2012 was a year of monumental achievements and deplorable failures. Chief among these are President Obama’s historic reelection despite harrowing obstacles, particularly an economy that was stubbornly weak and an opposition with nearly unlimited resources and animus. Then there was Gov. Romney’s surprisingly incompetent campaign that wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a losing [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Dec 30
Support Your Local News Corpse – And Get The Highly Acclaimed New Ebook: Fox Nation vs. Reality
2012 was an exciting year full of political ups, downs, intrigue, and scandal. And through it all News Corpse was there to document the egregiously dishonest reporting of Fox News and other conservative media outlets. Now you have an opportunity to express your gratitude to News Corpse for saving you the trouble of having to [...]
Dec 29
The Sarah Palin Chronicles: A 2012 Retrospective Of Humiliation And Hilarity
The past year has presented a wealth of unintentional comedy from right-wing raconteurs whose generosity in embarrassing themselves was profound. There was Donald Trump and Dick Morris and Allen West and many others vying for the top spot in the Crackpottery Hall of Fame. However, this year, as in much of the recent past, the [...]
Dec 26
Fox Nation vs. Reality: Westboro Baptist Hate Group A Left-Wing Cult?
In a feat of mental malfunction on an Olympian scale, the Fox Nationalists posted an item that placed the radical hate group, Westboro Baptist Church, on the political left. The item included a photo with the following caption: “Bikers Turn Out to Protect Newtown Mourners from Left-Wing Westboro Cult.” The only people deranged enough to [...]
Dec 26
Ship Of Fools: National Review’s Kruise For Konservative Kooks
National Review Magazine hosts an annual cruise where geriatric right-wingers can mingle at sea with luminaries from the conservative cognoscenti. It’s difficult to grasp why anyone would actually pay to be trapped aboard an ocean liner with the likes of Ralph Reed and Jonah Goldberg, but that’s precisely the sort of punishment to which they [...]
Dec 21
The NRA’s Prescription For A Safer America: Assault Weapons Everywhere
After a week of silence, the NRA has finally come forward to comment on the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The spokesman for the gun manufacturer’s lobbying group was NRA executive VP Wayne LaPierre. The speech was a rehash of familiar diversions the NRA uses to absolve themselves of any responsibility [...]
Dec 20
Fox Nation vs. Reality: Beauty Queen-a-Cide
The ignorant fables spun by the Fox Nationalists have frequently coasted off the rails of sanity. But none have diverted nearly as far off course as this article, linked to a story by CBS News, about how “Mexican beauty queen Susana Flores Maria Gamez and four others died in the brutal gun battle between Sinaloa [...]
Dec 19
Mosque Arsonist Tells Judge: “I Only Know What I Hear On Fox News”
Here is a disturbing report from a local news broadcast in Toledo, Ohio. An Indiana man pleaded guilty to arson for having set fire to an Islamic Center in Toledo. He was sentenced to 20 years today and, in an exchange with the judge, revealed his motivation. The judge asked him if he knew any [...]
Dec 19
Ted Nugent’s ‘Culture of Contempt’ Is Repsonsible For The Newtown Massacre
Just when you thought you’ve heard it all, the sickening blather of the right-wing nuthouse crowd manages to scale to new heights of idiocy and hypocrisy. Following one of the most horrific mass murders in this nation’s history, Republicans have rushed to the TV cameras and talk radio mics to blame the Newtown massacre on [...]
Dec 18
How Fox News Uses Labels To Distort Reality: NRA Edition
It is going on five days now that the NRA has maintained a media silence with regard to the Newtown massacre. Their Facebook and Twitter accounts went dark on Friday and have remained so ever since. Today, however, Fox News reported that the organization is planning to make a statement soon. They posted this notice [...]
Dec 17
Fox News Opposes Ban On Assault Weapons But Imposes Ban On Talking About It
Never mind that Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of the Fox News parent company, supports taking “bold leadership” to restrict access to assault weapons, executives at Fox News have dictated that the subject of gun control is forbidden on their network. Sources told Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine that… “David Clark, the executive producer in [...]
Dec 17
The Ugly, Asinine American: Donald Trump Links Wind Farms To Terrorism
If you thought that Donald Trump had embarrassed himself beyond the limits of human tolerance during the presidential campaign, you don’t know The Donald. This is a man who continues to believe, despite all evidence, that President Obama is a Muslim from Kenya. He is a man who made a pathetic challenge to exchange five [...]
Dec 16
Has Roger Ailes Seized Fox News From A Senile, Incompetent Rupert Murdoch?
One thing that has been well established through decades of media domination by Rupert Murdoch is that his will was supreme in the organizations he ran. He made virtually every decision of significance with regard to management, economics, and personnel. And he was never shy about imposing his worldview to slant the editorial content of [...]
Dec 13
The Fox News Union Scuffle Scam: Steven Crowder’s Story Falls Apart
A few days ago a Breitbart/Fox News provocateur infiltrated a union protest in Lansing, Michigan with the intention of inciting hostilities. Steven Crowder, whom Fox describes as a comedian/contributor, completed his mission after goading protesters into a brief scuffle and then scurrying away with his video of the manufactured scandal. In an appearance the next [...]
Dec 13
Burying The ‘Tax The Rich’ Lede: Fox News Misrepresents Their Own Poll
You know that a “news” enterprise is desperately biased when they can’t even report on their own polling honestly. In the case of Fox News, they have been relentlessly advocating the Republican position on the so-called “fiscal cliff.” They believe wholeheartedly that fighting for the wealthiest 2% to get another break on their taxes is [...]
Dec 12
Fox News Sucker Punches American Workers Every Day
The InterTubes are abuzz with a piddling story about a douchebag from Breitbart/Fox News who got what looks like a popped pimple on his forehead after confronting union protesters in Michigan. Steven Crowder, is a self-described comedian (though there is no evidence to document that) who is trying to make a name for himself by [...]
Dec 12
PolitiFact’s Lie Of The Year: The Romney Campaign’s Ad On Jeeps Made In China
Once again, the proclivity for deception and dishonesty as practiced by Republicans and right-wing media has earned them the honor being awarded “Lie Of The Year” by the fact-checkers at Politifact. There were so many deserving lies told by Mitt Romney and his campaign that it must have been a difficult choice for the folks [...]
Dec 11
Bill O’Reilly’s Rules Of Civility: From The Magistrate Of Pinheads And Loons
Last night on the O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly delivered his nightly Talking Points Memo on a subject with which he has profound familiarity: Incivility. The pretext for this sermon on manners was an article by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock. Whitlock was the author of the column that Bob Costas referenced in his now famous [...]
