Donald Trump is a symptom of the America Roger Ailes made.
Roger Ailes
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Suicide Squad: Trump’s Loyalists Will Never Care About His Abuses of Power
It doesn’t even matter. That’s the shame of it. No matter what Donald Trump says, how he acts, or who he fires, there will always be a good 45 percent of the electorate that will never give a damn, and will be right in line on November 3, 2020 ready and raring to re-elect him. […]
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What the Upheaval at Fox News and the Heritage Foundation Have in Common
Unity is always easier in opposition.
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Did Fox Bite the Right?
In a good example of a broken clock being right two times a day, right-wing writer/radio host/filmmaker John Ziegler argues that it is conservatives who perhaps should be the most ticked off about the power of Fox News, the Beast that Rupert and Roger Built: [I]t is my belief that Fox News has, on balance, […]
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A News Empire Bows to Trump and the GOP
NBC seems to have forgotten Megan Kelly’s history of racist remarks
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Circle of Lies: The Campaign That Created Trump
November 8 is a day that will live in irony. Regardless of who wins nine days from now, the outcome will be influenced not only by the atrocious actions of FBI Director James Comey, but also by a presidential election that occurred twenty-eight years to the day earlier. The bitter legacy of that particular election […]
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Welcome Back
Thank God. I’m sure I wasn’t the only person who had that reaction to the news that GQ had hired Keith Olbermann to discuss the demented dynamics of the 2016 presidential election. It has been five long years since Olbermann was controversially forced out of MSNBC; Olbermann’s departure was profoundly painful for those who appreciated […]
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What Vladimir Putin Learned From Roger Ailes
The focus is not on facts, but on building a narrative of distrust.
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A Moment of Humanity from Charles Krauthammer
Is Charles Krauthammer the first right-wing pundit to declare, unequivocally, that Black Lives Matter? Maybe not. However, it was extraordinary to see the veteran Washington Post columnist push back against Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly’s relentless demonization of these civil rights activists on July 18. Considering Krauthammer’s decades of demagoguery (remember, this is the […]
