Media Matters continues to pound Breitbart, and Breitbart…well, that’s where this goes to 11.

In the span of four days, political media types have been tested twice by two very different incidents of female disrespect in the national political discourse. Much of the media, ideological and otherwise, were quick to note that a crowd of NASCAR fans booed First Lady Michelle Obama– some more sympathetic than others. The second test occurred last night as The Roots played the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” as Rep. Michele Bachmann walked onto the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The treatment of both leave one to the conclusion that defending women from classless attacks might simply not be good for the media business.

Dana Loesch, CNN contributor and editor-in-chief of Big Journalism, has been sharpening her Tea Party cred against a Mitt Romney grindstone, bashing the candidate as an “unrepentant RINO (Republican In Name Only)” whom she “was against” in the last election, and this election. So great is her animus for Romney that she gets entire “mailbags of hate” from his supporters. The only problem is, Loesch voted for Romney in 2008, and the internet has the proof. This is the Tea Party equivalent of being in a mosh pit, and having a Justin Bieber CD fall out of your pocket.

Andrew Breitbart has posted an email purportedly from Joe McGinniss that seems to show that even he didn’t think he had enough facts to back up the controversial claims in his Sarah Palin book, The Rogue. Ironically, though, in trying to nail McGinniss for allegedly spreading unfounded rumors, Breitbart does the same, printing a Todd Palin rumor that didn’t end up in McGinniss’ book.

The new Sarah Palin (R-Fox) documentary The Undefeated has been the subject of copious mockery by the media, and while the negative reviews and observations about its counter-intuitive title may be deserved, attempts to cast the film as a box office crater aren’t exactly fair. While the film’s reported $75,000 take doesn’t sound like much, its $7500 per-screen average was enough to place it second only to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Ectoplasmic Boogaloo?) by that metric.

Earlier this week, outgoing Fox News host Glenn Beck illustrated David Carr‘s criticism of Midwesterners as “neanderthals” by doing an offensive caricature of a mentally disabled person. Mediaite’s Frances Martel wrote a relatively mild critique of Beck’s performance, given the level of offense, and for her trouble, conservative website Big Journalism has accused Martel of anti-disabled bigotry, and defended Beck’s vile minstrelsy by (I’m not kidding) asserting that those offended are mentally deficient.

CNN contributor Dana Loesch and Mediaite’s own Frances Martel got into a Mother’s Day fracas that demonstrates how somewhat below-the-radar new media can trump their dinosaur forebears, at least in entertainment value. They appeared on Breitbart TV Editor in Chief Larry O’Connor‘s Stage Right webcast to debate Loesch’s Mother’s Day post at Big Journalism, and the sparks flew quickly. Martel told Loesch, “You’re a little bit drunk,” and Loesch called Frances a “b*tch” because, she explained, “You are a b*tch.”

James O’Keefe is the provocative “film maker” who can successfully list ACORN and Vivian Schiller‘s career at NPR as toppled targets. However, his technique of filming his subjects with hidden camera and editing out important context have received fairly harsh criticism from reasonable people on both the left and the right.

Somewhere in the last few weeks or months, O’Keefe and his friends must have gotten together and brainstormed for the proper response to all of the criticism directed his way, and came up with the following: a cheesy music video that fails a both earnest entertainment and ironic pastiche, but is unintentionally hilarious to watch!

As the Shutdown Showdown grew nearer Friday night, CNN’s Eliot Spitzer hosted an intense segment with Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA12) and Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch, in which the trio discussed the Planned Parenthood budget rider, and its relationship to the Hyde Amendment. While the dustup made for great TV, it was also an excellent case study on the relative merits of advocacy and expertise, as Speier’s and Loesch’s escalating confrontation is handily settled by Spitzer’s legal smarts.

Just last week, Countdown host Keith Olbermann dinged Fox News’ Neil Cavuto for an alleged act of hypocrisy, awarding him “Worser Person” for condemning Chris Matthews‘ remarks about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie‘s weight. when Cavuto himself had supposedly taken shots at then-nominee for Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin.

We fell for it, but Big Journalism’s Larry O’Connor dug out the truth, that the full segment revealed Cavuto defending Benjamin, after which O’Connor confronted Olbermann on Twitter. How do you suppose that went?

