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#ShutUpYourDrivel: The Demise of Laura Ingraham
As the old joke goes, like school on Saturday, she has no class. It’s fair to regard the self-destruction of Fox News host and wingnut-radio personality Laura Ingraham as the most morbidly funny story of the year. Ingraham’s self-righteous rhetorical assault on Parkland survivor David Hogg, and her subsequent fake apology to Hogg in the […]
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Unreliable Sources: Fox News Invades CNN
As if Rick Santorum wasn’t bad enough, did we really need to see former Fox News propagandist Eric Bolling being warmly received by Brian Stelter today? Bolling’s suggestion that Sean Hannity’s rantings are “always within the boundaries of fact” is beyond laughable: ever heard Hannity talk about climate change? Bolling’s suggestion that Donald Trump is […]
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You Know, CNN, You Could Have Had Emma Gonzalez On Instead of Rick Santorum
It was as offensive as it can possibly get. Just one day after the historic March for Our Lives, CNN, bowing down once again to the god of false balance, just had to bring former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum onto the panel of State of the Union this morning to spit all over the children […]
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Journalists Who Normalized Trump Betrayed the Public Trust
You know, it’s not like they weren’t warned. CNN’s Brian Stelter was generally spot-on this morning in pointing out the dangers of the rhetoric that flowed from Donald Trump’s mouth Saturday night in Pennsylvania, but he could have gone a little further–hell, a lot further: Here’s the problem: Trump has been this way for years. […]
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The President Prattles in Pittsburgh
If you know someone who voted for this man, ask them how they can defend any of this: President Trump on Saturday again called for enacting the death penalty for drug dealers during a rally meant to bolster a struggling GOP candidate for a U.S. House seat here. During the campaign event in this conservative […]
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Chris Cillizza Gets Taken to Task for Facile Column
Cillizza wrote that Trump is running his presidency like a hit reality show. O’Brien went off.
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Are Mona Charen and Michael Steele “Woke” Now? No.
They’re probably shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here, too. It’s tough to have sympathy for ultraconservative syndicated columnist Mona Charen (whose columns could knock an insomniac out) in the wake of the rude treatment she received from the cretins at CPAC this weekend, when she condemned Donald Trump’s disrespectful […]
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A Golden Age for Progressive Media?
30 years after the contamination of our public airwaves via the national syndication of Rush Limbaugh’s radio program–and five years after the unfortunate demise of Al Gore’s Current TV–it’s good to see some progress in the fight to ensure that the non-wingnut perspective has a solid platform in American media. Last year, the New York […]
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Trump and the Triumph of Fake News
It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]
