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James O’Keefe Lies Again

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Who keeps funding these stupid propaganda videos made by James O’Keefe? The guy isn’t even very good at lying, and he certainly is a very sorry excuse for a journalist. His latest video, which you can watch here (if you can stand to), he harasses two men claiming that they voted in North Carolina elections [...]

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The Facts Didn’t Send Us a Press Release

Friday, May 4, 2012

© Brian McFadden I’m posting this mainly for the line about false equivalences. But I also like the warning at the end. Of course, the whole problem with this is that the political parties often do hope that you will get bored with the election and tune out, since then the results will be defined [...]

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Modern Journalism

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

© Tom Tomorrow The problem is that the media doesn’t even have to make shit up like this, they can just repeat the crap that other people make up.

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Turnabout

Friday, April 27, 2012

At a British judicial inquiry Thursday, Rupert Murdoch talked about being “mobbed by journalists and paparazzi” and said he was being harassed. Ironically, the inquiry is over illegal harassment done by Murdoch’s News Corp, which broke into people’s voicemail boxes. Murdoch’s reporters are notorious for harassing not just celebrities, but even ordinary members of the [...]

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Rushing Back

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

In March, Rush Limbaugh lost most of his national advertisers because of his sexist remarks about Sandra Fluke after her Congressional testimony. But now at least one national advertiser has resumed advertising on his show. Ironically, that advertiser is Angie’s List. I wonder what Angie Hicks would have to say about that. And doubly ironically, [...]

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Incestuous Echo Chamber

Monday, April 23, 2012

Follow the money: Conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage all work for Premier Networks. Premier Networks is owned by Clear Channel Communications, which is the largest owner and operator of radio stations, and also owns various other media outlets, including billboards. In 2008, Clear Channel was bought by [...]

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The Illusion of Choice

Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Mediated Justice?

Sunday, April 22, 2012

© Matt Bors The obsession with trying people in the media is truly evil. It rarely leads to true justice, ruins lives, cost millions if not billions of dollars, and distracts us from real issues and problems. And why do certain cases trigger a sustained media obsession, while thousands of equally compelling cases go completely [...]

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Phony Mommy Wars

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

It takes three videos from Jon Stewart to contain this much delicious irony and hypocrisy. And the latest twist to all of this is that even Ann Romney was cynically milking Hillary Rosen’s comment, pretending to be outraged that Rosen was disrespecting stay-at-home moms: It was my early birthday present for someone to be critical [...]

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Conservative Heads Explode!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Hollywood is making a movie about Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served from 1952 (under Harry Truman) to 1986 (Ronald Reagan). The all star cast being assembled reportedly includes Liam Neeson as Lyndon Johnson, and John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Forest Whitaker as Allen and Oprah Winfrey as his wife. But the best [...]

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Circle the Jerks

Friday, March 23, 2012

Last week, over fifty newspapers pulled the Doonesbury comic strips because they dealt with the increasing number of new laws that require women to get an unnecessary sonogram to show them an image of their fetus before they can get an abortion. This week, Jen Sorensen did a comic about the newspapers pulling Doonesbury, and [...]

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False Equivalences

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Is Bill Maher the left-wing equivalent of Rush Limbaugh? Jon Stewart rips this meme to shreds. I totally agree with his last line.

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Limbaugh’s Nemesis

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

What’s the worst thing that has happened to Rush Limbaugh? The Sandra Fluke controversy? Claiming that Obama’s election was encouraging black kids to beat up whites on schoolbuses? Getting caught with illegal drugs? The fact that the median age of his audience has probably exceeded the US life expectancy? Or that he has fewer female [...]

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White House Involved In Sherrod Firing

Saturday, March 10, 2012

USDA employee Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign after a misleadingly edited video of her was posted by Andrew Breitbart to his website, Big Government. At the time, the White House blamed her dismissal on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, claiming that the White House had been informed, but not consulted about the firing. But that’s [...]

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The Real Apology

Thursday, March 8, 2012

© August J. Pollak No matter what you think about what Rush Limbaugh said recently, what really surprises me is that anyone actually listens to anything he says. Or that there are any companies willing to sponsor him. What does the fact that so many Americans listen to him (and even believe him) say about [...]

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