Sitting through an episode of Glenn Beck’s program on Fox News, an emotional punch is delivered that is not much different in substance than a disaster movie like 2012. It is jam-packed with terror-inducing scenes of catastrophe, destruction, conspiracy, and death. For example in Beck’s own words: …there are people intentionally destroying our country. It [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Nov 29
CNN’s Howard Kurtz On Glenn Beck, Fox News And Whores
Today on CNN’s Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz raised an issue of obvious hypocrisy on the part of Fox News. The segment addressed an incident a couple of weeks ago when Rep. Alan Grayson referred to an aide to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke as a “K Street whore.” Fox News jumped on the comment and [...]
Nov 25
Glenn Beck’s Sermon On Shared Sacrifice Will Make You Sick
There’s no doubt about it. The United States economy is still reeling from the effects of one of the worst recessions in its history. It is piling up massive debt and struggling to produce even modest growth and job creation. At the same time it is embroiled in two wars overseas that are costly on [...]
Nov 24
If You’re Afraid Of Fox News…
Conservative blowhards on Fox News and elsewhere have made a mantra out of taunting President Obama for avoiding Fox. They have repeatedly implied that if you’re afraid of Fox News how can you stand up to Iran or Al Qaeda. Of course the answer is that no one is “afraid” of Fox. Choosing to refrain [...]
Nov 24
CNN Contributor Is New RNC Communications Director
The Republican National Committee just hired Alex Castellanos to head their communications efforts. Castellanos replaces Trevor Francis who was fired because he wasn’t getting RNC chair, Michael Steele, enough publicity. This appears to a move toward a more aggressive posture by the RNC. Steele has been wildly ineffective in his role as chairman, generating more [...]
Nov 23
Fox News Calls It Quits And Will Cease Broadcasting
In a major announce that will rattle the foundation of cable news, Fox News has announced that they are closing up shop and will end all broadcasting activities in the near future. The memo from Fox management that went out today was somewhat ambiguous as to timing, but the message was clear: The specific language [...]
Nov 22
THE PLAN: Glenn Beck’s Ticking Time Bomb For America
The walking Messiah Complex that we know as Glenn Beck has something in store for America. He is not content with having a daily television program, radio broadcast, books, web site, magazine, movies, and live performances. That’s not nearly enough for a megalomaniacal doomsday prophet of Beck’s caliber. He must have more. He must have [...]
Nov 21
Glenn Beck’s 100 Year Plan: A Century Of Idiocy
After spending most of this year denigrating ACORN and the general notion of community organizers, Glenn Beck is now forming his own FAKE-ORN (FAKE Organization of Right-wing Nuts). The big announcement that Beck has been teasing all week is apparently an effort to corral his disciples into an electoral movement that will endure for a [...]
Nov 20
Sarah Palin: Quitting Rogue, Hardly An American Life
Sarah Palin’s book tour is sweeping across the nation. Thousands of Tea Baggers are enduring long lines and inclement weather for a chance to see their new heroine and get her signature on the book that was ghost written for her. However, not all of these appearances are going as planned. In Indiana, Palin left [...]
Nov 20
Prayer For Fox News
Psalms 31:18 Some repulsive, extremist right-wingers have been promoting an overtly hostile message that they culled from the Bible. It is a blatant threat to President Obama and his family. I’m sure they think it’s funny. It is “inspired” by a verse from Psalms, 109:8, and reads… 108:8, “May his days be few; may another [...]
Nov 19
The Tea Party Nation Is Revolting
This just in: The Tea Party Nation will be holding their first convention in Nashville, TN, this coming February. This AstroTurf gathering of Baggers should prove to be a lively affair with panels on how to disrupt town hall meetings, forums on the similarities between President Obama and Hitler, workshops on promoting fake issues to [...]
Nov 19
Now We Know What Sarah Palin Reads
Last year, Sarah Palin famously flubbed a softball from Katie Couric. It’s actually not even precise to call it a softball. It was more of a floating feather on a windless day. Couric simply asked Palin what she reads. That was the question that Palin was incapable of responding to coherently. Now, a year later, [...]
Nov 18
Fox Uses False Video (Again) To Inflate Sarah Palin’s Crowd
Just one week ago, Jon Stewart exposed Sean Hannity for inserting video of a rally last summer to make a less successful rally this month look like it was well-attended. It was a blatant distortion that could not plausibly have happened by accident. Nevertheless, that is exactly the excuse Hannity coughed up, as he sought [...]
Nov 18
Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Care About The Constitution
The Big “O” of Fox News let it slip on his program yesterday. While it has been apparent for years, Bill O’Reilly finally admitted on air his utter disdain for America and its values. We have always known that he has little knowledge of the Constitution, and now we know why – he just doesn’t [...]
Nov 17
The Newsmax Dream Ticket: Palin/Beck
This is just too delicious not to pass on. The uber-rightist magazine/web site, Newsmax, has been flapping hard for Sarah Palin since she fell from her nest in Alaska and took wing. They are presently hawking her new book as a free premium with a one year year subscription to their magazine. And if you [...]
Nov 17
Comparing Sarah Palin To Howard Dean
Yesterday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Time Magazine editor-at-large and senior political analyst, Mark Halperin sought to make a comparison between Sarah Palin and Howard Dean. Commendably, the show’s co-hosts would have none of it. Mika Brzezinski said flatly that it was “not the same.” Joe Scarborough went even further: Joe Scarborough: “It is such a [...]
Nov 16
The Communists In Glenn Beck’s Pointy Little Head
This is going to be brief because Glenn Beck really speaks for himself. GLENN BECK, 11/12/09: I’ve been very consistent on all of this stuff. But they don’t even look at any of that. In fact, the claims that I make about socialist Marxism, et cetera, et cetera, communist, I’ve only charged that there was [...]
Nov 16
Glenn Beck’s Cast Of Racists and White Supremacists
The case was made long ago that Fox News is a haven for racism and hate. So many of the network’s presenters have been caught expressing repulsive views that they should just stop pretending and pull their sheets out of the closet. Let’s give Glenn Beck a taste of his own medicine. He revels in [...]
Nov 16
US President Shames Nation By Bowing To Foreigners
It is about time that somebody takes on the embarrassing behavior of an American president supplicating himself to foreign leaders. The United States is a nation of superior values and goals. We must never show subservience to others, even as a measure of humility or respect. Leave it to the conservative media to put this [...]
Nov 15
The Relative Importance Of Health Care And War
This will be a quick examination of the appropriate response time for critical public decision making. It is an area of cognitive analysis that the media, and most of the political order, have neglected to explore. For instance….. When addressing the current debate on health care, Republicans have concluded that the issue is too important [...]
