On Monday, Politico ran a long story by Dylan Byers ripping into Fox News president Roger Ailes. “[W]ith his career heading toward its twilight,” wrote Byers, “Ailes is in a war for control of his own legacy.” Byers cites the upcoming publication of a biography of Ailes from Zev Chafetz as evidence of Ailes attempting… Read more »
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Politico’s Byers Drags Romney, 13 Years After Leaving Bain Capital, Into a Story About Firm’s Involvement in Layoffs at Time
Someone needs to tell Dylan Byers at the Politico that the 2012 presidential smear campaign is over, and their guy won. Byers seems not to have gotten the memo, and is still engaged in associating Mitt Romney with the firm he left in 1999 any time it has involvement in decisions relating to layoffs. In… Read more »
Politico’s Byers Churns Out Over 2,000 Words on ‘Al Jazeera America: Will They Watch?’
Before Current TV sold itself to Al Jazeera, allowing former Vice President Al Gore to walk away with a reported $ 100 million, making him (according to Forbes Magazine) richer than the left's designated archvillain Mitt Romney, the network's average audience was between 25,000 and 45,000. The burning question on the mind of Dylan Byers… Read more »
In Covering Reax to Dowd’s ‘Neocon’ Rant, Politico’s Byers Buries Obama Campaign’s Supportive Tweet in Final Sentence
Call it "Politico Protection." Clay Waters at NewsBusters has already exposed the passive-aggressive anti-Semitism in Maureen Dowd's Sunday rant ("Neocons Slither Back") at the New York Times. So did Politico's Dylan Byers, who nonetheless thought that the Obama campaign's tweet supporting Dowd's column via its "Truth Team" (and, by inference,their endorsement of her "neocon puppet master" premise) was so unimportant… Read more »