Thanks to Fox News honcho Michael Clemente, who revealed that Your World with Neil Cavuto is not a news program, we can now evaluate the program for what it is. Clemente explicitly left out Cavuto’s program when he said that Fox’s news schedule is from 9:00am to 4:00pm and 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Cavuto’s show starts [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Oct 30
Jon Stewart Breaks It Down: Fox News Is NOT News
Once again it takes a fake news program to reveal where the real fake news is. Jon Stewart, of the Daily Show, continues to prove that he is a far better informed and a more insightful media analyst than just about any of the so-called professionals with degrees and awards and jobs on “reputable” news [...]
Oct 29
Fox News Bias: It Is NOT Just Primetime
What on earth is it going to take to get rid of this persistent falsehood that Fox is only slanted right in primetime? So much of the recent squabble between the White House and Fox is predicated on this easily refuted premise. If it were only O’Reilly and Hannity spewing their nonsense, the President would [...]
Oct 29
Desecrating The American Flag
Much of the right-wing blog and cable crowd is aghast at what they regard as the disrespect accorded to the American flag by a video in an online contest for health care reform ads. The contest is sponsored by the Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America. I happen to think that’s a pretty fine video. [...]
Oct 26
Guilt By Association With Fox News
Much has been made the past week of the so-called “war” between the White House and Fox News. Never mind the fact that there is nothing occurring that remotely approaches being characterized as even a metaphorical war. The administration merely expressed an opinion that Fox is more engaged in partisanship than journalism, a view most [...]
Oct 23
Roger Ailes For President?
Mike Allen at Politico is reporting that: “Friends and associates are encouraging Fox News chief Roger Ailes to jump into the political arena for real by running for president in 2012″ I am at a near loss for words. The only thing I can think of to say (when I stop laughing) is, “How can [...]
Oct 20
MoveOn.org Petition Calls On Democrats To Stay Off Fox
What took so damn long? MoveOn.org has just announced a petition drive to persuade Democrats to Stay Off Fox. This could be a turning point in the campaign to isolate Fox News and to re-brand them as a partisan purveyor of propaganda. As my regular readers may know, I have been calling for all Democrats [...]
Oct 20
More Consensus On The Fox Opinion Channel
It’s only been a little more than a week since Anita Dunn made her initial remarks about Fox News being “the communications arm of the Republican Party.” At the time I regarded it is a purely positive development that exhibited courage and honesty. It seemed to me that inciting a discussion of Fox’s journalistic legitimacy [...]
Oct 19
Glenn Beck Idolizes Adolf Hitler
Tonight, more truth. More truth that I, quite frankly, am shocked by. I’m going to show you a quote here in just a few minutes, something that will melt your brain. If you’re a regular reader of this web site, you are going to say, “You got to be kidding me!” There is information that [...]
Oct 18
Speaking Truth To Fox ‘So-Called’ News
This is getting to be fun. Last Sunday, White House communications director Anita Dunn said what most rational observers of the news already knew: that Fox News is “the communications arm of the Republican Party.” Today, another volley has been fired in defense of sanity. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was on CNN [...]
Oct 17
If Glenn Beck Had Common Sense
Glenn Beck likes to imagine himself a student of American history. He (mis)appropriates the symbols of our nation’s past to spin morality plays with lessons that he can use to infect his disciples with his mental dystrophy. He speaks a lot about the Constitution, despite his utter lack of comprehension of it. His TV program [...]
Oct 16
Fired By Fox News: Marc Lamont Hill Gets What He Deserves
Marc Lamont Hill is described on his web site as “one of the leading hip-hop generation intellectuals.” He is an author and a professor at Columbia University. For the past few years he has also been a paid contributor at Fox News. Hill’s appearances on Fox have been almost exclusively with Bill O’Reilly. He is [...]
Oct 12
White House: Fox News Is A Wing Of The Republican Party
Perhaps I should just forward this to the Department of Redundancy Department. White House communications director, Anita Dunn, appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz and made some rather obvious, though too often unsaid, remarks about Fox News’ role as a right-wing megaphone. It is about time that the administration articulate what anyone paying [...]
Oct 06
Michael Steele Slits His Own Political Throat – Praises ACORN
The Party’s over. At least for the Chairman of the Republican Party. If nothing else, Michael Steele has been a fountain of mirth for Democrats. He as given us a seemingly bottomless well of malaprops, policy flops, and Hip Hops. He has courageously embarked on what can only be described as a reckless course fraught [...]
