The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Part III

According to Fux News host, Obama used a raw onion to fake tears while talking about school kids dying. Recently, it was reported that―horror of horrors!―Obama doesn’t watch enough cable news, and therefore doesn’t understand the nation’s concerns about terrorism…Some would consider eschewing the manufactured reality of the cable news media-industrial-complex a feature and not a bug.

BP and Big Brother (Update)

Big Brother embodied by Captain qua Admiral Kangaroo Allen Ever since an ancient, giant methane bubble traveling at the speed of sound sunk the Deepwater Horizon, an aircraft carrier sized oil drilling platform leased by BP, the transnational corporation has mounted a persistent campaign of coverup and denial. From deliberately underestimating the volume oil and gas unleashed by the explosion …

False Equivalency

Tweety during his silver tongued false equivalency rant On his Hardball show  yesterday, Chris Matthews did a segment called The Hate Machine about the dog whistle relationship between right wing extremists and their “conservative” enablers in the media. Though he didn’t mention the inciters by name, I will– O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck being just the most prominent hate …