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No matter the alleged political affiliations of its founders, the Daily Beast features identified conservative writers over identified liberals at a rate of 3-1 (maybe more; the political leanings of sports and celebrity writers are largely unknown).

Although the Daily Beast portrays itself as centrist, you'll find a heavy concentration of right-leaning Yale, DoD, WSJ, National Review and Weekly Standard alumni in the contributing pool.

Check the conservative bona fides of Christopher Buckley, Michael Moynihan, David Frum, Meghan McCain, Les Gelb, Mark McKinnon, John Avlon, Lucinda Franks, Bruce Riedel, Lloyd Grove, Tunku Varadarajan, James Kirchick. Peter Beinart and Reza Aslan are two of only a few identified regulars.

Scribnia describes Daily Beast as "A news publication that sifts, sorts and curates information with a conservative twist." Many rightwing websites consider Daily Beast liberal, but that may be due to a difference in definition of terms.

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"Conservative" - balderdash. The "Daily Beast" is decidedly liberal - founded by arch-liberal Tina Brown, former editor of liberal publications The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Talk. Daily Beast merged with Newsweek, by far the most liberal of the three main American weekly news magazine. Daily Beast is liberal - not in rational dispute.

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