Glenn Beck, who has been reduced to tears more often than Tammy Faye Bakker, says that it’s because he loves this country – and fears for it. Apparently he feels that the country he loves is dangerously weak and will collapse, but for his weepy entreaties. However, his expression of that love always seems to [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Mar 30
The Fox Nation Launches A Dud
This morning there was a disturbance in the Force. The Fox Nation debuted amidst fanfare and the gnashing of teeth at tea parties everywhere. However, reports of the Fox News secession movement appear to have been a little overblown (by me, mostly). The reality of the Fox Nation is significantly less substantial than previously predicted. [...]
Mar 29
Bill O’Reilly: MoveOn Forced CNBC To Hire Howard Dean
Bill O’Reilly gets funnier by the day (or scarier, depending on your perspective). His latest broadcast falsehood is that MoveOn.org has wielded its mighty power to “force” NBC/Universal CEO Jeff Zucker to hire Howard Dean as a contributor to CNBC. This display of domination was allegedly in response to conservative commentaries by CNBC’s Jim Cramer [...]
Mar 27
Fox News Secedes From America
It was just a matter of time. With all of the white-hot, ultra-hyperbolic invective radiating from Fox News screens across the land, there was really no escaping the obvious end game. The usual suspects in the Fox Confederacy have been so filled with revulsion by the neo-Socialist path that they believe the country is on, [...]
Mar 23
Bill O’Reilly’s Attack Puppy Jesse Watters Strikes Again
Whenever Bill O’Reilly has some dirty work to do that doesn’t involve a loofah, he sends his trusty minion, Stuttering Jesse Watters. In the field, Watters pretends he is the progeny of Mike Wallace (whose real progeny, Chris, is also a Fox News toady). Watters plots elaborate ambush “interviews” with people who wouldn’t otherwise get [...]
Mar 21
Brit Hume Confesses To Fox News Right-Wing Bias
The Media Research Center, an uber-conservative media watch organization headed by professional propagandist Brent Bozell, held its annual gala last week to honor the heroes of rightist disinformation and to mock liberals and truth-tellers. The event featured Republican stalwart, war correspondent, and political strategist, Joe the Plumber, who greeted the crowd by announcing that their [...]
Mar 20
Tucker Carlson Goes Crawling Back To Fox News
There aren’t too many more pitfalls for a guy like Tucker Carlson. He has already failed on PBS, CNN, and MSNBC. He embarrassed himself by appearing on Dancing With the Stars, and compounded the pain by being voted off first (although that may actually have been a blessing). His game show pilot, shot last year, [...]
Mar 18
Tucker Carlson Gives Jon Stewart Tips On Comedy
If nothing else, Tucker Carlson’s latest column for the Daily Beast is a fount of unintentional hilarity. The notion that the former bow tie twerp has anything enlightening to say on any subject has long since been debunked. But for him to have the audacity to presume that he can school Jon Stewart on humor [...]
Mar 17
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post Attacks Jon Stewart
In another example of Rupert Murdoch using his financially disastrous New York Post to whip people with whom he disagrees, the Post’s Page Six published a ridiculous hit piece on Jon Stewart. The article points an accusatory finger of shame at Stewart for the sin of talking to his brother: JON Stewart, the scourge of [...]
Mar 17
Keith Olbermann Was Right About TVNewser
In the recent dust up between Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and CNBC’s Jim Cramer, TVNewser inserted itself into the controversy with an anonymously sourced item that asserted that MSNBC was told to refrain from stories on the matter. TVNewser’s Steve Krakauer did not reveal who told MSNBC to do this, nor who told him about [...]
Mar 16
Fox News Deception Jumps Completely Off The Scale
Just a month after Fox News was caught reading verbatim from a Republican press release and presenting it as a news story, they have now dipped into territory that is so thoroughly unethical that it boggles the mind. Media Matters caught a segment hosted by Martha MacCallum wherein she presented a state of affairs that [...]
Mar 12
Fox News Lies About Carville For Limbaugh
Obviously Rush Limbaugh’s infantile tantrum regarding his hope that President Obama fails has not gone over well with most Americans. But it has warmed the hearts of dittoheads, Republicans, and Fox News personnel. At the top of that list would be the Fox News Washington managing editor, Bill Sammon. Books by Bill Sammon In his [...]
Mar 12
What’s Up With CNBC?
The cable news wars have been raging for years. But for the most part the combatants have been confined to the big three: Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. Headline News and CNBC have been regarded as niche players that weren’t really on the front lines. All of a sudden CNBC has become the most talked [...]
Mar 11
Bill O’Reilly Controls The Stock Market, Part II
Last June Jed Babbin of the uber-conservative Human Events Magazine wrote a disturbingly ignorant article in which he contended that Bill O’Reilly’s asinine babbling about General Electric may have caused their stock to decline. Now Paul Bond of the Hollywood Reporter has sunk to the same depths of dumb. Bond has a history of poor [...]
Mar 08
Neil Cavuto Admits He Is An Obnoxious Jerk
For some time, I’ve been meaning to write about the odious on-air personality of Neil Cavuto. While people focus much of their attention on gargantuan egomaniacs like Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity, Cavuto is every bit their equal as a dishonest and unctuous jackass. But while I have been mulling over the best way to [...]
Mar 06
Fox News Fires Up Financial Fear
It’s been going on for months. Conservatives have been pointing their fat finger of blame at Barack Obama. Somehow, perhaps by mystical Voodoo spells, Obama managed to cause a global economic collapse even before he was elected President. Earlier this week, Rush Limbaugh declared that… “Barack Obama has been the controlling political authority on the [...]
Mar 05
Karl Rove: Turning On The Spit
Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and Josh Bolton are finally going to submit to questioning from the House Judiciary Committee. The agreement for their testimony spares them from having to appear under oath or in public. Although there will be a transcription of the proceedings, it will not be released until after the hearings are completed. [...]
