Proving that while intelligence may be limited, stupidity is not Getting people to consistently vote against their own self-interest is one of the more fascinating dimensions of American politics, a triumph of modern propaganda technique. You’d think that people who can barely survive on low paying, non-union jobs and have no health insurance for themselves or their families would support …
Roman bridge leading to the Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain I got me a bone to pick with Sharif el-Gamal, the developer of the Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, originally called Cordoba House, on near the site of the former World Trade Center. While there are a variety of groups for and against its construction, the most frenzied …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Parent Company Trap www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Fux News has managed to hoist itself on its own cynical, hypocritical petard once again, this time over the potential funding of the Park 51 Islamic cultural center. Jon Stewart connects the dots above. About …
If the signs Teabaggers routinely display at various gatherings aren’t proof enough of their deep seated racism, a new NY Times / CBS survey should seal the deal. But before getting to the meat of the matter, some related stats to better understand who we are dealing with. According to the survey, Teabaggers… …are 18% of Americans and tend to …
Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum tells it like it is: Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox. Do yourself a favor and rent/download the prescient 1997 James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies. The bad guy, Elliot Carver, runs a billion dollar media empire that makes its money creating …
When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant.
After a rash of mistakes and apologies over the past weeks, Fox News has sent a memo to employees announcing a new “zero tolerance” policy for on-screen errors. FishBowlDC obtained the memo, sent last Friday, which warns mistakes could lead to written warnings, suspensions and termination. USojo, however, has obtained the rough draft of that memo, which we thought was a lot more insightful and entertaining:
