In this astonishing video, multimillionaire radio and TV Huckster Glenn Beck speaks, solemnly and with laughably faked empathy, to a bunch of rubes about how “we” are going to have to make deep sacrifices to pay off the Republican debt that faces the country. ”We” might lose our pensions. ”We” might lose our jobs. ”We” [...]
I’m sure that once Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes see this video, they’re both going to have stool in their blood. You see, right-wing automatons like this numbskull from Alaska only go on Fox to be worshipped, never questioned, and when a normally housebroken Republican poodle like Chris Wallace accidentally commits a wee bit of [...]
You always know somebody’s headed for a deeply satisfying fall when they resort to engaging in a loud, sudden, and stunningly counterfactual rebranding of themselves, seemingly overnight. Actual behavioral changes are never required for this spectacle, though; it’s supposed to be enough to simply rename shit, searchlights blaring, “Shinola” and call it a day. At [...]
*Admittedly, David Petraeus is a General, but Captain sounded better… CH Today General David Petraeus had another statement, among the many he has made in his current 9/12 Media Blitz, that was about as enlightening as, say, coming out and declaring water to be wet, but the media nonetheless slavishly typed it up as though [...]
Republicans? It’s me, God, and I have a little message for you: Cut it out or you’re going to get a lightning bolt, (and I don’t mean that in a good way, Larry Craig, Ken Mehlman, et al…) Being omniscient and all, I did manage to catch some of your dreadful display of Pharisee-like false [...]
I just finished watching Sarah Palin’s speech at the Fox-sponsored teabagger “rally,” hosted by Glenn Beck on this day to mock and dishonor Martin Luther King, or maybe just because. They’ve lied quite a bit about that subject, so I’m not going to presume to know the real motive. The speech was quite weird, and [...]
“At the Islamophobia command center, Murdoch’s News Corporation, the hypocrisy is, if anything, thicker. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial darkly cited unspecified ‘reports’ that Park51 has ‘money coming from Saudi charities or Gulf princes that also fund Wahabi madrassas.’ As Jon Stewart observed, this brand of innuendo could also be applied to News Corp., [...]
Last night on The Ed Show on MSNBC, guest Heidi Harris, a Las Vegas-based hate radio star, explained it all for me. You see, people like Dr. Laura can run around shouting “nigger” eleven times on the air, an act of which Heidi primly disapproves, because they’re syndicated, national, and make “millions of dollars.” It [...]
Since nearly all of what passes for Republican “ideas” are invariably sold with laughably improbable predictions of the dire consequences of not adopting them, rather than their relative merit, I seldom bother to pay much attention to them anymore. I suppose it’s psychologically satisfying, on some level, to know that if a sundry Kristol, Cheney, [...]
If I were a member of the “liberal media,” I would have had it up to my well-groomed eyebrows with Republicans, and I would never believe a word they say until I’d fact-checked them several times. Why is it somehow worse for these cretins to be called “biased” and/or “liberal,” than it is to actually [...]