THERE’S A campaign not so quietly growing in volume, with Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh the loudest, that has Republicans having a hissy fit over Obama’s proposed tax increases for the wealthiest. Rush is using the Santa Claus line, a take off on O’Reilly’s people want stuff belch, but both are focused on making people [...]
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Top Story — It’s the Demographics, Stupid
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AND BY stupid I mean former Governor Haley Barbour’s assertion that Sandy cost Mitt Romney the presidency. I made the case preemptively that Romney couldn’t blame losing on Sandy, knowing what was bound to come in what I believed (and wrote) would be [...]
TOP STORY – Team Obama Takes Out Right Wing Noise Machine, Rush, Sean, Laura, All Led by Karl Rove [Video]
TODAY AT noon, and then again at 3:00 p.m., after listening to right wing radio for 20 years, I get to tune in to finally hear what I wrote about in my book. The last gasp of a dying influence. It’s over, even if the medium lives on. But finally, at long last, new-media has [...]
Washington Post/ABC Poll: Obama Trails Romney by 33 Points with White Males
However, Romney does now boast a statistically — and substantively — important lead on the economy, which has long been the central issue of the race. When it comes to handling the nation’s struggling economy, 52 percent of likely voters say they trust Romney more, while 43 percent say they have more faith in the [...]
Tabloid TV: Fox News Becomes the Benghazi Channel
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com ON FOX News channel yesterday, former General Jack Keane refused to play ball with Megyn Kelly, in what has developed on the FNC network as All Benghazi (almost) All The Time. Ms. Kelly’s frustration and disappointment read on the screen. However, Keane is an exception and FNC doesn’t make [...]
The Epic Fail of Drudge, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity
But when footage finally aired on Hannity’s Fox News program and on Carlson’s Daily Caller website at 9 p.m., following hours of aniticipation spurred by Drudge’s promise of controversy and Hannity’s promise of a “bombshell”, it fell flat. – Dylan Byers, Politico THE DAYS of Matt Drudge having influence beyond the Sean Hannity squealers is [...]
News Desk: What Climate Deniers are Costing Us All
THE ENTIRE debate on climate change has been dumbed down by the right. Whether it’s Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or the conservative press, science has been rejected for ideology. Oxygen is one of the key ingredients for body growth. Ample theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that the capacity for growth is limited by oxygen in [...]
Top Story: The Republican Swarm to Save Mitt
IT’S ALL HACKS on deck. A battle between the Republican establishment on one side and on the other is conservative bloggers and other allies trying to help Mitt Romney make the case that President Obama’s Middle East policy caused what happened in Benghazi, Libya. The art of political warfare depends on riding into a negative [...]
The Death of American Exceptionalism
WHATEVER AMERICA USED to represent it doesn’t any longer, with Rep. Michele Bachmann the leading poster propagandist representing why this is true, though she’s got company in her clan. It includes Mitt Romney’s booster John Sununu, a former governor of New Hampshire and George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff. Along with these Republicans you can [...]
In Memoriam, Andy Griffith
THE EGOMANIACAL LONESOME Rhodes was played by Andy Griffith in the film masterpiece “Face in the Crowd.” The always stellar female lead played by Patricia Neal, the woman who took Lonesome down. Looking back on the film and Griffith’s raging, brilliant tour de force performance, it seems a warning and foreshadowing of an industry yet [...]
Giddy with Joy Good Taxation Brings
Even if Republicans win big in 2012, they will have to fight inch by bloody inch for changes they could have had for the asking in 2010. Truly, this is Waterloo—a Waterloo brought about by a dangerous combination of ideological frenzy, poor risk calculation, and a self-annihilating indifference to the real work of government. – [...]
Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, Climate Change is Real
VICTORY FOR planet-loving people over industry and environmental marauders came today in a spectacular validation of the EPA. From the AP: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said that the Environmental Protection Agency was “unambiguously correct” in using existing federal law to address global warming, denying two of the challenges [...]
First Amendment Takes Another Hit
I think it’s interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words “heroes.” Why do I feel so [uncomfortable] about the word “hero”? I feel comfortable — uncomfortable — about the word because it seems to me that it is [...]
Target of Fantasy Flynt Ad “Commends” Hustler for “Honesty”
“That’s satire. I’m able to publish this because of the Supreme Court case I won in 1984, Flynt v. Falwell.” – Larry Flynt [h/t The Blaze] HE’S THE RUSH Limbaugh of graphic images. The leader in sliming the right, as Limbaugh is to the left. Like Limbaugh’s verbal assault on Sandra Fluke, Larry Flynt has [...]
Oh Donna, How We Danced
DONNA SUMMER was writing “Love to Love You Baby”; I was Miss Missouri. “Last Dance” came out in 1978, the year after the BeeGees and John Travolta blasted on the scene and shook American culture. I was Broadway bound and once I got there one thing I’ll never forget is a couple of years later [...]
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