Aliens tipped off by climate change begin their hostile takeover of earth With both houses of Congress and the President away on summer vacation, it’s been a slow news week. Unless of course you count the number of gaffs that regularly proceed from the lips of various GOP presidential candidates as they try to out-crazy each other for the wingnut …
Rupey’s nah ah bad boy, he’s jist been a littol undah the weathah.” If you want to smell the swamp, you must click it. While standard evolutionary theory has it that humans descended from warm blooded mammals, the predatory acts of the world’s most powerful media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, suggests that somewhere along the way a mutant strain of humanity …
Admiral Rupert and his would be successors, son James and head wench, Rebekah Brooks The ongoing ship wreck of Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire, News Corporation, dipped its bow farther into the icy waters of the Atlantic yesterday. A year after the company announced its $12 billion offer to buy the 61% of England’s largest satellite tv company, British Sky Broadcasting …
Just hours before his last show on Thursday, Fox News has announced that human tater-tot Glenn Beck will be replaced for the summer by a new gay talk program called, “BOPRAH!”
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 …
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 …
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 …
