The Arizona senator’s life was, if nothing else, an incredible journey. On Saturday, that journey concluded.
Cenk Uygur
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Inconvenient Truths on Cable and Broadcast News?
Climate hawks need to put more pressure on media outlets to adequately cover the environment.
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PBS Plans to Give Us a Progressive Talk Show, Too, Right?
We all know the sad saga of public television bending over backwards to appease right-wing interests and dull the Republican desire to put Big Bird in a skillet, but this is beyond ridiculous: As the Donald Trump administration mulls whacking its funding for PBS, the pubcaster said today that it is launching a conservative talk […]
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The Madness Will End at Some Point, Right?
It almost makes you want to knock yourself unconscious just so you don’t have to deal with it anymore: On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Trump made clear his desire: Release the memo. Trump’s directive was at odds with […]
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What Happens When Truth Doesn’t Matter?
There’s a reason why Trump’s arrogance remains unmitigated.
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No One’s Out to Get Al Franken
So, can we finally knock it off with suggestions that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was the victim of a right-wing hit job? If Franken legitimately believed that the allegations against him were either completely fictional or somewhat exaggerated, he would have immediately said so. It beggars belief that Franken, who went through legal hell in […]
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Thoughts and Prayers for Jimmy Kimmel
Integrity is not good for one’s career prospects on network television. You have to think that ABC executives are beside themselves with anxiety due to Jimmy Kimmel’s courageous condemnations of the Republican Party’s firearms fetish–especially so soon after he called out the GOP’s fixation on snatching health care from millions of Americans. Outside of ABC […]
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Obama’s Lesson for Patrick, Booker, Harris and Cuomo: Running for President Isn’t Worth It
Remember a decade ago, when the right-wingers were complaining about “Rudy McRomney,” i.e., the prospect of the supposedly insufficiently conservative Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney becoming the 2008 GOP nominee? The “Rudy McRomney” stuff didn’t make a lick of sense–Giuliani, McCain or Romney would have had to answer to the GOP’s right-wing base […]
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Andrew Lack, Way Off Track, Loves Himself Some Right-Wing Hacks
I bet you Sean Hannity’s next. This week’s announcement that NBC News President Andrew Lack has hired Fox refugee George Will as an MSNBC commentator is not outrageous or infuriating. Actually, it’s morbidly funny–because Lack’s apparent strategy is a guaranteed flop. It appears that Lack thinks he can attract Fox’s longtime viewers by flooding MSNBC […]
