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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
© 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is Bill Maher the left-wing equivalent of Rush Limbaugh? Jon Stewart rips this meme to shreds. I totally agree with his last line.
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 […]
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 […]
© 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 […]
Someone once said that if you go far enough on the political spectrum to either the right or the left, you’ll get to the same place. That may explain why Bill Maher tweeted today that liberals should accept Rush Limbaugh’s apology for his “insulting choice of words” when he called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and […]
Lewis Black has a good rant about the media coverage of the death of Whitney Houston.
The Colbert Report is off the air for a few days. News is scarce, but apparently there is a serious illness in his family, possibly Colbert’s mother. Colbert also tweeted his thanks for everyone’s thoughts and prayers. Rumors that Colbert’s show got yanked because he pissed off too many Republican power brokers are false. Nothing […]
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