SHUT THE FOX UP!

Attention FOX News Advertiser,

I am writing to inform you that I will not purchase your products as long as you advertise on FOX News.

FOX News does not broadcast news, it broadcasts Republican propaganda— lies, hatred, and incitement to violence— including violence against American citizens, Democratic leaders, and President Obama.

Glenn Beck Explains Healthcare Reform

After backing away from the greatly lampooned ObamaGator’s Got Your Granny Euthanasia Meme, Beck asks his bewildered guests: How many people in the Green Movement believe that people are a virus? Doesn’t matter, even if its zero. Simply saying they do provides him with a premise for his whacky argument that “ObamaCare” is all about “crazy people,” “forced abortions,” and …

Dog Whistling Racist Violence

The source of the problem?  Lizard Brain is diagnosed by unusually thick cranium and remarkable subcutaneous fat layer; trapped, terrified lizard is always symptomatic. As Jacques Ellul points out in his classic 1964 book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, propaganda cannot create something out of nothing. The human mind is not an empty vessel in which ready-made ideas can …

This Week In Teh Crazy (7/18/09)

Glenn Beck tapping his lizard brain on health care reform This week belongs almost exclusively to the Bekasaurus, for sheer histrionic, over the top,  bat shit losing it, as the audio below reveals. The context is the battle over health care reform, per a caller to his radio show. At about 1:25, the caller asks: What the hell is wrong …

This Week In Teh Crazy (7/4/09)

“I will be able to die knowing that I had met my soul mate.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Tip/Wag – Cynthia Davis & Fox News www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum Folks, competition for this week’s entries into Teh Crazy was fierce. There were all the usual suspects. Early in the week, …

This Week In Teh Crazy

When Michelle Bachmann is even too much for Glenn Beck The leaderless Rethuglican Party has no shortage of members eager to grab headlines with ever more outrageous claims and demonizations of the Democrats and President Obama. And I am not referring here to the kind of vitriol vomited out daily by the demented talking heads of professional right wing media. …

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 …