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Tea Partiers Hold Flash Mob Outside Peabody Energy; Coal Co Kicks Supporters to the Curb

If you were downtown yesterday evening you might've caught red-clad Cardinals fans headed to Busch Stadium, an especially brilliant sunset, and maybe a scant group of activists commemorating the one-year anniversary of Occupy St. Louis at Kiener Plaza. Also hard to miss was a surreal and sizable g ... More >>

Daily Beast Profiles Dana Loesch, with Nod to RFT

The Daily Beast ran a lengthy profile yesterday of our town's Dana Loesch, darling of the conservative punditry, citing our own profile, penned by former staffer Kristen Hinman two years ago. The Beast article suggests that Loesch, who grew up in Arnold, attended Webster University and co-founded ... More >>

Fake Air Marshals Reportedly Kicked Off St. Louis to D.C. Flight

​Update 10:45 a.m.: The Transportation Security Administration today released a statement saying there was no security threat on United flight 3681 last night and no fake federal air marshals. The flight returned to the gate at the pilot's discretion. Original story follows...We're taking this sto ... More >>

Peter Kinder Spinning Lies; Claims Democratic Operative Works for RFT

Cuckoo conspiracy: Kinder claims RFT provided this photo to ourselves. ​Lt. Governor Peter Kinder appeared on the Dana Loesch show on 97.1 FM this afternoon to address allegations a former stripper made against him last week in the Riverfront Times. Kinder admitted knowing Tammy Chapman when she w ... More >>

Video: Andrew Breitbart Tells Dana Loesch to Butt Out

Adam Shriver: Blogger v. Blogger​Progressive activist and blogger Adam Shriver finally got an opportunity to debate conservative activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart this weekend when the latter showed up in St. Louis for a move-on-up.org conference. Shriver, a doctoral student at Washington Univ ... More >>

Peter Kinder: This Weekend, You Can Meet Him in St. Louis

Peter Kinder is making his first public appearance in St. Louis this weekend -- but we expect he'll be avoiding Verlin's (and the entire Metro East).​Embattled Lt. Governor Peter Kinder -- suddenly more famous for his brief appearance at a bar known for its pantsless parties and alleged wooing of ... More >>

Smart Girls Invade St. Louis -- Teaching Conservatives to "Fight Like a Girl"

Jennifer DeJournett conducts the VOICES of Conservative Women's Presidential straw poll, won by Michele Bachmann.​Sarah Palin was not present at the third annual Smart Girl Summit, which took place last Friday and Saturday at the Crowne Plaza downtown (not, as was reported by The Daily Beast, ... More >>

Irony Alert! Sarah Palin Documentary Gets St. Louis Debut at "Smart Girl Summit"

​The wait is almost over. On Saturday, filmmaker Stephen Bannon brings his Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated to St. Louis as part of the Smart Girl Summit.Based on the name of that conference, you'd think it would be hard for Bannon to find a more discriminating local audience to screen his f ... More >>

Everything You Need To Know About UMSL, UMKC Fake Video Debacle In One Easy Sitting

Christofanelli: Wash U. senior allegedly edited the controversial video.​Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, had University of Missouri - Kansas City professor Judy Ancel on her show yesterday. As you likely know by now, Ancel and Don Giljum, a professor at University of Missouri - St. Louis, wer ... More >>

More Fallout Over Speaker Tilley's "Race-Baiting" Comment; Right-Wing Media Fuming

Tilley: When this guy is the Tea Party's public enemy No. 1, the whole world has gone insane.​A comment the Missouri House Speaker made this week regarding the fight over local control of the St. Louis police department has infuriated right-wing media -- and oddly -- placed free-market guru Rex Si ... More >>

CNN Adds Dana Loesch In Effort to Become More Political, Save Ratings

Dana Loesch: Does she have the right (wing) stuff to save CNN?​The original cable news network (a.k.a. CNN) announced yesterday that it has hired St. Louis Tea Party co-founder Dana Loesch for its 2012 election coverage. The contract is the latest coup for Loesch, who -- in just a few years' time ... More >>

Dana Loesch Radio Show Now Syndicated

​First it was shoes. Then it was booze. And these days? What does St. Louis have to offer the rest of the world? Try conservative talk-show hosts. Today Emmis Communications announced that Dana Loesch and her "Dana Show" will begin broadcasting next week on WIBC, Indianapolis, marking the first ti ... More >>

Dana Loesch Takes Over as Editor of Breitbart's BigJournalism

Jennifer SilverbergHer editorship, Dana Loesch.​Dana Loesch, the blogger, radio host, Tea Party speaker, conservative lightning rod and Riverfront Times cover subject, has taken on yet another role: editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart's BigJournalism.com. BigJournalism is the media watchdog po ... More >>

Vanity Fair Article on Sarah Palin Hatches Local Conspiracies

The article that started it all.​The political blogosphere is on fire with allegations surrounding writer Michael Gross's profile of Sarah Palin in this month's Vanity Fair.Much of that brouhaha comes from the opening two graphs of the article, a seemingly innocuous scene-setter describing Palin b ... More >>

Dana Loesch and Bill O'Reilly Butt Heads on O'Reilly Factor

​Back in January when Riverfront Times profiled the local Tea Party co-founder and 97.1-FM personality Dana Loesch, the conservative media publisher Andrew Breitbart told this newspaper that if Loesch was doing her thang out of New York, she'd be showing up on Fox News' Hannity and O'Reilly Factor ... More >>

Patriot Dame: Dana Loesch, Tea Party co-founder and rising star of conservative talk radio, reporting for duty!