IS ANYTHING worse than an opportunistic political grandstander like Sarah Palin playing word police with a comedian like Bill Maher? These two both love the controversy and the attention, because it serves each of their mutual purpose. It’s 2013 and Sarah Palin has fallen a long way from her vice presidential nomination and her 2010 [...]
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NBC: Holder Approved Fox News Search of Rosen
THE NEWS that Attorney General Eric Holder was involved in approving the search of Fox News reporter James Rosen came on the very day President Obama attempted to regain the confidence of the press. Obama saying he was “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable,” means [...]
Roger Ailes Talks: Obama was Worried About Sean Hannity
“Newt’s a prick.” – Roger Ailes IN THE teaser on Vanity Fair’s website, previewing Zev Chafets’s book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, who had the Fox News channel chief’s cooperation, a stunning anecdote is revealed. President Obama actually went in to see Roger Ailes to complain about Sean Hannity. After some pleasantries, Obama got to the [...]
MSNBC Bests Fact Free FNC
THE OBAMA network, aka MSNBC for those in an alternate universe, is annoying, because the American public has learned not to trust anyone because of our media picking sides. However, considering the prowess Fox News had achieved since its founding it’s clear something had to be done, so NBC did it. In the election of [...]
Fox Executives Respond About Karl Rove’s Role on Election Night
What role was Karl Rove playing when he heatedly contradicted Fox News? – New York Times THIS IS the question that reverberates after what played out on the evening of Election Day. Chris Wallace kicked it off by saying he’d talked with the Romney campaign, who was challenging the results of Ohio and the calling [...]
Fox News Channel and “Witless” ‘Fox and Friends’ Slammed
Today’s version of the morning show featured an anti-Obama video that resembled propaganda films from 1930′s Europe more than it did responsible TV politics of today. And the remarkable thing was the witless crew on the couch that serves as hosts for this show had the audacity to present it as journalism and congratulate the [...]
“The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine”
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The headline is the title of a recently released book by Media Matters, written by David Brock (also MM founder) and Ari Rabin-Havt. FOX is not amused. Their responses are a good indication of much of the news “analysis” they provide. It’s important to understand [...]
Roger Ailes’ FNC Retooling Catches Romney Off Guard
Spotting the reporter, Mr. Romney’s aides sprang into action, asking where he worked and what he was doing there, and then insisting that he not physically approach Mr. Romney before or after he was questioned on television by the attorneys general and Mr. Huckabee. [...] Mr. Gingrich, coming out of the studio after a tough [...]
Sarah Didn’t Want to Make a ‘Big Darn Deal’ About It
**UPDATED** It is hard to describe the relief of this awful person finally going away. – Andrew Sullivan When has Sarah Palin ever not made a “big darn deal” about anything? This is about her inability to face the national press, unlike Chris Christie, who she not so subtly dismissed in her interview with Greta. [...]
Murdoch Global Sleaze Machine Continues to Unravel
… Whether or not the Mirror’s claims are verified, the allegations may raise the volume on questions about the editorial judgment and ethics employed by Murdoch titles in the U.S. “The News of the World has lots of reporters at any given time on the ground in the U.S.,” Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff tells CBS [...]
Joe Biden Won the Afghanistan Debate
It’s all about Pakistan now. Pres. Obama felt compelled to tell the whole history of why we’re in Afghanistan in a bloated, if shorter than usual address to the nation, but this is where he should have started: By the time I took office, the war in Afghanistan had entered its seventh year. But al [...]
Catching Up with the Right
TM NOTE: Well, this was supposed to be up hours ago, but a little life interruptus impeded my best intentions. So, finally, here you go… Tired of being on the receiving end of damaging stories developed by liberal groups such as Media Matters and the Center for American Progress, conservatives are looking to launch their [...]
Sarah, Roger Ailes, and Republican 2012 Possibilities
From New York magazine, a report reveals that after the Tucson domestic terrorism tragedy, Sarah Palin put in a call to Roger Ailes. Before Sarah Palin posted her infamous “Blood Libel” video on Facebook on January 12, she placed a call to Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. In the wake of the Tucson massacre, Palin [...]
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