Andrew Breitbart is going mainstream. The Big site proprietor and polarizing internet mogul has been tapped to provide Election Day analysis for ABC News along with Big Hollywood editor Dana Loesch, and the amicable relationship between a major network and a major Tea Party icon has made many on the left predictably uncomfortable.

Last week, I posted a response to Andrew Breitbart’s claim that he had proven, with the help of the New York Times, that nothing “racially charged” happened on March 20, 2010, when several black members of Congress claimed that they heard racial epithets directed at them by a crowd of protesters. He challenged the MSM to “air the exculpatory evidence” that he had posted, which I did.

Since then, some of the writers from Breitbart’s “Big” sites have responded to my response, and in doing so, have walked back on Breitbart’s original claim. They have demanded corrections to my piece. I am always happy to correct the record where necessary.

A few days ago, the New York Times ran a correction on an article about the Tea Party. In it, they note that there is no proof that Tea Party supporters shouted racial epithets at Congressman John Lewis. Another feather in the cap of Andrew Breitbart, surely, but one news outlet for him is not enough when so many others have yet to do the same.

Andrew Breitbart is going on another spending spree. Pockets heavy with the $100,000 no one collected in exchange for footage that Tea Party protesters shouted racial epithets at black Congressmen, he is now offering the same amount– as well as complete identity protection– to anyone that can find him the complete archives of the now-defunct JournoList, because “Why should Dave Weigel be the only person exposed and humiliated?”

Even taking into consideration the conservative convention straw polls that have somehow put him in the frontrunner position for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Ron Paul just can’t catch a break. Now even his most lasting contribution to the national political conversation, the “Tea Party,” is being reappropriated to CNBC on-air editor Rick Santelli.

Love is in the air at Andrew Breitbart satellite blog Big Journalism, where ACORN gumshoe Hannah Giles (the “prostitute” to James O’Keefe‘s “pimp”) is exhibiting some strangely moderate behavior. After a light-hearted crash course in the early life of a future CPAC superstar, Giles explains that she is not alone in being a young journalist out to find the big story, but she wouldn’t mind being a little less lonely at dinnertime. And she’s willing to reach across the aisle to find her Prince Charming. Ezra Klein, sounds like you have some cooking to do.

Hot off the heels of a career-boosting weekend, Andrew Breitbart took to Fox News’ late-night politically incorrect safe space Red Eye to chat with host Greg Gutfeld, giving the public a peek into the polemic’s mind. This Breitbart, however, was not the blisteringly aggressive soldier of truth that strolled the hotel lobby for leftists to publicly humiliate in viral YouTube videos, but a jolly – albeit obstinate – David laughing at how quickly his Goliaths are going down.

Big Journalism correspondents usually stick to pointing out often legitimate spin against the right wing in the mainstream media, but Archy Cary went one step further to analyze the well-documented media bias against victims of natural and political disasters.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Once the toast of conservative “journalism,” feted by Republican members of Congress, obeyed by the US Senate, James O’Keefe now faces scorn in the wake of his arrest for allegedly trying to spy on Senator Mary Landrieu. The pimp-suited crusader who brought the mighty ACORN to its knees has been genuflected by the FBI, and his former supporters are scurrying. Will no one stand by James in his darkest hour? Who will offer O’Keefe a helping hand out from under that bus?

Revelations that Obama’s adorkable budget director Peter Orszag was getting married to one woman and having a baby with another elicited advice and scorn, but raises the question: what is it about business nerds that attracts female reporters?

Nothing aids the launch of a new website like a little bit of controversy! After being interviewed by Business Insider about the launch of his new site, Andrew Breitbart took to the webs with complaints of being misquoted and proceeded to accuse Business Insider of merely being a front for Gawker. We untangle it all after the jump.

When Andrew Breitbart launched Big Government in September, we asked if he was gearing up to be the next Arianna Huffington: an opinion blog rainmaker with a one-stop digital powerhouse, but presented from the opposite end of the political spectrum. Three months later, hyperbole has become reality as Breitbart is adding to his network of vertical blogs, starting with Big Journalism, which will launch in January. In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Breitbart shared his vision for his expanding network of “Big” right-of-center sites: