Dissing The Prez
The irrational hatred of President Obama is undermining the Office of the President itself.
Tag: Fux News
Don’t Sprays Me, Bro (Update)
Dozens of kittens who had peacefully gathered on a UC Davis sidewalk were assaulted by the Campus police—Oh wait— those weren’t kittens…
Teabaggers Prepare For Alien Invasion
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 …
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 …
Get Ur Motor Runnin— Outta Here!
Palin parked her bus long enough to hitch ride on a Harley to pimp her brand On their yearly pilgrimage to Washington D.C. to honor their fallen comrades on Memorial Day, members of the Rolling Thunder motorcycle club found themselves with an unwelcome guest— camera moth and all around media whore, Sarah Palin. Think Progress reports: During the holiday weekend, …
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 …
The Reagan-Palin Hybrid
Updating the ancient Greek myth of the Chimera The New York Times weighs in on presidential wannabe Sarah Palin‘s commemoration of what would have been the 100th birthday of conservative icon, Ronald Reagan: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sarah Palin opened a weekend centennial celebration to Ronald Reagan by declaring that the United States was lurching toward a “road to ruin,” …
