This was Trump’s best day of the trial. But will it be enough to get him off?
Laura Ingraham
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Trumpism Before Trump
How a small group of reactionaries hijacked the Republican Party—decades before the 2016 election.
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Fox News Hosts Thought January 6 Would Destroy the Conservative Movement. Here’s Why It Didn’t.
The GOP has had the opportunity to minimize the shock of a failed insurrection—just as they plot a successful one the next time.
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The GOP’s Self-Perpetuating Racist Wheel of Death
What will become of the Republican Party once it realizes white nationalism is non-viable?
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The Right-Wing Media Machine Was Built to Destroy People Like Christine Blasey Ford
They’re more aroused by destroying lives than Donald Trump was by Stormy Daniels.
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If Andrew Gillum Makes History, One Floridian Won’t Be There to See It
If Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum defeats Rep. Ron DeSantis to become Florida’s next Governor on November 6, it will be an embarrassing defeat for Donald Trump and the Fox News fiends supporting the Republican’s campaign. It will be a tremendous victory for Sen. Bernie Sanders and those who have persuasively argued that the Democratic Party […]
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The Unsinkable Scott Pruitt?
The right doesn’t care how many people will be harmed by Pruitt’s actions as EPA Administrator.
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Strange Brew: The Right’s Pathetic Denial of Racism
Perhaps the most morbidly funny media story of the year is the spectacle of conservative crackpots falling all over themselves to attack the efforts by Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to address implicit bias, after the horrifying incident in Philadelphia where a Starbucks employee decided that calling the cops on Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, two […]
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Channeling Rage: Trump and Fox News
Here we stand Remote control buttons In our sweaty little hands As one man We’re lining up and waiting For someone’s command… TV rules– Pretty soon you won’t be able To turn it off at all! All you fools Then it will turn you off— Your back’s against the wall! —“T.V. Age,” Joe Jackson, 1982 […]
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Someone Tell Bill Maher Not to Waste His Sympathy on Laura Ingraham
Watch this clip very carefully from last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Do you notice that Maher doesn’t actually refute any of Eliot Spitzer and Heather McGee’s points about David Hogg’s pushback against Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault? As Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy observes here, all parties involved in the Hogg-Ingraham controversy simply exercised […]
