New Study Confirms: Watching Fox News Makes You Stoopid

Devolution: Thy name is Fox News.

Gays, Guns, God & Gynecology

Hearing into women’s reproductive issues: What’s wrong with this picture?  Last summer when the economy was still sputtering and deficit reduction was all the rage, the Rethugs believed they had the perfect campaign theme to run on—restoring the economy. That they were mainly responsible for its demise was hardly an insurmountable problem in their eyes. Counting on low information voters with …

Herman Cain: Bizarro World’s Robbin’ Hood (Koch Bros Update)

  The Teabagger’ search for the anti-Romney has been a long and frustrating one. First came Michelle Bachmann. After winning the way overrated Ames Iowa Straw Poll in the same week she was featured on the cover of Newsweek as “The Queen of Rage,” staring into the camera like the batshit crazy religious zealot she is. In near record time she plummeted …

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 …

The Paranoid Stylings Of Glenn Beck

Solange Uwimana over at Media Matters draws our attention to an interesting conjunction between Glenn Beck and the late Richard Hofstadter : The year Glenn Beck was born, Harper’s published an essay by Richard Hofstadter in which the historian explained a “style of mind” common among “extreme right-wingers” of his time. He referred to it as “the paranoid style” for …