One can hardly argue that something awful hasn’t happened to our news media in the last few decades, but those actually in the media still steadfastly, and at times almost comically, refuse to see it. In short, a calculated plan by the right, beginning in the 1970′s, has reached glorious fruition in 2010: the right [...]
Giddy from their historic, unprecedented, big, giant, enormous, gargantuan, sweeping mandate from the American People, which happens pretty much every time Republicans win any electoral victory, however shady, they are getting as embarrassing to watch as a monkey cage. Having screamed for months about “jobs,” Republican governors immediately killed thousands of them by stopping large, [...]
Given that I started this blog in January 2009, I never thought much about how I would handle elections; I hate projections unless they’re mine and they’re right, or they’re someone icky and they’re wrong. Understandable, if not particularly lofty, and a good way to keep the tarnish off the CHNN brand. Nevertheless, Retzilian successfully [...]
The following towering pile of horseshit was written by Fox News Democrats Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen, and appeared in the WaPoo, under the Fair and Balanced headline, “Our Divisive President, Redux.” (h/t Media Matters.): President Obama’s post-partisan America has disappeared, replaced by the politics of polarization, resentment and division. Genius observation…. any clue as [...]
I used to think time was on my side with ol’ Dick Cheney; that that ticker of his couldn’t possibly continue to propel his fetid corpus onto Meet the Press and whatnot, to croak dire threats of the danger of everyone not doing exactly whatever he said, for much longer. That he was always later [...]
Mitch McConnell had something astonishing to say to the National Journal over the weekend. He told his interviewer that “retaking the government” was the only real priority of the Republican Party for the next two years. That’s it. Unaccountable power, or they take their toys and go home. Without a trace of embarrassment, the grandmotherly [...]
John Burns at the New York Times woke up yesterday in a bad mood, after seeing what the Pentagon had so effortlessly helped him hide make its way into print, and went on a mission. The result is a deeply unprofessional and unintentionally revealing attempt to create a commotion that draws eyes away from the [...]
It looks like we have another flamboyant entrant to the right-wing Sore Winners’ Circle in that pudgy, conniving Church Lady, Virginia Thomas, whose husband’s life tenure and political omnipotence as a Supreme Court Justice despite lacking any qualifications for that job, isn’t enough for her. Rather than quietly thanking her lucky stars that the creepy [...]
Probably the funniest new right wing media meme, started by Jonah Goldberg but lovingly embraced by Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers, is that liberalism is somehow linked to Nazism. Yeah, and down is up on Uranus. Granted, Jonah and Glenn aren’t the brightest bulbs on the chandelier, but it seems to me that some of [...]
Well, ol’ Jonah Goldberg, “author” of something called “Liberal Fascism,” has another history lesson for us all, and it’s a doozy. Our favorite chubby underachiever was apparently feeling like the dunce in the room before Glenn Beck’s chalkboard, since the real smarties like Dinesh D’Souza and had just come out with newer, even more awesome [...]