Lindsay Lohan somehow found herself generating cable news fodder today when she tweeted she was concerned about the Federal Reserve. Unfortunately for those who agreed with what they thought was a sincere political statement, that tweet was an advertisement. On The Last Word tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell and guest Dana Milbank explained how the youngest man ever accused of securities fraud got his hands on Lindsay Lohan’s Twitter.

In addition to speaking with Kirsten Powers regarding Congressman Anthony Weiner’s ongoing scandal, Howard Kurtz spoke with a panel of guests regarding another key player in the unraveling story: Andrew Breitbart. Kurtz wondered whether Breitbart did anything wrong in releasing the information he had on Weiner, and although Kurtz thought Breitbart was blameless on this story, Dana Milbank wasn’t pleased with how Breitbart allowed the most explicit photo of Weiner to be exposed.

With the momentous news that Osama bin Laden has been killed, Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner feels almost like an event from a bygone era. Still, for those of you who still remember the dinner, but have already seen President Obama‘s blistering Donald Trump routine, or Seth Meyers‘ dry-roasting of the media like so many [...]

On Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz asked his panel to explain the media’s endless coverage of Republicans who are far away from declaring themselves to be legitimate candidates (like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Donald Trump), while a real candidate like Tim Pawlenty gets much more “restrained” coverage. Roger Simon offered up one theory, suggesting “the media loves to gawk at the trainwreck, and some of these candidates are.”

The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank is considering a self-imposed hiatus from all things Sarah Palin after being concerned that he’s written no less than 42 columns on the former governor since 2008, when Sen. John McCain picked her to be his presidential running mate. Psshhh. We’ve written 42 articles on Palin in a day.

On CNN‘s Reliable Sources, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank defended a recent column where he admitted even if there is no evidence that Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck inspired Jared Loughner to shoot Congresswoman Giffords, criticism of Palin and Beck is still deserved because “both are finally being held to account for recklessly playing with violent images in a way that is bound to incite the unstable.”

The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank slams Senator John McCain in his column today, honing in on McCain’s passionate speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday before the final vote that eventually repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Milbank argues McCain’s speech yesterday showed an over-the-top level of rage.

Yikes! This morning in his blog, Conscience of a Liberal, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman takes a swipe at the Times’ competitor, the Washington Post, as well as one of their more well-known columnists, Dana Milbank.

So much for the “new niceness.” From today until Wednesday, Salon’s War Room blog will be revealing its list of the 30 “worst” pundits currently stinking up the media. The inventory is being written by Alex Pareene, who learned the art of biting commentary at Gawker.

Bill O’Reilly took Dana Milbank‘s bait. After Milbank accused Fox News’ election coverage of overt bias in his Washington Post column, O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly debunked his claims, O’Reilly going as far as to make a joke about Milbank being beheaded under sharia law, and predicted Milbank would take it literally. He did, and it earned him the full first segment of tonight’s Factor.

While some have (facetiously?) congratulated them for the actual results, Fox News had a really good election night. Not only were their ratings dominant, but they also earned significant praise from media critics who saw their analysis as more balanced than others. But not everyone saw it that way, namely Dana Milbank, who was harshly critical of what he saw as Fox News’ bias coverage. This predictably raised the ire of Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly, who pushed back on last night’s Factor.

Bernie Goldberg had a lot more on his plate tonight for his regular “Weekdays with Bernie” segment on the O’Reilly Factor with the variety and scope of mainstream media election coverage, but he limited his analysis to two major targets: Dana Milbank and the Washington Post, and the MSNBC Election Day crew– or, as Goldberg put it, “five liberal commentators being snarky [and] giggling like schoolgirls.”

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank‘s unauthorized biography of Glenn Beck, Tears of a Clown, came out with a splash earlier this month, but reports tell Politico the interest has not been sustainable in most bookstores. Judging from these numbers, seems like people would rather read about Glenn Beck straight from the source.

WaPo‘s Dana Milbank is out this week with a new book on Glenn Beck. An excerpt from it, which has been running on the Huffington Post today, has been making some waves. In it Milbank asserts that much of the time Beck is speaking in coded language to the Mormon population in America. The evidence is hanging by a thread, as it were.

The accumulation of primary victories by Tea Party-backed candidates has frazzled many in the media– what will an anti-incumbency movement look like when its leaders are all incumbents?– but not all of them are taking the bait. In fact, Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank contends that the marriage between the GOP and the Tea Party is going swimmingly.

Dana Milbank’s Washington Post column today is more of a trend-spotter than a policy analysis, noting that the Republican “Class of ‘94” that stormed in during Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution seems to have more sex scandals than most. “No fewer than 15 of the 73 elected in the landslide that year,” Milbank writes, “have entertained the nation with flaps that include messy divorces and a suspicious car accident.” In other words, the Class of ’94 is bringing career-destroying sexy back. But did it ever leave?

Florida governor Charlie Crist is having a hard time making friends in light of the rapid rise of his Senate primary opponent Marco Rubio. At least now he can now count Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank among his supporters, who is calling his decline in the GOP “a whole new level of Jacobin excess” and calling for those who value “sanity” to endorse him

Dana Milbank feels shut out of the White House. In his Washington Post column today, Milbank lets a series of anecdotes explain how Barack Obama has routinely neglected the press in an administration that ran on transparency. The few times he lets his own voice crack through, Milbank limits his criticism to May Day parades and USSR references. Has Dana Milbank joined the Tea Party movement?

President Obama is really not endearing himself to the press this week. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer noticed something interesting about the press conference with Obama at today’s Nuclear Security Summit: despite addressing a huge crowd filled with numerous correspondents, both international and American, Obama chose only to call on American male reporters. “What was going on [...]

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein made history last year by becoming the first blogger to ask a question at a presidential news conference. Since then, he has burnished a fine journalistic reputation with hard work and honest reporting. In this installment of Inside the White House Press Corps, Sam talks about that first presser, the Nico Pitney-Dana Milbank dustup, covering the White House, and really delivers the goods on embarrassing TV habits.

It took a few choice words and an Air Force One ride to melt Dennis Kucinich’s adamant opposition into reluctant support. The reactions to Barack Obama’s successful political courtship were predictably mixed. While some decided to underplay the relevance of a fringe congressman’s opinion and others took the opportunity to praise the president’s patience, the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank saw Kucinich’s flip-flop as a holiday miracle.

After a week where Rahm Emanuel became the subject of three of the paper’s major stories—two opinion pieces with opposing views and a front-page news item suggesting anonymous Washington insiders were upset Emanuel’s advice was not being taken—the Post has been taking fire from both sides for alternately undermining the President and attacking one of his top advisers.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has officially become the Washington Post‘s Apple of Discord, tossed into the op-ed section and starting a civil war. After running a piece by Dana Milbank suggesting that most of the current problems facing the Obama Administration were a product of the president not listening to his Chief of Staff, it published a counterpoint by David Broder. Now Matt Yglesias chimes in.

Turns out we are not the only ones paying attention to Glenn Beck’s immediate influence on the world of book sales. Glenn Beck apparently also has an eye on the rocketing Amazon rankings of the books he recommends (even the evil ones!). Beck is the new master of literary top ten list.

It’s no great secret that Senator Joe Lieberman has enraged many liberals with his vocal, well-publicized threats to derail the health care bill under consideration.
Dana Milbank’s theory: Lieberman is just an old-school moderate, which is something today’s hyperpolarized Senate can’t handle.