Friday, February 12, 2010
In a single hour, two men with blatant, undisclosed conflicts of interest had appeared on MSNBC. The question is, was this an isolated oversight or business as usual? Evidence points to the latter. In 2003 The Nation exposed McCaffrey’s financial ties to military contractors he had promoted on-air on several cable networks; in 2008 David Barstow [...]
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Princeton political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels analyzed survey data from the 1990’s to prove this point. During the first term of Bill Clinton’s presidency, the budget deficit declined by more than 90 percent. However, when Republican voters were asked in 1996 what happened to the deficit under Clinton, more than 55 percent said that [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
11 January 2010 on MSNBC: Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, and Chuck Todd
“The level of ignorance is astounding.”
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Who could have seen it coming? Mavricky maverick Sarah Palin stunned the political world this week by announcing that she would be joining Fox News as an analyst and occasional contributor. Will the Maverickosity never stop?
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After Palin said thanks but no thanks for her previous job to nowhere, aborting her job as governor of Alaska [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law says family members are “ashamed and sickened” of the mogul’s right-wing channel Fox News, in what Murdochologists said could be the opening salvo in a public battle for the soul of America’s most-watched news channel.
The attack on Fox by Matthew Freud, the British public relations guru who is married to Elisabeth Murdoch, [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
On its website, Ask.Heritage.org includes a quote by Rush Limbaugh stating that “Some of the finest conservative scholars alive today live, work, and breathe at the Heritage Foundation.” Admittedly that breathing thing is pretty important, but coming from Limbaugh, a man who relies on just taking breath as the prime requisite for spewing outlandish commentary [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
As Fox kept insisting, all eyes were glued on Doug Hoffman, the insurgent tea party candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. A “tidal wave” was on its way, said Sean Hannity, and the right would soon “take back the Republican Party.” The race was not “even close,” Bill O’Reilly suggested to the pollster Scott [...]
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Also tagged Bill O'Reilly, Bill Owens, Democrats, Doug Hoffman, Economy, Elections, Glenn Beck, Goldman Sachs, GOP, Karl Rove, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Op-Eds, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Tea Party, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Rachel Maddow points out what has been largely overlooked in the discussion of the White House feud with Fox News, that explains why Fox is not news. [October 23, 2009]
Robert Greenwald Discusses Fox News on The Ed Show. For more information, go to Fox Attacks.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Dunn is right: Fox isn’t a news network in the traditional sense. Everyone knows its “fair and balanced” tag line is a wink-wink joke.
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Fox adopts the outward forms of the establishment US media and pretends to hew to its standards – in order to undermine those very things. Fox claims to give its viewers the [...]
Former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove has compared President Barack Obama to former President Richard Nixon, saying the Obama administration’s feud with Fox News is proof the White House is creating a Nixonian “enemies list” that “demeans” the office of the president.
“This is the White House engaging in its own version of the media [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez takes us through a recent Fox News report dealing with the Patriot Act. As you will see, it’s not a question of Fox making a mistake here or there—the entire Fox report is essentially devoid of fact, concocted in some politically supercharged alternate reality.
via Harper’s Magazine online.
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