This week, viewers of Current TV’s Countdown have been treated to syndicated liberal radio powerhouse Bill Press filling the anchor chair for bronchitis-stricken Keith Olbermann. Contrary to this item at Huffington Post, Press will also host Countdown‘s Florida primary coverage Tuesday night, along with guest analyst Eliot Spitzer (Spitzer will then fill in as Countdown host Wednesday night). Olbermann’s absence may be providing viewers with a glimpse of Current’s future.

A series of homophobic and racist tweets were sent out by the Huffington Post’s Twitter account on Sunday. The tweets jabbed Wes Anderson, used the N-word and claimed the publication was hacked by The New York Post. “The New York Post rules!” exclaimed one of the anarchic tweets. Read the missives the hacker sent out [...]

During MSNBC’s Iowa Caucus coverage, The Huffington Post‘s Howard Fineman divulged to Chris Matthews that Michele Bachmann‘s “inner circle is in the process of telling her it’s time for her to drop out.”

On Monday, we reported on a new investigation from James O’Keefe‘s Project Veritas that seeks to discredit Rutgers Professor Jeff Keefe and the think tank he does research for, The Economic Policy Institute, using surreptitious recordings with a Project Veritas “decoy.”

In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, O’Keefe defended his tactics, and his decision not to publish exculpatory recordings of EPI officials refusing his operative’s advances.

James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas appear to have a new institution in their sights with a new hidden camera video project titled “To Catch a Journalist: Part One.” The video is first in what appears to be series, and is superficially successful in raising questions about Jeff Keefe, a Rutgers professor who appears to offer to kill an economic report if it would help defeat an anti-collective bargaining vote in Ohio. O’Keefe also aims to smear The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, but falls far short of the mark.

Forbes‘ Jeff Bercovici reports today that the Newspaper Guild has dropped its months-long boycott against the Huffington Post. You may recall that, earlier this year, the 26,000 member strong Newspaper Guild called for all unpaid Huffington Post bloggers to withhold work in support of a pre-existing strike. RELATED: Dan Abrams Takes On The Huffington Post [...]

It’s Friday, poodles! And that means that most of us are but a few hours away from passing out in our own or a stranger’s bodily fluids enjoying a few serene, precious moments amidst our own personal whirlwinds of work, family and responsibilities. The weekend is an oasis, if you will, in our busy lives. Which is why today is the perfect time to reveal an exclusive glimpse at the AOL Huffington Post Media Group’s own “Oasis.” Located in the Dream Downtown hotel at 355 West 16th Street, the Oasis is open to the public as part of the annual NYC Wine & Food Festival. It offers visitors an opportunity to “unplug and recharge” as they enjoy activities and treatments like yoga, massage, reflexology and aromatherapy, in addition to myriad events focused on helping us bring more peace, balance and health to our daily lives.

Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, not oft deterred by hairy subjects, met a match last night that he was not prepared for in, of all places, his kitchen pantry.

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson earned himself a hardy round of laughs at last night’s Fox News/Google debate when he joke that “his next-door neighbor’s two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.” It was a good joke, but it wasn’t him. According to Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone, radio host Rush Limbaugh delivered a similar joke on air earlier that day.

Fox News’s Bret Baier broke news this afternoon that the Obama administration is looking to draw American troop numbers in Iraq down to 3,000 by the end of this year. According to Fox’s sources, this number is significantly less than than the military personnel had expected, and, notedly, less than they believe they need. ”We can’t [...]

A couple of days ago, Glenn Beck got a lot of heat for comments he made on his radio show Tuesday. Beck and his cohosts questioned the term “African American,” pointing out that it was ridiculous sounding when you were abroad. What got him in the most trouble was statements he made that seemed to imply that the term “colored” wasn’t that bad. In response to the scandal, Beck furiously hit out against the media and especially the Huffington Post for misrepresenting what he said for the sake of driving traffic and discrediting his character.

GLAAD is calling on the Huffington Post to apologize for an article in which writer Amanda Fairbanks chronicles “Sex For Tuition: Gay Male College Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loan Debt.”

In a blog post about the article, GLAAD lists the various gay stereotypes and misconceptions that appear in Fairbank’s report. For example, she quotes a student who tells her that students participating in prostitution do so in order to “afford the extravagant and often lavish gay lifestyle” and writes that “unlike in the straight world, many say they find working as an escort on the gay scene to be an accepted, even applauded practice.”

If any of you follow the Huffington Post on Twitter, you might have noticed their tendency towards unique, attention grabbing headlines. You may have also noticed that sometimes it’s hard to find anything besides HuffPo on your Twitter feed. HuffPo is referred to as the great aggregator for a reason. They certainly have a knack for finding some fascinating human interest pieces.

