Hillary Clinton and her campaign has displayed the most overt fondness for right-wing media of all the presidential contenders, including Republicans. She has agreed to participate in Fox News-sponsored debates when her Democratic colleagues have declined. She accepted donations from Rupert Murdoch. Just last week she sat for an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Mar 30
John McCain’s Ad: Connecting The Dots
Upon closer examination of John McCain’s new campaign ad, some interesting messages become apparent… Announcer: Keep that faith. Keep your courage. Stick together. Stay strong. Do not yield [...] we’ll never surrender. Was that McCain or Jim Jones? No matter. The ad goes on to ask, “What must a president believe about us?” John McCain [...]
Mar 28
The Media’s Gift To John McCain
What is being called the first general election campaign ad has hit the airwaves. It is a biographical ad for Sen. John McCain that features him in a North Vietnamese hospital bed. Most of the Conventional Media is reporting on this as if it were somehow newsworthy. The New York Times covered the ad’s release [...]
Mar 25
Clintonstein Meets The Scaife Man
Hillary Clinton was interviewed yesterday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. She took the opportunity to continue a pattern of personal attacks on her opponent, Barack Obama: “He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” What’s interesting about this encounter is not [...]
Mar 24
Harold Ford Ditches Fox News For MSNBC
When former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. signed on as a Fox News contributor last year, he made himself available to be exploited as a Fox News Democrat. That meant his remarks would be employed to disparage other Democrats and put a bipartisan mask on Fox’s rightist propaganda. Well, apparently the honeymoon is over. Today [...]
Mar 24
Fox Business Network Ad Deliberately Dishonest
A couple of weeks ago, CNBC’s Jim Cramer was asked by an emailer if he should liquidate his account at Bear Stearns. Cramer said: “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.” Shortly thereafter, Bear Stearns stock collapsed and [...]
Mar 21
Karl Rove’s Blogger Smackdown
Karl Rove may have been Bush’s Brain, but the nimrods at NewsBlusters are the ones who seem to be in need of gray matter reinforcements. NB’s Matthew Sheffield did an interview with Rove that is downright hilarious. The first question dealt with why wealthy conservatives do not invest in media, whereas wealthy liberals do. [Pause [...]
Mar 21
Passport-Gate: Secrets In The House Of Bush
In less than 24 hours, a story that began with the disclosure that State Department employees were peeking into the passport records of Barack Obama, it has come to light that the snooping also extended to Hillary Clinton and John McCain. While there is still much that is unknown, these revelations are being treated by [...]
Mar 20
Ben Stein: Hot To Fox Trot
If this doesn’t curdle your milk, I don’t know what will. [Mouse over image above for the not-so-subtle message] Conservative economedian Ben Stein has trouble controlling his carnal urges when watching Fox Business News. In an article he wrote for Best Life Magazine he reveals the real appeal of FBN’s programming: Hot Babes. And he [...]
Mar 19
Iraq 5 Years On: An Anniversary Of Shame, Lies, and Death
Five years ago today, America, under the mis-leadership of George W. Bush, invaded Iraq. The purpose, as proclaimed by the President, and dutifully regurgitated by the media, was to dismantle the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. There was just one little problem… The fact that there never were any WMDs didn’t phase Bush or his [...]
Mar 17
Republican Spin? That’s What They’re There For
I love it when Fox News honchos confess to their biases. Like when Rupert Murdoch admitted that he tried to shape public opinion on the Iraq war. Now, Fox News senior vice president, John Moody, has stumbled into honesty. In discussing his hiring of Bush adviser Karl Rove, Moody said: “Are we getting a Republican [...]
Mar 14
John McCain Worries That Al Qaeda Are Democrats
According to the latest Republican spin, an Al Qaeda attack will help Republicans – except when it helps Democrats. Throughout the past five or six years, there were numerous occasions when Republicans either promoted or invented threats in order to bolster their campaign prospects or blunt good news for Democrats. The theory being that the [...]
Mar 13
Bill O’Reilly Factors In Hypocrisy
The Eliot Spitzer affair has thoroughly dominated cable news coverage. There isn’t a single island of respite from the story. So, of course, Bill O’Reilly is included in the list of programs discussing Spitzer’s infidelity and immorality. It is interesting to note, however, that O’Reilly has yet to disclose his own episode of infidelity and [...]
Mar 11
Bill O’Reilly v. Godwin’s Law
Bravo Hugh Atkin at Australia’s ABC network. This video says all you need to know about Bill O’Reilly, Nazis, and the KKK: Bill O’Reilly v. Godwin’s Law Australian’s know O’Reilly, and his Godfather, Rupert Murdoch, better than anyone. (h/t Crooks and Liars)
Mar 10
Spitzer Is To Clinton As Vitter Is To McCain
New York governor Eliot Spitzer has blown it in a big way. Anti-corruption crusaders ought not to be dallying with call girls. Ordinarily I don’t like to assign much importance to personal and/or family matters. But when a personal act is both illegal and hypocritical, it becomes a hurdle that is very difficult to get [...]
