Tag: Fox News
Winning The Crowd
“Are you not entertained?” Like professional comedians who will say anything for a laugh, no matter how outrageous, politicians like Newt Gingrich will say anything to invoke a sense of outrage. This is both the Newtster’s greatest political strength and greatest weakness. While appealing to the baser emotions of anger, fear, and resentment plays well with the Teabagger activists who dominate …
For Whom The Bell Trolls
Whenever I find myself holding hands with political Pollyannas, and someone foolishly yells “Red Rover Red Rover, send Chris Hedges right over,” I cringe, close my eyes, and wait for the impact of the Tasmanian Devil himself. Seriously, this guy’s columns should come with a warning label: “Not to be read by anyone displaying signs of clinical depression or …
Stewart v. Wallace; Fair v. Unbalanced
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Jon Stewart enters the Fux News snake pit Last Sunday, Jon Stewart was interviewed by Mike Wallace on the Fox News Sunday Show. In the show’s intro (not shown in the clip above), Wallace promised to “grill the bad boy of political comedy about liberal media bias.” You know, that old canard. But it …
Birther Barf & Obama Derangement Syndrome
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Goldie Taylor exposing the racism at the core of Trumper Birtherism on the Rachel Maddow Show* [* Excuse the fracking fracking commercial. I don’t have to wonder how Rachel feels about being sponsored by Exxon.] As should be apparent to anyone with half a brain, the whole Birther …
The Great Glenn Beck Train Wreck
Engineer Glenn runs off the rails In a post titled The Nutty Professor: The Rise & Fall of Glenn Beck, published a couple of days before Fux News announced that they were dumping his show, it might have appeared that we had jumped the Beckian shark a bit soon by asserting his demise as a fate accompli. But it wasn’t …
Daffy Qadaffy Flashback
Remember the good old days when the Bush Administration embraced Daffy Qaddafi and brought him back into the Brotherhood of Nations, a mere 30 months ago? What went wrong? Did he insult Kenya somehow, and by extension, President Obama‘s extended family? Surely former Secretary of State Condi Rice would answer a call to duty from her current president to help …