Given the polarized nature of politics in this decade, it takes a certain amount of fearlessness to publicly switch teams– or even admit to a past reawakening. While certainly not alone in doing so, former Carter campaign staffer Rep. Michele Bachmann and former conservative gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington present a striking contrast in how to let the base down easy with news that you are or may have been playing on the wrong team. Simply put, it’s a lot easier to do when switch parties doesn’t necessarily mean switching beliefs systems– and yes, one is possible without the other.

Lately, I’ve really been feeling like we’ve been lacking in light, controversial fare to discuss on programs like the Today show and The View. Like, I know there’s all this drama going on in Somalia and something has been happening with debt and ceilings but it’s all just so… depressing. I can’t even think about it. You know what has really getting to me? This Huffington Post article I read about Sugar Babies.

If any of you follow the Huffington Post on Twitter, you might have noticed their tendency towards unique, attention grabbing headlines. You may have also noticed that sometimes it’s hard to find anything besides HuffPo on your Twitter feed. HuffPo is referred to as the great aggregator for a reason. But they certainly have a knack for finding some fascinating human interest pieces. Some may call it link bait.

Nutrition expert and Food Politics writer Marion Nestle was surprised to see her name included in the byline of a recent Huffington Post article titled “NYC’s SNAP Sugary Beverage Ban Is the Right Idea.” While the article — described as being co-authored with Geoffrey Canada, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harlem Children’s Zone — reflected Nestle’s views on nutrition, she insists she never wrote it, nor has she ever met Mr. Canada.

Wow. Fox News has really gotten to Jon Stewart. After two weeks of animosity beginning with his interview with Chris Wallace and most recently culminating in last night’s rant against Wallace’s rebuttal on Sunday, Stewart took to the airwaves with a new target in mind: Herman Cain, who took shots at Stewart’s “Amos and Andy impression.” Stewart’s response was a classic reversion to “I’m just a comedian” form: a highlight reel of his most offensive impressions.

Bill Keller, who remains the New York Times‘ executive editor until this coming September, chatted with Reuters’ Anthony DeRosa about, among other things, his issue with Twitter (a social media platform that may or may not render its users utterly stupid) and his issue with editing rather than reporting. Also, his issues with the Huffington Post. Kind of. Issues! Let’s discuss them!

CBS News wants you to know that reporters at The New York Times, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Entertainment Weekly all got it wrong in comparing Scott Pelley‘s first week as anchor of The CBS Evening News to the final weeks of Katie Couric‘s time in the chair. As we put it yesterday, “it’s too early to fairly judge the CBS Evening News‘ transition from Katie Couric to Scott Pelley in terms of ratings, but in his first week on the job, Pelley largely held on to the viewers Couric had, but seems to have lost some of the viewers who tuned in for the post-Couric newscasts with interim anchor Harry Smith.”

In the usual absence of any real, meaty (not a pun, thank you) political stories each summer, it’s usually something completely absurd, wild and/or scandalous that captures the attention of the media and the general public. Summer of ’11 has, so far, been a Summer of Weiner. The so-called “Weinergate” scandal has been the gift that keeps on giving, as far as many media outlets have been concerned, and it’s interesting to see how each has managed to put its own spin on the story. Let’s take a look at how they (and, yes, we) managed it, shall we?

Let it be known that the first person to find a tie between Rep. Anthony Weiner and lewd material was former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez. Sanchez tweeted out a Huffington Post article yesterday from April, in which he found that former pornography salesman Ben Suky had donated to Rep. Weiner’s Congressional campaign– as well as that of Rep. Eric Cantor, and called for both legislators to return the donations.

Most Americans who casually follow news may just be catching up on the summer’s first tragicomic mystery, the story of how a lewd photo ended up being sent to a 21-year-old college student from the Twitter account of Rep. Anthony Weiner. While concrete facts in this story are few and far between, and the Congressman certainly hasn’t been helping, those who first heard of the story on The Last Word tonight may have missed the little information there is out there, and in lieu got an update on Andrew Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod. Wait a minute, wasn’t that last summer?

As the relatively recently-formed Aol / HuffPo hybrid prepares to fold Aol News into the Huffington Post, the company has revealed that it will replace Jai Singh with longtime “HuffPostian” Nico Pitney as the sites’ managing editor.

In this week’s New York magazine, John Swansbourg takes an entertaining look at the deft comic stylings of NBC News Anchor Brian Williams and how he has developed a legitimate side career in comedy. As one who was an early chronicler of same (see: SNL maiden voyage, Colbert WristStrong stunt, Jon Stewart spar-fests, earnestly following up on a 2005 quip about Bea Arthur). I appreciated seeing how Swansbourg traced his gestation from anchor-who-hosts-lots-of-dinners to legit OMG-is-this-a-residuals-check? funnyman. And it’s nice to see BriWi no longer apologizing for cracking a few jokes outside the 6:30 – 7pm timeslot. Good times all around.